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IT Career Lab has grown immensely over the past year.  Not only has our student Cisco certification rate been recognized as one of the highest in the region, but we’ve also recently become a Microsoft IT Academy member, joining more than 15,000 other academies from around the world in offering the latest and greatest Microsoft training to our students!

Our membership in this area is an extremely important one.  Becoming a Microsoft IT Academy enables us to provide a road map to technology proficiency and industry-recognized Microsoft Certification credentials, keeping pace with what our employer partners are looking for and sets our students up for future success.  In 2012, International Data Corporation released a global study focused on 600 IT Hiring Managers and the challenges faced in hiring skilled workers. According to the study, lack of certification, training and experience were the three top reasons given by the hiring managers for unfilled positions.

In speaking with our tight-knit network of employer partners about their needs, Microsoft was at the top of their list when it came to IT certifications we should be providing to our students in the near future.  Needless to say, we listened closely to their feedback and will be expanding our course offerings to provide our job seekers with a breadth of Microsoft training in early 2016.

We are beyond excited to team up with Microsoft on this effort and are looking forward to helping our students take their learning to the next level with this new set of in-demand certifications!

Stay tuned for our Microsoft training- coming soon!