Often overlooked as a means of entering many industries is the practice of interning. While paid cooperative learning experiences and paid internships might relatively rare the more traditional unpaid internship is still widely available. Unpaid internships are hardly glamorous but they do offer a significant means of rapidly entering the IT profession. One time in …
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April 3, 2007: Dog Food for Dinner
France’s Alstrom, maker of the famous TGV bullet trains, set a new rail speed record. Good stuff in the land of trains. Now if the US would just bolster its rail infrastructure to get a high speed San Diego to Vancouver run we would be well on our way to being a rail country again. …
Do IT: Breaking In – Friends and Family
Nothing makes you better and doing something than actually doing it. Hence the expression “practice makes perfect.” Hands on, real world experience is the best teacher. Getting that experience isn’t always so easy but in IT we have more opportunity to get experience earlier than in almost any other field. Almost everyone uses computers today …
Do IT: Breaking In – Certifications
Information Technology as a field offers a number of different paths that can be used to gain entrance into the field for beginners. In the late 1990s and early 2000s the most prevalent and popular path was through the use of industry certifications. Since the early 2000s the popularity of certifications has been decreasing as …
April 2, 2007: The House Sale Falls Through, Probably
Apple and EMI come out today with the official announcement that they are providing DRM free music via Apple’s iTunes Music Store. Not only are they going to be selling EMI’s entire catalogue of over five million songs without DRM but they are increasing the quality of the music available through the iTunes Music Store …
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