Give Your Students' Creative Juices a Shot of Credibility
Landing that first job out of high school or college is daunting. The classic dilemma for students entering the workforce with little or no experience is convincing employers they are capable of doing the job. Talented students now have an effective credibility-building tool they can add to their resumés: Adobe® Certified Associate.
For those seeking employment that requires demonstrating the ability to use digital media needed to plan, design, build, and maintain effective communications, Adobe Certified Associate is a certification program that validates the skills of job seekers.
The Confidence Skills Are Up-to-Date
No question about it: Educators everywhere use Adobe software to energize learning in the 21st Century. Like the students who pursue certification, teachers enhance their own teaching credentials by earning an industry-recognized certification. By becoming an Adobe Certified Associate, they can elevate their stature in the classroom and provide a model for students in developing employable skills through Adobe certification.
Certification Helps Prove Proficiency
In an increasingly competitive work world, employers need more than familiar users of digital communications technology to drive successful business outcomes—they need proficient users. With certification, hiring managers will know that work similar to the excellent portfolio they just reviewed can be accomplished efficiently.
What Talents Can Be Displayed through Adobe Certified Associate?
Employment using digital communications skills is growing worldwide. Whether it's a career in graphic design, Web marketing, video production, or more, becoming an Adobe Certified Associate will help give you the inside track to work in these exciting new fields.
Adobe offers the following certifications for entry-level skills:
Adobe Certified Associate: Integrates Seamlessly into Your Curriculum
To help educators achieve these outcomes, Adobe has built course materials focused on career areas in Web Design, Visual and Print Design, and Digital Video. These course materials correlate directly to specific Adobe Certified Associate certification objectives. Combined, these courseware materials and certification provide powerful learning tools.
Free study guides from Adobe include excerpted resources from the digital careers curriculums as well as sample exam items for you to review in preparation for your Adobe Certified Associate exam. Study guides are provided for all available test versions.
The Adobe Certified Associate Educator program allows qualified teachers and trainers to effectively teach the Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Flash skills that their students need to pass the Adobe Certified Associate exams and succeed in today's academic and business environments.
"Adobe Certified Associate certification will give
our students an edge. It connects everything they need to know to do web development."
Mary Leonard
Springfield Clark County Joint Vocational School – Springfield
Ohio, USA
"The Dreamweaver exam is perfect because it
is a basic test for demonstrating they have the
skills to do their jobs. We recommend it because
Adobe is an industry standard; it’s something important they can put on their
resumés should they ever have the opportunity to make a career change." Terry Gibbons
Temple Independent School District – Temple
Texas, USA
"The implication is that these digital skills are being used by teachers, administrative assistants, assembly-line workers and others, even though the digital skills were not identified when these individuals were hired.
These individuals often have very little formal background training to perform digital tasks. If they had formal training, they would be more productive." John Avakian
Statewide Director
California Community Colleges Multimedia & Entertainment Initiative