APU becomes CompTIA’s first authorized academy partner in Malaysia

CompTIA, the information technology (IT) industry trade association, has welcomed Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU) as its first CompTIA Authorized Academy Partner in Malaysia.

With this collaboration, APU students will be able to graduate with both an academic degree from APU and international standard and vendor neutral IT skills credentials from CompTIA.

According to CompTIA’s 2015 International Technology Adoption and Workforce Trends Study, 63 percent of Malaysian executives surveyed said they expected to increase IT staff headcount at their business this year.

Additionally, Malaysian companies planned to increase their IT spending, on average, by 6.7 percent in 2015.

Professional certifications such as those awarded by CompTIA have an increasingly important placed in the hiring and promotion of IT workers. Hiring managers and HR professionals believe having IT job candidates with industry certifications saves time and resources in evaluating applicants, ensures a candidate’s credibility and demonstrates that they have a baseline set of knowledge. Once hired, certified IT professionals get up to speed more quickly, are more likely to stay with the company long term, have a higher likelihood of being promoted and generally perform better than non-certified IT staff.

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