September 16, 2009 4:20 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
2009 IT employment,
2009-2010 IT employment situation,
IT career planning,
IT careersThe "it" in the title for this blog is the recession, and the but is a big one — namely, that unemployment will probably continue to rise into 2010, and will still probably exceed 10% overall. Brooking has graciously made a video of Bernanke's keynote, entitled "
September 14, 2009 4:30 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
2009 IT employment,
2009 IT employment predictions,
IT career planning,
IT careersIn trying to understand current conditions, it's sometimes interesting to turn back the clock to see what was forecast for the period we're currently occupying. To that end, I found this 14-month old set of predictions from ComputerWorld (7/18/2008) pretty interesting "
August 28, 2009 3:20 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
age discrimination in IT job search,
ageism in IT job search,
importance of flexibility in job search,
important of current skills and knowledge in job search,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT job search,
job search for over-50 workers,
relationship between age and payAs a baby boomer myself, I can't help but be sensitive to continuing reports or complaints about age discrimination for job seekers over 50. But in talking to technical recruiters and reading recent reports on boomer job search and unemployment woes, I'm not completely convinced that a...
August 27, 2009 8:19 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT certification,
IT certification benefitsIn her own most recent blog on August 24 entitled "Remember to grab those certification perks," fellow certification maven Anne Martinez of GoCertify.com offers some good advice about...
August 24, 2009 1:04 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Exam Cram book series,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT certification,
Mike Harwood Network+ Exam CramDear Readers:
After seeing Emmett Dulaney's latest selections for "Books of the Week" in his latest CertCities.com Certs Column, I sent him the following e-mail:
Dear Emmett:
When I...
August 19, 2009 9:27 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Exam 70-640 is really 83-640,
IT careers,
IT certification,
MS certification,
MS Exam 83-640,
MS performance based exams,
new MS exam prefixCall it the end of an era, or perhaps the start of a brave new world. Others who, like myself, have gone looking for MS Exam 70-640 (TS: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring) probably also walked away scratching their heads when they couldn't find hide nor hair of this exam. A blog...
August 17, 2009 1:25 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
IT career planning,
IT careers,
job search advice,
resume writing adviceOnce again, Esther Shein at IT Career Planet has struck gold in a recent story on the IT job front, as she did in April with her Social Networking story (about which I blogged on April 13 right...
August 14, 2009 11:58 AM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Certmag.com,
Gerald Weinberg,
independent consulting,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT consultingWhen I was a kid, lots of people smoked and thus, matches were everywhere, and matchbook covers provided the informational equivalent of cereal box copy in a slightly different venue and often in a very different vein. Of course, that was quite a while ago (I celebrated my 57th birthday last...
August 10, 2009 4:00 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
2009 mild recovery,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT employment situation,
IT employment situation in EuropeOne my favorite and most trusted news sources, in addition to NPR, is the British weekly news magazine known as The Economist. I've been a subscriber since the early 1990s, and have never had much cause to regret the $100-plus it costs me to get it delivered to my mailbox 51 weeks a year....
