What certification is most sought after? (If you had to select one)
Ex:
(Google cloud data engineer, PMP, scrum master, product management, etc)

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I'm surprised to see PMP for data focused individuals

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Depends a lot on your field, in government consulting pmp is a great baseline which can bump your pay in a variety of contexts. Tool specific ones can be good too like Tableau Desktop Analyst or Power BI Desktop Associate to Expert, but obviously it becomes a bit of a gamble on whether people care. That said I like change management. PROSCI has one such certification which is by far the most recognizable. If you have credible tech skills and change management knowledge + a growth mindset and a decent personality, you’re a serious asset to an analytics team. I’d also look for one of the reputable agile certs, good agile practice, usually means work will actually get done. But I like PROSCI. But what do I know, just my two cents. ;)

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For reference my first certification was lean six sigma green belt.

I’d agree with PMP. In D&A consulting here and so many of our clients are just looking for help with PM tasks and wrangling their own IT professionals. If you have technical and PM background you’d be golden. Other qualifications I see a lot are SQL, Python, R… really depends what you want to do - Account or Project Lead/Mgt or Developer work

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