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[quote=Anonymous]I realize that this is way too late for OP, but, in general, I'm not a fan of email signatures for internal use.  If you use one, it really just needs your title and, perhaps, your location.  Never use more than four lines in a signature and make sure that it is preceded by the standard signature delimiter (-- ("dash dash space")) on its own line (which does not count as one of the four).  Anything else looks clueless.

Putting degrees or certifications in one's email signature might make sense for an outside consultant (when earning your customer's trust is important), but comes off as unnecessary and pretentious for anyone else.  Yes, of course you have the necessary education and certifications to do your job--otherwise, you would not have that job.  Possible exception:  in cases where  there are legal requirements, it might make some sense.   If you are a CPA doing CPA work, I could see putting CPA in one's signature.

For business cards, I have no problem with it, if it is relevant to the job.

For a resume, put it under "Education" or "Certifications."

All of that said, my inclination is to say that many of us have fairly low opinions of personnel departments, and that it might not be such a good thing for OP to be promoting what appears to be (from five minutes' worth of Googling) a certification that promotes more-or-less the status quo for that profession.  My own experience has been that most people in that business are more interested in box-checking and making their jobs as easy as possible, rather than actually contributing to the improvment of the organization.  This may be totally unfair, and OP may be doing a great job, but that is not the message that I would be taking from someone who promoted such a certification.  (And I apologize if that is not what the certification in question actually means...the online descriptions of what it actually is supposed to indicate are rather vague.)[/quote]

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