Microsoft Office Specialist

The Microsoft Office Specialist certification is the best way to validate your skills with Office software. Certification is an excellent way to demonstrate to both clients and employers that you have achieved a certain level of ability in the specified software and can act as a reassurance of your abilities to complete the tasks you have been set. As an internationally-recognised certificate, the Microsoft Office Specialist can be a real boost to career prospects and stand as a testament to your skills and understanding of the program involved.

Certification as a Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) is focused on specific software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, SharePoint and OneNote) and for certain software (Word and Excel) there is also an MOS Expert certification available for those who want to develop their skills to the next level and demonstrate their more advanced abilities with the programs. And for those who want to show a complete understanding of the entire Office package there is also an MOS Master qualification available, which is obtained by completing the Expert certificates in Word and Excel, the MOS: PowerPoint and either the MOS: Outlook or the MOS: Access.

MOS certificates serve to demonstrate a holder's ability because they cover all the areas of a program to a certain level of skill. If you complete an MOS certificate you will learn - or at least brush up on, for those with some experience already - all the basic features of the software and how to use them effectively. This is the best way to show that you have a complete understanding of how the program works, what it is capable of performing and what is needed to bring the very best out of it.