18 - The Alphabet Soup of Professional Certifications: What Do They Mean?

Progress Over Perfection Coaching is a podcast focused on career management and development by offering insight on how to build an intentionally balanced and purpose-filled career.

Today, we're talking about third party professional certifications - that's a mouthful, so from here on out, I'll just be calling them certifications. I'll start with what they are, how you can identify if they might be right for you, talk about a few well-known ones that I've had experience with as examples, go through the process and time and cost implications and how they can be put to use in your career journey. Throughout all of this, I'll also try to take a minute at each of these topics to talk about how you might be able to evaluate IF they could be something that could be useful for your career - there won't be a right answer, and that can change over ti ...