It's still 2020 as I write this, but the end is in sight. It seems like it was years ago that the COVID-19 pandemic hit, with its resulting chaos and disruption. For a number of individuals, the struggle ...
If the major theme of the last 20 years has been how information technology dramatically changed the world, then the year 2020 was when IT itself had to adapt, in order to serve a pandemic-stricken ...
We've heard a lot about the cybersecurity skills gap in the past decade — and it's getting worse. While estimates of the total hiring shortfall vary a bit, everyone agrees that it's bad, with a deficit of as many as ...
The last several months have certainly been a roller coaster of change for all professional environments. Even before the widespread disruption caused by COVID-19, however, the occurrence ...
The cybersecurity skills gap shows no signs of going away. With the workforce being more distributed than ever before as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of workers around the world will ...
An industry colleague recently reached out for my thoughts on acceptable metrics for a new IT certification program, particularly for a program that was launched just over a year ago. As a bonus question ...
Information technology certifications can be broadly divided into two categories: certifications that are primarily knowledge- and task-oriented, and certifications that include content specific to ...
What do you see yourself doing five years from now? It's a question commonly asked at job interviews (and on more than a few first dates). The point is to get candidates to peer into the future...
Yeah, I guess I'm old. I've worked in the information technology (IT) industry since 1997, which means I've been at it for more than 20 years. It seems like only yesterday that I was a wet-behind-the-ears ...
With my planned retirement date of June 30 from the California Community College system, it looks like I won't be the only one retiring. On that day, Microsoft will be retiring a whole series of somewhat ...
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