“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.” - Peter Drucker

When you acquire a certification, you demonstrate competence to perform and deliver in that particular knowledge area.

When you maintain your certification, you demonstrate your commitment to the profession and the willingness to enhance your skill set.

What happens after you become an ICCKE Certified Professional?

• We ensure that you stay current on your area of expertise by doing the research for you and sharing an exclusive knowledge repository from which you can pick and choose nuggets useful to you. We do this by inducting you as a member of the international consortium of certified knowledge experts, where professionals like you, come from all walks of life and share a global vision of continuously improving their skill set to become more effective in their area of expertise. Like you, they want to stay ahead in their fields - be experts, leaders and visionaries who set future trends in the global economy.
• We help you build and nurture relationships; share best practices and experiences with experts and peers worldwide across industries, cross functional areas and multiple technology platforms so that you are capable of making more informed decisions and excel in what you do. ICCKE's mission is to create higher thinkers and better doers - to extract extraordinary performances from ordinary people. We do this by bringing the best of electronic media within your easy access - be it blogs by leading visionaries in the field, pod casts by experts, whitepapers from technology creators and research papers from innovators. We ensure that you stay connected with current developments, future trends and your peer network wherever you are.
• We provide you opportunities for personal growth, professional progress and evolve as an expert, visionary or leader contributing significantly to the area of your expertise across multiple platforms, media, publications and conferences. We value your experience, the lessons you have learnt from them and want you to share it with others because we believe in possibilities and the immense potential each learning experience carries. We do this by giving you your own personal space to pen down your thoughts, forums to share opinions, events to interact with your peers and extend your professional network further.

How can we help you maintain your certification?

ICCKE believes in facilitating an environment for continuing education without making unreasonable demands on time and effort from a certified professional. It can be as simple as doing your job right, and accounting for 1000 of the 2000 potential hours of work you do in a work year. Staying current in your job, leveraging the ICCKE networking platform and voicing your opinions or sharing best practices with your peers can easily make up for your annual KASE (Knowledge and Skill Enhancement)credits. We want you to enjoy the path of acquiring knowledge and being a reliable source yourself.

ICCKE Continuing Certification Requirements Program (CCR) supports continuing educational and professional development of certified professionals. This is in compliance with the requirement of ISO/IEC 17024 standard, general requirements for bodies operating certification of persons. This standard provides a benchmark for certification bodies offering certification of persons in any occupation and facilitates accreditation by national bodies. ICCKE CCR program is designed to:

1. Support ongoing professional development certified professionals.
2. Encourage active participation of certified professionals in the development of the professional standards in their area of expertise.
3. Make available a standardized and objective mechanism for achieving and recording professional development activities of certified professionals.
4. Provide a platform for certified professional’s studies, findings, and research.
5. Allow employers to validate the currency of skill competency in a certified professional

Requirements:

ICCKE facilitates continuing education by encouraging professionals to set achievable milestones through various activities that contribute to skill enhancement. All ICCKE certified professionals must earn 150 KASE (Knowledge and Skill Enhancement) credits in a 3 year period after they achieve their certification.  You can earn your KASE credits by a combination of activities listed below.

KASE Activities

1. Formal Academic Education

KASE credits can be earned by completing any structured academic program. The academic course must be offered at degree or higher level and should be related to your area of certification. A forty hour program will fetch you 10 KASE credits.

Required Documentation: Official transcript indicating a passing mark, complete copy of the syllabus/curriculum upon request and or audit

2. Professional Activities

KASE credits can also be earned by participating in professional activities in your area of expertise.

Required documentation: Copies of publications, workshop agenda etc

3. ICCKE

KASE credits can also be earned by attending official ICCKE sponsored workshops, conferences, symposiums and other educational programs offered by ICCKE and its affiliates. This is an opportunity for you to catch up on any lost ground and KASE credits. KASE credits will be announced for these events from time to time.

Examples ICCKE Chapters, Events and ICCKE electronic media initiatives etc

Required documentation: Registration form.

4. ICCKE KTA Partners

KASE credits can be earned by attending educational programs offered by Authorized ICCKE KTA Partners. These providers follow the quality criteria established by ICCKE and are authorized to issue a certificate of attendance (COA).

Required documentation: Certificate of Attendance (COA)

CCR Cycle:
Start Date: Date of passing the examination.
End Date: 36 Months from the date of passing the examination.

For example if you have passed the examination on 31st July 2007, your start date will be 31st July 2007, and the end date will be 30th July 2010.

Certification Status

Active:
Status is active immediately after passing the certification examination and signing the ICCKE certification agreement. Active status is in effect for three years from the date of certification

Expired:
Status will be expired if a certified professional does not meet the recertification requirements prior to certification expiry date. Status is changed to active upon fulfilling the recertification requirements within a year of the date of expiry.

Recertification Process:

Application: All certified professionals have to complete the Certification Renewal Application

Deadline: All certified professionals must earn 150 KASE credits and complete the renewal process prior to the end of their CCR cycle in order to avoid suspension of their credential.