Salary Survey Extra: Additional data about salary satisfaction, Part 1

It was just 35 years ago that one of American cinema's more auspicious acting careers was launched by a movie about an all-female band attempting to spread its wings by playing a seasonal gig at a Florida ...

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Test your knowledge of HR management laws and rulings

A number of certifications are available in the field of human resources from organizations such as the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Human Resource Certification Institute ...

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How to find reliable IT salary information, Part 2

There are primarily two categories of compensation data available, employer-reported and employee-reported. The former is sourced from corporate HR departments nationwide (or worldwide), whereas ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on CompTIA Cloud+

Most of the things that are in the cloud are, to be more precise, in someone's cloud. There's a good chance it's Amazon's cloud, and Microsoft has steadily puffed up its own share of the market. There are ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Word games people play

One of life's modest pleasures that reliably sucks people in is the thrill of solving a puzzle. It's even better if the puzzle relates to something common or familiar, and even better than that if the puzzle can be ...

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Job profile: Become a metadata specialist

A recent search at IT employment facilitator Dice found that there are more than 2,700 jobs (including more than 1,800 with full-time hours) available to anyone seeking employment as a "metadata specialist." What ...

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How to find reliable IT salary information, Part 1

How do you determine whether the salary you currently earn — or are being offered for a new job — is fair? In the private sector, pay for the same job can range considerably. It is important to know the market ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on NetApp Certified Data Administrator, ONTAP

Businesses and other organizations must file, sort, organize, and access increasingly massive amounts of data. Silicon Valley-based NetApp specializes in cloud data services and data management. That opens ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Do men or women have more potent IT earning power?

Few world leaders have carved out as distinctive a niche in the annals of history as Wu Zetian, generally believed to be the only woman to ever hold the title of empress regnant, ruler of all China. After serving ...

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MITRE competition helps students engage in practical cybersecurity (and white hat hacking)

Embedded systems are an essential piece of our modern world and they show up pretty much everywhere ...

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