So You Wish to be a Future CIO! What Skills are Essential?
Many a CIO will have started their career being passionate about one or another aspect of computer technology. That may be business analysis, programming, quality assurance, project management, building networks, architecture, or a focus on hardware. Generally speaking IT is passionate about change. At the start of your career you learn how essential it is [...]
Delivery & Success – It is All About Setting Goals & Reaching Them!
Historically it has been shown that successful people all set themselves achievable goals and then work out a plan to succeed. Whenever it comes the time for the annual performance review, or even our new years resolutions, we often set ourselves unreachable targets then fail to monitor our progress against these. No wonder many feel [...]
That D’oh! Moment
Homer Simpson has at least 3 D’oh moments in every episode as he realises that he has done something so utterly stupid that this is the only comment he can make. Well life sometimes imitates art (or perhaps art reflects truisms in life), but at the end of the day we all have our D’oh [...]
SEX Sells, but How SEXY Should I Make My Resume?
A networking colleague of mine recently recommended a number of articles, including one by Meridith Levinson entitled “Give Your Resume Sex Appeal“. I suspect that the reason David Perry sent me the article (apart from the fact that they are good) is the fact that each featured him – That is OK I sometimes do [...]
That IT Issue That Will Not Die!
CIO Canada (March 2009) reported project that 150,000 IT/ICT jobs will go unfilled by 2015.
Earlier this year I wrote an on-line post called “IT Skills Shortage A Chance for Unemployed Workers?” where I stated “We see it every day, ‘Fantastic opportunities for those who are willing to re-train into IT’. This has been a standard [...]
Is There Really an IT Skills Shortage?
We see it every day, “Fantastic opportunities for those who are willing to re-train into IT” This has been a standard advertising slogan for training companies for as long as I can remember. In fact I have almost become immune to the ad, until a discussion by like-minded professionals recently.
I am talking to out of [...]
