Hi everyone! So last week we talked all about how I prepared for the PMP exam
and how I was able to pass it in the first attempt so now I want to talk all
about the PMP application so the application process it's pretty detailed
you have to really think about things like your employment
what type of managerial experience you have in those positions because it
doesn't have to be the ones that you your job title was manager so you really
have to think about that as well as gather any materials that PMI might
request during the auditing process and you have about 90 days after they send
the request to provide that information to them and then after that you will be
approved so let's go ahead and start now so I can show you the application
process so I already went and registered so you don't have to go through that
part and so when I finished registering and it was successful I land on this
landing page where I can either learn more about the PMP become a member which
I do recommend I am a member of PMI and then Projectified and because we're
trying to fill out the PMP application I will click on the learn more about the
PMP button so here it will give you important information about the PMP it
will also give you a little bit more information statistics on the benefits
of having your PMP and one of them as you see here is that people that have a
PMP earn up to 25 percent more than people who do not and then it will also
give you the criteria that you have to meet in order to get it so here it's
either a four-year degree and if you have a four-year degree from a college
or university then you have to have three years leading projects and 35
hours of project management education or training and then if you do not and you
just have a high school diploma or an associate it's five years of leading
projects and as well 35 hours so the only difference
is that you need two more hours than if you already have your bachelor's and
then it tells you like the process the high-level process of getting your PMP
so the first one which is what we're gonna do now is how to apply for the
exam the step two is taking the exam and if you saw my previous video I went
through the steps that I took in order to be prepared for that
hard insane but valuable exam and then three which is something that I plan to
do a video for is how to maintain your certification so here this is one of the
benefits of being a PMI member is if you are a member the exam fee is only four
hundred and five dollars but if you just don't feel like being a member of PMI
then is five hundred and fifty five dollars so when you hit the apply for
PMP button you'll get different options because PMI offers other certifications
so I'm gonna go ahead and click on apply for PMP application or continue working
on it if you've already started I just hit it before I hit the record button
just to make sure that it worked for me and you wouldn't have to wait for me to
go in there and figure things out so the first thing is of course you would have
to enter your home address and your work address so that is something that you
would click on the button and you know this is very self-explanatory so the
next part would be to enter your contact information so this is just my throwaway
email address because I couldn't use my actual one because it's already tied to
my PMP and I wouldn't be able to fill out another application being that it's
already approved so you would enter your email address here and then any phone
number so if they need to contact you which they usually do if they have
things that they need you to send to prove that you have the required
education or any of the additional requirements that they have to have your
PMP application approved so you can take the exam
they will contact you so you want to make sure that you enter an email
address and a phone number so they're able to reach out to you if they do need
more information so the next area is the your attained education and this is
where they will know if you already have your bachelor's or above and then you
would only need three years of management or if you only have like a
high school or an associate's degree even you wouldn't need five years
there are PMI accredited university programs and so that isn't just bachelor
degrees is also master's so if you do then you would click the yes button and
then you would just search for your college and then the actual
certification that you do have if you got another university program that is
not an accredited you know some university program with PMI then you
would just enter the information here the next section is the project
management experience that you have as well as the PM education which is 35
hours for everyone so this is something that I do want to let everybody know do
not try to fill out this application in one sitting
I took about seven days to gather all the information needed to fill this
application out as well as fill the entire thing out and this was the area
that I was a bit nervous about because I didn't want to mess this area up and
then they reject my application so you really want to make sure that you put in
the time to fill out this application so you don't have to get a lot of audit
request from PMI to get more information make sure that you actually do have the
experience and the education so that is something that I do stress it took me as
I said seven days it probably will take someone a shorter time they have more
time or they just got their stuff together but do not try to get this done
in one city so this area is broken up into four parts the
overview which we just went over and then the eligibility worksheet which is
accumulative of the two worksheets that are the PM experience and PM education
and this is really great that the ad of this because then you can see what is
required in how many months or years you do have in order to make sure that you
reach the hours and the months that you need in order to get your PMP
application approved and if you're filling this out and you figure out that
you don't have enough experience according to the requirements that they
have you can always take the CAPM which is another project management
certification they have but it's less stringent than the PMP so don't be
discouraged if you can't get all the requirements to be eligible to take the
PMP exam you always have the CAPM which is also a
good certification then we'll go ahead and click the PM experience and then
here you know another which is I like that they have these like high-level
roll-ups so you can see like after you're filling out each area of your
experience it will roll up so you know how much you need in order to fulfill
the requirement and so you would just enter a title and then a start date your
role and as you see here you don't have to be a project manager or have like
supervisor as your title in order for you to be eligible for the PMP exam as
long as you have management experience which as all of us know we sometimes do
tasks that are not part of our job title then you can be eligible to take the PMP
exam so just note that that it does not have
to be just people who have management manager as their title you just have to
have management experience so I just went ahead and tur you know information
here we obviously know that this is all fake and then the hours and then the
qualifying hours these can be different if it is the ITIL that there are some
areas are probably delved into other parts and so let's say that if like 12
hours of that was focused on the domain areas that we saw before then you would
enter those there but then let's say this the entire course was like 36 hours
and you would enter that here and just as an example and then you would just
click Save and add and then it would show like how many hours actually go
towards the 35 hours and then how many you still need very similar to the p.m.
experience area so those are the main areas of the PMP application you have
this optional information area and that's just for stats that they collect
and then as I said they will review it it takes about a week and then they'll
let you know if there's any additional information or any materials that you
need to send to them and you have 90 days to do that then you will get the
notification or the news that you either your PMP application has been rejected
or your PMP application has been approved and then you can go ahead and
pay for the exam and schedule it and I believe you have about a year to do that
you have three tries in a year to take your PMP and pass it and if you don't
then you have to wait but we know that we will pass on the first try and if not
the second try so we will not get to that point where we do not complete this
PMP application passed the exam because we got this oh I
hope the felt was helpful in getting through the application process I know
for me I was pretty scared when I saw the all the detail that they wanted but
I took my time gathered all the information and made sure that
everything was a hundred percent and after that it was a breeze so it really
isn't hard to get through the application process just make sure that
you have everything that they they asked for and if you do get a request for them
later asking for more information you're able to get that as well so I post
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