CertStudent: Perseverance pays off for energetic teaching assistant

At Mountainland Applied Technology College (MATC) in Lehi, Utah, Jed Patrick works hard at training his information technology students. Of those students, you will find no one more determined to succeed than Patrick’s lab assistant …

Certification takes IT instructor to Afghanistan and back

Rosa Mattress was trimming and raking shrubs on a hot summer day the first time she met Chelsea Johnson. “I looked up and two ladies in a car were driving up,” Mattress said. The driver was Johnson …

CertStudent: Lucky IT admin gets free certification training for life

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From somewhere in the picturesque environs of Aschaffenburg, Germany, 26-year-old Mario …

CertStudent: Teacher and students earn certifications together

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It’s fall, and fall means football season. Just as a high …

CertStudent: Overcoming failure by sticking to his certification guns

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There isn’t a whole lot to do in the small town …

High school grad trumps peers’ college training with certification

This feature first appeared in the Summer 2014 issue of Certification Magazine.

After applying for a full-time customer support position with a wireless internet service provider in Worcester, Mass., recent high school graduate Steven Rich (Tantasqua Regional High School, class of 2014) landed in the same hiring pool as a handful of candidates with college …