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By Justyna La Pay
| April 01, 2013
The SMSP course is definitely an eye opener. With how much social media has taken over, it is important to be fully aware of the capabilities along with all the risks it brings. Wilder Guerra, information systems technician, U.S. Navy The UKI Social Media Security Professional (SMSP) certification, powered by CompTIA, will be available on April 9.
The SMSP certification designates professionals with demonstrated technical knowledge of social networking platforms, as well as the skills to ...
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By Janet Pinkerton
| March 27, 2013
Managing your online image is important for job hunters, experts advise. "Let your public images be more professional and not open to misinterpretation," says Scot Melland, CEO of Dice Holdings.
Google yourself. What do you find? Will it help you get your next job? If not, it's time to sharpen your online image.
Human resource departments and staffing firms are increasingly going online to vet and find new employees. Scot Melland, CEO of Dice Holdings, says, "Managing your online persona ...
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By Janet Pinkerton
| March 27, 2013
Tracy Bicknell-Holmes, professor and engineering librarian at University of Nebraska-Lincoln created an online image management microsite for UNL students and staff, but it's publicly available and you can use it to. Clicking through the tabs of Bicknell-Holmes' website, you will find: Slide, audio and video presentations about managing your online presence by a wide variety of experts Direct links to multiple search engines (including Twitter, Dogpile, Google Blogs, Social Mention, and beyond ...
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By Natalie Velazquez
| March 25, 2013
Mary Ellen Foye, right, is congratulated on her graduation from the Per Scholas Women in Tech program from instructor Maureen Monaghan.
Earning the CompTIA A+ certification is an accomplishment in itself. But Mary Ellen Foye went above and beyond that goal, earning perfect scores on both tests. This puts her in the top 2% of CompTIA A+ certified professionals.
For the former nurse, this perfect score was a perfect surprise. "I had used computers as a healthcare professional," said Mary El ...
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By Janet Pinkerton
| March 19, 2013
John Hlavac, Tricia Wurts and Aaron Woods were honored for their work helping create the CompTIA A+ certification exam at the CompTIA Annual Member meeting in 2011.
More than 925,000 people have earned the CompTIA A+ certification for IT technicians during the past 20 years, but the very first was Patrick Farley, a training systems developer for Compaq's server tech support, who was certified on March 19, 1993.
"At the time, we hadn't focused on any PC certifications, just on a number o ...
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By Janet Pinkerton
| March 19, 2013
Cory Brown
For Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Cory Brown of Jacksonville, Fla., the CompTIA A+ exam is a steppingstone to parlay his computer hobby into a second career after he retires from the military. His goal: Strengthen his IT skills and leverage his military security clearances. "I'm going to be a 40-something in an entry-level IT position!" he notes, undaunted. Brown earned the CompTIA A+ certification in January, and will soon take his CompTIA Network+ exam. Eventually, he plans t ...
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By Lisa Fasold
| March 15, 2013
With the national community college graduation rate dropping by 25 percent, businesses, government and schools are teaming up to form new education models to get students ready for a career. Primary is a focus on "STEM" (science, technology, engineering and math) education and preparing students for jobs in these fields. Experts have determined that they can't tackle the problem at solely the community college level, but all along the schooling pathway, from preschool to age 20. Making Jobs a C ...
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By Steve Ostrowski
| March 14, 2013
The training industry has entered the "Age of Personal Learning," where individuals expect to take control of their own personal learning experiences and organizations will have to adjust to meet those expectations, a training industry executive told attendees at CompTIA Colloquium this week.
"They want it now and if you don't give it to them they will find it somewhere else," said Doug Howard, chief executive officer and founder, TrainingIndustry.com, a market intelligence firm that studies t ...
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By Lisa Fasold
| March 14, 2013
To better learn, we need to rethink how we organize information and how we teach that information. Reuben Tozman, chief learning officer, edCetra Training, delved into how people will learn in the future during the CompTIA Colloquium conference this week in Chicago. Traditionally teaching has moved from one teacher to one student, to one teacher to many students. But with the Web, one student can have many teachers through videos, white papers, ebooks, blogs etc. The web allows learning to b ...
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By Janet Pinkerton
| March 07, 2013
Mike Dellacava
Sr. Systems Engineer, Reflexion Networks
Mike Dellacava didn't choose IT as a career. "It chose me," he believes. "I was formed along the way, as I learned to do what needed to be done. But I've been happy doing the work."
Dellacava's father, a systems enterprise administrator and project manager, introduced him to computers, starting with an old 386, an early desktop PC.
"I've been taking apart computers, building, breaking and fixing them since I was seven," says Dell ...
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