Stay ahead with Microsoft Certification The Win-Win of Certification

With the digital environment changing faster than ever, driven by both internal and external forces, IT certification, knowledge, and readiness are more valuable than ever to both the individual employee and the IT organization. Cloud, wireless, hybrid work, advances in data management, security, all demand more nimble, skilled IT teams. Being ready for what’s now and what’s next requires both skill and an attitude that values continual learning.

How Certification benefits Organizations?

When individuals within an organization pursue certifications, the organization as a whole benefits, too. In general, these benefits come from three main areas where organizations benefit from improving skills and knowledge: 

Timeliness 
Well-trained cloud migration teams meet nearly 90% of their business and project milestones. Compared with less than 50% of milestones met by cloud migration teams at only "average" skill level.  

Insight 
Nearly all (90%) of the organizations with well-trained teams are satisfied or very satisfied with their ability to monitor, forecast, and optimize server, storage, and network resources. Compared with less than 10% of the organizations with undertrained teams being satisfied with their ability to optimize resources.  

Business impact 
Of the organizations with teams well trained in automation and orchestration tools, 80% report being satisfied or very satisfied with the business impact of the move to cloud. Only 20% of the organizations without sufficient skills were satisfied with the impact of cloud.

How certification benefits the Employee?

While it would seem that developing a growth mindset that values continued certification would have benefits to the individual employee, when they are actually quantified, their importance takes on a larger scale. For instance, once a certification candidate sets out a career goal that involves certification—promotion, pay raise, new role—they are far more likely to achieve it. A majority of candidates (70%) successfully fulfilled these primary goals. Only three percent did not.

Show me the money: The monetary benefits of certification 

For those employees who are looking to earn more money, certification is an important part of any plan, with 28% of employees receiving a salary or wage increase after earning a certification.  Of those earning a raise 50% of candidates receive a pay increase of between 6% to 20%. And it happens fast; 55% of those getting raises after certifications get them within three months. 

Get noticed on LinkedIn: 

To add the Skills & endorsement section and add or remove skills to your profile: 

1. Click the Me icon at the top of your LinkedIn homepage. 
2. Click View Profile. 
3. Click Add section. 
4. Select Skills from the dropdown and click Skills again. 
5. In the Add skills pop-up window, you can: 
6. Click Save.

To add Licenses and Certifications section and license and certificates: 

1. Click the  Me icon at the top of your LinkedIn homepage, then View profile. 
2. Click Add profile section in the introduction section. 
3. Click Background dropdown, then Licenses & certifications. 
4. In the Add licenses & certifications pop-up that appears, enter your information into the fields provided. 
5. A menu displaying companies will appear as you type in the Issuing Organization field. Be sure to select the correct authority from the menu so their logo appears next to the certification on your profile. 
6. Click Save.

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