June 26, 2009 2:41 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
IT career development,
IT careers,
IT certification,
MCP exam,
Microsoft Dynamics exam,
MS certification,
MS exam vouchers,
SearchNetworking contestOK readers, this blog is just a quick reminder that we started a contest on June 11 in a blog entitled Share Your Certification Success Story, Win an MS Voucher. You can click the...
June 22, 2009 2:41 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
2009 IT job market,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT employment situationJust for grins, I decided to jump over to the other side of the Atlantic to take a look at the employment picture over there to see how we stack up against the world's largest aggregated economy. Given the state of global markets and economic trends, it should come as no huge surprise that things...
June 17, 2009 3:37 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Certified Wireless Network Professional,
Certified Wireless Technology Specialist,
CWNP,
CWTS,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT certification,
Wireless#My buddies over at Planet 3 Wireless, the organization behind the Certified Wireless Network Professional (CWNP) certification program, are making a change in their entry-level certification. The current and soon-to-be-prior credential,...
June 10, 2009 5:14 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Green IT,
Green IT initiatives,
Green Technology,
IT career planning,
IT careersEverywhere I turn these days, and in much of what I do, green initiatives for IT are springing up like mushrooms after the rain. I recently wrote a white paper for a major messaging security service vendor that explained how using SaaS (Software as a Service) helps companies green up, and save on...
June 8, 2009 12:49 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
CCEE,
CCIA,
Citrix Certification,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT certification,
virtualization certificationsLast October, my good buddy and Citrix maven, Jeff Rohrer, blogged to report that Citrix Education announced some new credentials as part of its looming lineup. In that discussion he introduces the CCIA, or Citrix Certified...
June 6, 2009 5:29 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
CISSP,
CLSSP,
Information Security,
ISC-squared,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT certificationAsk any security-savvy software developer how best to make code secure, and he or she will quickly tell you something like "To make code secure, you must design it to be secure, then test the heck out of it to make sure the implementation lives up to that design goal." And in fact, a growing body...
June 1, 2009 8:32 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
digital MCP certificates,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT certification,
MS certification,
paperless MCPI remember the days of "paper CNEs" and "paper MCSEs" in the late 1990s. This was an era when those often-vaunted credentials were purportedly so easy to earn that they became somewhat debased. That explains why I was so sorely tempted to see a recent e-mail from Microsoft as a backlash long in...
May 26, 2009 3:49 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
2009 IT job market,
entry-level IT job search,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT intership search,
IT job searchWhat with the semester near its end and the summer drawing on, young people's thoughts turn to employment. The CollegeRecruiter.com Web site has compiled a nice press release (dated 4/7/09) entitled "
