Meet our Newest Adobe Certified Associates

We are excited to report that Adobe recently certified 5 THS students.  This is a major accomplishment for our students who will graduate with their feet planted firmly in the graphic design field.

Adobe Certified Associates

From the left, they are Tanner Nesbitt, Victoria Carreon, and Douglas Smith.  Not pictured, we certified Trevor Smith and Dalton Kindred.  Their teacher is Melody Ojeda.

The Adobe Certified Associate certification is a very sought-after certification in any design career, especially anything dealing with graphic design (magazines, ad agencies, websites, etc.).  The agency we use to certify is the industry standard.  

Colleges and prospective employers use their certification databases to recruit potential students, scholarship recipients and employees.  Graduates with degrees in graphic design who go on to be actual graphic designers can make anywhere from $40,000 and up.  If you are in a more metropolitan area, it's likely that they can make $60,000 - $80,000 and up.  Those are jobs that also have a lot of potential for growth and promotion.  With a more and more technologically savvy culture, everything is online, therefore everyone needs an awesome graphic designer.  Adobe is the industry standard for graphic design, therefore, employers want to see someone who is proficient in this software, and seeing that someone has put forth the effort to get certified shows employers that they are looking at someone who is serious about their skills.

Here is a link to the Certiport website, which is the agency we use to certify.  They have testimonials and all kinds of other information you can see. 

This is the link to the AI section.
http://www.certiport.com/Portal/desktopdefault.aspx?page=common/pagelibrary/adobe_AI.html

This is the link to "success stories."
http://www.certiport.com/portal/DesktopDefault.aspx?page=common/pagelibrary/adobe_success-stories.html