CompTIA Blog

  • Inspiring channel professionals to go further: The new CompTIA.org

    Jun 11, 2014, 13:00 PM by Randy Gross
    Welcome to the new CompTIA.org! We’ve rebuilt the site from the ground up and wrapped it in a lightweight, modern design. Once you start clicking around, you’ll find many improvements and new features that were designed to work with your PC, tablet and smartphone to get you to the information you need.
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  • ChannelTrends: Is Your IT Business Built for Hypergrowth?

    Jun 10, 2014, 16:58 PM by Brian Sherman
    Adding a significant number of new clients to your roster sounds like a positive, but many businesses aren’t built for dramatic expansion without at least some growing pains. Successful hypergrowth takes time, solid procedures and infrastructure improvements, according to “The 5 Secrets of Hyper-Growth,” a CompTIA webinar by Axcient’s Justin Moore. While his approach is nontraditional, it makes perfect sense to for open-minded MSPs.
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  • Jettisoning the Jetsons: the Future of IT Service Delivery

    Jun 10, 2014, 16:57 PM by Jim Hamilton
    The CompTIA IT Services and Support Community set out to explore the future of IT Service Delivery over the next three to five years as one of its 2014 initiatives. The first step in this expedition is a recently completed survey of IT service professionals. IT services of the future will seek to continue to delight customers by addressing their needs in a complex and changing IT landscape (91 percent of respondents classified addressing customer needs and challenges as a “must have”).
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  • Mobility Adoption Strong but Many Steps Remain for Full Integration

    Jun 10, 2014, 16:48 PM by Seth Robinson
    It is becoming apparent that the new trends in IT are leading to a completely new approach for businesses. In the case of mobility, having a wide range of options for front-end devices is changing the mindset around device management and workflow structure. Smartphones and tablets are transforming the device landscape and driving much of the initial discussion around enterprise mobility. Meanwhile, PCs remain viable options along with smartphones and tablets, and companies must decide how to handle all three.
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  • Warehouse Manager Reports an ‘Excellent’ Experience with Neuroscience-Based Learning Tool

    Jun 9, 2014, 17:55 PM by Michelle Peterson
    CertMaster, a comprehensive new neuroscience-based learning tool from CompTIA, has already garnered fans in the IT community, like 43-year-old Sean Byrne, a warehouse and office manager from Ireland. “Once I start the tutorials, I find it hard to stop,” he said. The adaptive training program, designed to help people start or advance their IT careers, was built on research from neurobiology, cognitive psychology and game studies.
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  • 11 Ways Millennials Are Changing the Channel

    Jun 9, 2014, 15:36 PM by Stephanie Swaney
    As Gen-Y infiltrates the IT channel more and more, CompTIA examines its characteristics and potential.
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  • Learning Financial Terms Pays Significant Dividends

    May 19, 2014, 21:27 PM by Nellie C. Scott
    The world of business revolves around financial numbers and terms, and learning to understand and interpret them will keep you ahead of the game. Success, for example, is measured on a balance sheet, a profit and loss statement, year-over-year growth, ROI and a host of other terms. It’s imperative you build a functional knowledge of finance and, more importantly, learn to tell the story of your contributions, build business models, and track and report results through numbers.
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  • Train Yourself to Ace an Interview and Other Tips to Market Yourself in IT

    May 19, 2014, 21:25 PM by Victor Johnston
    Marketing yourself can be a challenge, but you do have tools available at your fingertips. Through your online presence, your resume and interview, present yourself as competent and capable. You’re convincing a company that they need you, so tailor everything for the job that you’re applying for. Find ways to connect your credentials to the job at hand and weave in your core competencies and past achievements to suit the new job.
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  • Treat Networking Like a Numbers Game to Advance Your Career Search

    May 19, 2014, 21:14 PM by Nellie C. Scott
    Looking for your next career opportunity can be a full-time job. What if you had multiple people making referrals to you, or referring you to companies that are hiring and helping to get your resume in front of the right contacts? Networking is your best strategy for accelerating your search. Networking is like sales: It’s a numbers game. The more people you talk to, the sooner you get to the people who can help you.
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  • Write in Specifics to Get Your Resume Read, Not Just Scanned

    May 19, 2014, 21:12 PM by Patricia Martin
    IT recruiting is very specific, and recruiters are looking for candidates with skill sets that are specific to their hiring manager’s needs. A well-formatted, easy-to-read resume is critical to attract and grab the reader’s attention and make the reader want to get into the details of your experience. In this article, Patricia Martin, Business Development Manager, walks through her recommendations to get your resume not just scanned, but noticed.
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  • Consider Contract Work to Gain Experience

    May 19, 2014, 21:07 PM by Victor Johnson
    Contracting is a great place to gain and build your resume. Many businesses will pass you over for other technicians if your experience is light, so consider getting some extra work on your resume by working the contracting game. You have two options: independent contracting and becoming an employee of a contracting company. They are in some ways similar, but have big differences when it comes to tax filing, employment insurance and work guarantees.
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  • Learn How Las Vegas is Stimulating Startups

    May 12, 2014, 19:15 PM by Lester Keizer
    This guest blog entry was written by Lester Keizer, CEO of Business Continuity Technologies. Business Continuity Solutions has been in business for over 30 years. We’re one of the oldest technology companies in the Las Vegas area. Over the decades we’ve morphed from a regular technology product sales company to a company selling enterprise-level products to a firm that does strictly managed services in its purest form. The last six months has really been great for our company. We see ...
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  • ChannelTrends: Tackling the Challenges and Opportunities of Managed Services

    May 7, 2014, 22:24 PM by Brian Sherman
    Remote monitoring and management tools have been available to channel companies for quite some time. Just last week, a friend of mine sent me a link to the first article I ever wrote on managed services — from almost a decade ago — to congratulate me on 10 years of covering this industry-changing topic. Though it was just a brief mention from the former Gartner System Builders’ Summit and VARVision show, the Business Solutions magazine piece reminded me just how much the channe ...
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  • Firebrand Instructor Pushes IT Apprentice Training in the UK to the Next Level

    May 7, 2014, 20:32 PM by Michelle Peterson
    Accelerated learning is the hallmark of Firebrand Training, a UK-based global learning center that promises fast, quality results. There, IT instructor Gary Fildes has undertaken some experiments that move the curriculum along faster and take his UK apprentice students from IT zeroes to IT heroes.
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  • Harper College Introduces ‘Computer Classroom on Wheels’

    May 7, 2014, 20:21 PM by Michelle Peterson
    Catch a ride this summer on Harper College’s new innovation: a charter bus turned computer classroom.
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