Where the IT Raises Are for 2014, sez ITBusinessEdge/Foote Partners

I love finding surveys, stats, and wish lists related to IT jobs and certifications. They're always interesting, they often have useful things to say, and there's always a catch (or two) involved in interpreting their proclamations. The ITBusinessEdge slideshow entitled "
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MS Offers 20% Off on MCSA Win8 … and More!

Late last week, MS Learning's "Professional Flash" newsletter featured an interesting offer: 20% off on the costs of exams 70-687 and 70-688. With Microsoft exams at $150 in the USA nowadays, and similar prices elsewhere around the globe, that's a useful savings of $60 or thereabouts for the...
Top IT Concerns for 2014, Courtesy of the British Computer Society (BCS)

Thanks to the folks at GoCertify.com, I had a chance to peruse the "Digital Leaders Survey" for 2014 compiled by the BCS aka The Chartered Institute for IT. Based in...
Cisco Revamps CCNP, Adds New Cybersecurity Specialist Cert

Earlier this week, Cisco announced some changes to its information security certification lineup. They've even put together a landing page entitled "Security...
MS Adds Free Exam to Free Training for Server Virtualization

Last October, I blogged about free online training for MS exam 74-409 Server Virtualizations with Windows Server Hyper-V and System...
Cisco Exam Topics List “Gains Clarity”

When I followed up on an interesting Learning New title on the Cisco Learning Network home page this morning, I immediately understood the lead-in "
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MS Announces Changeover Dates for MCSA Windows 8 and Server 2012 Topics

Last week, Erika Cravens published a blog post at Born to Learn entitled "
AWS Certification Program Gets Real

AWS stands for Amazon Web Services, perhaps one of the most popular and widely-used sources for cloud-based services around. Amazon is getting serious about its AWS certifications, and has now laid out a roadmap for its overall certification offerings. Here's what that roadmap currently looks like,...
Nice Resource for Vets and Transitioning Military Personnel

Thanks to an organization named U.S. Tech Vets, which has teamed up with Monster.com, there's a nice job resource for veterans and active duty military facing transition back to civilian life. The organization's motto is "Connecting veterans with jobs & employers with veterans," and they've put...
More Good News/Bad News on (IT) Employment

It's the second Friday of the month so it's time to chew on the latest employment situation summary from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. For the last month of 2013 (December, that is), new jobs jumped by a puny and somewhat disheartening 74,000 (many economists had been expecting something in...