CompTIA Announces New IT Professional Organization

As CompTIA, founded in 1982, moved to its 35th anniversary, the Technology Industry Association announced Monday the acquisition of the Professional Association of Information Technology (PTAI) and unveiled plans for Build a new organization called CompTIA IT Professionals Association. Expect to see the official launch in early May.

Discussions to formalize the relationship with professionals CompTIA IT began last year with the idea of forming the new partnership as a sister organization to its existing organization of the existing channel, with both arms under the umbrella of CompTIA. CompTIA's final mission is to have a positive impact on the IT workforce.

Nancy Hammervik, Executive Vice President of the Industry Relations Organization, described this development as a relationship with CompTIA IT professionals and their commitment to being the guardians and advocates of the natural progression of the workforce. Work in IT.

"We realized during the year in particular we are reaching a very critical area IT workforce expansion gaps in skills and decreasing desire by the next generation to pursue a career in IT - And how it is both our society and our economy, "he said.

The long-term relationship with CompTIA IT professionals is visible through its arm certification, which certifies 200,000 IT professionals each year and has about 1.2 million US alumni certification on your list. CompTIA certification includes: CompTIA A +, CompTIA Network + and CompTIA Security +, to name a few.

In the works there is a CompTIA website updated and new digital offers online. On the front line among member benefits is a new career or portal work, carried out in partnership with Ardentes Glass Technologies, a company that provides analysis of the labor market. The portal will include a curriculum creator customize a member's curriculum for each job application.

"This is to ensure that we combine their skills and experience with the work needs that will help the candidate meet the requirements of the job," Hammervik said.

Burning glass will add almost all open IT positions to the market and push members any relevant career opportunity to consider - or a member can analyze city work, salary, job criteria, so

Members of the CompTIA legacy chain are not immune to the shortage of IT skills and the # 1 challenge is to find talent. "Everyone in the next generation wants to go to work for Google or Facebook, but not a small MSP in the city. It's very difficult for [partners]," Hammervik said.

To help channel partners, CompTIA allow them to post open positions on the job portal and make them a priority when push employment opportunities for IT professionals to educate them about opportunities outside large companies Suppliers and maybe even find work in their own hometown.

The career portal will also provide a career path path that provides the necessary skills, positions that need to be pursued, and the time it should take to get professionals throughout your IT career. A job in BC , Etc. It will automatically trigger an update program will offer a comparison of the salaries of its current work to a wider market and offer other employment opportunities to keep them relevant.

Other benefits for members of the association come with Skillsoft CompTIA availability and the entire Skillsoft digital content library. This is combined with essential technical skills such as management, networking and communication of professional IT skills.

With the new combined organization CompTIA PTAI, members can enjoy the network of students and professionals PTAI tutoring teachers, meet other professionals and learn about employment opportunities and IT career.

The membership fee for the new CompTIA PTAI be $ 99 per year per individual member, with a pre-registration price of $ 79 before the official launch.

According to Hammervik, CompTIA promote the connection between the two sister organizations. For example, CompTIA search will be available for members of both organizations and CompTIA will increase the amount of searches done on the end user's work. In addition, CompTIA Community Futures Leaders, now two years old, will open to the PTAI community.