MOS Certification for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: Using the Most Well Known and Widely Used Business Productivity Software Applications"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

MOS certification from:

Microsoft MOS certification stands for Microsoft Office Specialist and is the latest incarnation of their certification formerly known as the Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS). Microsoft MOS certification is the same except the U for "User" has been dropped.

Type of MOS certification for computer careers:

Vendor

MOS certification worth it?

Standard disclaimer:

Whether or not any certification is "worth it" is an individual decision. You alone must decide what your career goals and needs are.

Look at certifications from a cost/benefit or Return On Investment (ROI) basis. If they help you get a better paying job or make more money at your current job, they are obviously "worth it."

The problem is, there is no real way of measuring how much you can expect your income to go up as a result of any given certification. It also depends on non-related job search skills such as how well you network.

MOS certification background:

The change does not affect holders of the MOUS certification, since the cert tests and validates the same skills with the same software applications.

The Microsoft MOS certification involves the following suite of productivity applications:

Word
Excel
PowerPoint
Access
Outlook
FrontPage

3 levels:

Core
Expert
Master Level

More than 500,000 people have earned Office Specialist, now Microsoft MOS certification, since the program's inception in 1997. About 20,000 new certifications are issued worldwide each month.

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