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Category Archives: Career Development

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  A Guide to IT Certifications for Cleared Professionals

  Federal procurements, including those in the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) landscapes, are increasingly calling out specific Information Technology (IT) certifications as requirements for personnel. While these certifications shouldn’t take the pla… more

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  5 Actions for Career Management

  Career Management makes some managers nervous. They might lose key staff or have to spend precious time training and mentoring people. It raises expectations for many people that they will be promoted sooner, or that another round of layoffs is coming. And for others, it’s just… more

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  Getting the Most from a Professional Conference

  I love going to conferences! I’ve added two certifications, gotten a job, provided valuable knowledge and expertise to projects and made some life-long professional colleagues and mentors from attending professional conferences. I’ve also wasted time, money and energy at a fe… more

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  Reshaping the Government Contracting IT Workforce

  There is increasing competition for interesting IT work in the government contracting industry. The new confluence of events that is reshaping the industry and its contractor work force: The embrace of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has cut licensing costs, and incre… more

• What You Can Do About The Winter of the Cleared Job Market

  Derek Zeller’s “Winter I$ Coming” outlined an increasingly bleak landscape for the cleared professional in today’s federal market. After years of growth and relative prosperity, the cleared job market has begun to contract. In Game of Thrones it was said that “a long su… more