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Stronger by Association: Engle Earns Meeting Planner Certification

AMR Management Services

Engle Earns Meeting Planner Certification. The foremost certification of the meetings, conventions and exhibitions industry, the CMP program recognizes individuals who have achieved the industrys highest standard of professionalism. . Engle Earns Meeting Planner Certification. ► 2008. (23). AMR MANAGEMENT SERVICES.

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Setting Strategy for Certification’s New World

Associations Now

It’s tempting to jump right into the new ways to engage members in certification. Like most things in the association world, certification is undergoing a transformation. I discuss a few examples of what this new terrain looks like in my feature on certification in the latest issue of Associations Now. Rops, FASAE, CAE.

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Helping—and Keeping—Members in Hard Times

Associations Now

At the height of the 2008 recession, the North Carolina Medical Group Management Association started to see its membership numbers dip. After the 2008 recession, Klingberg says, many healthcare professionals went back to school to earn advanced degrees and certifications.

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Refocusing on Jobs and Education in 2015

YourMembership

That question was answered in November when LinkedIn launched a new feature that will allow professional education companies and eventually colleges to provide certifications for LinkedIn users who have completed their courses. As a result the unemployment rate dropped to 5.6% (the lowest rate since 2008) and job openings rose to 4.97

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Community for Career Development: A Look Inside One NAVUG Community Member’s Journey

Higher Logic

With a vocational accounting certificate in my hand, I began working as an intern for the company CFO and loved both working and getting paid. It may seem surprising to go from an intern program in the early 80s with a vocational certificate out of high school, to Director of Business Technology and Intelligence.

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The Lifelong Learner’s Guide to Success: Future Proofing Your Career, Part One

Blue Sky eLearn

They attributed the 2008 financial crisis as playing a part but also argued that the college-educated workforce was pushing the non-college-educated workforce towards unemployment. In 2013, three economists published a research paper called The Great Reversal in the Demand for Skill and Cognitive Tasks. in January 2013.

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12 Areas Your Association Must Address to Thrive During a Recession

Membersuite

Whether it’s a certificate program in which they learn new skills or a webinar series about operational efficiency, give members the knowledge they need to ride out tough economic times. Ask business owners and professionals who survived the 2008 recession to share their stories in virtual roundtables and town halls.

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