Steven Vore was kind enough to pass along this Computerworld article to me today titled The Help Desk: Often the First Step in a Successful IT Career
Couldn’t agree more with that they had to say. There’s no doubt that you get exposed to all kinds of stuff, and definitely have to figure out how it all works to be good at this.
Thanks for passing it on Steven!
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Jared Coseglia, who knows a thing or two about Legal IT careers as a recruiter, has written an great article for the latest issue of ILTA’s Peer to Peer magazine, entitled Starting and Sustaining a Career As A Legal IT Professional In it Jared doles out some advice on many things, and I highly recommend…
Honestly, I think we all know where this is coming from, and it’s gross. It’s also harmful to your business. You don’t recruit and retain the most talented employees by limiting your choices. You have to expand the choices to attract a wider range of people. It’s common sense and basic math. When you decide to deprioritize the career development of the women who work in your organization, you limit your choices and take some very talented, driven people out of the equation.Â
I’m seeing lots of interesting thoughts coming from the Blogs essential to a good career article today. The post over at Scoble’s has further links to investigate. (Be sure to check the comments too) I don’t know what role, if any, this site played in getting my current job. I had it listed on my…
“We all know the feeling—that moment when your heart races along a racetrack of nerves because you need to speak to the public. The audience, whether one dozen people or one thousand, can seem intimidating. Yet speeches, toasts, and other forms of public speaking can sign minds with memorable words. They allow us honor, persuade,…
I enjoyed this look at how differently “work” is defined inside and outside of law firms, but I also suspect it raises much more troubling points too – “Perhaps law firms are too stingy characterizing things as work. Maybe tending to the career development of folks around you is worth doing. Maybe business development efforts…
Take a hard look at what leaders are saying about layoffs and what they focus on. Do they seem personally hurt and concerned for the people leaving? Do they have honest and transparent explanations for why they made these decisions? Or do they repeat platitudes about “recession,” costs, and other bits of financial jargon to explain away something so painful to the same people they were calling part of the family a week ago?
Families don’t cut the number of kids when money gets tight. Your workplace is not a family and does not deserve a level of commitment that matches your family or your health. Layoffs are sometimes necessary, but mostly just a nice tool to perk up the value of a company for a specific part of the structure or to make up for mistakes made by the same people making these job cuts.
That’s business. I’ve argued for years that business has a vested interest in employee well-being. Caring about your people is how you get their best. I hope leaders will continue to grow in that regard, but as an individual employee, you need to care about yourself more. If your job isn’t meeting your career needs in terms of money, development, or work-life balance, find a better one. You owe them nothing. They pay you to do a job until they decide not to. You owe them that work.
That is all.