Managing Your Technology Career
In a post yesterday, I mentioned that Dwight Fisher, CIO at Plymouth State, lead a great session on project management. I’ve been reading through his blog and a post that really interested me was a post about how to effectively manage your technology career. As a CIO, he’s certainly in a position to talk about career advancement and development. I wrote about careers for higher ed web folks back in July.
Given the rising costs of technology in an ever-changing field, I strongly suggest that you have an ongoing career plan. Just because you currently have a job, benefits and a fair amount of job security does not mean things can’t happen down the road. Higher education is entering a period of much greater accountability. The cost of college is too great not to. Constituents will challenge us to prove our value, to cut our costs, to look at outsourcing and other possibilities.
This has been a topic of discussion during this trip. To those of you readers who are in your thirties and beyond, I’d be interested to know what knowledge, experience or nuggets of wisdom you can share from your career growth, especially during the early-to-mid thirties middle management phase. You can email me directly or twitter me if you’d rather not post a comment.
I’m going to ask this same question to some of my friends, former bosses and other colleagues as well.
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