Professional Career Development Institute

Do you mean the eCornell certificate in "Financial Management for Making Business Decisions"? If so, it doesn't really compare with the PCDI Professional Financial Planning Specialist Program. What I mean is, they're not really the same thing. And the eCornell certificate is alot more expensive, you should note. Alot more!

But, categorically, I think you're right that any credential from Cornell is going to just look better than one from a place like PCDI... or a whole lot of other places, as well. I think there's no question about that... if that's what you're asking.

Well, unless you're going to be a real estate attorney or something, real estate, generally, is one of those areas -- at least if all you want to be is an agent or broker (or appraiser, in most states) -- that an evening or weekend program for a few weeks or months, and the taking of a licensure exam (or two or three) will get you your license(s) so you can enter that profession. A course from PCDI can be helpful... but, honestly, since real estate is regulated and licensed pretty much everywhere, you really need to consult your state (or, in your case, your province or whatever level of government regulates real estate where you are) and find out precisely what education/training is required. You may find that you have to attend only certain government-specified and/or approved/sanctioned programs to work, legally, in that field. If so, then those, and not the PCDI course, are what you need to concentrate on... at least at first.

Once you do that, and you're all squared away with your government and have graduated from whatever training it requires and have gotten your license(s), you may very well discover that said training didn't really cover the nitty-gritty nuts-and-bolts of appraisal as well as the PCDI course does. If so, then said PCDI appraisal course may well fill-in all the appraisal areas that your government-sanctioned/license-requisite programs just sort of glossed over. And it wouldn't look bad in your bio/resume that you provide to other brokers/agents or to clients.

I dunno if that helps... but there it is.

 

Hi bo79. The school is great. The courses are great too. So far I have a few diplomas. The recent one is from Ashworth college. I got my high school diploma from PCDI in 2000. I got my other 3 diplomas from PCDI as well. They are important if you want to have proof of completing a course on any field you wish to work in. You can't listen to negative posts. They will always move you on a different direction. When I went to another school to take a clerical skills course they accepted my diploma without any problems. You should take some courses in what ever you want. You won't regret it. You will regret that you never did. Try it and you will see what I'm talking about. Just go for it. You deserve the best. Congratulations on your journey.

 

It is five days shy of four years since the thread op last posted on this forum.

Situational awareness is your friend.

 

If you can't listen to negative posts then why should you listen to positive posts from anonymous newbies who dig back five years into the archives just to pump a specific school.