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I know this won’t be surprising to most of you (after all, you placed your bet on us for a reason), but it’s nice to see this article over at Business Insider confirming that jobs for people with skills on Microsoft technology are on the upswing. What are you seeing in your local market?

I would like to share this wonderful story, I’ve been talking with one of our MCTs Tone Shelby. Tone is a great MCT on SQL Server and she is also a very proud mother. Especially now that her son Brian is about to become an MCT too. It’s been great chatting with Tone and Brian and I wanted...

Experienced IT professional Steve Molkentin began Career Factor unemployed and very much ready to get a job which made use of his skills. Over the course of the show, Steve dealt with frustration and worry but also dedicated himself to building his knowledge of the latest software releases, and in April...

Career Factor and the Microsoft Certified Career Conference team have joined forces to present this popular session led by Microsoft Staffing Consultant Wendy Hill. Wendy will discuss her insights into how to nail an interview based on her extensive recruiting experience. In this presentation, which...

Some hopeful news just published over at Dice.com. Among the conclusions based on feedback from almost 850 hiring managers and tech recruiters: 60% expect to do more hiring in the next six months than in the past six months 15% expect to increase hiring by 21 to 30 percent Mobile app developers and specialists...

In January 1993, I was 24 years old, ten months into my marriage and four months away from fatherhood. My history degree collected dust while I spent my days as an administrative assistant, typing and filing for a staff of architects and engineers only a few years older than me; my wife was still in...

If you’re a student (or if you know a student) interested in a technical career, check out our new Student Career Portal , which launched earlier this week. There’s lots of great resources to be found, including a wizard to help you find the right job role, and a widget to help you find the...

Trying to figure out the fully burdened cost of certification? Want to compare certifications among multiple vendors? Want to know the median salary for people holding a specific certification? Check out GoCertify.com —you’ll find several cool and useful tools, including: Certification Cost Calculator...

California is the latest state to join our Elevate America program, and Governor Schwarzenegger stopped by Microsoft’s Mountain View office yesterday to kick things off. If you’re a job seeker and a California resident, you can request one of the 166,500 free training and certification vouchers. We hope...

…according to Computerworld, at least. Bart Perkins published an opinion piece earlier this week making the case that the pendulum has swung back to where it was a decade or so back, when certification was pretty much a requirement for any technical job. Only now, there’s a new wrinkle in the era of...

The British Computer Society’s IT Training Magazine recently published a great story highlighting the “groundswell of interest” around training and certification on Windows 7. Check it out —besides some great pearls of wisdom from MCT Jay Ferron and others,there’s a great list of resources at the bottom...