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Jump onto Web Services and Give Your IT Career a Boost

All Industry giants - IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, Bea, and other companies amazingly agree that web services technology will change the future. You don’t see this kind of agreement very often in this industry. Web Services technology is real now. People no longer talk it as another over-hyped trend.
What Makes Web Services So Hot
It’s the […]

Career Plan for e-Business Architect: Roadmap by Example

A roadmap services the same purpose in the IT jungle as in the real world. You could get lost easily or find yourself left behind without laying out a plan that defines the path to reach you career goal.
For example, when you think you could and want to be e-business architect in the next three […]

Career Track on IT Security with Cisco

Several years ago, network security was simply a specialization implemented by system administrators. Today, security has gone beyond network and played major roles in IT industry.
Due to all these sweeping changes we experienced in recent years, we are all sure that security will stay as the No.1 priority in IT system implementation, and the […]

Facing Offshore Competition

1. The Offshore Trend
2. What Makes Offshoring Possible
3. Offshore Impact to Homeland Techies
4. How to Beat Offshore Trend
US-based companies are sending more and more tech jobs to overseas. Hiring overseas technical talent to do the job is so called offshoring. In recent years, rush to offshore outsourcing has become a significantly growing trend in IT industry - […]

Dealing with Layoff

1. How to Avoid Layoff
2. Preparing for the Worst
3. How to Survive from Layoff
In IT industry, layoff is inevitable. Most likely, layoff has nothing to do with employee’s job performance but often caused by uncontrollable external situations. In such a highly competitive environment, companies were sometimes forced to reduce workforce due to economic conditions and business […]

Surviving from Aging

1. Age Discrimination
2. Strategies in Workplace
3. Strategies in Job Hunting
4. Best Workplace for Aging IT Pros
1. Age Discrimination
For mid-aged and 50+ IT professionals, I have bad news and good news for you. Let’s check out the bad news first:
Bad News

(1) Age discrimination does exist in IT industry.
(2) IT industry workforce is very young. You’ve seen fresh college graduates […]

How to Fit in Outsourcing

1. The Outsourcing Trends
2. How to Fit in
In general, outsourcing is not really scary. All about outsourcing is to shift some of IT functions from in-house to external IT service providers. Your strategy to deal with outsourcing is to make yourself fit in the trend. There is another kind of outsourcing - offshore outsourcing, […]

Getting Certified

1. How Certifications Help
2. Paper Certifications
3. Easy IT Certifications
4. Top Tier IT Certifications
5. Preparing Certification Exams
1. How Certifications Help

What’s Behind Certification
Almost all IT vendors, big or small, offer certifications on their technologies, products, systems, and tools. Why do they do this? What’s their intention? Do they want to test your skills? Are they really interest […]