A series of recent articles have come to our attention which point to the opportunities that are continually emerging for well-trained information technology professionals in distant and diverse job markets, including markets that are recovering from downturns or adapting to new circumstances. This is a trend that’s well worth paying attention to if you’re currently … Read More
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Be a Flexible IT Employee and Earn Flexible Hours
An article that was posted to CIO on May 1 calls attention to one of the fringe benefits of information technology placements in this day and age. The author recommends that employers seriously consider the offering flexible schedules to employees of their information technology departments. She notes that such an arrangement, including compressed hours, flextime, … Read More
Business Systems Analyst Job Description
In the latest installment of our series looking at descriptions for prominent job categories in the information technology field, we will be looking at the general job description and certain responsibilities for a business systems analyst. Put simply, the business systems analyst is tasked with assessing the existing technological infrastructure of a company and with … Read More
No One Wants This Job, But Do You?
Our previous blog post dealt with the high demand that exists for information technology security specialists in an atmosphere of constant and escalating security threats. Close on the heels of that post, Forbes published an article explaining another reason why jobs at the head of IT security are in such high demand. Apparently, very few … Read More
High Demand for Information Technology Security Professionals
Last week marked the 2015 flagship event of the RSA Conference, which annually focuses on issues, developments and best practices in information security for information technology professionals. The latest conference, which spanned April 20 to April 24, was reportedly even more popular than in previous years, filling San Francisco’s Moscone Center with more than 33,000 … Read More
Comprehensive Online Learning
The topic of online education and training got some significant media attention on Thursday when the USA Today published an article on the topic of using online courses to expand upon skills you’ve learned in college and to make yourself more appealing as a job seeker. Of course, unlike this blog, the article does not … Read More
In Demand: IT Security Professionals
Now that this blog has begun to highlight some of the types of jobs for which Canvas InfoTech online IT training can make you a better candidate, it is appropriate that we should focus on some of the specific types of jobs that hiring managers are especially likely to be looking to fill with people … Read More
Job Descriptions: Training and Development Specialist
As promised in our previous post, this entry is the first in a series that will look at some of the categories of jobs that might be available to be searching for IT placements in the Bay Area and that might utilize some of the information learned from our online IT training consultancy. It seems … Read More
Online Education on the Rise for both IT and other Fields
The business world was abuzz recently with the news that LinkedIn had purchased the online education platform Lynda.com for 1.5 billion dollars. This is a sign of the times. You can rest assured that if the leading voice in online professional networking sees such high value in online education, the trend toward distance-learning is something … Read More
Coming Soon: A Look at IT Job Descriptions and Relevant Training
As part of our effort to provide a wide range of practical information about online IT training, this blog will occasionally highlight certain jobs and categories of jobs that might utilize the skills learned in our online software training courses and from our online IT training consultancy. Naturally, we will focus on how this training … Read More