IT guy learned to fail with grace while accruing nine certs in 14 months
Famed martial artist Bruce Lee admonished his students to “be like water,” because water has the ability to adjust …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: Certification at the speed of life
Momentum is a phenomenon that applies in a lot of different areas in life. The more that you do something on a consistent basis, the better you become at doing that thing. …
Read ArticleSalary Survey 2015: These are the people in your (tech) neighborhood
There is no “one size fits all” profile that describes (even broadly) every person in IT. If you ask the right questions, however, something between a portrait and a thumbnail sketch emerges. …
Read ArticleA look at IT infrastructure for CompTIA’s Cloud+ exam
In the past two months, we looked at the first two of the seven domains that are on the CompTIA Cloud+ certification entry-level exam (number CV0-001). …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: IT salaries by job hierarchy
There are a lot of different factors in IT compensation. When we do the annual Certification Magazine salary survey, we like to focus on certification …
Read ArticleSalary Survey 2015: Costs and benefits of getting a certification
Certification is a process, and both the expenditures and rewards associated with it often accumulate gradually. There’s probably no way …
Read ArticleThe magic IT job interview formula
A couple of months back, a cartoon showed up on my LinkedIn feed when one of my connections commented on it. That cartoon spawned the idea for this article and I wanted to …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: How do your employee benefits stack up?
As the philosopher poet Neil Diamond once observed, “Money talks … but it don’t sing and dance, and it don’t walk.” Now, it’s never been entirely clear to us …
Read ArticleSalary Survey 2015: Interest in IT certification still strong
Have you heard the one about the year that personal incomes shot up into the sky like a Fourth of July firework? That’s every year if you work in IT, but 2015 was especially notable. …
Read ArticlePractical experience a top element of effective certification training
Fourteen years ago, and then again last summer, Marvel Comics used its long-running X-Men library to declare that “E is for Extinction.” …
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