{"id":3040,"date":"2011-03-14T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2011\/03\/14\/what-not-having-a-certification-says-about-mid-career-procurement-professionals\/"},"modified":"2021-07-10T15:05:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T19:05:49","slug":"what-not-having-a-certification-says-about-mid-career-procurement-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/what-not-having-a-certification-says-about-mid-career-procurement-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"What NOT Having A Certification Says About Mid-Career Procurement Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an interesting exchange with a colleague on LinkedIn recently. He was a mid-level procurement professional and was unsure if a certification would help him at his age (mid-40\u2019s) or if he was just relegated to plodding along at the mid-level for the rest of his career.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/individuals\/membership\/\"><strong>Become a member of one of the world\u2019s largest procurement associations today.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To me, a procurement certification matters just as much (and possibly more) when you\u2019re in your mid-career compared to when you\u2019re early in your career. A procurement certification shows that you\u2019ve met a standard for excellence in your profession and that you have a qualification that other, less capable candidates do not.<\/p>\n<p>But, at the mid-career point, <em>not <\/em>having a procurement certification says something that is perhaps even more powerful.<\/p>\n<p>It says that you may not be all that serious about your career. It can communicate that there is a chance that you are not competent enough to earn a procurement certification. It may cause someone to question whether you have updated your skill set at all since you started in the profession or if you still think what you were doing in the early 1990\u2019s is all that needs to be done today.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you can overcome these obstacles. That is, if someone important would even give you the time of day to discuss them\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/\"><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Are You Chief Procurement Officer Material?&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:4993,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;10&quot;:2,&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Arial&quot;}\">Are You Chief Procurement Officer Material?<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/\"><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;How to Take Charge of Your Procurement Career&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:4993,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;10&quot;:2,&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Arial&quot;}\">How to Take Charge of Your Procurement Career<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/\"><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Measuring The Impact of Procurement Training&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:4993,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;10&quot;:2,&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Arial&quot;}\">Measuring The Impact of Procurement Training<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/\"><strong>NLPA Learning<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an interesting exchange with a colleague on LinkedIn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"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>What NOT Having A Certification Says About Mid-Career Procurement Professionals - 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\/what-not-having-a-certification-says-about-mid-career-procurement-professionals\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What NOT Having A Certification Says About Mid-Career Procurement Professionals\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I had an interesting exchange with a colleague on LinkedIn [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/what-not-having-a-certification-says-about-mid-career-procurement-professionals\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NextLevelPurchasing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-03-14T15:30:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-07-10T19:05:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/nlpa-images-136.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1067\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Galo Matagay\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@nextlevelpurch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@nextlevelpurch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Galo Matagay\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/what-not-having-a-certification-says-about-mid-career-procurement-professionals\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/what-not-having-a-certification-says-about-mid-career-procurement-professionals\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Galo Matagay\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#\/schema\/person\/72d094fab77892483dfa6e061cb27eaa\"},\"headline\":\"What NOT Having A Certification Says About Mid-Career Procurement Professionals\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-03-14T15:30:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-07-10T19:05:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/what-not-having-a-certification-says-about-mid-career-procurement-professionals\/\"},\"wordCount\":296,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Procurement\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/what-not-having-a-certification-says-about-mid-career-procurement-professionals\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/what-not-having-a-certification-says-about-mid-career-procurement-professionals\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/what-not-having-a-certification-says-about-mid-career-procurement-professionals\/\",\"name\":\"What NOT Having A Certification Says About Mid-Career Procurement Professionals - 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