As of this posting, the New Year is right around the corner. This is a time to reflect upon the career skills that you have developed over the previous year and the ones that you are likely to need in the coming year. If you have definitive answers as to what your employers or prospective … Read More
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Community College Education and Online IT Training
For a long time, something has been amiss about our attitudes and priorities when it comes to higher education in America. Recently, there’s been a strong counter-trend, leading people to reject liberal arts as useless and to blame expensive for-profit colleges for the student loan crisis. This seems a bit like overcompensation for past missteps. … Read More
IT Training for Careers in Military, Manufacturing & Service
Can you imagine a time when military basic training includes not just a battery of physical tests but also things like PMP training and certification, or online information technology training courses? You probably don’t see a lot of overlap between the roles of your average foot soldier and the roles and responsibilities of a California … Read More
Always Look for Changes in Online Information Technology Training
Last week we explained to our readers that ITIL training in California and the USA at large was facing a potential sea change as the originators of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library were planning to unveil a major update known as ITIL Practitioner. We hope that the information was useful to some of those readers … Read More
ITIL Training on the Verge of an Update
Two weeks ago, we discussed the important role that IT conferences and seminars can play in helping you determine what types of online information technology training you should be pursuing, as well as helping you understand how you can apply what you’ve learned in a real-world setting. We specifically mentioned the FUSION15 service management conference … Read More
Like Sports and IT? You Could do Something with Both
There’s an episode of Seinfeld in which George Costanza has just lost his job and he’s suddenly at a loss as to what sort of livelihood to pursue. At one point he reasons, “I like sports; I could do something with sports,” before Jerry confounds him with the question, “In what capacity?” It seems fair … Read More
Though Not Enough, IT Training Can Do Much for the 3rd World
A few months ago, information technology expert Irving Wladawsky-Berger wrote a policy brief for the Brookings Institution titled “Will the Digital Revolution Deliver for the World’s Poor?” We’ve briefly returned to that topic several times in the past few weeks, as part of our effort to emphasize the ways in which online information technology training … Read More
Information Technology Training Opportunities for Veterans
In our post last week, we called attention to certain current events that contribute to the discussion of how information technology training can be used to do good works and give back to the community. This week we’re doing it again by drawing attention to the press release regarding the honors to be conferred on … Read More
Data Security Concerns and Contract-Based Opportunities
Education Week recently published an article detailing the challenges facing K-12 schools in the United States when it comes to the privacy of student data. Such reports raise interesting questions about emerging opportunities for information technology job placements that put professionals in contact with the education sector, whether on a permanent or temporary basis, as … Read More
More Examples of IT Training as a Force for Good
We’ve discussed this topic on the Canvas Info Tech blog before, but we’re always eager to take another look at the incentives that might exist for people to pursue online information technology training, other than in order to make great money in the IT field. For some candidates, certified scrum master training or ITIL training … Read More