Technology professionals believe IT certifications provide relevance for demonstrating skills and expertise. IT certifications can help with job retention during layoffs, maintaining salary levels, career advancement, and proving competency to clients. As technologies change, new certifications map to real-world needs and ensure staff have the training to support new products and minimize downtime while reducing costs. Certification also builds a community of peers and strengthens weaknesses.

2.  Technology professionals believe IT
certifications reached their peak during the
summit of the dot-com boom.
 The consequent dot-com bomb led to an
exodus of certified technicians from the
industry.
 IT certifications will provide more relevance
than ever before.
Auhor Erik Eckel,2008
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3.  #1: Job retention
 When the organizations facing the fact that they
have to lay off employees.
 They are in the difficult personnel decisions,
organizations generally try to retain the most
skillful and knowledgeable employees.
 Certified IT professional have a credible advantage
over their colleagues.
 Even holding a current IT accreditation is no
guarantee against being laid off, the more
education, expertise, and skills you can
demonstrate, the better.

4.  #2: Salary maintenance
 In some cases organizations are asking employees
to accept salary reductions.
 Today many are being asked to cut their
compensation by those amounts.
 Holding current IT certification does not guarantee
you won’t face salary reductions. But possessing
specific certifications — including A+, Security+,
Microsoft credentials, and other accreditations –
often qualifies employees for higher pay grades.

5.  #3: Career improvement
 Many technology professionals feel they’ve done all they
can do as a support technician or network
administrator.
 IT certifications can certainly open the door to such
promotions.
 By completing project management training and proving
command of the fundamentals by earning a Project
Management Institute (PMI) Project Management
Professional or CompTIA Project+ certification, an
administrator can demonstrate initiative and expertise
in an effort to win a project management promotion.
Likewise, a support tech might leverage a Microsoft
Certified IT Professional (MCITP) accreditation to gain a
new position as a server administrator.

6.  #4: New-generation IT certifications increase relevance
 Everything in technology needs need reworking, many
organizations, including CompTIA and Cisco, are revamping
and redesigning exams and instructional initiatives. And
Microsoft really stands out due to the variety and impact of
changes made to its training and certification program.
 Microsoft’s new generation of certifications — including the
new MCITP, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS),
and Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD)
accreditations — map directly to real-world needs.

7.  #5: Organizations will become more
discriminating
 As clients more closely guard expenses and
become more discerning, organizations
needing to outsource computer services
and support will want to ensure the firms
and technicians they hire are competent.
 IT certifications are a great method for
consultants to demonstrate their skill,
knowledge, and expertise to potential
clients.

8.  #6: New products will gain momentum
 As organizations begin replacing older or failed equipment
with these new products, and as myriad other factors require
that the new platforms be deployed, these organization will
seek qualified IT technicians, managers, and consultants to
plan, deploy, and administer the upgrades.
 The employee must be aligned the their expertise with the
new product.
 If you can demonstrate your skills and expertise with these
platforms, you’ll be better positioned to provide those
services.

9.  #7: Organizations must minimize downtime
 IT certification programs are one method of ensuring that
staff members have the training and instruction required to
fulfill specific responsibilities.
 Employees who are better trained and educated as the result
of certification efforts will be less likely to commit errors that
lead to failure. And when outages do occur, the
corresponding education and training will prove helpful in
speeding recoveryServer, desktop, and network downtime, as
well as mean times to repair
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10.  #8: Organizations need to reduce costs
 Reducing operating costs becomes critical in some
businesses. During periods of recession, organizations are
obligated to maximize efficiency. As a result, productivity
requirements become greater for each worker.
 From a cold and calculating perspective, IT certification is one
proven method for leveraging an organization’s salary
expenses. By ensuring that technicians have specific skills via
training and certification programs, whether those skills
target desktop support or network design and optimization,
organizations know that IT certification efforts help maximize
ROI.
 A Kotler Marketing Group study published by CompTIA
revealed certifications enabled organizations to reduce
expenses, identify knowledge gaps, and improve productivity.
In addition, certifications proved helpful in improving uptime
and reducing turnover.

11. #9.Build a Community of Peers
 Networking is an important part of your
career. Through study groups, technical
conferences with other certified folks, and
classes, both live and online, you'll be
constantly meeting others with your areas of
interest and specialization. This can come in
handy if you're laid off or unhappy with your
current situation.

12. #10.Strengthen Your Weaknesses
 Going through certification training can a)
Reinforce information you already know, like
taking a refresher course, and b) Show you
new stuff. All IT pros have their strong and
weak areas of knowledge. Prepping for
certification will likely bolster areas in which
you're not that strong

13. #11.One single standard
 People taking certification exams have to
demonstrate approximately the same level of
knowledge and skill. Thus, when you pass the
exam, it’s the same as when you learned the
stuff in Switzerland, England or Cambodia.

14. #12. Certification is skill-oriented
 What makes a professional different from an
amateur is skill. Modern IT industry needs
people who not only know how to do
something, but really can do that something.
Theory is not what money is paid for in IT,
especially when it comes to annual amounts
one needs more than 6 digits to write down.

15. #13.Gain Unique Access to Resources
 Many companies, like certification heavy-hitters
Microsoft and Cisco, offer special
access to online forums and training
materials to their certification holders