CompTIA Blog

This month: what does being a CompTIA member mean?

A year ago, we first met Logan Murphy, an IT consultant with Long View Systems, when he became the one millionth IT pro to become CompTIA A+ certified. Among other prizes, Murphy was awarded funds to spend on admission to a tech show of his choice plus lodging and travel expenses. Murphy’s pick: DEF CON 23. We caught up with him to hear about his experience.

Being a quick study and if you like to learn, you’re halfway to a career in IT. Careers of systems engineer are built on continuous learning and you’ll be able to get a glimpse into the daily aspects of this job.

Ready for a career as a service delivery manager? Managing people, working with clients and solving problems will keep you busy and make your day go by super-fast.

Combine your dedication for IT with certifications and you can map out a path to grow your IT career. You could be managing an entire call center team and get the reward of making your customers happy.

Use your dedication to IT to steer people to the right solutions. In this job, your focus will be more on people than on math, as well as your desire to learn something new every day.

If you like working with your customers and coworkers, and enjoy mentoring people, a career in a command center could be for you. IT certifications can lead the way and put in in a job in which you’ll be busy troubleshooting behind the scenes.

There isn’t just one way to get started in IT. Today, even YouTube videos can build a very basic foundation of your knowledge. Stay on the path, take your interest and education further and you soon could be supervising a group of IT service technicians.

Tasked with working both with technology and people, you’ll be finding ways to understand fast changes and ways to adapt. You’re deeply integrated in business processes that affect improvements across your entire organization.

There’s a big responsibility in making sure that an organization’s network functions well. That’s what you’ll do as a network operations manager. Of course, being interested in cool technology and gadgets could be a great foundation to thrive in this job.