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Takeaway of the week is likely more job options, job security and, likely, compensation for IT job seekers with the right skills and experience - namely, those targeting the emerging field of data scientist, skilled and/or experienced in cloud computing, mobile apps, big data management and, lastly, visionaries in our new IT security world. According to a whole host of studies, reports and surveys, the IT job market is your world, the rest of us just live in it. Seeking Skilled IT Talent a Tough ...

Is there an organization that is perfectly content with the level of skills and expertise their employees possess? Doubtful, but for both good and bad reasons. Given today’s unforgiving competitive environment and the skills needed to effectively support ever-changing technology, an overarching gap in IT skills is no surprise. As the data in CompTIA’s State of the IT Skills Gapstudy echoes, a vast majority of employers (93%) indicate there is an overall skills gap, the difference between existin ...

Is there an organization that is perfectly content with the level of skills and expertise their employees possess? Doubtful, but for both good and bad reasons. Given today’s unforgiving competitive environment and the skills needed to effectively support ever-changing technology, an overarching gap in IT skills is no surprise. As the data in CompTIA’s State of the IT Skills Gap study echoes, a vast majority of employers (93%) indicate there is an overall skills gap, the difference between existi ...

In the initial discussions around EMR (electronic medical records) incentives, some solution providers believed that doctors would literally be knocking down their doors. After all, who would turn down “free” technology that could help them run their business better? Shifting medical records to a digital format eliminates a mountain of paper, as well as the tremendous costs associated with filing and retrieving it on a perpetual basis.Of course, medical professionals and the IT community found o ...

Almost every sector of high-tech is booming and those upward trends look to continue for quite some time, but one group seems to be trailing a bit behind the curve. Despite the growth in numbers, the percentage of women in  IT (compared with men) has been in a decline over the past several years.     Research from the National Center for Women & Information Technology found that female IT industry employment reached its high point in 1991 at just 36 percent of the workfor ...

Almost every sector of high-tech is booming and those upward trends look to continue for quite some time, but one group seems to be trailing a bit behind the curve. Despite the growth in numbers, the percentage of women in  IT (compared with men) has been in a decline over the past several years.Research from the National Center for Women & Information Technology found that female IT industry employment reached its high point in 1991 at just 36 percent of the workforce. By 2009, that number ...

A series of bills have been introduced in the House during the last month that aim to increase and strengthen small business participation in government contracting – an important goal that CompTIA has always supported.  Development of this legislation follows over a year of hearings held by the Small Business Committee on various contracting issues.  This group of bills will help to direct more government contracting dollars to small businesses and should be enacted. Included in H.R. 3850, “Gov ...

A look at the week of March 5 in public advocacy for the IT channel:  This week, Republicans prepare to introduce an alternative cyber bill in the House.  Nextgov.com takes a look at how cloud computing will change the way federal agencies work.  GovernmentHealthIT examines how the President’s new budget may affect health IT.Republicans Prep Secure IT Act in the House — Reps. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) plan to introduce the Secure IT Act, a GOP-backed cybersecurity bill, i ...

Okay, IT professionals, what’s your career roadmap? Employers, what your plan for validating your IT employees’ skills? Find both on CompTIA’s online IT certification roadmap to learn which credentials—from CompTIA and other organizations — will advance specific IT careers. This one-of-a-kind tool identifies industry IT certifications used on various IT career paths as a worker progresses from beginner/novice to the intermediate, advanced, specialist and expert le ...

As technology permeates every functional area of a business and more company staff assumes the role of a knowledge worker, organizations across the globe must contend with new security threats and vulnerabilities. CompTIA’s 9th Annual Information Security Trends finds that like in the United States, information security is the top strategic priority in Brazil, India, Japan, South Africa and the United Kingdom. Professionals responsible for information security in these countries also expect IT b ...

With so much hype and so many different ways of describing the cloud, people are left feeling scared and confused.   Ian Moyse, U.K. sales director, Workbooks.com, believes that we shouldn’t be scared of the cloud and instead ask ourselves the simple question if cloud can help.  Moyse has found that by trying one cloud-based application that genuinely helps us means we are far more likely to become “cloud committed.”Moyse has more than 26 years IT experience, sits on the board of Eurocloud UK, h ...

ITpreneurs have a simple, yet effective business model.  They develop courseware, and their resellers package this content with their own offerings to deliver high quality training to end-users.ITpreneurs saw a huge opportunity with cloud computing and worked with CompTIA from the start to design and develop the content for CompTIA Cloud Essentials.During our U.K. cloud luncheon today, Brant Seethaler, regional business manager, ITpreneurs, shared his personal experience working with ING Bank wh ...

More than 60 guests at our U.K. luncheon today were keen to learn more about cloud phenomena, cloud best practices and trends and understand how CompTIA Cloud Essentials certification can help companies of all sizes.Speakers at the event included Brant Seethaler of ITPreneurs, Ian Moyse, an industry authority on cloud security, and Andy Nickolls of SkillSoft.John McGlinchey, vice president, Europe & Middle East, CompTIA, welcomed the group and explained that CompTIA Cloud Essentials certific ...

ITpreneurs have a simple, yet effective business model. They develop courseware, and their resellers package this content with their own offerings to deliver high quality training to end-users. ITpreneurs saw a huge opportunity with cloud computing and worked with CompTIA from the start to design and develop the content for CompTIA Cloud Essentials. During our U.K. cloud luncheon today, Brant Seethaler, regional business manager, ITpreneurs, shared his personal experience working with ING Bank ...

On Veterans Day last November, we saw a number of stories about the state of unemployment among the veterans community. It was startling enough to learn the unemployment rate among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans was 33 percent higher than the overall population, but if you dig a little deeper, you realize the picture gets far darker. As the jobs picture improves for more Americans, among our youngest veterans, those 18 to 24 years old, the jobless rate continues to hover near 30 percent, up from ...