WHY CIW(Certified Internet Webmaster) Certification?

The CIW (Certified Internet Web Professional) program is the world's fastest growing vendor-neutral Internet certification for the knowledge economy. More than a certification or a curriculum publisher, CIW is a Web technology standard adopted by academic institutions, governments, and businesses worldwide. CIW includes applications and competencies, but our core curriculum focuses on the foundational standards that sustain the infrastructure of IT, i.e., Web design, security, administration, networking, databases and enterprises.

Synergists verses Specialists
There is a progressive change happening in the landscape of IT. The need for focused IT specialists is being replaced by a call for IT synergists - team players who have a broader skill set in designing, integrating and troubleshooting the latest, more interdependent systems. "The intersection of business models and IT requires people with varied experience, professional versatility, multidiscipline knowledge and technology understanding - a hybrid professional, in other words," said Diane Morello, Gartner Fellow and Research Vice President, in a 2008 Gartner press release ("Gartner Warns of a Looming Talent Shortage," Feb. 7, 2008. CIW is poised for the change, covering a broad array of industry-standards-based technologies as defined by our advisory council.

CIW Advisory Council
Acting as a nexus for industry, academia and government, the CIW Advisory Council targets the skills, technologies and objectives CIW needs to remain the premier job readiness certification. CIW Advisory Council members include:



Academic/Government
Western Governors University
Mesa Community College
New Hebei University (China)
University of the West of Scotland
Pellissippi State Technical College
Tech Force Georgia
State of Virginia
State of Florida

Industry/ Not For Profit
Intel
HP
American Express
Hitachisoft (Japan)
Oracle
Corinthian Colleges
Education Development Council
Global Skills Exchange

Benefits of CIW Certification
Whether you consider your career a lifelong journey toward personal fulfillment or a way of making ends meet, professional certification helps you reach your career goals by defining the skills necessary to master today's technology-driven world.

Becoming a CIW Professional or Master CIW reaps great rewards. Many candidates have experienced greater success in their lives or careers after enrolling in CIW courses and achieving their CIW certification.

Consider some of the benefits you can earn with CIW job-role certifications:

Validate and specialize in defined job-role skills.
Add industry-recognized credentials to your resume.
Increase your salary and job responsibilities.
Distinguish yourself from co-workers and earn advancement within your organization.
Keep your skills up-to-date in the evolving technology world.
Professional job-role certifications benefit both individuals and employers. For individuals, professional certification is a gateway to career opportunities and advancement. For organizations, certification is a way to reduce hiring and training costs, and create a properly skilled workforce. Without these benefits, all parties waste time and money with development mistakes, misdirected skills and hiring obstacles.


Benefits for Certificants
Job-role certification enhances an individual's career by demonstrating to employers one's readiness to perform the tasks required for real jobs today. Obtaining an industry-recognized professional certification validates an individual's competence in a set of job-role skills. CIW certifications can:

Validate to employers an individual's IT job skills in various disciplines and at various levels of advancement.
Provide a baseline measurement of these job skills.
Allow portability of these job skills within the industry.
Provide criteria for advancement within an organization.


Benefits for Employers
CIW provides job-role definition and skills standards for companies to meet recruitment needs. CIW also provides industry-recognized objectives and standards for comprehensive educational resources. Certifications within the CIW job-role certification program can:

Help employers ensure that employees are proficient in the job skills necessary for meeting the company's needs.
Guide companies to utilize industry-sanctioned best practices.

Reduce training costs.
Provide employers with standardized criteria for screening, hiring and/or advancing employees within an organization.
Create a framework to meet workforce needs using public/private partnerships between academic institutions and employers.
Allow companies to distinguish themselves in the marketplace and to customers and suppliers.

Who Should Earn a CIW Certification?
CIW job-role certification is important for all types of IT professionals, from career changers and business professionals to experienced and certified IT professionals.

College bound high school students
CIW prepares high school students with the essential Web-related skills to acquire professional level internships while also earning college credit towards a postsecondary degree, such as an Associate or Bachelor’s Degree. Many schools across the nation have already incorporated CIW curriculum into their Web and IT programs.

Job seeking high school students
CIW teaches only the essential Web-related skills that can position a recent high school graduate to earn a non-exportable, high demand and high wage job. CIW certification demonstrates to employers that you are well qualified for a wide variety of Web-related job roles.

Career changers
CIW certification is an excellent way to enter the IT industry because vendor-neutral skill certifications address the roles and responsibilities of a specific position. CIW focuses on industry standards, and leading hardware and software technologies. Career changers are not limited by knowledge of only one IT platform.

Business professionals
A CIW certification demonstrates knowledge of industry standards, best practices, and leading hardware and software technology. Taking the time to learn new IT concepts shows a commitment to keep pace with today's technology-driven economy, to better understand a customer's business, and to become more self-sufficient by better understanding the technology on which almost every professional relies.

Experienced and certified IT professionals
If an experienced IT professional does not already have a widely recognized certification, he or she should earn a certification to show current or potential employers a measurement of their skills and expertise. Those who hold certifications other than CIW can benefit from CIW certification by demonstrating an understanding of multiple and vendor-neutral skills, and knowledge of industry standards and best practices.

Salary Statistics
IT-Certified Professionals Earn Higher Salaries than Non-Certified Workers

Certification can be a differentiating factor for a professional who is looking to advance in the IT job world.

To a hiring employer, not only does a certification provide evidence of an individual's familiarity with a particular technology or practice. It also demonstrates initiative on the part of the applicant because he or she has invested the extra time and effort to become certified.

In turn, employers often pay certified employees more than they pay non-certified employees.

Certified IT professionals earned an average of $76,500 in 2006. This amount was a 7.1 percent pay increase from 2005 when the median average was $71,100. (Certification Magazine 2006 Salary Survey).

The projected increase in average starting salaries for technology professionals in the United States is 2.8 percent for 2007. High-demand positions such as web developer are expected to see increases in base compensation of more than 4 percent over 2006 projections. (Robert Half Technology 2007 Salary Guide)

Employers use certifications to match hiring requirements with candidate qualifications. CIW certifications map to job roles to meet these industry-recognized requirements and qualifications.

CIW also addresses the industry trend of continually changing IT job roles by modifying and developing certification pathways that can lead to lucrative positions after earning certification.




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