October 19, 2009 2:41 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
employment trends for 2010,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT employment situation,
Manpower Inc. Global Employment OutlookFor this blog, I lean heavily on the monthly employment situation summaries from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). But there's another, more commercial source of employment information out there to which I'd like to point for today's blog. It's Manpower, Inc. a global player in the...
October 16, 2009 4:46 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT certification,
MCP exam discounts,
MCP exams,
MCT rewards program,
MS certificationMCT stands for Microsoft Certified Trainer, and these stalwart and knowledgable professionals make up the backbone of the classroom training industry for Microsoft certification exams. I stumbled across this tidbit of information in the Born to Learn blog while trolling for topics to write about....
October 7, 2009 4:43 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
AVG 9.0 released,
AVG Free 9.0 available soon,
free Windows antimalware protection,
free Windows antivirus software,
Windows 7 antivirus,
Windows 7 securityOf all the free antimalware packages — most notably, Avira AntiVir, AVG Free, Avast!, and most recently, Microsoft Security Essentials — I've had the most experience with AVG Free. I'm currently running AVG 8.5 Free on at least 4 systems (all test machines: 2 notebooks and 2 desktops) and also...
October 7, 2009 4:24 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT employment situation,
IT layoffs at UT AustinPart of my morning ritual consists of listening to local NPR affiliate station KUT, which intersperses snippets of local news along with the national and global news that NPR reports on "Morning Edition." This morning, I heard that big local employer UT Austin just laid 25 people off in its...
October 5, 2009 1:14 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
ANSI accredited IT certification,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT certification,
list of ANSI-accredited IT certifications,
Microsoft earns ANSI certification accreditationI got an e-mail last week from Microsoft indicating that "Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Windows Server 2008 Server Administrator and Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Administrator certifications are the first two Microsoft product-specific IT certifications...
September 30, 2009 4:52 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
coping with job loss,
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT job search,
IT job search strategy,
job attitudes,
job strategyBack in the last downturn — you know, the dot com bomb that followed the dot com boom in 2001 — Po Bronson, one of my favorite writers came out with a terrific book entitled What Should I Do with My Life? that explored how best to take advantage of the many, often involuntary...
September 28, 2009 3:40 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Perfect 10 on Vista Reliability,
Windows 7,
Windows 7 reliability,
Windows 7 Reliability Monitor,
Windows 7 vs. Vista reliabilityAnybody who reads this blog for any length of time will quickly observe that I'm a nut about Windows reliability, and very interested in how the OS measure same. Starting with Vista, and continuing in Windows 7, there's even a reliability monitor that keeps track of how systems do over time. Here's...
September 25, 2009 8:06 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
IT career planning,
IT careers,
IT certification,
MS beta Certification exams,
MS certification,
MS Certification exams,
obtaining a registration code for an MS beta Certification exam,
securing an invitation to an MS beta Certification examHooray! Liberty Munson of MS Learning has posted a peachy explanation of how the invitation process works for some of the many Microsoft certification exams that get introduced and updated all the time. Here's the banner for this latest posting on the Born To Learn blog, posted 9/25/09, and...
