My Q&A on Procurement Certification for "Trusted Magazine" (April 2023)
Source link Why are so many colleagues not pursuing professional procurement certification? As a Fellow of CIPS (FCIPS), I’m asking this question to sense-check my earlier decision to become a member of CIPS (MCIPS), then a Fellow, and then a Direct Associate (a Tutor). The answer may reside in the job market. I asked Chat GPT to provide a generic assessment across 1,000 procurement job ads and define the portion of those requiring professional certification. The following result may not be 100% correct statistically, but it coincides with my “gut feeling”—not more than 40% of new positions require professional certification. In most ads, such certification is a nice-to-have requirement; perhaps only 10-15% of ads make it mandatory. This observation assumes that most employers are prepared to delegate spending budgets to people who can demonstrate relevant experience and skills but may lack an appropriate educational background. This article investigates the potential root causes of