The first reason is enhanced marketability . The second reason is value to your organization . Certification might help you stay in this category. A third benefit of certification is knowledge . If you can learn just one item from the process that you apply that can help your company, the cost of the process is justified.
Certification is about making progress in that career.
Finally, if you would like to become a professional member of SHRM , certification makes you a member automatically versus having to prove three years of FLSA exempt experience. Only Professional members have full voting rights and can hold office. If someone wants to certify for the first time, he or she must have two years FLSA exempt experience and pass a comprehensive examination. The HRMA Certification Committee strongly recommends that anyone who sits for either the PHR or SPHR examination prepare for this test. There are two ways to prepare for the examination.