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By Matthew Stern
| September 23, 2015
Andrew Gordon founded the Gomex Technology Institute in Jamaica in 2009 and in the six years since has guided students of all ages to certification success. Learn about Gordon, Gomex and some of the students he and the school have brought to a higher calling – IT – through CompTIA certification.
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By Matthew Stern
| September 15, 2015
It was in the midst of the recent recession when Adrian Genesir, product development manager for the College of IT at Western Governors University, began his involvement with the school. With fifteen years of experience as a software engineer and database developer, he stepped into a faculty mentor role at WGU and started directly helping students, some of whom were actively working in the IT field and found their jobs were now in jeopardy, differentiate themselves -- partially through CompTIA certifications.
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By James Stanger
| September 11, 2015
Last month, there was a “disturbance in the force” when it comes to your career. Representatives of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) signed the 8140 DoD directive. 8140 replaces the 8570 directive, which directed all DoD personnel and their contractors to be certified in their respective fields. What does this change mean to you? Well, in some ways, 8570 is dead, long live 8570.
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By Jamie Marturano
| September 08, 2015
Walt Jaqua and Kevin Kelly, two Indiana-based IT instructors, are doing hands-on work to get students certified and in jobs right after graduation.
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By Matthew Stern
| September 01, 2015
Sana’a Qaiser had only been in Washington, D.C., for a week on her first visit to the U.S. and she had already begun to start to feel at home. A rising senior at Kuwait’s Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST), where she studies information systems, she took advantage of the school’s summer semester abroad and attended classes at George Washington University, while availing herself of the myriad exciting new cultural experiences a major U.S. city has to offer.
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By Tom Liszka
| August 25, 2015
As students worldwide head back to school, learn about the Technical Support Internship (TSI), an Illinois-based tech support class in which students support their district, including all 3,600 Chromebooks in students’ hands.
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By Matthew Stern
| August 20, 2015
On an average day, Dave Atherton, recruitment specialist at Peckham in Lansing, Michigan, has numerous people with years of experience in the IT field coming into his office looking for employment. But sometimes he ends up having to be the bearer of bad news, and not because the candidates are incapable of thriving in a prospective IT role. Even if a tech who comes into his office has worked for more than a decade as an IT professional, without a certification, Atherton can’t put the tech on the job.
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By CompTIA
| August 12, 2015
As a member of the Executive Advisory Board who has worked as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) since before the 2003 overhaul of the CompTIA A+ certification, Ryan Frillman has influenced almost every important exam current certification holders have taken. But if you were to ask him, Ryan would put his work in a more humble perspective: he’s just fulfilling his lifelong love of computers and community service.
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By Daniel Margolis
| August 06, 2015
Emmy-award-winning veteran CNN correspondent and anchor turned international communications expert Gina London inspired attendees at the CompTIA Academy Educator and Learning Partner Conference to motivate through passion and shared “Seven Steps to a Successful Negotiation” at ChannelCon.
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By Jamie Marturano
| July 28, 2015
In honor of SysAdmin Appreciation Day this coming Friday, we spoke with IT system administrators about the most rewarding nature of their work – solving problems – as well as those who have benefitted from SysAdmins getting them out of many a jam.
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