Certification

The Career Advantage®

If you're looking for ways to help you get ahead in the workplace, stop here. We at IAAP offer two professionals ratings for office professionals. The Certified Administrative Professional® (CAP®) rating Organizational Management® (CAP-OM®) specialty are the industry recognized standards of proficiency.

You'll improve your professional qualifications, increase your skills and knowledge and raise your self-esteem by taking and passing the exams. You may also obtain college credit and, according the latest survey from OfficeTeam, get up to a 7 percent increase in salary.

The CAP and OM exams are based on the premise that an administrative professional should have basic knowledge of office systems, technology, office administration, and management, and know how to apply the principles of good human relations and communications. Some of the examinations are based on knowledge acquired by the office professional through formal education and informal reading. Employers also expect their admin to be thoroughly familiar with current techniques in office practice and procedures and aware of developments in office systems and technology.

Why wait? Do something for yourself and your career today. Get certified!

Chapter Certification Chair: Sarah Green, CAP

From HQ (May 2011) - We are pleased to let you know several new certification publications are now available. All of these materials are for the new November 2011 exams, and are on the main web site under Certification > Certification Changes.

The Exam Guide: Certified Administrative Professional 
http://www.iaap-hq.org/sites/default/files/pdf/certification/CAPExamGuide.pdf
 
The Exam Guide: Organizational Management specialty
http://www.iaap-hq.org/sites/default/files/pdf/certification/OMExamGuide.pdf 

Application for the CAP exam and the Organizational Management specialty exam
http://www.iaap-hq.org/sites/default/files/pdf/certification/CAP_OM_Application.pdf 

Job Function & Employer's Statement for new CAP candidates
http://www.iaap-hq.org/sites/default/files/pdf/certification/JobFunctionEmployerStatement.pdf 

The Exam Guides include general information on the CAP rating and Organizational Management specialty exam, outlines for each exam, bibliography of college texts used to write the exams, tips on how to prepare for the exams, materials that may be used for broad overview, and suggestions on how to start a study group.

We are also very close to releasing two new promotional brochures on the IAAP certification. One brochure is aimed at administrative professionals, and the other toward executives. We will let you know when those brochures are available through our distribution department and online bookstore.

If you haven't already, please be sure to sign up for the Certification Committee Chairs egroup on the web community. Make sure you select the egroup and select your subscription option. As Certification Chair, we know you get many questions, and the egroup will help everyone have the same answer.

These are exciting times for IAAP's certification program, and we are happy to be working with each of you.

Best regards,
Kathy S, Jennifer, Vicki
Certification Department
certification@iaap-hq.org


Certified Chapter Members

Rose Ashford, CAP-OM 
Claudia Burgin, CAP-OM
Melissa Cooper, CAP/PLS 
Carole Epstein, CAP-OM 
Brenda Fischer, CAP-OM 
Yolande Gardner, CAP-OM    
Sarah Green, CAP 
Marcia Heath, CAP 
Joellynn Heaton, CAP-OM 
Doris Kenny, CAP-OM 
Irene McCombs, CAP 
Queen Nunn, CAP 
Robin Prentice, CAP-OM 
Sandy Short, CAP-OM 
Patricia Tate, CAP-OM 
Mary Vann, CAP-OM 
Brenda Walley, CAP-OM
Maria Whitmire, CAP-OM 
Jami Wilson, CAP-OM 
Retired 
First Methodist Church of Birmingham
Gentle, Turner & Sexton
City of Mountain Brook
Kamber Narrow Fabric Machinery, LLC
Lawson State Community College
Children's Hospital
Warren, Averett, Kimbrough & Marino, LLC 
Alabama Quality Assurance Foundation 
City of Mountain Brook
Retired
Retired
Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions
Bevill State Community College
Retired 
Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex
Retired
UAB Information and Engineering Management
Volkert, Inc.
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