Strategies For Securing Your IT Career
by Rob England
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Build, maintain and use a good network of people | Idea |
Make sure you have a good healthy network of people who know you (and hopefully like you). You will need them to:
- provide advice
- provide services to you like training, job finding, trades people for a new business premises etc
- look out for work for you, and recommend you
There are some good tools to help you manage a network, like LinkedIn or Plaxo
Plaxo | Tool review |
Plaxo is a good social networking tool. I prefer LinkedIn as a more business-oriented tool, but different strokes...
Get prepared | Text |
Change is always at least a little bit risky. You can reduce that risk when changing jobs by getting as prepared as you can first. Gather resources, build skills, get your act together and your mind ready.
Rob's story | Story |
Once I worked 50-60 hour weeks for an IT vendor. I spent weekend time traveling; I spent 50 or even 100 nights per year away from home; and missed a fair chunk of my son’s first four years. My aspirations changed as I got older and had family, and the company changed too. It had ceased to be fun. At times it got downright Dilbertesque.