Knowing you are skilled at the tools of your trade is important. Proving those skills to your manager and peers is how to get ahead in your career.

Microsoft Learning has developed a new certification program for the 2007 Microsoft Office system designed to help information workers both master the power of the new version of Microsoft Office and validate their advanced skills as well.

“Technology has expanded the definition of productivity beyond a one-dimensional measurement of inputs and outputs to include the intangible value of information and its effects on business processes and practices,” says Andrew Hazen, director for Centriq Foss, a Microsoft Gold Certified Learning Solutions Partner. “Measuring productivity for the information worker can be demonstrated through achieving certification because it firmly establishes an achievement of competencies and knowledge otherwise unknown and unmeasured.”

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