What are the career opportunities for a certified trainer?

Although most training companies check a person for his or her training competencies before partnering with a trainer, having a certificate certainly doesn't hurt. We live in an era of efficiency and having a mere "paper" to confirm skills does not mean much when the candidate does not have them. A certificate is not equal to a certificate, so when choosing the right formalization of one's skills, it is worth choosing those based on a certain standard. On our continent, this standard is called the European Qualifications Framework. It is a set of systematized required competencies, as well as the method of validation itself.

Working standards

The unquestionable advantage of having a certificate (or, preferably, numerous certificates) is that already at the beginning of the recruitment journey to work with our dream and prestigious training company, we have additional "starting points" over candidates who do not have confirmation of their skills. A certificate based on the previously mentioned European Qualifications Framework gives recruiters information about what can be expected of us in terms of knowledge transfer, which cannot be said of a person without any formal confirmation. As I mentioned before - of course, this is no guarantee that we will get a position right off the bat, but it is confirmation that we know and operate within the applicable standard.

Another advantage is the very fact that we have diplomas. It proves that we are hard-working and focused on developing our competence, after all, it takes a lot of work and diligence to get a prestigious certification. These qualities are so desirable, de facto, in any job.

The certificate is just the beginning

In general, the certificate organizes the skills and knowledge possessed by the trainer. For the employer, it also signals that the person has confirmation of his or her skills, which the employer is interested in. However, whatever our decision on the certificate - it should never be the end of our development path. As in any profession, if we want to be specialists in a field, we need to expand our horizons, because the probability that we have possessed all the knowledge available in a given subject is very precisely "calculated" zero.