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	8 Ways to Advance Your IT Career by Staying Relevant In today's economy, it's important to stay current in your industry. Keeping up with the latest trends and technologies is important if you already have a job, and it can be crucial if you are looking for work. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM How to Justify the Cost of a TMS Read this white paper to learn how implementing a service-based TMS, together with a well designed freight audit and payment module help reduce your transportation spend. Learn More In this Issue Want a job? Get a computer science degree The 5 hottest IT jobs right now Tech CEOs' first jobs: Licorice maker, housekeeper, scuba diver and more Want a job? Get a computer science degree 10 top colleges for tech CEOs INSIDER 12 career tips from tech CEOs 10 Cisco executive departures over the past year Top 5 cities for big data jobs 12 IT Certifications That Deliver Career Advancement Career Watch: New ways to find a job IT careers: Do you need an executive coach? WEBCAST: HP Why IPv6? Why Now? Learn how your company can minimize the risks, costs, and complexities of transitioning to IPv6. Expert Yanick Pouffary, CTO within HP Technology Services. discusses how you can meet the challenges of today's dual-protocol world and how to develop a plan for phased deployment that meets your specific needs. Learn more. Want a job? Get a computer science degree Here's a tip for incoming and current college students: If you want to have a high-paying job on graduation day, study computer science. Read More The 5 hottest IT jobs right now If you're an IT professional with experience building mobile or cloud applications, it's a good time to be job hunting. That's because the number of job openings in these areas is up dramatically from last summer. Read More Tech CEOs' first jobs: Licorice maker, housekeeper, scuba diver and more Before their corporate jobs, many tech CEOs got their hands dirty, scrubbing oils stains off asphalt, cleaning bathrooms, and shoveling monkey cages. Here are their stories. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Management Madness: How to Manage Mobile Devices There are six major mobile operating systems in use now and each one offers its own set of security and management challenges. The resources in this Mobility KnowledgeVault will help you keep these devices secure on the corporate network with expert tips on management tools, endpoint security software, increasing application support and more. Learn More Want a job? Get a computer science degree Here's a tip for incoming and current college students: If you want to have a high-paying job on graduation day, study computer science. Read More 10 top colleges for tech CEOs Which U.S. college produced the most high-tech CEOs? Surprisingly, it isn't one of the nation's premier technical universities: California Institute of Technology or Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nor is it a top-three Ivy -- Harvard University, Yale University or Princeton University -- known collectively as "HYP." Indeed, none of the top CEOs in the U.S. tech industry graduated from Yale -- or other elite schools such as Brown University, the University of Chicago or Johns Hopkins University. We analyzed the educational backgrounds of the 50 highest-paid and most powerful CEOs in the U.S. tech industry. Here's what we discovered. Read More INSIDER 12 career tips from tech CEOs It's a long way from mowing lawns and washing windows to the CEO's office, but today's tech chiefs haven't forgotten where they started in the working world. Here's their advice for young employees just getting started in the working world. Read More WHITE PAPER: McAfee What's Holding Back the Cloud? This report captures key findings from a blind survey of 800 IT professionals in four countries — China, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States — that provide insight into cloud computing security concerns, and how those concerns might be alleviated. Learn more in the McAfee Securing Cloud-Based Services KnowledgeVault. Learn more. 10 Cisco executive departures over the past year High-profile Cisco officials who have left recently amidst shifting tides at the company Read More Top 5 cities for big data jobs The big data deluge is creating a hiring boom across North America. Modis, an IT staffing firm, identified five cities in particular where big data is driving job growth. Read More 12 IT Certifications That Deliver Career Advancement In today's competitive IT job market having the right certification can help push your resume to the top of the stack or push you ahead of your colleagues when the opportunity for a promotion arises. Read More Career Watch: New ways to find a job Most jobs available today in the U.S. are posted to social networking sites; and the 'eHarmony of jobs.' Read More IT careers: Do you need an executive coach? As companies demand soft skills from their tech team, some IT pros are turning to executive coaches for guidance. Read More
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