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CompTIA |
Industry
Partner |
The Network Professional Association and CompTIA have
partnered to bring you the CompTIA Career Explorer
Platform, a comprehensive resource designed to inform,
inspire, and guide IT/Networking professionals towards
their next career step in the tech industry and beyond.
In today's rapidly evolving job market, making informed
career decisions can be overwhelming. CompTIA Career
Explorer was created to address this challenge by providing
a one-stop resource that combines smart data tools with
inspiring stories of career perseverance. Whether you're
just starting out, considering a career change, or looking
to advance in your current path, Career Explorer is here to
help you navigate the complexities of the tech and
tech-adjacent job landscapes.
Benefits of Using Career Explorer:
- Free Access: Explore the entire
portfolio of Career Explorer resources at no cost,
furthering our mission to unlock potential for all.
- Comprehensive Data: Gain insights
into earnings potential, job outlook, employer hiring
trends, remote work opportunities, and much more across
the U.S. and 250 metro areas.
- Inspirational Stories: Watch
documentary-worthy video profiles featuring diverse
professionals sharing their non-traditional paths into
tech careers.
- Personalized Guidance: Discover your
ideal career fit with our career quiz, based on the
Ikigai Model, and take advantage of one-on-one career
coaching sessions.
Key Features of the Platform:
- Data on 30+ core tech jobs and 70+ tech-adjacent,
digitally-enabled roles.
- A career toolkit with actionable guidance for your
next steps.
- A user-first design that's mobile-friendly and
appealing to a broad audience.
Whether someone is career-curious or has a clear intent to
transition into tech, Career Explorer is designed to bridge
the confidence gap and nudge that person toward realizing
their potential. It's a trusted resource for training
partners, academic institutions, workforce development
organizations, and corporate partners.
You can access the CompTIA Career
Explorer here: explore.comptia.org
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Aggregage |
National
Partner |
Aggregage publishes more than 90 B2B publications across
a range of industries. Aggregage brands give B2B
advertisers, associations, conferences and thought leaders
access to senior professionals in their target markets.
Collectively, Aggregage sites and newsletters reach
millions of professionals each week. See below for a list
of our current industries and brands.
Aggregage and the Network Professional Association are
partnering to launch a new digital site for the
IT/Networking industry. Our goal is to help readers save
time by providing them with important industry insights,
analyses and opinions from the widest set of thought
leaders.
Look for launch late summer or fall!
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Mindedge_Learning |
National
Sponsor |
The Network Professional Association has partnered with
MindEdge learning to offer their full suite of online
self-paced education classes. This coursework, which
covers both IT and professional growth in a variety of IT
and business spaces. NPA Members receive a 10% discount on
all courses. This benefit is open to all Community and
Professional members. Students may earn Certificates of
Completion, and some courses are designed for
certification exam prep. Additionally, select courses may
apply to CNP Continuing Education requirements. To enjoy
this NPA Member Benefit from MindEdge, visit your NPA
Member Page.
Not a member yet? Join the NPA as a Community Member for
just $40/yr, or as a Professional Member for $125/yr!
https://npa.org/join
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KnowBE4 |
National
Sponsor |
KnowBe4 In 30 Seconds
KnowBe4 is the world’s largest integrated
platform for security awareness training combined with
simulated phishing attacks. Join our more than 39,000
customers to manage the continuing problem of social
engineering. visit https://knowbe4.com/
Forrester Research has named KnowBe4 a
Leader in the 2020 Forrester Wave For Security
Awareness and Training Solutions. KnowBe4 received
the highest scores possible in 17 of the 23
evaluation criteria, including learner content and
go-to-market approach.
KnowBe4 is the world’s first and largest New-school
security awareness training and simulated phishing
platform that helps you manage the ongoing problem
of social engineering.
The KnowBe4 platform is user-friendly and intuitive. It
was built to scale for busy IT pros that have 16 other
fires to put out. Our goal was to design the most
powerful, yet easy-to-use platform available.
Customers of all sizes can get the KnowBe4 platform
deployed into production twice as fast as our competitors.
Our Customer Success team gets you going in no time,
without the need for consulting hours.
We are proud of the fact that more than 50% of our team
are women, where the average in cyber security is just 20% of employees.
KnowBe4 is offering NPA Community and Professional
members special discounts on a variety of single and
multi-year security awareness training programs. Not a
member yet? Join the NPA as a Community Member for just
$40/yr, or as a Professional Member for $125/yr!
https://npa.org/join
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Phi
Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity |
Cooperative
Partner |
About Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity
Phi Sigma Pi is a gender inclusive National Honor
Fraternity based out of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It was
founded at the University of Central Missouri in 1916.
Over the past 104 years, Phi
Sigma Pi has experienced growth to over 6,000
Undergraduate Members at over 140 colleges
and universities across the country. The Fraternity’s
mission is to empower our Members to be leaders of
social service through our Tripod of three ideals:
scholarship, leadership and fellowship.
To be considered for membership, students must be
undergraduates who have completed at least one
semester/quarter of college coursework and earned a
minimum 3.0 grade point average. Membership is open to
students in any major who have met the above
requirements. Once inducted, Members attend weekly
meetings and participate in several service projects,
fundraisers and educational programs including Phi Sigma
Pi’s award-winning Leadership in Action program.
To learn more about the NPA's partnership with Phi Sigma
Pi and receive a special offer worth $210, visit https://www.npa.org/PhiSigmaPi/
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WiTS
- Wireless Training & Solutions |
National
Partner |
Trusted, Vendor Neutral Wireless Experts
We are Wi-Fi Industry leaders!
Partnerships with our valued customers begin in our
Wi-Fi trainings. This is where we build upon a
foundation of trust & mutual respect. WiTS
developed consistent processes that
produce repeatable results. This is why our
relationships with our customers are years long.
We deliver quality service that yields dependable
Wi-Fi! This saves businesses time, money &
increases productivity.
Our next gen pro-service offerings
modernize WLAN network
design/deployment, maintenance, monitoring
& troubleshooting.
WiTS professional services portfolio includes:
- Wi-Fi Surveys
- WLAN Enhancement
- Wireless Health Check
- New Network Design
- Validation
- Predictive
- Wi-Fi Troubleshooting, Remediation
- Wi-Fi Optimization
- SME REMOTE Consulting
- WiTS elevate Network Monitoring Service
- Turn-Key WLAN Network Installation
Services
- Wi-Fi Design
- Conduit & CAT6 Cabling
- Installation
- Network Configuration
- Turn-Up, Testing & Validation, Documentation
- Project Management
The WiTS Team can help!
LIVE REMOTELY or on-site, IN-PERSON
We offer LIVE REMOTE SME
Consulting to our customers seeking vendor
neutral Wi-Fi expertise & assistance with a Wi-Fi
Site-Survey, Predictive Design Survey, Controller
Review, etc. We have found this to be an
extremely popular & beneficial solution for our
customers that are seeking vendor neutral Wi-Fi guidance
and assistance on Wi-Fi projects. It's
like having a Wi-Fi expert on staff only when you need
them.
We offer on-site, IN-PERSON professional
services to our customers seeking a vendor
neutral Wi-Fi Site Survey, Wireless Health Check
Survey, New Network Design Survey,
Wi-Fi Validation Survey (very popular from a
3rd party who is vendor neutral), Wi-Fi
Troubleshooting & Remediation, Wi-Fi Optimization for
existing hardware (NO MORE RIP & REPLACE).
CONTACT US:
WirelessTrainingSolutions.com
PHONE: Ryan Levy 720-775-7324
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MR2
Solutions |
National
Partner |
At MR2 Solutions, we recognize the many challenges that
IT professionals are faced with today. Many are frustrated
with the growing complexity of managing and supporting
today’s IT infrastructure.
IT Organizations are concerned about the shortage of IT
talents and at the same time, IT professionals are tired
of doing more with less – more projects in the pipeline,
less time and overall resources to complete them. All the
more, technology is always evolving and changing in a
rapid pace that many are struggling to keep up. For these
reasons, a growing number of companies are no longer
interested in building, managing and supporting their own
IT infrastructure.
As technology industries evolve to a consumption-based
economy, companies are looking for solutions that are more
portable, agile, resilient and elastic. They just want to
consume IT resources and ensure productive end user
experience.
At MR2 Solutions we represent over 150 cloud providers,
over 1500 Colocations and data center providers, dozens of
SDWAN, UCaaS and Security solutions in our portfolio as
well as options for any hyperconverged technology that is
right for any business.
Our goal is to select the best of breed technology
solution for our customers:
- With the right technology supplier
- At the right price
- For the right reasons
Visit mr2solutions.com for more
information.
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Agile
IT |
Strategic
Partner |
Agile IT – Doing IT Right the First Time
As the old saying goes, “If a job’s worth doing, it’s
worth doing right�. And Agile IT does IT right the first
time. That’s one of the many reasons why hundreds of
companies have chosen Agile IT as their Agile IT Partner,
and continue to do so.
Agile IT is a cloud-first managed services company and
one of the top 100 Cloud Computing Solutions Providers in
the world. A four-time Microsoft Cloud Partner of the
Year, we offer flexible, best-in-class cloud managed
services that go beyond the IT department. We’re focused
on building a community of customers that maximize cloud
and SaaS services to drive their businesses through
automation, agility, business insight and productivity.
At Agile IT, we help businesses align technical support
and business strategy to deliver the right technology at
the right time. It’s why we were named to the 2017 CRN
Next-Gen 250 list for the second time in four years, an
award recognizing companies leading the next generation of
IT and bringing key technologies to market before they
become mainstream.
Headquartered in San Diego, California, we work with
education, corporate, government and nonprofit customers
since 2006.
A Tier Three member of the prestigious Microsoft Cloud
Champions Club, Agile IT sits among the top 0.5% of the
online services channel and is recognized as a
best-in-class Microsoft Partner.
Visit agileit.com for more
information.
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YMcareers
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Cooperative
Partner |
Match members with their next great job
opportunity
YM Careers is the industry leader and most trusted career
center platform for 20+ years and counting, bringing
innovation to the niche career center industry and
association market. We power the largest association
network job board network in the world. Associations
leverage YM Careers to provide a valuable member service,
acquire and engage new members, and generate non-dues
revenue by helping their industry employers find talent.
YM Careers is part of the Community Brands association
software suite, a complete set of solutions that helps
member-based organizations increase revenue, improve
efficiency and digitally engage members.
Visit jobs.npa.org
to visit the NPA Career Board.
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O*NETâ„¢
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Cooperative
Partner |
is sponsored by
the U.S. Department of Labor. As the nation's most
comprehensive source of occupational data, O*NET is a free
resource for millions of job seekers, employers, veterans,
educators, and students.
The O*NET Data Collection Program, which is sponsored by
the U.S. Department of Labor, makes requests of the NPA to
provide input from experts in IT profession.
As the nation's most comprehensive source of occupational
data, O*NET is a free resource for millions of job
seekers, employers, veterans, educators, and students at www.onetonline.org.
When your opportunity presents it self, participate in
this important initiative and your participation will help
ensure that the complexities of your profession are
described accurately in the O*NET database for the
American public.
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NPA welcomes partnership proposals from all
organization that can add value to the NPA
experience, and who have creative ideas for
working together. Please direct all correspondence
related to partnering with the NPA to the NPA
Executive Director.
The NPA exists to provide the best possible
resources and experiences for members to grow and
excel in their careers and private lives. To meet
these objectives, we work closely with strategic
partners that believe in our mission and see the
value in supporting the needs of our members. NPA
partners come in all shapes and sizes. We work
with leading trade magazine publishers such as
Network Computing and Network World; industry
trade shows such a NetWorld + Interop; a variety
of companies that develop and market networking
technologies, including Sun, IBM, Novell and many
others; and educational institutions including
major universities, colleges and technical schools
around the world.
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