Determining Organizational Fit
IT professionals who find themselves in transition between jobs, employers, and/or careers have a great opportunity to reflect on what constitutes a good organizational fit and can leverage career transition and outplacement firms to do so.
Blackwell Consulting Services: Staking Its Claim on the IT Frontier
"The services market was growing while Bob and I were at IBM and we took note of the fact that IBM didn’t have minority partners to work with,”
The Power Twins: IT and MBA
Many IT professionals are considering an MBA as a way of merging IT education or experience with business experience to meet the needs of an ever-evolving market.
How to Make Oneself More Marketable
"IT leaders must be more of a business partner, to know the client, their business processes, to be fully engaged. The IT professional is expected to bring forth proposals that will help the business save money or reduce costs,"
What the Public Should Know About IT Opportunities in the Public Sector
Once upon a time, Blacks sought government jobs because they offered the greatest degree of long-term security. Fathers would say to their sons, “Get a job with the post office.” Now — to borrow the title of a new study by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — new grads need to look to the public sector for employment because it is “where the jobs are.”
Leading MARTA into the 21st Century: Jannet Thoms, Assistant General Manager and Chief Information Officer
During her four years with MARTA, the agency has often been placed in a national spotlight, thrusting Thoms, a 15-year veteran in the field, into a lead role, both in technology and as a public face of MARTA. The once-underperforming agency has become a viable community partner and respected industry leader...
Op-Ed: Engineers May Be Treated As Commodities... But So Are MDs
Engineers who are hired simply for what they can do today rather than what benefits their knowledge and skills might bring tomorrow do have a commodity-like value. Increasingly, when people with specific knowledge or skills are no longer needed, their employers let them go. The landscape is changing dramatically for engineers, but for professionals who are flexible, independent and entrepreneurial, the future is bright.
The Open Source Revolution
You probably have heard that open source is all about free software. An incomplete assessment at best. Open source goes well beyond that. The open source revolution is fundamentally changing the way businesses and consumers acquire and use software.
Avoid Piecemeal Pitfalls: Use a Whole System Approach to Achieve Diversity Results
Diversity consulting leaders such as Linda Stokes, CEO of the Orlando, Fla.-based firm PRISM International, say piecemeal efforts with narrow scopes are very common in the world of corporate diversity -- usually resulting in frustration and failure.
Succeeding in Spite of Your Boss
While seeking to understand your boss, also do your best to promote your boss’s welfare and success.
Managing Conflict in the Workplace with Martial Arts Thinking
Centering frees the practitioner from habitual ways of dealing with conflict, leading instead to a sense of sureness and wholeness, of being in tune with oneself and the environment.
Kicking Your Evil Twin to the Curb: A Critical Path to Reaching Your Career Goals
Monitoring and managing our internal monologue can go a long way toward building the confidence we need to move into new territory and shape our own success.
Balancing Work and Life: Mixing Business with Pleasure
Taking a mentor to lunch, bringing a mentee along with you to a networking event, chatting up potential allies at the company holiday party—these are social interactions that can help you to develop such relationships.
Chart a Course to the Top by Recognizing and Maximizing Your Own Leadership Qualities
If we must assume that black MBAs can’t reliably look to their formal leadership environments to help advance their leadership maturation, here are 10 indicators to help you recognize leadership qualities in yourself.
How Important is Diversity? It Depends on Your Race
Just under half of all respondents said their companies have formal programs in place to encourage diversity in the workforce. The larger the company, the more likely it is to have such initiatives.
Anatomy of a Career Search: How to Identify and Pursue the Job You Really Want
Being able to articulate your skills, interests, and values, along with your understanding of the company, will dramatically enhance your ability to persuade others of the value you can add to the organization.
The Road to the CIO's Office: Management Training, People Skills Pave the Way
The journey up the corporate ladder to the CIO’s office might start with a series of IT-related jobs, but if you’re well into your career and all you know is technology, your climb into upper management will be a difficult one indeed, according to the successful CIOs interviewed here.
Getting to Know Mentoring Fundamentals
Career success depends on more than academic preparation and personal ambition. Selecting a mentor who can help propel your career is essential for long-range personal achievement.
Career Strategies for IT Professionals
Having a vision, goal and strategy for staying competitive—hence, employable—as an IT professional is essential and a task worthy of revisiting yearly, if not more frequently.
Exploration of Minority Entrepreneurship in IT: Trends for Success
Today’s minority IT professional must explore alternatives to traditional employment in the IT sector, understand the impact of globalization on our markets and how to capitalize on new opportunities within the United States. The key to this puzzle is entrepreneurship – the transformation from employee to employer. The following summary offers key strategies for successful competition as an entrepreneur in today’s environment.
Mentoring Hispanic Students
This article discusses initiatives being undertaken in the Phoenix-area to increase the number of Hispanic engineers and tech employees.
While Phoenix’s growth rate and large Hispanic population make this issue particularly salient to the region,underrepresentation of Hispanics and all minorities is a problem throughout the country.
Initiatives similar to those in the Phoenix-area should be supported, adapted, and adopted nationwide.
Moving Forward: KANA CEO Mike Fields, Getting Ahead and Giving Back
The New IT Department: Hiring Back on the Rise
After several years in the economic doldrums, the IT field is showing every sign of resurgence, with new technologies, corporate expansion, and a shortage of talent in specialized areas ramping up employment opportunities
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