“Largest IT employment gains in four years reported” article in NETWORKWORLD reports that in the month of July there were more than 18,000 jobs created for people with significant IT skills and experience.  This in a jobs market that in the US is, “lackluster”, reinforces how important it is to have the right skills.

The most hard skills to find are Java Developers followed by Mobile Developers, then .Net and Software Developers.  The time to advance your skills is now.  Find the training you need at a price you can afford right here.

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Looking at an American Express Open Forum article entitle, “10 Productivity Tips for the Dog Days of Summer” and I really liked the first tip:

• Improve your skills 🙂

What they said was that it is often hard to find the time to educate yourself due to your work schedule and that you should check into resources that provide flexibility and that many of them are free.  Now I don’t know if you know this or not, but at GogoTraining we offer over 500 FREE podcasts.  All you have to do to access them is to sign up for a free account.  You can listen to them on www.gogotraining.com or you can download them and listen to them when you are on the go.

Just read an article in NETWORKWORLD about how the signals your Wi-Fi system gives off can be used for surveillance to see through walls.  The article, “Stealthy WiFi Spy Sees You Through Walls Thanks to Your Wireless Router,” talks about how researchers in London have created a system that USES Wi-Fi to identify a person’s movements inside a building.

The system gives off no radio waves so it cannot be detected.  It uses Wi-Fi signals to find you and it has been tested and found to be successful through a 1 foot think wall.  There are other wireless networks that “see” through walls to detect and monitor breathing patterns helping to lower the costs of monitoring patients breathing.

Every day we venture into new frontiers.   What was science fiction yesterday is reality today.  Enjoy and beware.

It is time to go mobile.  It is coming to us every day in different ways.

GameIndustry International reports  that “Apple iOS and latterly Android have become the dominant platforms for growth in social gaming…not necessarily for social gaming itself, but all the growth is on mobile, not the web.”

Did you know, that globally organizations store about 2.2 zettabytes of business data and pay $1.1 trillion to store and secure it annually (Symantec 2012 Information Survey)?

• Stored data represents about 49% of an organization’s worth
• 42% of data is “duplicate” data – costing $462 billion to store and secure
• Problem:  There are just not enough Storage Professionals

Here’s How to Secure your Future

Get into storage today and be part of the solution.  One of the fastest growing segments in IT is Storage.  The growth in this area is exponential and the shortage of qualified professionals is severe.  In order to bridge the gap CompTIA and the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) have created a Storage+ Curriculum and Certification program.

Here’s How to Get Ready for Certification

• Train a group of people at your location – apx. $18,000 or
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Here is a great video on the new CompTIA Storage+  Powered by SNIA certification.  Learn what is it, why it is important and what it will do for you?  Great video from IBM Edge 2012 conference in Orlando.

GogoTraining course author Neil Potter has published a new book with Mary Sakry called, Making Process Improvement Work for Service Organizations.  This book is focused solely on service organizations such as accounting, IT support, retail and sales.  The purpose of the book is to provide a straightforward, systematic approach to planning, implementing and monitoring a process improvement program.  It is available on Kindle, iBooks and Nook at http://www.procressgroup.com/book.html.  Here is a link to Neils course on Inspection/Moderator/Peer Reviews.

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According to The State of the IT Skills Gap published by CompTIA the answer is YES. Not only is there a skills gap, but it is impacting productivity.

This makes us ask 2 questions:  (1) How did we get here; and (2) What do we do about it?

How Did We Get Here?

In answer to how did we get here the answer is pretty simple.  When times get tough one of the first things to go is the training budget.  Seems that somehow executives forget that it takes employees armed with the best technical skills to keep their organizations competitive.  Stopping training is like going to sleep when winter sets in.  Executives believe that if they cut as much as possible they will live until Spring.  However, in their case, when Spring comes nothing will be in bloom because they didn’t plant the training seeds of success.

What Can We Do About It?

In answer to what do we do about it?  The answer may seem simple, but it is not.  You can’t just say train, train, train.  Organizations and individuals need to do a skills gap analysis to determine where they are and where they need to be and then identify the many ways they can get there.  The skills gap analysis does not have to be complicated.  In fact, we offer a FREE 10 Step Guide to Training Success that helps individuals and organizations to help them in this process.  If you would like a copy you can sign up for a Free Account or send us an email request and we will be happy to send it out to you.

There are many great ways to get up to speed quickly and they each depend on a number of factors.  In the coming week we will be posting information on classroom training, online training and self-paced training.  If you have any questions you would like me to answer, send me an email at marianne@gogotraining.com.