Salary Survey Extra: Rating methods of IT job preparation
From ancient times right on up into the early 19th century, most people seeking to work in a given trade or profession followed a fairly standard model. The generally young aspiring tradesman or craftsman …
Read ArticleCompTIA ChannelCon 2017 a summer travel destination for IT pros
Kids who write those “What I Did with My Summer Vacation” essays for school probably don’t ever spin a flowery yarn about mixing it up with the computer technology industry’s …
Read ArticleDriving an effective cybersecurity apprentice program (Part 2)
Earlier this year in February, I wrote about my experience developing an apprenticeship program to provide cybersecurity training to college students in California. With the program proceeding …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on ISACA CISA
What does a certified information systems auditor do? There’s a succinct and engaging discussion of this unique and important IT role at GoCertify.com that also recommends ISACA’s …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: Rating certification study materials
There is, as they say, more than one way to cook spaghetti. Well, OK, actually they same something about cats that’s not very nice and probably shouldn’t be casually repeated. (There are spies for PETA …
Read ArticleCertification slam dunk: TestOut offers skills guarantee to IT employers
There’s no free lunch, and there are no sure things. (John Cusack might beg to differ. On the other hand the sure thing in The Sure Thing didn’t turn out to be a sure thing at all, now, did it?) …
Read ArticleWhat is your career strategy for certification?
If you get a lot of tech certs, then you may (or may not) have considered the following question. If certification is new to you, then it might have only crossed your mind in passing. Sooner or later, however …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on CCSP
Everything is in the cloud in 2017. Not everything everything, of course. Cloud cities are popular in science fiction, for example — both Star Wars and Star Trek feature such fantastical locales …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: Income and age
Age is just a number, or so they say. They also say that you should respect your elders, and it might be said by some that better pay is a sign of respect. Do we pay some workers more …
Read ArticleTest your knowledge of IP protection topics
Intellectual property, or IP, typically comes in the form of copyrights, patents, and trademarks that provide the foundation so much of IT is built on. While we work with protected (and unprotected) entities …
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