IT careersOn July 5, I wrote a blog post here entitled "Repeat After Me: 'Slow Growth Mode,'" wherein I laid out John Challenger's analysis for...
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IT careersIn June and July of 2012, I blogged several times about the new, reinvented MCSE (it's Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert this time around, rather than Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer). In "
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IT careersIt must be something in the air recently, but I've gotten half-a-dozen emails from readers asking me to explore the old familiar "school vs. certification" conundrum. For most people, career advancement or development is subject to limited time, money, and energy. Naturally, they want to invest in...
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IT careersAnybody who's read this blog for any length of time (or any of my other cert-related blogs for Tom's IT Pro or
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IT careersThanks to widespread adoption of virtualization technologies and high-speed networking links to distant data centers, it's not as hard to sit down to take a lab exam as it used to be. But big companies that do "performance based testing" or "lab exams" still often require candidates to travel to a...
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IT careersPrior to its acquisition by Dell in May, 2012, SonicWALL already had the beginnings of a certification program for its Unified Threat Management (UTM) platforms underway in partnership with Global Knowledge (a well-known purveyor of IT education and certification preparation training). On July...
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IT careersI've been poking around on the Web this morning, noodling about for sources of information on the best-paying IT certifications nowadays. There's certainly no shortage of such information about -- run this
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IT careersLast Tuesday, I got an e-mail from Learning@Cisco entitled "A 'Bundle' of Useful Information." Upon opening this email, I discovered it to be the latest Cisco Learning Network Store Newsletter (July 2012, Volume 2, Issue 09). Turns out it's a promotion for the
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IT careersIf the title of this blog post, and CompTIA's recent survey "Technology...
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IT careersIn yesterday's blog, I commented on outplacement firm CEO John Challenger's observation that we face a period of...
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