Salary Survey Extra: The impact on income of higher education
The ongoing COVID pandemic has affected a lot of things that were once thought to be unshakeable pillars of society. That includes the four-year university education — college enrollment …
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2022 Salary Survey: IT workers move around, are secure in their jobs
A lot can change in five years. In or around 1427, a 15-year-old girl who had become accustomed to religious visions began seeking an audience with the French royal court. By 1431, peasant …
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CertMag Salutes Coretta Scott King on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Today is a holiday in the United States that honors Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader who dedicated his adult life to ending racial inequality. Dr. King focused his work on the …
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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on TestOut PC Pro
Someday, perhaps sooner than we realize, computers may become so smart that they rise up against their human masters and turn us into carbon-based batteries, or attempt to …
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Salary Survey Extra: The ultimate demise of Internet Explorer
It’s been a while since Microsoft’s clunky, glitchy, leaden Internet Explorer was anyone’s web browser of choice. Particularly since Microsoft itself admitted defeat, kicked Explorer …
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Salary Survey 2022: Certification entrenches IT skills, confers salary clout
You don’t have to have a certification to work in IT. And not every worker who has a certification is inarguably better equipped to do his or her job than folks with no professional credentials. Unless …
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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on ISACA CRISC
There’s a lot to consider when it comes to managing risk. You have to weigh the possibility of damage wreaked by everything from problematic organizational structure to meteor strikes …
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Salary Survey Extra: Will you get a bigger salary if you earn more certs?
There are definitely some areas in life where more is better, at least up to a point. “More is better” thinking generally applies to things that people don’t get, have, or do enough of in the first …
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Salary Survey 2022: For IT professionals and others, the past was present
There were big stretches of 2021 where the world seemed trapped in a cycle of, in the words of renowned sportsman and social scientist Yogi Berra, “déjà vu all over again.” A surging …
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Salary Survey 2022: An all-new Salary Survey 75
There’s a scene in the ’70s-set coming-of-age drama Almost Famous where aspiring music journalist William Miller has one of his first close encounters of the rock star kind. William asks …
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