In article reveals, proceeding from modern requirements to certification of personnel of the organization: the concept of certification and its application of various fields of activity, are constructed the schemes reflecting process of carrying out certification of personnel and her main stages. Results of a research of the procedure of certification of personnel in the credit and financial organizations are analysed. Activity of the divisions which are carried out certifications of personnel (qualification examinations) is considered, provisions and techniques on the basis of which procedures of certification are carried out are studied. An assessment of the operating mechanism of certification of personnel is given, his positive and negative sides are revealed.