CAP UPDAT E
of not understanding the difference is the
misconception that the intent of the CAP is
to restrict the pool of practitioners.
While this may be indeed true for licenses (where health or safety concerns
may apply and hence the credential is
mandatory), this is not the case for voluntary certifications like CAP, which allow recipients to choose to differentiate
themselves when they do not feel their
experience alone does so.
Another common mistake is thinking that certifications and certificates are
equivalent. They are not; the latter is usually issued upon completion of a course
of training but may not actually reflect
achievement of any other education, experience or testing standard.
HOW NOT TO USE CERTIFICATION
The CAP should be considered a
possible order qualifier but not an order
winner, meaning this designation alone
shouldn’t signal that a resume with it
should result in an interview or one without it be set aside. Many good candidates will determine that their education
and experience are alone sufficient to
demonstrate the skills the CAP seeks to
tease out. A candidate who has a Ph.D.
CAP exam schedule
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
(INFORMS) has scheduled the following exam sites for its Certified Analytics
Pro fessional program for the first half of 2014:
Jan. 11, 2014: ITPG Education Center, Vienna, Va. (suburb of Washington, D.C.)
Jan. 29, 2014: niversity of Alabama, Business Analytics Symposium,
U
Tuscaloosa, Ala.
March 6, 2014: Drexel University, James E. Marks Intercultural Center, Philadelphia
March 29, 2014: NFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and O.R., Westin
I
Boston Waterfront, Boston
March 30, 2014: artner BI & Analytics Summit, Venetian Resort Hotel & CasiG
no, Las Vegas
June 21, 2014: NFORMS Conference on The Business of Big Data, San Jose
I
Marriott, San Jose, Calif.
To apply, click on https://www.informs.org/Certification-Continuing-Ed/
Analytics-Certification/Apply-for-Certification
For more information, click on https://www.informs.org/Certification-Continuing-Ed/
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