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We hired an associate last fall who earned the CIPP-US certification and wanted to transition from corporate to data privacy. He had three years experience in the former and none in the latter, but our data privacy team took a chance on the hire and so far it seems to be working out well.
No. Use the study guide but most certifications are useless. There's a shortage of privacy professionals. Make the leap! I'm a non lawyer who regularly works with counsel making six figures.
It’s better than nothing, but would prefer to see actual experience.
I can’t really imagine you’d have in-house prospects but a firm may feel differently. Have you thought about trying to get a foundation first in privacy consulting or privacy compliance?
0 experience means you are qualified for 0 jobs that require experience. You’ll need either to do some data privacy work in your current firm/company and leverage that or you’ll need to get an extra level position in data privacy.
The CIPP/US cert cost is relatively cheap and it’s relatively easy to pass, so that cert alone will not put you in a position to compete against job candidates that have 3+ years of privacy practice experience.