Nothing says autumn more than colorful leaves! Shades of brown, yellow, and orange set the mood, and they slowly prepare us for cold winter days. Keep those warm colors longer with November’s free wallpapers featuring autumn leaves, chestnuts, and acorns.
Each wallpaper download from November 2022 includes:
Desktop wallpaper x3 (plain, with the calendar, and with a quote)
Phone wallpaper x2 (plain and with a quote)
Tablet wallpaper
Instagram ready quote
As always, November’s free wallpaper comes with two different mobile phone layouts. They are great to use at once – the simple version for your phone background and the one with a quote for the lock screen.
Quote for November 2022
I was looking for a quote that would be like a warm autumn day – calm, colorful, and positive. Let it bring a smile and motivate you to treat yourself with something seasonal, like a pumpkin spice latte or hot chocolate with lots of marshmallows!
Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice
P.S the square image is also included in the download package below! Feel free to post it on your Instagram.
The free download includes three desktop options – one with the calendar and one without the calendar, and one with a quote. There is also a wallpaper for tablets and two options for the phone. We have also included an Instagram-ready square with the weekly quote.
FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.
NOTE: This wallpaper is available as a free download through November 30, 2022 only. After that, a $5 download fee applies.
What font is it?
If you are curious about what font has been used this month, let me help! I decided to finally stop using Cosmopolitan (even though it would be perfect here!) and try something new. My pick for this wallpaper is Sunshine Daisies – a font collection with 15 handwritten fonts. It has everything from outlines to dashes and a script version. You should definitely give it a try!
Your voice matters!
If you have your favorite quotes and would like them to appear on the next free wallpaper, make sure to post them in the comments below or send us your ideas via email.
Enjoy!
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With this hands-on, interactive activity, a professor challenges his students to find a New York Times article that relates to their leadership class — by tearing apart the paper.
As virtually every industry goes through a digital transformation, there are more opportunities for people with technical skills to work in exciting, high-paying fields. Folks with IT (or information technology) expertise, in particular, are well-positioned to get hired.
The Skillsoft IT Skills and Salary survey, now in its 7th consecutive year, surveyed nearly 8,000 tech workers about details like which IT certifications they have, what challenges they face in hybrid workplaces, and how likely they are to look for a new job.
The 2022 survey findings include thought-provoking insights about what it’s like to work in tech today, including the industries where IT professionals have the highest salaries on average.
Curious which industries pay IT professionals the most? Here are the industries where IT professionals earn the highest average salaries, according to the Skillsoft IT Skills and Salary survey], one of the largest studies of IT salaries, skills, and certifications.
(Heads up: This list highlights the salaries of survey respondents from North America. To check out how salaries in industries compare around the world, download the full report.)
Aerospace or Defense
Average salary: $142,066.67
The aerospace sector manufactures products and services for space, commercial airlines, missiles, military aircraft, and commercial airlines. The U.S. aerospace industry employs around 500,000 people.
A system integrator is a business that coordinates and organizes computing systems, often using automation. (System Integrator is also a role you can have within an organization, where you specialize in designing and developing computing systems.)
VAR is short for Value Added Reseller, which is essentially a company that adds features to manufacturers’ products — like hardware, installation services, consulting, or troubleshooting — and resells them as turnkey operations.
IT software
Average salary: $135,680.08
Software refers to the non-tangible applications and programs we use on the computer. Our free course Introduction to IT will teach you the basics of core IT topics, including software development, operating systems and applications, databases, and cybersecurity.
Construction, architecture, and engineering
Average salary: $127,498.78
Construction tech (or “contech”) is the intersection of construction and technology. For example, a construction company might use AR/VR technology to model and visualize a project before they begin building. There’s demand for people who not only understand the fundamentals of building and construction, but also have the data-oriented technical skills needed to future-proof the industry.
IT consulting
Average salary: $126,613.61
“Consulting” is a very broad term that can mean different things to different organizations. An IT consulting company, for example, typically advises an organization’s IT strategies from soup to nuts.
Insurance, real estate, and legal
Average salary: $126,063.24
There are a variety of ways that insurance, real estate, and legal businesses utilize software. For example, they might use CRM (customer relationship management) software to manage relationships with customers or cloud computing to store and access large amounts of data.
Average salary: $122,173.46
Your favorite film studio or go-to music streaming service needs IT professionals, too. Have a background in the arts already? Build up your marketable skills by learning about IT in our course Introduction to IT. Or take our programming personality quiz for course, career, and programming language suggestions that suit your creativity.
If you want a better understanding of how the physical components of a computer — aka the hardware — work, consider taking our Computer Architecture course. You can also start with the beginner-friendly course Fundamentals of Operating Systems to learn how software and hardware interact and make computers functional.
Natural resources: Mining, oil, and gas
Average salary: $118,515.31
The mining sector is made up of establishments that extract naturally occurring mineral solids, like coal, natural gas, and oil. In the U.S., there are around 587,700 people in the mining, oil, and gas workforce. Oil and gas companies are using new technologies, from artificial intelligence to IoT, to innovate their operations.
The Skillsoft IT Skills and Salary survey is one of the largest studies of IT salaries, skills, and certifications. In 2022, the 7th consecutive year of the survey, nearly 8,000 people who work in technology answered anonymous questions about their salaries, how they feel about work, the certifications they want to get, and more.
Here are the jobs in IT with the top 10 highest annual salaries, according to the survey. Learn what it takes to get hired in these roles, plus discover resources and relevant courses that will help launch your career in IT.
(FYI: This list focuses on the salaries of survey respondents in North America. To see how IT salaries pan out around the world, download the full report.)
Business Operations
Average salary: $105,145.51
Business Operations Managers handle a company’s most important logistics and administrative systems, often reporting to the Chief Operations Officer (COO). A Business Operations Manager focuses on streamlining an organization’s internal operations and activities so they’re efficient and productive.
IT Auditing or Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Average salary: $119,036.56
Governance, Risk, and Compliance (or “GRC”) is the part of an organization that establishes best practices and security frameworks, and makes sure that team members follow them. An IT audit is essentially an investigation of an organization’s technologies and systems to make sure that they’re safe and meet regulatory requirements. Risk management is not only a lucrative specialty within cybersecurity, but it’s also in demand. To learn more about how companies establish secure practices and policies, try our path Fundamentals of Cyber Resilience and Risk Management.
Data Science, Analytics, and Business Intelligence
Average salary: $124,773.38
If you’re fascinated by data science and enjoy translating data into actionable business insights, you might thrive as a Business Intelligence Analyst. In these types of jobs, you’d use technologies like SQL, Python, or R to perform advanced data analysis and querying; you’d also work with data visualization dashboards like Tableau and Looker. You can learn all of these technical skills and get job-ready with our Career Path Data Scientist: Analytics Specialist.
Tech companies need savvy sales and marketing professionals to sell and promote their innovative products. Someone who works in tech sales would be connecting customers with hardware, software, and IT services that meet a business or consumer’s needs. Marketing essentially finds creative ways to hype up the value of products offered by a company. There are lots of different marketing careers that you can have within a tech organization.
Cybersecurity, Information Security
Average salary: $129,030.74
There’s a huge demand for cybersecurity professionals who can protect an organization’s computer systems and networks from bad actors, attacks, and security breaches. Information Security (aka “InfoSec”) is a highly sought-after cybersecurity specialty that focuses on protecting information and data from unauthorized access and attacks.
Brand new to cybersecurity? Start with our beginner-friendly free course Introduction to Cybersecurity. If you want to explore further and learn to identify cyber attacks (and prevent them from happening), you can check out the path Fundamentals of Cybersecurity. And to practice answering cybersecurity job interview questions and scripting challenges, try the Cybersecurity Analyst Interview Prep path.
Product and Project Management
Average salary: $130,160.61
Product Managers manage the development and launch of a product, which is easier said than done. Product Managers have a deep understanding of an organization’s business goals so they can define what success will look like and empower technical teams to execute the company’s high-level vision.
DevOps (short for “Development Operations”) is an industry-standard approach to building software that prioritizes collaboration. DevOps practices enable businesses to be responsive, develop products quickly, and continuously improve them. IT professionals who specialize in DevOps help organizations put DevOps practices, tools, and platforms in place.
DevOps Engineers need to know how to work with data management, cloud architecture, automation, and programming languages. You can master DevOps practices and get an overview of modern infrastructure management in our free course Introduction to DevOps. As you prep your DevOps resume and start applying to jobs, be sure to review this guide to answering DevOps interview questions.
IT Architecture and Design
Average salary: $138,309.71
Enterprise Architect is a high-paying leadership role that deals with overall IT architecture and design. These IT pros are responsible for making high-level decisions about an organization’s overall IT strategy. An Enterprise Architect’s tasks can include things like setting up and creating a network infrastructure, maintaining software and hardware, communicating with business stakeholders, and managing cybersecurity systems.
You need a fair amount of professional experience under your belt to become an Enterprise Architect. Inspired to start working towards this career? Take a look at the beginner-friendly IT courses to learn the key skills used in IT architecture and design. Aspects of computer science and IT often overlap, so consider taking our Computer Science Career Path — you’ll learn how to code like a professional and understand the theory behind programming.
Cloud
Average salary: $147,298.87
The vast world of cloud computing involves storing and accessing data and programs on the internet. There are plenty of job opportunities for folks with technical skills to work with the cloud. Some of the highest-paying cloud careers include Cloud Engineer and Computer and Information Systems Manager.
Executive
Average salary: $172,027.79
Dream of running a tech company someday? Unsurprisingly, C-Suite Executives — like Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer — had the highest salaries in Skillsoft’s 2022 IT Skills and Salaries survey. Executives are responsible for calling the shots, making major decisions for the company, and often acting as the face of an organization (think Tesla’s Elon Musk or Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg). In short, that’s why they get paid the big bucks.
If you’re not sure which tech career is right for you, start by taking our programming personality quiz. You’ll answer questions about your personal preferences and get custom recommendations for programming languages and courses you might want to try.
It feels like just yesterday when we were welcoming the new year and looking ahead to 2022. Now with just two months left of the year, it’s a good time to pause, reflect, and look back on the past 10 months. It’s also a perfect time to check in with yourself to determine if you’re still growing and in alignment with your plans, goals, objectives, and purposes for 2022. It may seem that there isn’t enough time left to do all you wanted to do. Discover seven (7) ways to finish the year strong.
7 Ways to Finish the Year Strong
Fatigue has kicked in. Holiday plans are solidifying. Everyone is on autopilot and slowing down. We’ve reached that time in the year when people’s energy begins to taper off and, “I’ll see it in the new year” becomes everyone’s mantra. But like in a soccer match, that last-gasp goal in the final minutes changed everything. Here are seven ways to help you finish your year on a winning high:
Shift your mindset.Sometimes we aren’t aware of our own negative thinking on things because those ways of thinking are so ingrained in us. A lot of what holds us back is how we think about ourselves and our circumstances. Do you have a negative attitude, self-belief or insecurities that have held you back? If you aren’t sure, schedule a session with a therapist to help you introspect on your thinking habits. This is a good way to begin preparing how you’ll go into the new year.
Celebrate your wins. Stop. Look back. And celebrate. We spend so much time on the go and moving onto the next one, we don’t stop to celebrate wins, big and small, along the way. Review your year and pat yourself on the back for the things you managed to achieve.
Redefine your goals.As the year has progressed, things have changed. Take some time to evaluate where you are, what you want to do and if these goals are still aligned with your path.
Declutter.Carrying unnecessary weight and baggage is heavy. Clean out your closet, your contact list, unused apps, and items that you like the idea of having but just aren’t using. This will help you make room for the new.
Accomplish one last big thing.Identify that one thing you’ve been meaning to start but you put off. And do it. Make the call. Write that business plan. Push ahead with the knowledge that doing it will give you that proud, relieved, and excited feeling.
Begin setting your objectives for 2023.It’s never too early to start planning for the new year. If 2022 is anything to go by, the months go by quickly. Start thinking about the coming year and what you will need to do to help you achieve those personal and professional objectives.
Help somebody.“It’s better to give than to receive.” This is a common saying that does as much for you, the giver, as it does for the receiver. Helping others is a reminder that there’s more to life than our issues. There’s a great satisfaction in knowing you have helped someone achieve something. And it also gives you a sense of purpose. Something we all seek.
Questions To Ask Yourself
By now you realise that the things you need to do to help you finish the year strong look the same as the things you planned to do over the course of the year. What you need is time, which at this point in the year, doesn’t seem to be on your side. But the good news is, the year isn’t over yet. You still have time. You look back on the year and ahead to what’s left of the year, ask yourself a few important questions:
What has gone well?
What small things kept you from achieving the big things?
Is your health, family, finances as strong as you’d like them to be?
What held you back? What kept you going?
What are you most grateful for?
What has been your biggest takeaway of 2022?
What have you learned about yourself?
Looking Ahead to 2023 and Beyond
It’s fun to sit, dream and imagine what life would be like if you could do ABC. We have good intentions and set goals and plan when we want to achieve them. What we neglect doing is putting down the tools and steps you need to take to ensure you achieve those goals. That can seem like the hard part. But it really isn’t when you consider that goals are made up of several elements:
Results. What do you want to achieve?
Actions. What actions do you need to do to achieve your goals?
Time. How much time do you have to accomplish your set goals?
Motivation.When the going gets tough, what will keep you going? How will you motivate yourself to make sure you do all you set yourself out to do?
Write down your action plan in bite-sized portions and formulate steps you need to take, you set yourself up a win.
The best time to start anything was yesterday. The second-best time is today. That’s 8 weeks and 5 days until 31st December. This gives you just enough time to get one more thing started. Or finish off that task you’ve been struggling to tick off your list. If you do this, you will not only finish the year on a strong note, but you also set yourself up for a great start to the coming year.
Remember, “Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.” – Hal Borland
October began and ended with two tragedies involving the deadly crush of a crowd: On Oct. 1, at least 125 people died in after the police fired tear gas into tightly packed crowds of soccer fans, which set off a deadly stampede. On Oct. 29, at least 150 people were killed in after they were crushed in a Halloween crowd.
