Certifications

Top 10 Career Advice Tips for IT and InfoSec Students

November 13, 2010

What advice do or would you give to students just entering the IT / Computer Networking / InfoSec field?

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So Now What? A Career Path Discussion

June 26, 2010

Why You Want to Create a Career Path Everyone should have at least a rough outline for their career path. The last thing you want is to decide that you want to get into a field or specialty only to find that you haven’t prepared. For example, you don’t want to interview for a leadership [...]

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Reading List for Week Ending 6/27/09

June 27, 2009

I read an awful lot of articles, blog posts, and books and thought you readers might find at least some of them useful. Each week I’ll post links to the ones that I found most interesting or useful. I’ve also created a category, Reading List, so you can easily find and review these lists at [...]

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Certs!? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Certs

June 9, 2009

Despite the debatable value of certifications, I decided to use my two week school break to study and test for my Cisco CCNA certification.  In this article I’ll discuss why technology leaders should consider getting the CCNA (even if you can’t login to any of your equipment), and I’ll share how I prepared for the [...]

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How Valuable are Certifications?

June 4, 2009

when applying for a job or promotion we are competing with people who do have degrees and certifications, and human resources and hiring managers do pay attention to both. You might not like it, but the reality is without one or both, you are at a disadvantage.

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