How valued are accreditations / formal training in New Zealand?

vaughan.luckman
Sun, 27 Apr 2025 10:25:41 +0000
Career advice

As someone who runs a Meetup group we get a lot of new / prospective BAs coming along who are looking to break into the New Zealand job market - and a very common question is “do I need a qualification”?

So, I am keen to hear about how valued everyone has found accreditations (eg, CBAP etc) and formal quals (eg Masters in Business Analysis)?

My personal experience to date has been that most hiring managers would hire based on the following (in order):

1. Experience

2. Experience

3. Experience ( )

4. Quals and training

So - certainly useful if you have no real-world employment experience BUT certainly isn’t going to jump you ahead of other candidates who have ‘been there, and done that’!

But are others seeing different things out there? Is there a difference across cities?? Keen for your thoughts!!

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