Are Professional Certifications worth it?

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cindys75

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I'm currently looking for an administrative assistant job and am having a difficult time getting responses to the jobs I applied for. I'm a middle aged women and am wondering how to improve my chances of getting an interview and hired. I have read about people getting professional certifications from different associations such as the national association of administrative professionals (tnaoap) or american society of administrative professionals (asap) does anyone have experience with these? were they useful? any other tips?
 
My administrative assistant, who is invaluable to me, has no special certification. In fact, I'm pretty sure that none of the admins in our organization have any special certifications other than coursework in several software programs. What you can do is more important to me than certifications. Good luck.
 
Thanks for the reply. I would think the same, however a lot of the job posting I'm seeing are requiring certain certifications. I guess that is their way of verifying what people can do.
 
Cindys,

I think you are right but I think it may be a foolish strategy on their part. Depending on what the certification is, I can't imagine that it is more important than running an effective office plus basis computer skills. And let me guess, some of these companies want all of these certifications yet the pay is not commensurate with the skills they seek. Sheesh. Don't get discouraged.

Dave
 
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