Certification Magazine - November 2007 - (Page 3)

EDITOR’S LETTER Tools and Techniques for the IT Professional VOLUME 9 ISSUE 11 NOVEMBER 2007 GROUP PUBLISHER John R. Taggart | jrtag@certmag.com EDITOR IN CHIEF Norman B. Kamikow | nkam@certmag.com EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Mike Prokopeak | mikep@certmag.com SENIOR EDITORS Daniel Margolis | dmargolis@certmag.com Brian Summerﬁeld | bsummerﬁeld@certmag.com Kellye Whitney | kwhitney@certmag.com COPY EDITOR Lisa Rummler | lrummler@certmag.com ASSOCIATE EDITORS Tegan Jones | tjones@certmag.com Ben Warden | bwarden@certmag.com DIRECTOR, CREATIVE & PRODUCTION SERVICES Kendra Chaplin | kendra@certmag.com PRODUCTION MANAGER Linda Dziwak | linda@certmag.com WEB MANAGER Chris Patterson | cpatterson@certmag.com DESIGNER Spencer Thayer | spencer@certmag.com E-MEDIA MANAGER Kat O’Connor | koconnor@certmag.com TRAFFIC COORDINATOR Cassandra Schmutz | cassandra@certmag.com VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS Gwen Connelly | gwen@certmag.com EVENTS MANAGER Trey Smith | tsmith@certmag.com EVENTS COORDINATOR Christen MacKenzie | cmackenzie@certmag.com EVENTS SALES MANAGER Tana Johnson | tjohnson@certmag.com BUSINESS MANAGER Vince Czarnowski | vince@certmag.com CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Cindy Cardinal | ccardinal@certmag.com LIST MANAGER Jay Schwedelson | mediatec@worldata.com REPRINTS reprints@parsintl.com OR call David Einziger at 212-221-9595, ext. 407 ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER & ADVERTISING DIRECTOR James R. Yeakel | jyeakel@certmag.com ASSOCIATE EDITORS Dave Lienemann | davel@certmag.com Lisa Newton | lnewton@certmag.com PUBLISHER’S ASSISTANT Sarah Ryan | sryan@certmag.com CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Matt McGrath Wayne Anderson Tegan Jones Howard Nicholson Katherine Kelly Shermach Spencer Lee Daniel Margolis Brian Summerﬁeld Ken Wagner Ben Warden Kellye Whitney Robert Winding Those Certiﬁcations DANIEL MARGOLIS This, as you should know, is Certiﬁcation Magazine. As such, we cover the certiﬁcation exams that IT professionals take to educate themselves and quantify or authenticate their skills for potential or current employers, as well as covering IT in general. But not every certiﬁcation is concerned with something ITrelated. You can be certiﬁed to ﬂy a plane, for example. You can be certiﬁed as a lifeguard, accountant, teacher or nurse. You can be certiﬁed as a marina manager, a pool and spa professional or even as a beer judge. The list goes on and on. Yet, in covering the professional certiﬁcation industry, we’ve always stuck to IT certs because that’s where our expertise is and what our readers want to know about. There have been moments, however, where we’ve almost accidentally wandered away from that. I once found myself about to call a source to get more information on a newly emergent certiﬁcation program when I suddenly realized, “Wait, this isn’t the kind of certiﬁcation we cover.” (No, it wasn’t the beer judge certiﬁcation — I think it was bowling alley lane-centering certiﬁcation.) So, for our November issue, we elected to tackle head-on this ambiguity of sorts. Robert Winding’s cover story, “Nontechnical Certs for Career Development,” discusses just that: certiﬁable skills for IT pros that don’t necessarily involve being hunched over a keyboard or a server eight to 12 hours a day. Winding outlines certiﬁcation programs in project management, auditing and business that can potentially make techies more marketable and give them increased maneuverability within their organizations. On another note, it’s November, and Thanksgiving will soon be upon us. Going into the end of the year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates demand for IT professionals will grow by nearly 50 percent through 2012, with more than 1.5 million new computer- and IT-related positions being created. For those in the IT industry, that’s certainly something to be thankful for. 8 Norman B. Kamikow PRESIDENT Philip S. Wolin GENERAL COUNSEL John R. Taggart EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Patricia Pierce CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Certiﬁcation Magazine (ISSN 1529-6903) is published monthly by MediaTec Publishing Inc., 318 Harrison St., Suite 301, Oakland, CA 94607. Periodicals Class Postage Paid at Oakland, CA and at additional mailing ofﬁces. POSTMASTER: Please send address changes to: Certiﬁcation Magazine, P.O. Box 2083, Skokie, IL 60076-7983. Subscriptions are free to qualiﬁed IT professionals. Non-qualiﬁed paid subscriptions are available at the subscription price of $39.97 for 12 issues. Canada/Mexico orders must be prepaid in U.S. funds with an additional $15 postage charge. All other countries outside the U.S. must be prepaid in U.S. funds with an additional $40 postage surcharge. Certiﬁcation Magazine, CertMag and CertMag.com are the trademarks of MediaTec Publishing Inc. Copyright © 2007, MediaTec Publishing Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Reproduction of material published in Certiﬁcation Magazine is forbidden without permission. Daniel Margolis Senior Editor dmargolis@certmag.com Printed by: RR Donnelley Inc., Mendota, IL http://CertMag.com

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Certification Magazine - November 2007

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