Needing troops, Army offers up to $90,000 bonuses to re-enlist

Struggling to expand its ranks, the Army will triple the amount of bonuses it’s paying this year to more than $380 million, including new incentives to woo reluctant soldiers to re-enlist, officials told The Associated Press.  (CyberSecurity Certifications and training are available at www.cedsolutions.com) Some soldiers could get $90,000 up front by committing to another four or more years, as the Army seeks to reverse some of the downsizing that occurred under the Obama administration after years of growth spurred [...]

June 13, 2017 By IT Certifications, IT Jobs, Military, Uncategorized
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO LAND THE BEST JOBS

You don’t have to be a math whiz or have a Ph.D. to earn $100,000   SAN FRANCISCO  May 30, 2017 The nation’s best jobs boast salaries that average $100,000 and up, offer generous company benefits and promise to have recruiting suitors fighting for your hand. But they are highly technical roles carrying job descriptions like DevOps engineer and analytics manager that demand an alphabet soup of computer skills as well as incessant on-the-job learning. So do you have to be a math genius [...]

May 30, 2017 By Uncategorized
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How U.S. dodged a cyber bullet

Software updates, geography — and luck — saved the day SAN FRANCISCO The massive WannaCry ransomware attack has hit hundreds of thousands of computers from Taiwan to the United Kingdom. Despite the global nature of the attack, few networks and companies in the United States appear to have been hit. The reason, say cybersecurity analysts, is a combination of luck, geography and adherence to software updates, though the United States is by no means invulnerable to such attacks. The attack encrypted all the [...]

May 16, 2017 By Uncategorized
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Tech jobs are thriving across U.S. — up to 7.3M

USA Today April 3, 2017 Workers in the field earn more than twice national wage CLEVELAND Memo to President Trump: The jobs market is alive and thriving in tech — so much so, there are 627,000 unfilled occupations. The booming market grew 2% to about 7.3 million workers last year as the digital economy continued to flourish in jobs for software, cybersecurity and cloud computing, according to Cyberstates 2017, an annual analysis of the nation’s tech industry by technology association CompTIA released [...]

April 5, 2017 By Uncategorized
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PLENTY OF TECH JOBS, BUT … FEW WORKERS WHO HAVE THE CHOPS

By 2020, there will be 1.4M more software development jobs than qualified applicants ZUCKERBERG MEDIA Randi Zuckerberg of Zuckerberg Media SAN FRANCISCO Jobs creation has been the mantra of President Trump. But in some industries such as tech, the U.S. doesn’t need more jobs — it needs workers with more of the right skills.  (CED Solutions, www.cedsolutions.com, provides the skills needed for these jobs) The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts there will be 1.4 million more software development jobs than applicants who [...]

March 31, 2017 By Uncategorized
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