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An Insider's Guide to Building Your Information Technology Career in Any Economy - Teaches value of IT skills in job market, while emphasizing the soft skills needed for long-term growth and stability
- Practical help to finding jobs in the IT market
- Author is well-know motivational and IT job speaker throughout the country
The I.T. Career Builders Toolkit provides a pragmatic and proven method for developing a dynamic and growing career in information technology. There are many tools available to someone interested in learning core technology skills. Information sources abound to help a person understand the pathways involved in certifications and the evolution ones career could take if you followed these paths. While technical skills are certainly key to qualifying for a technology job, it is the soft skills and business understanding that help technology professionals bring greater value to their clients and employers. With the recent economic downturn and the struggles in the technology marketplace by recent events like the post dot-com burst and off-shoring/outsourcing, understanding these factors is more critical than ever. There is widespread consensus that the role of IT professionals is changing. The well-rounded technology professional, one who masters the technical aptitudes, cultivates business savvy and communication skills, and develops a holistic career attitude, will quickly separate themselves from others in the marketplace. This book pulls all these resources together and provides one with skills to move forward. The book is divided into four sections: An Intro to Career Building, Filling Your Toolkit, Putting it to Use, and Ancillary Skills and Information. Each section builds upon the next to result in a career-seeker being fully prepared in a competitive IT job market. Matthew Moran is a business and technology consultant, author and speaker. He has provided solution-based consulting for Fortune 500 companies. His articles and interviews have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, PMG publications, and techies.com among others. Matt began his career at Blue Cross and went from data entry to Senior Business Analyst developing cost effective tools within 5 years.Using techniques discussed in the book and seminars he has taken his career into exciting areas. He has served as a CIO, Project Manager, and Technology Consultant with a background in programming, network integration and automation, and project development and management.
Product DescriptionYour complete guide to building your information technology career in any economy The IT Career Builder's Toolkit features market-focused skills and proven methods you can use to jump-start and advance your career. While other books cover just the mechanics of preparing your résumé, writing a cover letter, and interviewing, this book provides all that plus additional insight from IT career development expert, Matt Moran, to help you plan and create a rewarding IT career over the long term. The toolkit approach allows you to use this book to suit your unique needs: - Are you new to the IT field? Benefit by reading the book cover to cover.
- Just need to fine-tune your IT career? Choose a topic and dive in.
Understand and prepare for the various and changing factors that affect your career in both positive and negative ways. Learn how to - Present the value of your technical skills in the job market
- Position yourself as the primary commodity of your career
- Remove the guesswork out of job searches
- Highlight on-the-job skills and gain meaningful professional exposure
The companion CD-ROM includes career management tools such as résumé and cover letter templates, forms to track important contacts, and self-assessment tools. Start or further your consulting career with sample proposals, opportunity tracking forms, and a time-tracking and billing database. Financial tools, including budget and cash-flow summary worksheets, help you gain financial well-being. Use the Value-Added Technologist presentation to gain a clear understanding of the career-building process and how to use the toolkit to build a dynamic career. Most of all, have fun! Every year, people advance along the path to career stardom. Let Matt help you to be one of them through his career philosophy "Do not accept mediocrity as a career objective-demand more of yourself." "I want you to see the [toolkit] techniques as one more set of skills to adopt in your overall career development program. They are skills, just like your technical skills, that you will use daily during your career. Just as you adopt new technical skills, use the toolkit to define those soft skills that you must learn and put to use. The result will be a more well-rounded and complete professional skill-set." ~ Matthew Moran, from the Introduction Companion CD-ROM The CD-ROM contains valuable tools, forms, spreadsheets, and documents that work with the Toolkit to help you master key areas of your career development.
BackcoverYour complete guide to building your information technology career in any economy The IT Career Builder's Toolkit features market-focused skills and proven methods you can use to jump-start and advance your career. While other books cover just the mechanics of preparing your résumé, writing a cover letter, and interviewing, this book provides all that plus additional insight from IT career development expert, Matt Moran, to help you plan and create a rewarding IT career over the long term. The toolkit approach allows you to use this book to suit your unique needs: - Are you new to the IT field? Benefit by reading the book cover to cover.
- Just need to fine-tune your IT career? Choose a topic and dive in.
Understand and prepare for the various and changing factors that affect your career in both positive and negative ways. Learn how to - Present the value of your technical skills in the job market
- Position yourself as the primary commodity of your career
- Remove the guesswork out of job searches
- Highlight on-the-job skills and gain meaningful professional exposure
The companion CD-ROM includes career management tools such as résumé and cover letter templates, forms to track important contacts, and self-assessment tools. Start or further your consulting career with sample proposals, opportunity tracking forms, and a time-tracking and billing database. Financial tools, including budget and cash-flow summary worksheets, help you gain financial well-being. Use the Value-Added Technologist presentation to gain a clear understanding of the career-building process and how to use the toolkit to build a dynamic career. Most of all, have fun! Every year, people advance along the path to career stardom. Let Matt help you to be one of them through his career philosophy "Do not accept mediocrity as a career objective-demand more of yourself." "I want you to see the [toolkit] techniques as one more set of skills to adopt in your overall career development program. They are skills, just like your technical skills, that you will use daily during your career. Just as you adopt new technical skills, use the toolkit to define those soft skills that you must learn and put to use. The result will be a more well-rounded and complete professional skill-set." ~ Matthew Moran, from the Introduction Companion CD-ROM The CD-ROM contains valuable tools, forms, spreadsheets, and documents that work with the Toolkit to help you master key areas of your career development.
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