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Nathan Kimpel

Volunteering your tech skills can boost your IT career

I believe that using your professional skills to help others is one of the most fulfilling things you can do in life. If you are fortunate enough to have a job where helping others is your full-time occupation, then ...

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How to put your best foot forward on LinkedIn

It is currently considered one of the most important social media sites. It is designed for and relentlessly marketed toward business professionals. And it floods your inbox with spam. It is the worst and the best ...

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How to leverage the connections in your professional network

Let's suppose that you want to branch your professional network and grow your professional reach at the same time. There is a really good way to do this — all it takes is leveraging the people ...

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Money matters: How to gauge your IT salary appropriately

We are living in a time of great prosperity for information technology (IT) job roles. It is amazing to me the salaries that some IT professionals command. In this age of easy access to industry salary ...

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Job profile: Become a desktop support analyst

Every single day, millions of people with many different occupations wake up, log on and go to work. They show up at the office, they work from home, or they connect to the company network from ...

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Job profile: Become a front-end web developer

The worldwide web is a large place and, given its complexity, the number of jobs and job roles has been steadily increasing. One of the major roles central to this expansion is that of front-end ...

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How to ask for (or provide) a professional IT reference

Oftentimes, the best critique of yourself is someone else. The best way to make yourself known is for someone else to introduce you, and the best way to preach about your assets to the world is to put ...

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Love IT or Leave IT: Is it time to quit your job?

Fighting boredom and feeling like you are lost is a common issue among information technology (IT) workers. The creeping fear that you are missing out on … something (FOMO), or a complete lack of ...

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Making the most of your first week at a new IT job

It happens to everyone at some point: You land a new job. That being the case, what does every technology employee need to know about her or his first week on the job? What are the keys to making ...

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Job profile: Become a QA engineer

Quality means many different things to many different people — but to quality engineers or quality assurance engineers, it means “making sure it is right.” Quality is the product and, oftentimes ...

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