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
IT Job Placements
Now Streaming: Your Motivation for ITIL Training
Canvas Info Tech offers a lot of options for where to start or carry on your online information technology training. We’re happy to help you plan your next steps for how to grow your skills and pursue your ideal information technology job placements, but we also understand that that can be a daunting decision, with … Read More
IT Training and Certification Available to a Wider Segment of Society
In a previous post at this blog, we discussed the emergence of information technology training programs specifically geared toward the poor and disenfranchised. We also suggested that the first instances of these programs represented a growing trend that would provide substantial opportunities for training and development specialists and for supplemental, online IT training consultancies in … Read More
General Lessons from Specific Articles on Information Technology Training
The higher education technology website eCampus News recently ran an article detailing Information Technology Infrastructure Library with an emphasis on how it has been utilized by Ohio State University to, in the author’s terms, bring order out of chaos for its IT departments. These observations are easily generalizable to most any firm that has initially … Read More
Project Management and Data Analysis: The Overlap of IT Skills
At the beginning of the month, David Cotgreave of Project Accelerator News wrote an article that we considered interesting because it implicitly made the case for the overlap between two very different categories of online information technology training. As the name of the news source suggests, the article starts from the standpoint of project management … Read More
IT Job Placements: Now for Philosophers and Historians!
Joshua B. Gross recently wrote an excellent and thought-provoking article for the Chronicle of Higher Education. In it he refers to information technology job placements as the “accidental career for Ph.Ds.” He makes a compelling argument, grounded in personal experience, and we recommend that everyone read it, especially if you are worried about a perceived … Read More
IT Job Placements Can be Good for Your Bank Account and for the World
On Wednesday, the New York Times published a brief editorial by Melinda Gates, the wife of the world’s richest man and the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Their charity is often held up as a prime example of the good that can be done when extraordinary financial success meets a healthy sense … Read More