March 2011

IT Career & Salary-boosting News & Advice – March 2011

March 24, 2011

Now available – our latest newsletter filled with news, advice and tips to help boost your IT career and fatten your paycheck. This month’s featured articles include: 1) MCSE: Why & How You Should Add It To Your Resume 2) 7 Ways LinkedIn Can Turbo-charge Your Career 3) IT Job Landscape: 2011′s Industry Trends 4) [...]

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MCSE: Why & How You Should Add It To Your Resume

March 24, 2011
MCSE Helps Any Resume Look Strong

Nowadays, it’s practically a must to have an MCSE Certification on your resume if you plan to ever work as a Network Administrator, Systems Engineer or IT Manager ($44,000-$94,000/yr); or to serve in such high paying roles as IT Director or Sr. Systems Engineer ($63,000-$109,000/yr). What is an MCSE & how do I earn it? [...]

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7 Ways LinkedIn Can Turbo-charge Your Career

March 24, 2011
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Spreading gossip, playing games and posting party pics on Facebook might be fun, but none of these activities will help you with your career – unless you’re trying to stymie it. But that doesn’t mean a social media site can’t be an effective job hunting tool… if you know which to use and how best [...]

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IT Job Landscape: 2011′s Industry Trends

March 24, 2011
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The 2011 job landscape is invoking hope for many IT pros; but new hires – especially those who’ve been out of work for an extended time – are discovering their departments have shrunk. That’s because during the recession, companies were forced to try to do more with less … and found out they can. This [...]

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If You Want It Done Right…

March 24, 2011
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With never-ending technical issues, and out-of-site repair bills, Cathy Guntert, 50, came up with a solution to solve both – she’d learn to repair computers. “I knew it couldn’t be that hard, but just a matter of know-how,” says Cathy. “The repair techs would step in my door, do their thing, then hand me a [...]

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