All Entries in the "Career Development" Category
How To Search The Invisible Job Market
The Best jobs aren’t advertised in the newspaper or on the web. Much like real estate, the best of the bunch are snapped up before they ever hit advertisements. If you scour job ad sites or the back pages of a paper, then you’re really looking at the jobs the top people don’t want. You’re [...]
Your Career Checklist During The Global Financial Crisis
Are you in need of a confidence boost, or a reassessment of your career path? The Global Financial Crisis is creating turmoil in many industries (e.g. retail, financial services, manufacturing, construction) so we all need to keep our finger on the pulse of employment, the job market and career opportunities.
There are a number of positive [...]
How Do Business Analysts Measure Their Value?
Business Analysts are the fulcrum that turn an idea, problem or opportunity identified in the business into something that IT can engage with and deliver. So BAs generally deal with work whose inputs are less easily defined and therefore measured. So how do BAs measure their value?
Take a look at BAs who are working in [...]
Five Self-Marketing Tips for Information Technology Employees
I used to be like you - a shy, modest, hard working IT engineer who’d little time for what I supposed to be those self-serving sycophants scrambling up promotion vines in the corporate jungle
You know the ones. They’re on first name terms with most middle and some senior managers (including [...]
Punch Above Your Weight! Drop Some Business Steroids - Get Your CIO Career Plan
CIOs don’t become c-level through luck - so why put your career to chance?
Silicon.com have just run this story to highlight the important of having a career plan. CIOs don’t let their career become a game of wait-and-see, but they actively plan for it. But many people don’t do this, but instead meander their way [...]
5 Major Gaffes I’ve Made as an IT Manager
I can look back on my career now and laugh at some of the things I did, and in some cases I cringe like crazy to the point my toes curl up and I look like I am wearing Turkish slippers. Naivety provides great learning . In this article I am looking back at five [...]
Alternative non-IT Careers for Tech Workers
I’ve just seen an article on CIO.COM which suggests 24 alternative careers for IT professionals. The article is off the back of the belief in the disappearance of tech jobs from the US, but this is true of Canada and Western Europe also.
The article, written by Meredith Levinson, looks at the skills and experience of common IT vocations [...]
Brilliant Basics: When Good People Become Bad Bosses
As soon as the word bad boss is mentioned most people start imagining pictures of a wicked person, a crook, a tyrant, a scheming backstabbing individual, a selfish ogre, etc. And typical textbook definitions of a bad boss is one who screams, threatens, intimidates, grabs credit, fires people, throttles people’s necks and so on. While [...]
The Leader, The Followers, and the Situation
Everyone knows that Winston Churchill was a brilliant wartime leader, bringing the UK from the depths of despair at the beginning of World War II to being triumphant alongside its allies at the end. He was the undisputed king of wartime leadership at that time. But in peacetime, less people know, he was an average [...]
Update: How To Find a Much Better IT Job, Even in Recession
Following my recent article, I’ve found an excellent article on the HBS Working Knowledge website which discusses the tendencies of women who are finding it easier to move jobs and maintain their star profile.
This article shares the results of research that shows that females are generally more apt at switching jobs and preserving their ’shine’, when compared [...]
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