{"id":25804,"date":"2015-06-17T13:10:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T17:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=25804"},"modified":"2015-07-16T09:25:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T13:25:41","slug":"sharpen-your-engineering-teams-skills-with-solidworks-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2015\/06\/sharpen-your-engineering-teams-skills-with-solidworks-certification.html","title":{"rendered":"Sharpen your engineering team\u2019s skills with SOLIDWORKS Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOLIDWORKS is known for its ease of use and how easy it is to learn. For those who choose to excel in the software, SOLIDWORKS Certifications provide a way for those individuals to stand out among other designers or engineers. But SOLIDWORKS Certifications can also be a huge benefit to companies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/user-over-shoulder.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SOLIDWORKS Certification exams are commonly being used by organizations to establish a benchmark on how knowledgeable their employees are, as well as determining where training for their employees might be needed. For example, at SMC Corporation in Indiana, the engineering department is using SOLIDWORKS Certifications to build camaraderie, and to gage the expertise of their users. This has led to additional focused training in the areas where they need it, and made users aware of additional functionality that they may have not known existed. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nkf-UuftXvA\" target=\"_blank\">Watch the video<\/a><\/strong> we filmed with the team at SMC to see how the competition really heated up!<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nkf-UuftXvA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Giving your employees the tools they need to design better products not only builds their productivity, it also builds their confidence in using the tools you provide for them. This can be a great way to retain key employees because of the investment your company is making in their professional careers and personal growth, development, and learning skills.<\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s the cost for certification? Well, if your company is a current SOLIDWORKS Subscription Customer, the exams can be free. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/support\/solidworks-certification.htm#SubscriptionCert\" target=\"_blank\">Visit the Subscription Offer Page<\/a><\/strong> to see if you qualify for this offer.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/certification\" target=\"_blank\">SOLIDWORKS Certification homepage<\/a><\/strong> to find out how your employees can become #SOLIDWORKSCERTIFIED<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/certification\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25845 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/CERTIFICATION-WEB1.png\" alt=\"CERTIFICATION - WEB\" width=\"961\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/CERTIFICATION-WEB1.png 961w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/CERTIFICATION-WEB1-300x78.png 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/CERTIFICATION-WEB1-615x160.png 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/CERTIFICATION-WEB1-728x189.png 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 961px) 100vw, 961px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- BEGIN KAPOST ANALYTICS CODE --><\/p>\n<p><!--\nvar _kaq = _kaq || [];\n_kaq.push([2, \"5576cf6756baa40a6a000041\", \"546cc71879d2154a3400012c\"]);\n(function(){\nvar ka = document.createElement('script'); ka.async=true; ka.id=\"ka_tracker\"; ka.src=\"https:\/\/analytics.kapost.com\/ka.js\";\nvar s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ka, s);\n})();\n\/\/--><\/p>\n<p><!-- END KAPOST ANALYTICS CODE --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOLIDWORKS is known for its ease of use and how easy it is to learn. For those who choose to excel in the software, SOLIDWORKS Certifications provide a way for those individuals to stand out among other designers or engineers.<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2015\/06\/sharpen-your-engineering-teams-skills-with-solidworks-certification.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":25844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[150,1986],"class_list":["post-25804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-certification","tag-certification-2","tag-certification-exam"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}