After working for a few years, many people will choose to improve themselves, so as to achieve the goal of promotion and salary increase. In addition to learning professional skills, obtaining a certificate with high gold content is also a very important way. The PMP certificate is the most popular in the industry. The certificate is very famous. The certificate was initiated by the American Project Management Institute (Project Management Institute, referred to as PMI), and strictly evaluates whether the knowledge and skills of project managers have high-quality qualification certification exams. Its purpose is to provide a unified industry standard for project managers. The certification examinations established by the Project Management Institute of the United States include: PMP (Project Management Professional) and CAPM (Assistant Project Management Professional), which have established certification examination institutions in more than 190 countries and regions around the world.
Advantages of PMP certification
1. High gold content. PMP certification has been certified simultaneously in most countries and regions around the world. It is a very gold content certification in the field of project management. Many companies believe that project management plays a great role in improving the economic benefits of enterprises.
2. Career growth, having a PMP certificate means that the holder has a certain professional ability in project management. PMP training provides a growth path for technicians to be promoted to management. Many companies regard the "PMBOK Guide" as a compulsory course for managers and encourage employees Learn project management skills.
3. The scope of employment is wide, and the PMP certificate is not subject to professional restrictions. Learning the PMP certificate can help employees solve the management bottlenecks encountered in their work. Among the applicants, there are many employees in large enterprises and private enterprises, and the industries involved include electronics, communications, engineering, manufacturing, real estate, and finance.
4. High remuneration, PMI data survey, PMP certificate holders in China have a higher starting salary, and there is still a shortage of project management talents.
PMP exam content
The content of the PMP exam mainly includes five processes of project management:
Initiation: The establishment of a project or a project phase .
Planning: Develop and maintain an actionable plan for completing the project.
Execute: Coordinate human and other resources to execute the plan.
Monitoring: Ensuring that project objectives are achieved by monitoring and measuring progress and taking corrective action as necessary .
Closing: The formal acceptance of a project or project phase and bringing it to an orderly and successful conclusion.
PMP registration conditions
Candidates must have more than 35 hours of project management PMBOK study or training experience, and show copies of relevant certificates .
Applicants must meet one of the following two conditions:
Category 1: Those with a bachelor's degree or equivalent university degree or above
Applicants have at least 4,500 hours of project management experience in the five major project management processes, and, within the 6 years before the date of application, the cumulative number of project management months has reached at least 36 months.
Note: When calculating project management months, the required 36 months are non-overlapping and separate.
Category 2: Those who do not have a bachelor's degree or equivalent university degree or less
Applicants have at least 7,500 hours of project management experience in the five major project management processes, and, within the 8 years before the date of application, the cumulative number of project management months has reached at least 60 months.