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CM0606.qxd 5/5/06 5:14 PM Page 6 JUNE 2006 CERTIFICATION Certification Evolution: 18 Job-Role Certifications for Your Future PATRICK VON SCHLAG Certifications have evolved from vendor-driven programs to industry and customer-driven specialties that span across different technologies, disciplines and vendors. As this evolution continues, which certifications will fade, which will keep going strong and which will be the must-have certs of the future? TECHNIQUES 26 Must-Have Non-Technical Skills for IT Pros SARAH STONE IT professionals today need more than technology skills to graduate into managerial roles. It takes a combination of soft skills, business savvy and project-management expertise to move up in the IT sector. JOB ROLES 30 IP Telephony Engineers: The Innovators of Communications Technologies CARI MCLEAN As organizations move away from traditional telephone service and migrate toward Internet protocol IP telephony implementation and voice over IP VoIP , the work of today's IP telephony engineers will influence the continued worldwide endorsement of these technologies. coClumAnTiSsts 10 ONSULT N ' CORNER The Lost Art of Presentations reDITouLETTERes 4 Es OR'S rc DAVID GARRETT 12 TECH CAREERS Workflow or Work Slow? Top Time Traps and How to Overcome Them 8 DATA STREAM KATHERINE SPENCER LEE 16 VIRTUAL VILLAGE 42 ENDTAG Lessons in Employment: School's Out Let the Learning Begin! A Tale of Two Countries 41 AD INDEX BRIAN SUMMERFIELD 6 CERTIFICATION MAGAZINE June 2006 

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Certification - June 2006

Editors Letter
Table of Contents
Data Stream
Consultants Corner
Tech Careers
Virtual Village
Certification Evolution: Job-Role Certifications for Your Future
Inside Certification
Must-Have Non-Technical Skills for IT Pros
IP Telephony Engineers
Specialty Certification
Interface
Ad Index
Endtag

Certification - June 2006

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