CompTIA Blog

When Latvian IT Cluster was challenged with tightening the connection between Latvia’s working IT professionals and its aspiring talent in schools, CompTIA had the solution.

Andrew Gordon founded the Gomex Technology Institute in Jamaica in 2009 and in the six years since has guided students of all ages to certification success. Learn about Gordon, Gomex and some of the students he and the school have brought to a higher calling – IT – through CompTIA certification.

Love it or hate it, the Internet of Things is here to stay.

It was in the midst of the recent recession when Adrian Genesir, product development manager for the College of IT at Western Governors University, began his involvement with the school. With fifteen years of experience as a software engineer and database developer, he stepped into a faculty mentor role at WGU and started directly helping students, some of whom were actively working in the IT field and found their jobs were now in jeopardy, differentiate themselves -- partially through CompTIA certifications.

Last month, there was a “disturbance in the force” when it comes to your career. Representatives of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) signed the 8140 DoD directive. 8140 replaces the 8570 directive, which directed all DoD personnel and their contractors to be certified in their respective fields. What does this change mean to you? Well, in some ways, 8570 is dead, long live 8570.

Discover how to bolster collaboration online and offline, secure strong relationships among peers throughout the channel, bolster growth and increase visibility among partners.

Walt Jaqua and Kevin Kelly, two Indiana-based IT instructors, are doing hands-on work to get students certified and in jobs right after graduation.

AWIT's initiative helps girls discover their full potential in dream jobs within industries they may have otherwise never considered.

Sana’a Qaiser had only been in Washington, D.C., for a week on her first visit to the U.S. and she had already begun to start to feel at home. A rising senior at Kuwait’s Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST), where she studies information systems, she took advantage of the school’s summer semester abroad and attended classes at George Washington University, while availing herself of the myriad exciting new cultural experiences a major U.S. city has to offer.

An effective and profitable MSP is as proactive building its own business as it is at managing its clients’ systems.