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May 23, 2013  2:32 PM

Interesting YouTube Video Spells Out CCNA/CCENT Exam Changes



Posted by: Ed Tittel
IT careers

Thanks to Anne Martinez at GoCertify.com, I just learned about a YouTube video -- don't get your hopes up: it's really just a PowerPoint slide deck...

May 20, 2013  4:38 PM

Guest Post: How Many Steps in Laser Printing? (Emmett Dulaney)



Posted by: Ed Tittel
IT careers

Every now and then, I'll turn over the reins here at IT Career JumpStart to a friend or colleague for a guest blog post. Here's one from long-term cert watcher and author Emmett Dulaney, whom I first got to know in the late 1990s through his many good IT cert prep books and articles.


May 17, 2013  5:55 PM

Microsoft Certified Educator (MCE) Makes Its Debut



Posted by: Ed Tittel
IT careers

There's a new MS certification in town: in a post dated May 16, 2013, Born to Learn made it known that MS had launched a credential that targets professional development for educators, and seeks to ensure they make good use of what's called Information Communication Technology (aka ICT) to...


May 15, 2013  3:53 PM

Do the math on the Furlough of DoD Civilians



Posted by: Ed Tittel
IT careers

In this morning's paper I saw an item about how the US Department of Defense is going to institute a mandatory furlough for 11 days' work for 680,000 civilian employees of that agency between July 8 and the end of the fiscal year (October 31, 2013). Trying to assess the overall impact on...


May 13, 2013  7:21 PM

Harris Interactive Job Security Index for April 2013 Tells Interesting Story



Posted by: Ed Tittel
IT careers

A recently-published study from Harris Interactive reveals some interesting concerns from American workers surveyed online between March 19 and 21, 2013 (see this April 4 news item for more details: "

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May 10, 2013  2:12 PM

Only Three Weeks Remain for Second Shot MS Exam Retakes



Posted by: Ed Tittel
IT careers

Last September (2012) I posted a blog about Microsoft's latest "Second Shot" cert exam offering -- sign up with a special...


May 8, 2013  2:59 PM

Heavily-Certified Cisco Guy Raises Interesting Question for “Cert vs. Life” Balance



Posted by: Ed Tittel
IT careers

As his online biography attests, Cisco Operations Manager Marcus Fan (he runs Cisco's San Jose Customer Proof of Concept Lab within the company's Worldwide Sales organization) is no...


May 6, 2013  8:44 PM

MS Already in the Federal Transition of Forces Mix



Posted by: Ed Tittel
IT careers

When I blogged last week about Cisco's participation in an announcement at the White House on April 29, where First Lady Michelle Obama announced a joint technology training initiative to help veterans and transitioning military staff still on active duty find their way...


May 3, 2013  1:57 PM

Sequester Notwithstanding, More Slow Jobs/Unemployment Improvement



Posted by: Ed Tittel
IT careers

Prior to this morning's release of the April employment numbers from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, many economists had predicted new job numbers would be under 100,000 again for that month, much in the same vein of the 88,000 new jobs reported for March 2013. Not so: the number came out at...


May 1, 2013  2:33 PM

Cisco, White House Team Up to Support Veterans Transitioning to Civilian IT Jobs



Posted by: Ed Tittel
IT careers

cisco-wh-bannerEvery now...