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By Janet Pinkerton
| March 07, 2012
Okay, IT professionals, what’s your career roadmap? Employers, what your plan for validating your IT employees’ skills? Find both on CompTIA’s online IT certification roadmap to learn which credentials—from CompTIA and other organizations — will advance specific IT careers. This one-of-a-kind tool identifies industry IT certifications used on various IT career paths as a worker progresses from beginner/novice to the intermediate, advanced, specialist and expert levels. Its IT certification infor ...
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By Lisa Archer
| March 07, 2012
With so much hype and so many different ways of describing the cloud, people are left feeling scared and confused. Ian Moyse, U.K. sales director, Workbooks.com, believes that we shouldn’t be scared of the cloud and instead ask ourselves the simple question if cloud can help. Moyse has found that by trying one cloud-based application that genuinely helps us means we are far more likely to become “cloud committed.” Moyse has more than 26 years IT experience, sits on the board of Eurocloud UK, ...
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By Lisa Archer
| March 07, 2012
ITpreneurs have a simple, yet effective business model. They develop courseware, and their resellers package this content with their own offerings to deliver high quality training to end-users. ITpreneurs saw a huge opportunity with cloud computing and worked with CompTIA from the start to design and develop the content for CompTIA Cloud Essentials. During our U.K. cloud luncheon today, Brant Seethaler, regional business manager, ITpreneurs, shared his personal experience working with ING Bank ...
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By Lisa Archer
| March 07, 2012
More than 60 guests at our U.K. luncheon today were keen to learn more about cloud phenomena, cloud best practices and trends and understand how CompTIA Cloud Essentials certification can help companies of all sizes. Speakers at the event included Brant Seethaler of ITPreneurs, Ian Moyse, an industry authority on cloud security, and Andy Nickolls of SkillSoft. John McGlinchey, vice president, Europe & Middle East, CompTIA, welcomed the group and explained that CompTIA Cloud Essentials certif ...
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By Todd Thibodeaux
| March 06, 2012
On Veterans Day last November, we saw a number of stories about the state of unemployment among the veterans community. It was startling enough to learn the unemployment rate among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans was 33 percent higher than the overall population, but if you dig a little deeper, you realize the picture gets far darker. As the jobs picture improves for more Americans, among our youngest veterans, those 18 to 24 years old, the jobless rate continues to hover near 30 percent, up from ...
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By Jim Staats
| March 02, 2012
Takeaway of the week is that a fresh batch of reminders only strengthens the idea that 2012 really is a cornucopia of good tidings for the IT job-seekers. The U.K., for example, is bursting at the seams with plum IT roles, if you have the right skills and experience. Another ‘Hot Jobs’ list isn’t just sprinkled with technology roles, it’s downright dominated by ‘em. And, if that isn’t enough, more evidence comes forth that executives are actually investing in their technology departments as a me ...
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By Nancy Hammervik
| March 01, 2012
On my way into work a few weeks ago, mindlessly listening to talk radio, I heard one of the most exciting pieces of news I’ve heard in a long time. The Girl Scouts of America had added three new badges to its program: computer expert, digital movie maker and website designer. I actually found myself cheering out loud and high fiving the steering wheel! As a woman who has spent nearly my entire career in high tech industry, I am acutely aware of the gender gap. From executive meetings to clien ...
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By Janet Pinkerton
| February 29, 2012
CDW, a leading provider of technology products and services for the business, government and education sectors in North America, actively recruits members of the military to capitalize on the transferable skills military can bring to the civilian workplace. In this CompTIA podcast, CDW Senior Director of Talent Acquisition Melissa McMahon discusses the IT job opportunities and support programs available at CDW for veterans and members of the military who are transitioning into civilian careers. ...
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By Jim Staats
| February 28, 2012
Life on a reserve among one of the aboriginal First Nations groups in Alberta, Canada, doesn’t always mesh well with modern times, but a successful, new training program is changing that - with help from CompTIA. Brought together in May 2011, just over a dozen students - all members of the Louis Bull Tribe - began an inaugural PC support training program provided by SAIT Polytechnic with the simple goal of better employment options. Using the fundamentals-soaked CompTIA A+ certification as a tra ...
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By Janet Pinkerton
| February 27, 2012
Getting security clearance—to gain confidential, secret or top secret levels of information access—can be an arduous process, but here are tips from ClearanceJobs.com Managing Director Evan Lesser for eliminating problems that can delay or torpedo approval of a security clearance application: Know your status: Under federal regulations, only U.S. citizens can obtain security clearance. Individuals who hold H-1B Visas or persons who are foreign-born but have not become naturalized U.S. citizens ...
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