Resources for IT Learners and Leaders

Workforce planning is about understanding the current state of your workforce and forecasting its future needs. It involves an intricate analysis of the supply and demand of talent, aiming to align the skills and availability of employees with the ever-changing requirements of the business.

Let’s start with a rule of thumb: If you’ve feel as though everything is under control, there's likely an alarm going off somewhere.

CompTIA is a leading IT company founded in the year 1982. The Computing Technology Industry Association is a charitable organization that provides professional certifications for information technology. The company provides certification to 120 companies around the globe. CompTIA certifications are categorized into four levels. The four levels are basic, professional, master, and specialty.

The Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) certification is another path to Microsoft's technology certification programs. The MTA certification creates a new entry point to help those who are new to IT to jump start their careers. There are three career tracks: MTA IT Infrastructure track, MTA Database track, and MTA Developer track. Each track focuses on basic skills needed to move on to the certifications needed for those specialties.  The training and exams is not vendor neutral like CompTIA but more focused on Microsoft technologies.   The MTA IT Infrastructure track has three exams, each one is a certification:  98-365: Windows Server Administration Fundamentals 98-366: Networking Fundamentals  98-367: Security Fundamentals