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Articles
- Medication Aide Certification Exam Cram: The Roles and Responsibilities of the Medication Aide
- To help you prepare for the MACE exam, this chapter reviews key issues related to your roles and responsibilities as a member of the healthcare team and the importance of establishing a caring and ethical relationship with clients.
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Ranking Certifications, Part 1: One Method for Rating Certifications (2013 Edition)- Aspiring or active IT professionals can benefit from an informed evaluation of certifications in terms of the time commitment, cost, and other factors involved in earning such a credential. This article looks at one method for rating and ranking IT certifications
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- Ranking Certifications, Part 2: The Ratings (2013 Edition)
- Aspiring or active IT professionals can benefit from an improved understanding of how top IT certifications rank in terms of the time commitment, cost, and other factors involving in obtaining the certification. Here you’ll find a table with rankings for more than 100 top IT certifications.
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- CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician HIT-001 Cert Guide: Regulatory Requirements
- This chapter identifies and explains the roles of some important agencies and laws, HIPAA controls and compliance issues, types of health records and rules of record retention and disposal, and finally legal best practices, requirements, and documentation.
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Blogs
- More Big News from the Big Data Front
I blogged here last week about big opportunities for both certification and employment in the general areas of big data, data science, data analytics, and so forth. Since then, I've gotten lots of e-mail and several other items have posted that underscore my original contention that this is a niche ripe with potential long-term career value for IT professionals.
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- Big Data and Data Analytics: Topics Ripe for Certification
As the cloud has taken over the computing world, and zottabytes of storage no longer evoke a "Huh?" and a blank stare from most people, tools and technologies based on the huge amounts of data that organizations and businesses routinely accumulate have become commonplace. The next step, of course, is for companies and organizations with stakes in such things to make certifications available. Then, IT professionals can demonstrate their skills and knowledge, hiring managers and HR professionals can assess them, and certification sponsors can revel in the creation of an active aftermarket (and reduced support costs) for the tools and technologies that make it all possible. And in fact, a suprising number of credentials now fall under this general heading, especially if you include business intelligence and data mining into the mix (as many experts do)
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- CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner Climbs Up Infosec Cert Food Chain
At the end of January, 2013, the Defense Information Assurance Program (DIAP) added the CASP to its list of baseline information assurance certifications. This may sound like small potatoes, but is actually a big deal, because that list of certs attaches to IT jobs with the Department of Defense -- and all of its contractors who also handle IT job roles for that Department, and other arms of the US Government -- and essentially defines "must-have" credentials for individuals to hold such positions.
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- Don't Forget About IT Cert Success
In the past couple of months, I've started blogging for a couple of training companies -- Upper Training and TrainSignal, to be specific -- and have been writing the occasional guest blog for Anne Martinez at GoCertify.com as well. Add to that my weekly blogs here, and three times a week on cert topics for IT Career JumpStart over at TechTarget, and that's a whole lotta blogging. And because of that, I've returned repeatedly to a free, book-length resource I created for this very own site about two years ago now.
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