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Attracting and Retaining Tech Employees
Free Net and Web Resources for Your Organization's IT Professionals by Darrol K. Harris IT Consultant There's a tremendous amount of free information on the net and Web for IT professionals and for those who hire and manage them. Helping your organization's techies acquire the IT knowledge, experience and credentials they want in order to progress in their careers, can be a powerful means to keep them interested and engaged in the work your organization needs them to do. This can also help to avoid losing them to employers who would pay them more to hire them away. There are many useful free IT Web sites, grouped below in four categories: IT Informational Portals - These are IT supersites: Earthweb www.earthweb.com - IT industry portal. Provides content for research, your career, the IT community and commerce. TechRepublic www.techrepublic.com - IT community hub Made up of three sub-Web sites that provide content on training, user support, network administration, IT management, CIO analysis and enterprise resource planning. Solution Central www.solutioncentral.com - One-stop IT knowledge marketplace. Information on IT events, training, Web and technical resources. Brainbuzz www.brainbuzz.com - The mother of all tech sites Tech community for network engineers, developers, job seekers and certification/training. PlanetIT www.planetit.com - IT network Provides IT news and information, advice and forum. IT Freelancer's Marketplace These are sites that offer IT professionals ways to market their abilities -- so your organization can share a techie, or help a techie establish a practice or portfolio of assignments. They also offer offer project/hiring managers ways to find skilled techs for their projects: Skillsvillage www.skillsvillage.com - The emarketplace for the contingent workforce. Matches contractors with hiring managers. Ework Exchange www.ework.com - Online marketplace for project based work. Connects people and projects. Freeagent.com www.freeagent.com - Powerful hub for freelancers, consultants and independent contractors. Find jobs, advice, services, discussions with peers and experts. Exp.com www.exp.com - Convenient way to get advice and services. Guru.com www.guru.com - Provides freelancers, consultants with project opportunities, career advice and essential services. HotDispatch www.hotdispatch.com - Marketplace for exchanging technical expertise. Epeople.com www.epeople.com - Live or email tech help. Enterprise Linux Support www.e.linux-support.net - Paid Linux technical support. IT Certification/Training These sites provide comprehensive information on certification and training, including certification exams, exam questions, practice exams, and training courses: ExamsOnline www.examsonline.com - Practice exams and free exam questions. Cramsession www.cramsession.com - Study guides, exam questions and certification information. Gocertify www.gocertify.com - Certification information. Brainbench www.brainbench.com - Skills, online skill testing and certification authority. Free practice exams. Unixcert www.unixcert.net - Authority on Unix certification. Stokely Consulting www.stokely.com - Unix resource site Network Essentials Inc. www.networkessentials.com - MCSE, Solaris, Java, HTML exam question braindump site. IT Associations There are a multitude of associations from which IT professionals can benefit. Two are especially valuable: Association for Computer Support Specialists www.acss.org Black Data Processing Associates www.bdpa.org Conclusion One of the most valuable ways to find useful information for and about IT professionals is to participate in professional societies, associations and usergroups -- you have a chance to learn enormously helpful information from your peers and from experts. Darrol Harris is a member of NYTEN -- New York Tech Network. You can reach him at (917) 677-1376, via e-mail at dkharris@rcn.com. |
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