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Why should you employ SAS Certified Professionals?

Whether you are looking to attract the most qualified SAS professionals or if you already employ SAS experts on your staff the SAS Global Certification Program provides you with the means to take your company and staff beyond your competition. With professional certification from SAS your company can reap the benefits of a more productive and efficient workforce.

Benefits of certification for the employer

How can you hire and develop SAS Certified Professionals?

Three Steps to help you hire and develop SAS Certified Professionals
  1. Attract the Brightest
    Those who possess a credential from SAS have gone a step above the competition to validate their SAS expertise. To attract the most qualified SAS candidates, consider adding "SAS Global Certification" as preferred or required criteria on your job postings.

    Visit the SAS Certified Professional Directory to verify SAS certified professional credentials.

  2. Retain the best
    SAS certification serves as a reliable benchmark for assessing your staff internally and also serves as an excellent return on your training investment.

    Contact the SAS Global Certification Program to learn more about group discounts for your staff.

  3. Maximize the value of your workforce
    Industry research has proven that individual and work group productivity increases when companies employ certified staff. 1

    "As a hiring manager for Quintiles, a global contract research organization, one of the most important credentials I look for when reviewing resumes is the SAS Certification. Based on my experience, candidates who are SAS Certified are more analytical and are likely to poses stronger SAS programming and debugging skills. In addition, I have increased confidence in these types of candidates who will generally be more productive. Finally, because training is important at Quintiles, all SAS programmers are encouraged to get advanced SAS Certification."
    - Sunil Gupta, Associate Director, Statistical Programming, Quintiles

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1 Source: 2002 Global IT Training and Certification Study, Prometric