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How can the IT industry reduce its growth limiting skills gap? By encouraging and empowering members of the black and Hispanic communities, and that's a key goal of the new Advancing Diversity in Technology (ADIT) Community. How will they do it? The details (and options) were major topics during the CompTIA Annual Member meeting in Chicago.

Managed services providers (MSPs) able to speak “the language of business relevance” with customers and prospects are the companies that will be best positioned to capture business in the SMB market. That message was one of the key takeaways from a discussion on “Maximizing Opportunities in the SMB Market,” part of the CompTIA Managed Services Community meeting Wednesday, March 22, 2017, held during the association’s 2017 Annual Member Meeting.

Using a TED Talk format, AWIT experts offered insight on career planning, management and how to plan for retirement at CompTIA AMM this week.

This week, CompTIA’s Ken Montgomery, vice president of international trade regulation and compliance, and Stefanie Holland, director of international government and regulatory affairs, attended a meeting of the Harmonized System Committee at the World Customs Organization (WCO) in Brussels, Belgium.

Wendy Howard had a computer science degree and years of working at IBM on her resume, but it wasn’t until she added CompTIA A+ certification that job offers started rolling in.

Having solid project management skills can open new doors for IT pros, both in and outside of IT. But do you know what those skills are? Check out this list to see if you have what it takes to move into project management.

MaximITy CEO Tracy Pound keeps her cherry red manicure in check, prefers fast cars and refuses to back down.

The role of IT in business transformation was a major topic in the ITSS (IT Services and Support) Community session at the CompTIA Annual Member Meeting in Chicago this week. A panel of channel professionals with intimate knowledge of the subject shared their insight and recommendations to a packed house. What did they have to say?

The CompTIA IT Security Community meeting at AMM this year was lively, even considering Star Trek as “a dystopic future where everyone has given up on security.”

IT touches every industry so it’s no wonder IT professionals are in high demand. But with the fight for employment being just as fierce, you need every advantage to land a job. With a CompTIA certification, you’ll have the skills wanted by employers around the world, giving you the boost over your competition.

Students at Uxbridge College in the United Kingdom can earn their CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+ and CompTIA Cloud+ as part of their studies.

Students and faculty from Technológico de Monterrey in Mexico City talk about how CompTIA certifications set IT pros apart from the crowd.

OSZ IMT in Berlin, Germany, has incorporated CompTIA A+ certification into its Cisco Network Academy curriculum to best prepare its students for IT careers.

Das OSZ IMT in Berlin hat die CompTIA „A+"-Zertifizierung in den Lehrplan seiner Cisco-Netzwerkakademie mit aufgenommen, um die Schüler bestmöglich ihre Karriere in der IT vorzubereiten.

Michael Bays left the Marine Corps with job training and a college degree, but he soon found certification was critical to success in the private sector. CompTIA CertMaster helped Bays prepare for the exam and learn new skills that he now uses every day.