CompTIA Blog

April 21 is National High Five Day, and that’s why this week we’re high-fiving the whole IT profession with this list of five ways that CompTIA’s got your back.

Doing business these days can mean living in a world of near-constant interruptions – little is routine. This challenges traditional project management, and makes managing your current focus much more important, as is knowing how to pause and resume projects or manage that micromanaging CEO. Project management isn’t dead, but it’s changing, and CompTIA is keeping pace with it.

CompTIA’s Creating IT Futures Foundation graduated its thirteenth IT-Ready class in Minneapolis this month. Each of the 20 students in the class supported each other like a team so that everyone graduated – and 14 have already passed CompTIA A+.

Spirited discussion about the channel’s future

A skilled, lifelong tech learner, Jordan Breen was having a hard time getting a start in IT. At the urging of a coworker, he investigated certification, and within a month of receiving his CompTIA A+ he was getting interviews in the field and was well on the way to the best job he has ever had.

Every box of Girl Scout Cookies tells us, “Selling Girl Scout Cookies helps girls develop five skills that they use throughout their lives.” These skills – goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills and business ethics – are also the essentials of project management, and certifying them can boost any career.