Personally the CIPD qualification has been invaluable to me. However, I feel that the CIPD qualifacation has reduced in value over the years. The courses now work on either APL or are run by colleges who set internal exams. I know people who have done the qualification and very few fail through this course based internally assessed process. This to my mind is a soft option it was far harder to obtain the qualification when the CIPD marked its own exams!
I have also read comments about people not getting jobs without the qualifacation - come on people! How many of us HR professionals have turned down applicants because they don't have a recognised professional qualifacation - why should we be any different?
In my view our value as an Institute would be valued far more if we insisted on the qualifacation, after all how many Solicitors or Town Planners get jobs without their respective professional qualification.
My answers
Personally the CIPD qualification has been invaluable to me. However, I feel that the CIPD qualifacation has reduced in value over the years. The courses now work on either APL or are run by colleges who set internal exams. I know people who have done the qualification and very few fail through this course based internally assessed process. This to my mind is a soft option it was far harder to obtain the qualification when the CIPD marked its own exams!
I have also read comments about people not getting jobs without the qualifacation - come on people! How many of us HR professionals have turned down applicants because they don't have a recognised professional qualifacation - why should we be any different?
In my view our value as an Institute would be valued far more if we insisted on the qualifacation, after all how many Solicitors or Town Planners get jobs without their respective professional qualification.