First Steps: A Career in Technology Leadership

Standing out from the crowd: discovering and developing your unique brand

If you are a recent graduate, perhaps completing a post-graduate course, or early career practitioner seeking a means to secure your first role or to refocus on what’s important to you when developing a career in information technology (IT), then this guide is for you.

Explaining the impact of modern recruitment practices and the short term, portfolio nature of modern careers, this guide:

• Helps you to discover what’s most important to you i.e. your motivational drivers
• Summarises what modern enterprises expect from employees seeking an IT orientated career
• Walks you through a process of personal brand development
• Provides hints and tips on how to:
  • Go-to market with your new brand; and
  • Use your brand as a baseline for ongoing personal and career development