From the course: Cert Prep: Adobe Captivate Specialist

Why become an Adobe Captivate Specialist? - Captivate Tutorial

From the course: Cert Prep: Adobe Captivate Specialist

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Why become an Adobe Captivate Specialist?

- [Instructor] There are some good reasons why you might want to become an Adobe Captivate Specialist. The first, and the most important reason, is to boost your professional profile with the help of specialist certificate and the badge. If you add Captivate Specialist to your resume, you'll find it easy to bag your next job or the next project you wish to work on. There are some other great side benefits, some of which are potential and some absolute. One of those potential ones is that the Selected Specialists can become guest speakers in Adobe hosted webinars where they can share their goals creation workflow and best practices for using Captivate in front of a large e-learning audience. In addition, you will also have a chance to network with other specialists. You will get to meet all those specialists in your section when you go for the live session. And it also gives you a great opportunity to establish relationships with these folks. And very soon, on the Adobe Captivate community page, you will have a section where all the specialists will be listed. Also, Captivate Specialists will have a label next to their name giving them a special status as a specialist in the community and distinguish them from the other Captivate users. It is an absolutely world class training program where you get access to more than 120 training videos. It is a blended learning program which has two components to it, one is the online training video course which you need to go through before you attend the live training session. The online program is more comprehensive and it allows you to go through each and every concept and skill related to Captivate. With the online training, you get access to more than 120 videos which are divided into 20 different chapters. And the live training session covers the most important topics which helps you devise the concepts and workflows so that you are fully prepared to take the final assessment. It's also a great opportunity to improve your productivity so that you'll be able to produce more content faster. Captivate is an amazing offering too, and it has a lot of features that are really targeted at improving and enhancing your speed and give you the tools that you will need to develop content and to maintain it quickly and easily. But to do so, you also need to know and understand the tool. You can develop pretty much any kind of e-learning you can imagine and there's more than one workflow to learn about, so having an opportunity like this would really help you accelerate your overall workflow plus it will give you an exposure to the tools that you might not be using on a daily basis and have not thought about, which will help you save a lot of time. It also is a great chance to potentially work on freelance Adobe projects. Adobe Captivate team will be introducing a number of freelance projects that will only be offered to the Captivate Specialists. These projects will involve creation of e-learning courses on various topics, creation of quick start projects, templates, themes and interactions. For being selected to work on these projects, the specialists need to have advanced graphic design and Captivate skills.

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