CITPM VS PMP

Project Management, that's the way to go!

My interest is actually more on the Right Brain (Creativity side), but a conventional person like me has no courage to dump everything else, including my $30 000's degree, to persue a career in that aspect e.g merely teach piano? swing around in the musical stage? how about paint? haha... I am "Jacks of all Trades, Masters of None". Think I can practise these at leisure instead...

As you can speculate, you should know where I have decided to mould my interest in. I need a balance of Right Brain (Creativity side) and Left Brain (Analysis). Some say Project Management is an ART,and you hear this title quite often, "The Art of Project Management". However, to me it's more than just an art, it's a fusion of both science and art.

As most of my friends tend to be familiar with this, as I have repeated this umpteen times, "you need to have the knowledge (PM Tools and Techiques), as well as the ability to lead/manage people", and I mean all kinds of people in order to be a successful project manager. People who have strong mindset of their own, refuse to listen to you, refuse to attend your meeting, refuse to do what you have nagged them to.... Bottom line, People Management is important!

I see my current PA job in another perspective, now that I have moved out from my previous PM role. Coordination, Communication and People Management are part of the skill sets in a Project Manager, and I am learning that through this role. I have many events to coordinate for, many schedules to meet, and need a strong will to manage all those people (Private bankers can be moody at times, very different from previous; and I tend to see more kinds of different people around), and manage 1 or 2 big shots (who behave like unpredictable weather, can be difficult at times).

Anyway, CITPM or PMP should I go for?

One is targeting more on IT projects, and another is for general project management. The founder(s) of these 2 program is/are amazing as they understood that managing IT projects are different from managing a business project, however it leads to a confusion for people like me to ponder, "Hmmm... which one should I go for?"

But one thing I am quite certain about, at least for now, I know where I would like to head to... and I shall work towards that.