IT Insights Blog — TestOut Continuing Education

A fascinating video appeared online this past week in commemoration of the Titanic sinking 104 years ago. The video depicts the entire sinking of the great ship in real time (about 2 hours and 40 minutes) from the moments before the ill-fated iceberg strike. (Strangely missing from the video is the part where Jack sketches Rose while she's wearing the giant sapphire.) The first two-and-a-half hours depict the slow and arduous submerging of the front half of the ship. The pace of the rising water is almost indiscernible, until the back end of the ship is nearly at a 45 degree angle out of the water.

Most people, at some point in their lives, will experience at least a moment of solemn anguish over something they did, something they didn't do, something they wish they had known about sooner, and so forth. It's a quirk of human nature to reflect, from time to time, on unfortunate outcomes or missed opportunities. Animals can learn from something that causes harm or distress. But they don't generally seem to have the capacity for it to occupy their thoughts and drag them down into a depressive funk.

Prior to joining TestOut, for 17 years I was an interior designer specializing in kitchens. There is a lot to consider when designing a kitchen — the materials, methods of construction, and a whole lot of preparation. When someone would ask me to design their kitchen I always discussed the importance of three things: ...

In our previous blog post, we noted that information technology employment is everywhere. IT is part of every modern business. No matter where you look, there's a role at some level of the organization for a skilled IT pro. So if you're transitioning to IT from a different career path, then you may not even need to switch employers — you may just be moving to a new department, or taking on a new job role. If you're making a clean break, on the other hand, and want to concentrate your job search on one or two different areas, then there are some places to look that are generally more fruitful than others.

We are living in a Golden Age of IT employment. The advent of the Cloud, the Internet of Things, and Big Data are combining to make the job market for skilled It professionals hot — and it’s getting hotter. According to the 2016 Salary Guide for Technology Professionals, from Robert Half, the global leader of professional staffing services, there are more jobs than people to fill them. areerBuilder and Economic Modeling Specialists International report that there is a significantly greater number of job IT job postings than hires per month.