{"id":2228,"date":"2007-01-15T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2007\/01\/15\/career-skills-report-facts-part-ii\/"},"modified":"2021-08-04T16:45:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T20:45:13","slug":"career-skills-report-facts-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/career-skills-report-facts-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Career &amp; Skills Report Facts: Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Another interesting statistic from the 2007 Purchasing &amp; Supply Management Career &amp; Skills Report is that the number of purchasing jobs preferring candidates with the SPSM Certification that were posted on our site <strong>doubled<\/strong> in the second half of 2006 as compared with the same period of the prior year.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, this is a good indication of the growing recognition of the SPSM Certification.<\/p>\n<p>The global flavor of the certification is getting interesting with the various parts of the world where we\u2019ve certified people in January so far. But those specifics are for a February blog post!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Recommended Reading<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li2\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/purchasing-courses-beginners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Purchasing Courses for Beginners<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/spsm-vs-cpo-suite\/\"><span class=\"s3\">SPSM vs. CPO Suite<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/the-procurement-promotion-that-you-lost-but-didnt-even-know-that-you-were-considered-for\/\"><span class=\"s3\">The Procurement Promotion That You Lost (But Didn\u2019t Even Know That You Were Considered For)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/improving-your-procurement-teams-skills-requires-this-commonly-forgotten-element\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Improving Your Procurement Team\u2019s Skills Requires This Commonly Forgotten Element<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/are-your-purchasing-job-descriptions-outdated\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Are Your Purchasing Job Descriptions Outdated?<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/\"><span class=\"s3\">How to Take Charge of Your Procurement Career <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Measuring The Impact of Procurement Training<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/\"><b>NLPA Learning<\/b><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>:<\/b> Looking for authoritative procurement templates, tools, webinars, and more? Stop trying to create resources from scratch and start taking advantage of having exactly what you need right at your fingertips in <span class=\"s4\">NLPA Learning<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-growth"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.4 (Yoast SEO v19.13) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Career &amp; Skills Report Facts: Part II - Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/career-skills-report-facts-part-ii\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Career &amp; 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