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Pity the poor, ambitious IT professional. With technology more important to the bottom line than ever, you’d think there’d be career opportunities up the wazoo. But the suits don’t really understand what you do for a living. And they hold the keys to the executive washroom. So, while you’re down in the server closet saving the company’s bacon on a daily basis, these guys are upstairs in the corner offices with the nice view. It doesn’t have to be that way. And it won’t be, if you assemble a solid strategy for advancing your career. We spoke with CEOs and CIOs, honchos and headhunters on what it takes to climb the corporate ladder in this increasingly techcentric world. Compiled here are our top 20 rules for creating and capitalizing on career opportunities. 1. Think Business First, Technology Second “There is no such thing as an ‘IT project.’ There are only business projects with an IT component,” says June Drewry, CIO of Chubb Corp., a $48 billion insurance group based in Warren, N.J.
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It’s the cardinal rule of career success: If you want to move up the corporate ladder, you must think like a businessperson first and a technologist second, says Ray Howell, senior director of applications development at Sapphire Technologies, an IT staffing company.
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“The thing that helped me most early on was figuring out that I needed to see IT projects from the
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business side of things,” Howell says. “In meetings where we’d talk about tech projects, I was able to
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step into the shoes of the finance and sales guys and see the problem from their eyes, which helped me find solutions faster. My supervisors recognized this, which is how I moved up quickly.” See all White Papers / Webcasts “Employees who understand the link between technology and its impact on the business are in incredibly high demand right now,” notes Paul Taylor, regional vice president at Hudson, a staffing and talent management company. “Those skills will definitely not go unnoticed when it comes time for promotions.”
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2. Raise the Bar … and Leave It There Naturally, those who go beyond the call of duty are most likely to ascend the fastest. But like it or not,
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you must excel regularly, not in fits and starts. “Consistent overachievement is the fastest way to get recognized,” says Brendan Courtney, senior vice president at Spherion, a $2 billion recruiting and staffing company. “That means being able to multitask and accomplish things even when you’re busy, or demonstrating leadership skills that go beyond what you were hired to do.” “The more responsibility you take on, the more indispensable you become,” adds Carly Drum, managing director of Drum Associates, an executive search company in New York. “The more you ‘burst your box’ -- or hit the limit of what you can deliver -- the more people need to be hired beneath you. And when people get hired beneath you, you get promoted.”
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The key here is to make sure you can deliver the goods before saying yes to new responsibilities. 3. Hold Your Nose and Raise Your Hand
How Wolfram Alpha could change software
One way to do more is to volunteer for projects nobody else wants and then excel at them. Sunil Misra says his first big break came as a 24-year-old software engineer, when he volunteered to lead
Black Hat 2009: How to hack a parking meter iPhone development tools that work the way you do
the night shift that was testing his company’s document management/CAD software.
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InfoWorld Home / Test Center / Business / 20 ways to get promoted in the tech industry OCTOBER 16, 2006
Maximize The Value of IT Investment - Using A
20 ways to get promoted in the tech industry
Complete IT Products Catalog
If you agree that there's no such thing as an IT project, you may already be on your way up the ladder By Dan Tynan | InfoWorld Share or Email
|
|
Add a comment
|
1 Recommendation
Pity the poor, ambitious IT professional. With technology more important to the bottom line than ever, you’d think there’d be career opportunities up the wazoo. But the suits don’t really understand what you do for a living. And they hold the keys to the executive washroom. So, while you’re down in the server closet saving the company’s bacon on a daily basis, these guys are upstairs in the corner offices with the nice view. It doesn’t have to be that way. And it won’t be, if you assemble a solid strategy for advancing your career. We spoke with CEOs and CIOs, honchos and headhunters on what it takes to climb the corporate ladder in this increasingly techcentric world. Compiled here are our top 20 rules for creating and capitalizing on career opportunities. 1. Think Business First, Technology Second “There is no such thing as an ‘IT project.’ There are only business projects with an IT component,” says June Drewry, CIO of Chubb Corp., a $48 billion insurance group based in Warren, N.J.
Taking Control of Software Licensing | White Paper → First Step In Building The FactBase: BDNA Discovery | White Paper → Three Immediate Initiatives To Cut IT Costs And Keep Them Down | White Paper →
It’s the cardinal rule of career success: If you want to move up the corporate ladder, you must think like a businessperson first and a technologist second, says Ray Howell, senior director of applications development at Sapphire Technologies, an IT staffing company.
Power Monitoring 101: Supervisory, connectivity and protection options that add an umbrella of protection over your entire IT infrastructure | White Paper →
“The thing that helped me most early on was figuring out that I needed to see IT projects from the
Migrate From A Proprietary Server Architecture - Open
business side of things,” Howell says. “In meetings where we’d talk about tech projects, I was able to
Systems Provide Way to Exit Money Pit | White Paper →
step into the shoes of the finance and sales guys and see the problem from their eyes, which helped me find solutions faster. My supervisors recognized this, which is how I moved up quickly.” See all White Papers / Webcasts “Employees who understand the link between technology and its impact on the business are in incredibly high demand right now,” notes Paul Taylor, regional vice president at Hudson, a staffing and talent management company. “Those skills will definitely not go unnoticed when it comes time for promotions.”
Sign up to receive Business Resource Alerts
2. Raise the Bar … and Leave It There Naturally, those who go beyond the call of duty are most likely to ascend the fastest. But like it or not,
enter email address
you must excel regularly, not in fits and starts. “Consistent overachievement is the fastest way to get recognized,” says Brendan Courtney, senior vice president at Spherion, a $2 billion recruiting and staffing company. “That means being able to multitask and accomplish things even when you’re busy, or demonstrating leadership skills that go beyond what you were hired to do.” “The more responsibility you take on, the more indispensable you become,” adds Carly Drum, managing director of Drum Associates, an executive search company in New York. “The more you ‘burst your box’ -- or hit the limit of what you can deliver -- the more people need to be hired beneath you. And when people get hired beneath you, you get promoted.”
8/2/2009 20:33
20 ways to get promoted in the tech industry | Business - InfoWorld
2 of 3
http://www.infoworld.com/t/business/20-ways-get-promoted-in-tech-indu...
The key here is to make sure you can deliver the goods before saying yes to new responsibilities. 3. Hold Your Nose and Raise Your Hand
How Wolfram Alpha could change software
One way to do more is to volunteer for projects nobody else wants and then excel at them. Sunil Misra says his first big break came as a 24-year-old software engineer, when he volunteered to lead
Black Hat 2009: How to hack a parking meter iPhone development tools that work the way you do
the night shift that was testing his company’s document management/CAD software.
Windows 7 drives a wedge of innovation into the heart of the Save XP camp
Tags: business
1 2
3
4
5
6
next ›
Related Content... Maximize The Value of IT Investment - Using A Complete IT Products Catalog | White paper Taking Control of Software Licensing | White paper First Step In Building The FactBase: BDNA Discovery | White paper NASA offers $1.5 million for 200MPG aircraft | Article CRM Platform Improves Bank's Customer Service by 60% | Article CA and Acxiom Partner for Information Governance Solutions | Article SMBs keen on deploying tech solutions amidst crisis: study | Article
Subscribe to the Today's Headlines: First Look Newsletter The one-stop resource center for IT professionals.
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Protecting Content During Business Disruption: Are You Covered? Explore how to protect your organizational content and businesscritical information from business... Enterprise Change Management - An Executive Perspective ECM can and should be applied across the enterprise as a whole. Focusing on ECM as described in this... Slash Storage Costs, Archive to the Cloud Cloud storage, the next step in the data archiving evolution, offers highly scalable storage for... See all IT Whitepapers
Web 2.0 UI Developer Leesburg, VA Image Matters LLC Java/Flex Developers New York, NY Major Financial Services Firm iPhone Web and Application Developer New York, NY Magnani Caruso Dutton SAS/VBA Developer Bridgewater, NJ Verna Scientific C# Web Developer Olathe, KS More Jobs / Post A Job
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8/2/2009 20:33
20 ways to get promoted in the tech industry | Business - InfoWorld
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AVAILABLITY. DISCOVER WHY. See how switching from Lotus Notes to Google Apps can help you. Granular Exchange Recovery Catch the Buzz! The power of BlackBerry® Enterprise Server v5.0! Stop buying storage. Start optimizing data. Calculate your storage savings today. Reduce costs and add Unix/Linux functionality to Windows
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Get the special edition eBook "Economics of Virtualization" from Sun and AMD Safeguard your datacenter against Mother Nature's mayhem Rapid Failover Server 64-page prescriptive guide to security, compliance, and IT operations. See the power of the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor. Cloud Computing Report: Receive the latest cloud computing news
Five minute business analytics assessment. Immediate results.
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