How To Build Success Career In IT

In an extract from his new book "How to Build a Successful Career in IT" by Peter Bartram. He talks to 15 senior in IT professionals about how they reached the pinnacle of the career ladder.

There is a conundrum about It professionals who make it to the top. They do everything the same and they do everything differently.

Happily, for any IT professional setting out on a career and hoping to make it to the top, there is a solution to that conundrum. The most successful IT professionals are able to answer very clearly two key questions: what do i want out of my career and how do I plan to get it?

When IT professionals answer the first question they come up with radically different answers. So, for example, Heather Allan, corporate services director at The Global Fund in Geneva, wants the opportunity to contribute to the world fights againts AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Ian Woosey, group IT and e-commerce director at Carpetright, likes the buzz he gets from helping to build a successful international business in a competitive market.

Joe Harley, IT director general and CIO at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), seeks the opportunity to give something back to society by helping to manage more effectively one of the largest government department and one which helps the less fortunate members of society. And for Jeremy Garside, head of technology at the London Symphony Orchestra, it's a no-brainer - he wants the chance to work with his first love: music. So IT professionals display strikingly different attitudes to what they want from their work.

 

Information Technology (IT) Consultant Salary 

(Malaysia)

An Information Technology (IT) Consultant earns an average salary of RM 83,405 per year. A skill in UNIX is associated with high pay for this job. Most people move on to other jobs if they have more than 20 years' experience in this career. Experience has a moderate effect on income for this job.

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National Salary Data (?) RM 0 RM 60K RM 120K RM 180K Salary RM 37,630 - RM 157,347         Bonus RM 0.00 - RM 20,592   Profit Sharing RM 16,000   Commission RM 11,000   Total Pay (?) RM 38,833 - RM 172,243   Country: Malaysia | Currency: MYR | Updated: 19 Sep 2015 | Individuals Reporting: 238

 IT Jobs: 

• Applications developer
• Database administrator
• Games developer
• Geographical information systems officer
• Information security specialist
• Information systems manager
• IT consultant
• IT sales professional
• IT technical support officer
• Network engineer
• Software tester
• Systems analyst
• Technical author
• Web designer

What Is Information Technology (Today)?

 A 1958 article in Harvard Business Review referred to information technology as consisting of three basic parts: computational data processing, decision support, and business software.

This time period marked the beginning of IT as an officially defined area of business; in fact, this article probably coined the term.

Over the ensuring decades, many corporations created so-called "IT departments" to manage the computer technologies related to their business.whatever these departments worked on became the de facto definition of Information Technology, one that has evolved over time.

Today, IT departments have responsibility in areas like:

• - computer tech support
• - business computer network and database administration
• - business software deployment
• - information security

 Especially during the dot-com boom of the 1990s, Information Technology also became associated with aspects of computing beyond those owned by IT departments. This broader definition of IT includes areas like:

• - software development
• - computer systems architecture
• - project management

 For more information, click the link below:

- Introduction to IT : Basic and Careers

- Typical Jobs in IT

- How to Start a Career in IT