Get Your IT Career In Gear! [Paperback]

Leslie Jaye Goff (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0072126833 | ISBN-13: 978-0072126839 | Publication Date: May 25, 2001 | Edition: 1

More than just a guide to getting an IT job, this essential resource shows you how to establish and sustain your IT career. You'll get details on the hard technical skills, soft skills, work ethic, values, and disposition that IT managers are looking for in candidates for a range of IT roles, as well as advice on possible career paths.. . About the Author:. Leslie Jaye Goff is a freelance writer who has been covering IT career and workplace issues for more than 15 years. She is a regular contributor to Computerworld, and has written for The New York Times, CIO, Information Week, Red Herring, and other national publications.

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From the Back Cover

Make strides in the hottest profession of the Information Age

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Join, or advance within, the most exciting employment sector of the 21st Century--Information Technology--which offers a broad range of rewarding career opportunities. This book is loaded with savvy, practical advice from a seasoned career observer and dispels many myths about the IT profession--including the need for a computer science degree! Profiles of working IT professionals provide realistic examinations of dozens of IT positions. Whether you are new to the work force or are redirecting your career, this essential guide offers practical advice for how to plan, start, and manage your IT career.

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• Identify personal interests and combine them with technical expertise to forge your own IT career path .
• Explore the latest IT career choices, including applications development, e-commerce, Web development, network administration and security, and help desk/end user support .
• Manage your career to remain highly employable regardless of job market ups and downs .
• Articulate and act upon your goals--whether they include IT management or a purely technical track .
• Evaluate and select the best IT job opportunities .
• Learn why companies are going to extraordinary lengths to find well-rounded, hybrid IT staff members--and how you can benefit from this trend .
• Hit paydirt with your current skill set or with strategic retooling .
• Get the inside scoop on navigating the IT hiring process, including negotiating salary, benefits, and other perks .

About the Author

Leslie Jaye Goff (New York, NY) has been writing about IT careers and management since 1986, most recently as a freelance writer for Computerworld, Catalog Age's I-Merchant, Internet Week, Information Week, CIO and other computer publications and Web sites.

Product Details

• Paperback: 401 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (May 25, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072126833
• ISBN-13: 978-0072126839
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,305,035 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So much great information!, June 19, 2001

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"tshumbie" (Louisiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Get Your IT Career In Gear! (Paperback)

This book is a must for all IT professionals! It contains information relevant to most, if not all, IT careers whether you are looking for changing your career or just keeping yourself marketable. Ms. Goff includes great interviews with people in all aspects of IT. The interviews include job descriptions, the good and bad parts to a particular position, and some helpful hints and ideas (there is a great interview with the creator of the Elvis Presley/Graceland web site!). Ms Goff introduces you to many IT careers and tells you what are the related skills you need for that position. She also helps you decide if a job is right for you (I really liked reading about the different postions and learning what skills are needed in each position and what type of person is usually good in that position). She gives examples and tells how people have successfully transitioned either into IT from other fields or parlayed their position into a new position. This book has given me ideas for keeping myself up to date and how to use what I know already to advance my career or change areas and how to decide what I want to do next.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nothing really new here, January 26, 2004

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Steven F. Husted "shuste73" (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Get Your IT Career In Gear! (Paperback)

If you want to get into IT, this book presents a great description of what it is really like to work in IT.

If you already work in IT, this book makes you feel better with similar frustrations from other people.

I already work in IT and I was not very interested in hearing other people complain about how overworked they are. Yeah, I know, I'm in the same boat.

Here's a better way to get your IT career in gear - get your degree and get certified in your area of interest. That's it, no secret, really.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars finally!!!!, June 20, 2001

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Stephen Rudko (Memphis, Tennessee) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Get Your IT Career In Gear! (Paperback)

Succinct, authoritative, indispensable. One wonders where this book has been. Goff makes it seem so simple. Could it really be? But finally there is a voice that spells it out. A great read that we've waited for forever. A must for the changing marketplace.