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, that could cause real threat to us. We’ll talk about offshore outsourcing in the next chapter. (more…)
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 – significant enough to draw us to pay serious attentions. (more…)
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 operation problems. Layoff is often a result of company reorg, merger and accusations, and so forth. (more…)
The vendor sponsored IT & computer certification programs focus on technologies of specific system, products, and platforms IT vendors – companies in software, database, network, and OS fields. Certifications from vendors with leading technologies and dominating market shares are well recognized and offer the best value to IT professionals. The following list contains the major vendor sponsored certification programs. (more…)
The International Information Systems Security Certifications Consortium [(ISC)2] offers Certified Information Systems Security Professional Certification (CISSP) which is a high level certification program for IT professionals in security field. CISSP Certification was designed to recognize mastery of an international standard for information security and understanding of a Common Body of Knowledge (CBK). (more…)
In the networking industry, the Wireless segment is growing at lightning speed – an amazing rate of over 40% per year. The astounding wireless journey in IT industry had resulted in huge installations of wireless LAN equipment at home and work place. The future advancement of wireless technology will for sure cut down the cost of manufacturing and thus the cost of purchasing and implementing wireless solutions, that means the wireless installation base will continue to grow. (more…)
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 demand for security professionals will never die. Security is definitely the growth sector of the day. Thus, the security career track can be a highly remunerative direction. (more…)
The following short quiz consists of four questions and will tell you whether you are qualified to be a professional. The questions are NOT difficult.
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1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?
The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe, and close the door. This question tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way. (more…)
No Email?????? ……….. An unemployed man is desperate to support his family of a wife and three kids. He applies for a janitor’s job at a large firm and easily passes an aptitude test.
The human resources manager tells him, “You will be hired at minimum wage of $5.35 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address so that we can get you in the loop. Our system will automatically e-mail you all the forms and advise you when to start and where to report on your first day.” (more…)