Professional Certification is a designation earned by a person to assure qualification to perform a job or task. It is also a professional credentials designed to help professionals to enhance their job performance and marketability in their respective fields.

These certificates usually signify that a person has reached a standard of knowledge to perform to a required standard in their respective fields.

Potential Benefits to be Professionally Certify

• Grants recognition a specific level of knowledge and skill thus;
  • increases opportunities for career advancement and/or
  • increased earnings by a third party
• Enhances professional reputation Provides personal accomplishment
  • Supports continued professional development
  • can validate skills and knowledge

Potential Benefits to Employers

• Increases competence level of employees
• Provides professional development opportunities for employees
• Increases confidence in employees abilities
• Demonstrates employers a commitment to competence
• Could provide means to establish and enforce an ethical code

Potential Benefits to Public

• Standardises practice and/or standards within an industry
• Provides a means for an industry to self-regulate