Does anyone have ideas or guidance on how to become Microsoft Officer certified? Any professional schools or self-study? Start at Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification? or Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA)? Recommendations? Thanks
A quick link to MS's site Certs overview: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/cert-overview.aspx MOS: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/mos.aspx#overview
I think you should forget about Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification. I have not seen any job require MOS certification.
True, it is more of a "Can you use Office yes/no" thing when applying for jobs, if you want to learn more about them though, one free site I recommend is: Free Beginners Computer Tutorials and Lessons There are tutorials for Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.
A number of web based applications have a section for certifications. I don't think it could hurt to be MS Office certified, especially for positions that require a lot of work those programs. A ton of jobs in the "business" field request knowledge of excel, word and powerpoint. Being certified might be a leg up (though I'd only do it if it was extremely inexpensive).
Hi Homeland - There are two basic markets for the Microsoft Office certifications. 1. Tier 1 and Tier 2 Help Desk Analyst - T2 is pushing it a little but I've hired it. 2. Training Specialists that are teaching people to use the software. There is one niche market and it depends on the firm 3. Admin Assistant or Paralegal. - I've seen it called out at some law firms and at one publishing firm at the EA level. If you're not in those particular fields I'd recommend against it. As a person that hires Help Desk analysts all the time, I find that most of my people either have it on hire or have higher level certs and "learn" expert level proficiency on the fly in the chair. In cases where said certification lives on my training chart for analysts, it's always the last thing people want to do and ends up being a "here's a book, take the test next week" thing. Microsoft official curriculum is about 100 bucks and the test was around 125 for each part of Office, last I looked. ITJD