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As the demand for skilled IT professionals grows, so does the demand for IT instructors. If you are passionate about technology and people, this in-demand IT job might be for you.

IT training specialists enjoy their subject matter but also enjoy inspiring and informing students. If you like translating tech topics so others can understand them and helping to promote IT careers, consider the role of an IT training specialist.

Companies want to hire new employees, but seem a little slow on the uptake, perhaps because of the candidate pool. Here are a few ways to look at job applicants with a little less skepticism, without losing quality outcomes.

The longer it takes to grow your headcount, the longer you postpone profits, but it’s difficult to find and hire the right people. Creating IT Futures’ Eric Larson walks through the important questions to ask yourself before hiring, and issues that impact your company’s IT workforce outlook.

Nellie Scott is at the top of her game with Lenovo, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of personal computers. She serves as director of sales support & enablement, supporting the sellers and companies that sell Lenovo products and services. As someone who has advanced her career without a four-year degree, she's living proof you can beat the odds.

Everyone wants to be treated with respect, and nowhere are we more concerned about it than in the workplace. Most organizations are set up as a hierarchy — just like the families we grew up in — with several layers of leadership and management. It can be a tricky road to navigate, but if you make your actions and words worthy of respect, you are sure to be rewarded with a great career over time.

When IT-Ready Program officials approached Medica about offering post-graduation apprenticeships to adults entering the information technology field, the company’s senior IT leaders were receptive to the notion. After all, Medica already had an internship program in place for high school students, so its employees were accustomed to working with individuals who didn’t have a lot of past IT job experience, said David McPhaul, IT Services manager at Medica. “We saw this as a ...

With multiple CompTIA certifications and nearly two years of full-time practical IT experience in hand, IT-Ready Program alumnus Brad Clemensen says his career prospects represent a complete turnaround from where they were in 2012.

Certifications often help people grow their careers, but for Lamia Al-Azzawe, IT training went beyond this. It helped her pivot from an uncertain future in her home country to a world of job opportunities.

For Adam Henson, establishing a career in the field of information technology once seemed impossible.  “With IT, it’s hard to get a job without experience, but it’s hard to get experience without a job,” he said. “It was a real Catch-22.”  Then he learned about IT-Ready.  Henson, working as a meter reader for an energy company at the time, was perusing job postings on the Careerbuilder website when he saw an ad for IT-Ready. He found the p ...