In This Issue:
News: Is IT Truly in Trouble?
Education: Are You Getting Somewhere?
Education: Boot Camps – Going Once, Going Twice!
Tips: Tech Toys

Is IT Truly in Trouble?

Microsoft announced last week that they would be laying off 5,000 workers and Intel indicated they would be cutting as many as 6,000 jobs. IT is finally feeling the economic disaster that everyone has been tasting for a year now, but is it simply time for clean-up or is IT truly in trouble?

InfoWorld is right – “IT, both corporate departments and the industry itself, has survived tough economic conditions before, notably the dot-com crash of 2001.” The reality is that IT makes the world go ’round. If and when IT falls, like a cat, it always lands on its feet. In order to get people to spend money again, the greatest innovations have been born in economic downturns like this, so Information Technology will most certainly survive and eventually thrive again, but what about you? You’ve been out of work for months from a dead-end job you had for years. When will you land on your feet?

Call us crazy, but CBT Direct felt someone needed to create an online resource guide for IT professionals looking for a new job: one single website that includes all the information scattered all over the web about the IT industry and what it takes to be successful in IT. So we created it ourselves. CBT Direct’s IT Job Resource Guide site includes: the most popular IT job titles, their job descriptions, education/credential requirements, employment projections, national to metro-area salary statistics and even IT IQ tests to assess your IT knowledge – all in one convenient website.

So click around it. See how much money you should be making in your area. Test your IT IQ to check yourself against the competition. And by the way, your competition passes the tests…what about you?

 Are You Getting Somewhere?

Let’s say you need to travel 200 miles from one city to another; which would get you from one city to the next faster – a bike or a car? A car, of course, right? The bike would take more strength, more effort, more time and you would be much more affected by inclement weather. So why are you working at your job like you’re on a bicycle?

Without the right career training and development, your job is costing you a lot more time and effort for very little results. You may have all the technical skills to do your job, but which skills do you possess and excel at when it comes to interpersonal communication, written communication, management, leadership and customer service? The success and longevity of your career depends on these skills more than your technical ones!

Take a hike from that bike that’s been slowing your job down and start going somewhere in your career.

Boot Camps Going Once, Going Twice!

CBT XPress Certification Boot Camps have been filling up fast, so now’s your chance to take that much needed trip to Tampa Bay, Florida, and study, stay and sit for your certification class and exam at a beautiful resort and spa! See what our students have been saying about CBT XPress Boot Camps.

CBT XPress Certification Boot Camps include CompTIA A+, Network+ and Security+ Boot Camps; Microsoft MCITP Enterprise Administrator 2008; MCSE 2003; MCITP Messaging Administrator; Cisco CCENT and CCNA Boot Camps; for certification at the luxurious Safety Harbor Resort and Spa in Tampa Bay, Florida. For advice on CBT XPress Boot Camps, call 1-877-872-4646 Monday through Friday, 9am-6pm.

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