April 1, 2009 4:55 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
coping with job loss,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
job skills development,
relocation for IT employment,
Texas IT employment situationIn looking over the labor numbers for my recent Washington DC blog, "Government Stimulus Comes Home to Roost?" I also observed that employment numbers were up in Houston and Dallas as of the end...
March 30, 2009 4:55 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
BDD,
IT careers,
IT certification,
MCITP,
MCTS,
MDOP,
Microsoft Certification,
MS Exam 70-680,
MS Exam 70-685,
MS Exam 70-686,
WAIKThe "Born to Learn" blog from Microsoft Learning is proving to be an effective and useful source of advance information from MS. Call it a "source of planned leaks" and you wouldn't be at all out of line. Fortunately, MS Learning has been forthcoming and straightforward enough for this to be a...
March 27, 2009 5:22 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
coping with job loss,
IT career development,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT job search,
job seeking skillsAccording to the Washington Business Journal, the DC area was only one of four major metro areas in the US — including also Boston, Dallas, and Houston — to experience job growth in 2008. For...
March 25, 2009 3:44 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
coping with job loss,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
job search,
job search skills,
soft skillsMy last blog ("It's COLD Out There/Here") not only elicited a couple of comments on the boards, it also stimulated numerous e-mails from other readers who pick the blog up via newsfeeds (for...
March 23, 2009 3:42 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
coping with job loss,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT job search,
job seeking skills,
job skills developmentIn a classic exercise known as "eat your own dogfood" — by which I mean practicing what I'm preaching about hunting for contract and full-time employment by signing up at resume and job-hunting sites — I've been taking a pretty serious shellacking at the hands of recruiters and hiring managers...
March 18, 2009 5:22 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
coping with job loss,
IT careers,
IT employment,
underemployment,
unemploymentHow do you measure unemployment? Well, that depends. In fact, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks no fewer than six such measures, though it reports only on one of them as "the official unemployment rate." These measures are known as U1 through U6, where U3 corrresponds to official...
March 13, 2009 4:33 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
640-460,
640-553,
640-822,
adult education,
CCENT,
CCNA Security,
CCNA Voice,
Cisco certification,
continuing education,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT certificationCisco Press gave me 5 licenses for each item for the contest, so I'm able to give the first 5 posters a license for the 640-533 CCNA Security exam. That means the following posters should contact me to obtain their license keys--namely:
- Rob M, Provo, UT
- Kathy B, Twin Cities,...
March 11, 2009 4:13 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
adult education,
advanced degrees,
certification ladder,
college degrees,
continuing education,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT certification,
job experience,
job seeking skills,
soft skillsI was just musing on the state of the current job market, where it's not unfair to say that there are a lot more people chasing jobs than there are jobs chasing people. Once again, I find myself pondering the "Big Three' ingredients that all employers consider when selecting among multiple...
March 9, 2009 7:54 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT certification,
Microsoft Career Assist,
Microsoft certifications,
Microsoft Skills WeekAbout the same time my MS Partner Program "Learning Curve Newsletter" hit my inbox this morning, I also got some e-mail from MS PR with reference to their latest salvo in the training and certification arena....
