Salary Survey Extra: What is the value of your certification?
What determines the “value” of a certification? There are many different reasons that people choose to get certified. So on some level …
Read ArticleMichigan IT pro perseveres in spite of physical ailments
Lois Alger’s favorite fictional character is Emily Pollifax, the heroine of a series of spy novels by Dorothy Gilman. Mrs. Pollifax is a widowed senior citizen who accidently becomes …
Read ArticleSalary Survey: The Salary Survey 75 Top 15
Along with everything else that came out of our 2015 Salary Survey, we included a list of the 75 top-salaried certifications in the 2016 Winter Edition of …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: About that Trump vs. Clinton (vs. Romney) question
Politics is not our thing here at Certification Magazine. Certification is our thing. Conducting surveys, as most readers know, is also our thing …
Read ArticleThe devil is not in these details: Why encryption isn’t evil
In the past few months, deadly terrorist attacks rocked San Bernardino, Calif., and shattered the French capital city of Paris. The technical investigation …
Read ArticleIT 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 …
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