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Dirty little secrets about working in IT
Like every profession, IT has its own set of dirty little secrets that its members don't often talk about out loud. However, if IT leaders aren't aware of these issues then they can quietly doom your department to failure.Episode #2 of Sanity Savers for IT executives shines the spotlight on...
Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Information Technology, Secret, Strategy, Management, IT career, IT management
Videos 2008-04-29
Five signs that you aren't cut out to be a CIO
For many IT professionals, the ultimate job in technology is Chief Information Officer CIO, but do you really know what a CIO does? This episode of Sanity Savers for IT Executives looks at what the CIO job involves and provides five warning signs that you may not be cut out...
Tags: IT leadership, CIO, IT career, IT executive
Videos 2008-04-29
Sanity check: Is the U.S. losing its role as the world leader in information technology?
Issue: U.S. as IT leaderThe United States is the birthplace of both the personal computer and the Internet. It has written the rules for using business technology to deliver staggering increases in worker productivity. It has given the world major innovations in the microprocessors that power computing and electronics devices...
Tags: Technology, Tech, IT strategy, It Management, IT leadership, It Jobs, It Job Market, It Employment, It Career, Career
Blog posts 2007-07-20
Help this TechRepublic member transition from desktop support to Web development
TechRepublic member kpjud in San Francisco, California started a thread called IT Career Transition and wrote, "I'm totally bored, in a dead-end job in a stodgy corporate environment. After 15 years of supporting desktops & LANs, I want to try something new and have some fun at work. I'm training...
Tags: Web Development, It Employment, It Career, Help Desk, Desktop, Career
Blog posts 2007-07-13
The top 10 IT skills on the way to extinction
Training, and retraining are a constant part of working in IT. You simply can't rest on your skill set and stop learning or the technology world will pass you by with little remorse. With that in mind, Mary Brandel over at Computerworld has put together a list of the top...
Tags: It Career, Career
Blog posts 2007-06-20
IT hiring in Q3 will make biggest jump since 2001 and CIOs name top skill sets
Yesterday, Robert Half Technology released its IT Hiring Index and Skills Report and it contained some good news for IT professionals: of the more than 1,400 IT executives polled, 17% of them plan to hire more IT pros in Q3 while 2% plan staff cuts. That equates to a 15%...
Tags: IT leadership, It Jobs, It Job Market, It Employment, It Career
Blog posts 2007-06-07
Advice for a tech whose job is being outsourced to India? What IT specialties are hot right now?
TechRepublic member dannyHK, a support tech from Hong Kong, recently posted:"I am having my job outsourced to India. Is there such a thing as a career in IT anymore or is it a cheap, value-less, commodity now? Should I look at another area? Seems like Management or Sales are the...
Tags: Outsourcing, Offshoring, It Jobs, It Job Market, It Career, It, Career
Blog posts 2007-06-06
Advise this IT generalist on how to jump start his career
TechRepublic member kilbey1 wrote a new post titled "Frustrated by being a generalist" in the TechRepublic forums.Kilbey1 is an IT veteran who started as a Web designer and HTML programmer and has served in a number of development and administrator roles since then, but kilby1 has some career discontent:"Despite having...
Tags: techrepublic forums, Techrepublic, It Jobs, It Job Market, It Employment, It Career, Career
Blog posts 2007-05-15
Are you a technologist or a magician, or both?
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"-- Arthur C. Clarke I recently discovered this quote from Clarke and it has been haunting my thoughts ever since. It reminded me of a time a couple years ago when I took my son to the bathroom at a brand new Home...
Tags: Quotes, Management, It Management, It Career, Career
Blog posts 2007-04-10
Staying in IT for 6 years, and now don't know where to go next
I have seen many posts where sharing comments and experiences about their work.For me, I've been working for a company for over 6 years time and starting from time to time, i get more and more bored as I don't know where to head on to improve my career as...
Tags: 6-Year, career, future plan, information technology, it career, job, Try, whoami.cam@...
Discussion threads 2006-09-18
What are the 10 worst jobs in IT?
What are the 10 worst jobs in IT?I'm putting together a list of the 10 worst jobs in IT. What job would you hate to have? This can be specific a job description like Backups Technician or a job role at a particular company, such as network administrator on a...
Tags: career, help desk, information technology, it career, Jason Hiner, job, worst job, worst jobs
Discussion threads 2005-12-12
What are the 10 best jobs in IT?
What are the 10 best jobs in IT?I'm putting together a list of the 10 best jobs in IT. What job would you love to have? It can be a job description like Chief Software Architect or a job role at a particular company, such as lead network engineer at...
Tags: best jobs, career, help desk, information technology, it career, Jason Hiner, job, network
Discussion threads 2005-12-12
Where is the best place to start an IT career?
I am an IT student from Southern California with two years of MS Tech Support experience. Where is the best place to start an IT career and why: Northern California (San Francisco, San Jose), Southern California (OC, LA, San Diego, Riverside), Nevada (Las Vegas, Reno), other states state and cityor...
Tags: 1-2 year, Aggy, career, information technology, IT Career, location, network, starting out
Discussion threads 2005-11-04
My view of IT career opportunities..
I recently blogged an analysis/viewpoint of IT career opportunity.IT & Career Opportunity..My view of The Bureau of Labor Statistic numbers...http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/pm/career/archives/006319.aspThere are some who agree, some who disagree, some who don't know, and everything in between. Personally, I find my area Phoenix rife with opportunity. I helped someone in...
Tags: career, career opportunities, information technology, IT career, job, job growth, Matthew Moran
Discussion threads 2005-10-27
Not always that simple
It's just too easy to write short articles that state an existing problem many are facing - then give the ingenious and clear-thinking resolution. Truth is, there are often complications involved that these quickie "solutions" conveniently ignore, otherwise we would not have 100s of thousands of unemployed IT workers...
Tags: information technology
Discussion threads 2005-09-26
Take the anti-outsourcing pill -- Hybrid your IT career
Take the anti-outsourcing pill -- Hybrid your IT careerarticle rootHybridWhat are you doing to make yourself more marketable in a highly competitive market?What am I doing? I'm getting a PhD in Computer ScienceWhile short term this may be a stupid move, I think for a long term goal, I'll...
Tags: career, computer, Hybrid, information technology, it, IT Career, job, Steven S. Warren
Discussion threads 2005-09-16
It Careers
I am 47 and think that I am too old to get back into the IT field. i did Gateway and Dell fee bse tech suport, university Network tech support even when I did not know half of what I kow now.I have experienced the same problem of the...
Tags: NETWORKING
Discussion threads 2005-09-01
What do we tell our kids about an IT career?
i have the same question in mindhii very much agree with you, on this point. the truth is before answering our kids about whether to chose IT as a career, i was thinking my self whether i should continue in this field or add another major to my life.i started...
Tags: information technology
Discussion threads 2005-08-06
IT careers for introverts
IT careers for introvertsThis might be a weird question, but does anyone know of any IT careers that are generally geared towards introverts? I work at a help desk, which has turned out to be quite an extraverted job. I'm willing to get more certifications if necessary, but...
Tags: advice, career, computerguy124@..., help desk, information technology, IT Career, IT Careers, job
Discussion threads 2005-07-07
What can a career changer to IT expect?
What can a career changer to IT expect?I am almost 40 and have been working for many years and it just so happens that I'm in a career transition and desiring to enter IT. Outside of my regular job as video/data/voice electrical apprentice, I occasionally accept some side work repairing...
Tags: career, information technology, it career, jakaiju@..., job
Discussion threads 2005-04-28

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