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Your Complete Guide to Building YourTechnology Career in Any Economy

Matthew Moranhttp://www.cbtoolkit.com

An Introduction to Career BuildingAn Introduction to Career Building

The Toolkit Approach to Career Development

The Toolkit Approach to Career Development

Toolkit ApproachToolkit ApproachBook contains vital information and proven methods that can make a huge impact on your career success.

Read each chapter as assigned.

Complete Actions & Ideas at end of each chapter.

Book contains vital information and proven methods that can make a huge impact on your career success.

Read each chapter as assigned.

Complete Actions & Ideas at end of each chapter.

Career Building DefinedCareer Building Defined

Career BuildingCareer Building

The danger of a tool-driven mindsetA job is not a careerCareers are non-linearA working plan makes a tedious of unrewarding jobs bearable

The danger of a tool-driven mindsetA job is not a careerCareers are non-linearA working plan makes a tedious of unrewarding jobs bearable

Career Building: The ConceptCareer Building: The Concept

A theoretical career path…A theoretical career path…

Career Building: The ConceptCareer Building: The ConceptA more realistic picture…A more realistic picture…

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Information Technology: A Great Career

Information Technology: A Great Career

IntroductionIntroduction

Information technology is a great career choice!

Career buildingConcepts for accelerated advancementThe value-added technologist

Information technology is a great career choice!

Career buildingConcepts for accelerated advancementThe value-added technologist

IT Is a Great Career!IT Is a Great Career!Unprecedented growth−still.

The U.S. department of labor statistic places information technology as the fastest growing job segment over the next 10 years.

Technology professionals still fare better than similarly trained professions (in terms of time spent).

Performance-based advancement.What have you done for me lately?

Less prone to tenure/time seniority grids for advancement.

Unprecedented growth−still.The U.S. department of labor statistic places

information technology as the fastest growing job segment over the next 10 years.

Technology professionals still fare better than similarly trained professions (in terms of time spent).

Performance-based advancement.What have you done for me lately?

Less prone to tenure/time seniority grids for advancement.

IT Is a Great Career!IT Is a Great Career!But what happened?

Thousands of poorly conceived businesses, run by fledgling technologists, who were moved into management; and then built by, entry-level developers, in a newly developed/preadolescent/marginally accepted economy… What were we thinking?

An industry forced to mature quickly due to several highly-publicized failures must hit the breaks and take a look at where it’s going.

But what happened?Thousands of poorly conceived businesses, run by

fledgling technologists, who were moved into management; and then built by, entry-level developers, in a newly developed/preadolescent/marginally accepted economy… What were we thinking?

An industry forced to mature quickly due to several highly-publicized failures must hit the breaks and take a look at where it’s going.

IT Is a Great Career!IT Is a Great Career!

This is a great thing!For the producer: If you can develop the full set of

talents needed to solve your client’s problems, you

will separate yourself from what I call widget-

producer technologists.

This is a great thing!For the producer: If you can develop the full set of

talents needed to solve your client’s problems, you

will separate yourself from what I call widget-

producer technologists.

Defining Yourself: Aptitudes and Desires

Defining Yourself: Aptitudes and Desires

Considerations Considerations Factors to help you decide:

PayInsuranceTrainingCommuteWorking Conditions (people, culture, environment, hours)

Future growth potential

Factors to help you decide:PayInsuranceTrainingCommuteWorking Conditions (people, culture, environment, hours)

Future growth potential

More FactorsMore FactorsFactors to help you decide:

DesiresWhat do you like? What do you hate?What do you want?

SkillsWhat are you good at?Learn new skills

Factors to help you decide:Desires

What do you like? What do you hate?What do you want?

SkillsWhat are you good at?Learn new skills

Career Building: The ConceptCareer Building: The Concept

Career building is exactly that−building.

Getting a job or a string of jobs is not synonymous with building a career.

A builder must have a plan.A builder must have the right tools.

Career building is exactly that−building.

Getting a job or a string of jobs is not synonymous with building a career.

A builder must have a plan.A builder must have the right tools.

SummarySummaryMany factors to consider when choosing

an IT careerIT offers many possibilities, from highly

creative to highly analyticalDetermine the factors that motivate you

and mesh well with your innate abilitiesYour career plan will help you enjoy your

job and be paid well.

Many factors to consider when choosing an IT career

IT offers many possibilities, from highly creative to highly analytical

Determine the factors that motivate you and mesh well with your innate abilities

Your career plan will help you enjoy your job and be paid well.