Start a Successful Career Today in Information Technology


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2nd Edition - Revised & Updated "One of the best new Information Technology books" - BookAuthority - A detailed step-by-step guide that takes you from a total beginner to a top-earning IT professional at the top of your career. - Each chapter of this book has been meticulously put together by the author with the newcomer to Information Technology in mind. - The book contains modern information and useful insights that will prove invaluable for IT professionals battling career stagnation. - It demonstrates three pathways to three different successful careers in IT that almost anyone can start pursuing today, with or without a university degree. - It includes the top IT certifications needed to boost your IT career in the 2020s. - This book is a consolidation of 16+ years of experience, knowledge and tips gathered while working in the Information Technology Industry. - It covers job hunting and what to expect at job interviews. - It contains tips and tricks and provides guidance on decision-making every step of the way. - It also includes a glossary of 120 key IT terms to get you started. - It is straight to the point. No boring and unnecessary text. - Purposefully designed with colourful pages and appealing illustrations to make it an easy read. eBook Format: Fixed layout epub




Own Your Tech Career


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"Own Your Tech Career: Soft Skills for Technologists" helps you get what you want out of your technology career. You'll start by defining your ambition -- whether that's a salary, a job title, a flexible schedule, or something else. Once you know where you're going, this book's adaptable advice guides your journey. You'll learn conflict resolution and teamwork, master nine rules of professionalism, and build the confidence and skill you need to stay on the path you've set for yourself. -- From publisher's description.




Success in the Technology Field


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Success in the Technology Field is a "how-to" guide for your career. It presents a model of skills and behaviors to help attain your career goals, whether you aspire to be an executive, a leading technologist, or a successful salesperson.




Introduction to Business


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Introduction to Business covers the scope and sequence of most introductory business courses. The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change. Introduction to Business includes hundreds of current business examples from a range of industries and geographic locations, which feature a variety of individuals. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of business concepts, with attention to the knowledge and skills necessary for student success in this course and beyond. This is an adaptation of Introduction to Business by OpenStax. You can access the textbook as pdf for free at openstax.org. Minor editorial changes were made to ensure a better ebook reading experience. Textbook content produced by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.




A Woman's Guide to Navigating a Successful Career in Healthcare Information Technology


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This book features over 50 of the industry’s brightest female pioneers who share insightful lessons backed by several years of experience, as well as tips for navigating a successful career in HIT. The intent of this book is to provide the opportunity to capture stories from highly successful women to inspire the next generation who want to pursue a career in HIT and to inspire those already working in the field who are eager to advance in their careers. This book also provides insights on industry opportunities, ways to deal with harassment, the history of female tech innovators, and negotiating competitive salary and employment agreements. Additional industry experts provided guidance on tapping into venture capital funding and tools for career development. A comprehensive resource guide and glossary of industry terms are also included. Co-authors included: Amy Sabillon, MSI, Ayanna Chambliss, CAP, SHRM-CP, Lindsay Rowlands, MHA, and Stacey B. Lee, JD.




Tools For Career Success: 101 Answers to FAQs about Public Health


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Tools for Career Success: 101 Answers to FAQs about Public Health is the student, professional, and organizational leadership guide to landing - and being successful in the public health industry. These answers are your tools, resources, and strategies for applying, interviewing, negotiating, succeeding and then tapping into your resources to launch your career and first successful consultant business. Over twenty years of combined experience in retail sales, public health and health information technology are used to empower YOU as a change agent for solving public health problems.




The Information and Knowledge Professional's Career Handbook


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The definitive guide to developing and managing a successful career in the information profession: Information Professionals and Knowledge Managers deal with significant challenges in building successful careers for a number of reasons associated with common misperceptions of their expertise and roles. In environments where they must often justify their work and value over and over again, those already in the profession need a boost and those just entering need to be prepared for a reality that may differ quite a bit from their expectations. The book is intended to give readers a set of tools and techniques with which to secure a strong career, build an effective brand, and succeed as professionals.Click Here to view the official page for this title on Facebook. - Written by opinion leaders and highly respected authorities in the field - Draws upon 50-plus years of experience in a variety of settings and roles - Offers realistic and honest pointers - no sugar-coating




Career Q&A


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CIO Best Practices


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CIO BEST PRACTICES Enabling Strategic Value with Information Technology SECOND EDITION For anyone who wants to achieve better returns on their IT investments, CIO Best Practices, Second Edition presents the leadership skills and competencies required of a CIO addressing comprehensive enterprise strategic frameworks to fully leverage IT resources. Filled with real-world examples of CIO success stories, the Second Edition explores: CIO leadership responsibilities and opportunities The business impacts of both business and social networking, as well as ways the CIO can leverage the new reality of human connectivity on the Internet The increasingly inextricable relationships between customers, employees, and their use of personal information technologies Emerging cultural expectations and standards outside the workplace Current CRM best practices in terms of the relationship between customer preferences and shareholder wealth Enterprise energy utilization and sustainability practices otherwise known as Green IT with all the best practices collected here, in one place Best practices for one of the Internet's newest and most revolutionary technologies: cloud computing and ways it is shaping the new economics of business




Excellence in IT


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Excellence in IT reminds you that IT is an all or nothing career with too many people depending on you for the job to not be done well at all times. Everyone working in IT should rise to the occasion and seek to deliver the highest quality workmanship possible. The book covers all those things that keep IT professionals awake at night and offers advice on how to work around stress, work easier and faster, deal with problematic personalities, keep up with the never-ending chase for new knowledge, and, ultimately, how to stay competitive in your career for a long, long time. Excellence in IT provides answers to virtually everything a computer career involves and outlines how to rise to the top of your field while looking after your personal happiness too. It's not just another bone dry technical guide, but an easily readable book that explains what you're going through every day on the job and how to make your career work better for you.