{"id":10907,"date":"2023-12-03T18:33:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T23:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/?p=10907"},"modified":"2025-02-07T10:01:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T15:01:48","slug":"new-icf-credentialing-exam-policy-for-returning-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/blog\/new-icf-credentialing-exam-policy-for-returning-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"New ICF Credentialing Exam Policy for Returning Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>December 2023 \u2014\u00a0<\/strong>The ICF Credentials and Standards Board has approved a policy to waive the ICF Credentialing Exam requirement for returning candidates. This new policy, designed to improve the candidate experience across credential levels, applies to credentialing candidates who apply for a credential upgrade within one year of passing the exam. Specifically, candidates who successfully pass the ICF Credentialing Exam for an initial credential and who apply for a higher-level credential within 12 months of earning the passing score, will not be required to re-sit the ICF Credentialing Exam. This policy change is effective immediately for ACC candidates upgrading to PCC and PCC upgrading to MCC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 2023 \u2014\u00a0The ICF Credentials and Standards Board has approved a policy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"audience-type":[],"display-option":[],"post-type":[126],"topic":[1328],"_person-tax":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"post-type-news","8":"topic-credentialing-updates","9":"not-partnership-post","12":"has-featured-image"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10910,"href":"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10907\/revisions\/10910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"audience-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience-type?post=10907"},{"taxonomy":"display-option","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/display-option?post=10907"},{"taxonomy":"post-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-type?post=10907"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10907"},{"taxonomy":"_person-tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_person-tax?post=10907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}