Earlier this year I spoke to 3 of the instructors of the ERM and was told
that the ERM program is not a "Certification" like the CRM is.  It is a
'certificate' program of courses that focus on electronic records management
and they are offered at 3 different levels of study Practioner, Specialisst
and Master.

The CRM is a certification from a certifying body, the ICRM.   I do not
believe that AIIM is a certifying body like the ICRM is.

L. Shimamura, CRM
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On 10/5/06, Subscribe Recmgmt-L Anonymous <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I have been a Records Manager Consultant for about 12 years at a fortune
> 100 company but have never taken the CRM exam.  Why you might ask, I don't
> like the exam.  I think it is very antiquated and many of the topics are
> not relevant to what I do.  Within the past 1.5 years I have focused 100%
> of my job towards electronic records managment.  I am currently taking the
> ERM courses through AIIM and plan to get certified.  As I review the job
> postings for Records Managers one of the prerequisits is always a CRM
> certification.  Now that electronic records management software is
> available to the Records Manager and Sarbanes Oxley is forcing companies
> to
> properly managing their records, which certification do you think will be
> the better choice?
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