YOU As a Certified Project Manager

1. Why do you need a PMI certification?

For people who hold the PMP credential, companies are assured that the person who is doing the role of “project manager” has passed a rigorous industry standard test regarding the basic knowledge necessary for the job of project management. Also, only people with the necessary credentials are eligible to take the exam, which ensures that if you hire someone with a PMP credential, they are already pre-screened for the experience necessary to be a project manager.  Considering that 75% of all projects fail due to poor project management, PMPs are considered critical organizational assets by the companies who employ them (Gartner Group, 2012). Recently, the federal government mandated that any projects receiving government funding need to have PMI certified project managers, and most businesses in every industry with any level of success today require their project managers to have their PMP. The high demand for PMPs equates to a higher compensation.  How much more do PMPs earn the non-PMPs?  Based on the PMI Salary Survey 2020, the median salary for a Project Management Professional in the US is $120,000. Project Managers who have a PMP® credential tend to earn at least $20,000 more annually than their non-PMP counterparts. Those that go through Cheetah Learning for their PMP certification also can take a follow on Cheetah Leadership program and are able to command much higher salaries.  Also, for companies that bill out the time for their Project Managers – most can charge up to three times more for a PMP certified project manager than a non-certified project manager. Given the pay raise requirements, this represents almost a $700,000 increase in billable rates per project manager for the organizations who supply project managers

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2. Who hires certified Project Managers?

The Talent Gap Survey by PMI shows a projected that an average of 6.1 million project management positions will need to be filled each year through 2020. Project Managers are in high demand in nearly every industry. Our Cheetah PMP students work for a wide range of companies, government agencies, academic institutions, and non-profit organizations, large and small. Our client list includes over 650 companies from 15 industries: academia, consulting, government, health care, insurance, investment/securities/banking, manufacturing, non-profit, pharmaceutical/biotech, real estate, retail, service, software, telecommunications, and utilities/energy.

3. How do you become a certified project manager?

How to Become a PMP – The Project Management Institute is the globally recognized professional association that grants the Project Management Professional (PMP®). This credential is recognized by the Federal Government as being “certified project managers.” Individuals have to meet specific experience requirements and pass a very difficult certification exam to earn this distinguished certification. The PMP is for people with more experience in project management – with or without a college degree.

4. Why is Cheetah Learning the preferred way to go for passing the PMP exam?

Without Cheetah Learning, most people spend anywhere from six months to two years preparing for the PMP certification exam and 50% of them fail. With Cheetah Learning, people spend four days in their intensive accelerated learning program and take the PMP exam within seven days of when your program ends. 98% of Cheetah students are successful with passing the exam. Cheetah Learning guarantees their students pass when they follow their program. Cheetah Exam Prep works. Cheetah students take the actual PMP exam within seven days of when our program ends. They do not have to do any additional studying – either before or after our course. No other program offers this approach even though they may claim that they are “like” Cheetah and offer comparisons. Read the fine print – some recommend you spend 40 hours studying after class.  Many Cheetah Learning alumni are now leaders in their respective industries, as they also learn in the four day program how to learn and adapt quickly to very fast changing situations (just like a “cheetah”). It is learning that sticks with them for life and is transferrable to a wide variety of situations. It is an intensive week-long experience that enables people to positively transform themselves into peak performers for long-term, sustainable success.

Cheetah Learning offers a number of tools to assess if Cheetah’s approach is right for you:

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Other Approaches

Cheetah students tend to be the best and the brightest project managers who have the highest career aspirations.  We recognize some people pursue the PMP certification to satisfy someone else’s career aspirations and may not value an approach that provides the numerous long term career benefits as Cheetah students experience.  Other companies offer what they call “PMP boot camp” experiences for PMP test prep – which provide the requisite 35 hours of basic PM training but don’t take you all the way across the finish line with taking the actual PMP exam – like what Cheetah Learning does. To help you review the others who offer four day programs – evaluate these other operations.  (NOTE: We do not know whether these companies are still in business or not)

• Simplilearn
• PM Study
• 4 PMTI
• Project Manager Academy
• Udemy
• Velociteach

There are also a wide array of other approaches to do PMP Exam Prep  – these include PMP Practice Test Questions,  and include the basics of Project Management.  We cannot vouch for any of these approaches – we are just providing these other ways to prep for the PMP exam so you can make a comprehensive evaluation of Cheetah Learning and realize you are choosing the best PMP Exam Prep approach for your career.

• RMC
• PMP Prep-Cast