Daniel Margolis Posts

These days everything about the NCAA men’s basketball championship – from the way the games are officiated and televised to how the media covers them and fans anticipate and attend them – involves technology.

One of the benefits of your CompTIA membership is giving back. Your involvement in the association helps build IT careers for people from all walks of life, boosting the workforce and our industry. So, as we head into Thanksgiving, learn how a class of students is thankful for our work in technology and education.

Knowing technology is an essential first step to a career in IT, but to truly excel, it helps to build these seven personality traits into how you approach the industry and plot your path through it.

Learn how behavior interviewing can help you look behind and beyond the resume and avoid bad hires.

CompTIA’s Cloud Community met this week at ChannelCon, and one of the highlights of the meeting was a presentation titled “Crowdsourcing Cloud Insights: The Past, The Present and the Future.”

Two-time Super Bowl champion quarterback Peyton Manning spoke at CompTIA ChannelCon at the Diplomat Resort & Spa Hollywood this week, stressing teamwork and adaptability in a speech that frequently drew comparisons between football and business.

People often talk about how IT is a male-dominated industry, but rarely do something to directly change this. The Creating IT Futures Foundation recently took such a step, graduating its first IT-Ready class intentionally made up of women.

The Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce presented Pathways to Pipelines this week, featuring a panel moderated by Rex Huppke, workplace columnist with the Chicago Tribune. On the panel were Gretchen Koch, executive director with the Creating IT Futures Foundation, Eujin Kwak, Midwest campus recruiting specialist with Protiviti, and Sandee Kastrul, co-founder and president of i.c.stars.

The message of the Girl Scout Cookie Program looks an awful lot like project management – and particularly like elements of CompTIA Project+ certification.

CompTIA’s Annual Member Meeting at the Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park last week featured Power Talk Unplugged; a free-form session in which attendees drove the discussion.