8 IT Professional Career Development Tips (in a Managed Services World)
Kong Yang, Nutanix’s Head of Service Provider Marketing, is a big believer in the need to mentor up-and-coming IT talent. We recently interviewed him to get his advice on how IT professionals can navigate today’s challenging IT job markets and further their careers. In this post, I’ll summarize some of the key takeaways from our conversation that really resonated with me. If you’d like to listen to our discussion in its entirety, you can access that on demand. Tip #1 – Align yourself to the business’ goals There was a time when IT was all about the nuts and bolts of keeping the business running. You could almost forget the IT department existed—at least until a server went down. Nowadays, however, many business leaders are looking to tech as a way to build a competitive advantage. IT professionals can use this to increase their value to the company. Let’s say one of the business’ goals is to reduce CapEx expenditures. IT has plenty of opportunities to show leadership how that goal can
