Salary Survey 2020: IT professionals are nomadic, hold academic degrees
A lot can change in five years. In 1964, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States launched an unmanned two-person spacecraft to test the viability of potentially sending …
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CertMag commemorates Martin Luther King Jr.
Today is a holiday in the United States that honors Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader who dedicated his adult years to ending racial inequality. Dr. King focused his work on the racial divide …
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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on TestOut Security Pro
Like workers in many other fields, some IT professionals are under threat of losing their jobs to automation and artificial intelligence. One sector of IT where there is a persistent clamor for more …
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Salary Survey Extra: The salary oomph of formal education
A popular topic in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election in the United States has so far been the problem, weighing heavily against the potential prosperity of many, of crippling amounts of student loan …
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Please take our Web Design and Development Certification Survey
The world of web design and development is … different today than it was in the mid-1990s, when the Internet was in its infancy and anything was possible. Going on 30 years later, the first generation of …
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Salary Survey 2020: Certs attractive to employers, improve performance
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 your …
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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on Splunk Core Certified User
Vast caches of digital data are often metaphorically labeled “mountains.” Most actual mountains have caves, and “spelunk” is a word that describes the act of exploring and mapping caves. There’s a …
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Salary Survey Extra: Does having more certs = getting more salary?
There’s a song in the Broadway production of Mean Girls — yes, there is a Broadway production of Mean Girls based on the 2004 movie with Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams — in which the main …
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Salary Survey 2020: IT certification loses some salary sizzle
Near the end of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Two Towers, as Frodo and Sam creep closer to Mordor with the crushing dark magic of the One Ring slowly but certainly eroding Frodo’s resilient will, the two friends discover …
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Salary Survey 2020: An all-new Salary Survey 75
In Shakespeare’s comedic romp The Merry Wives of Windsor, jealous husband Ford seeks to trip up boisterous schemer Falstaff by appealing to the old knight’s greed, fortifying his pitch …
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