Six Areas of Nonstop
Innovation
If you’ve been keeping up with technology,
your position is likely secure, especially if you’re enabling your company’s
presence in the cloud. But according to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report, there are almost certainly some gaps in your skillset.
The report identifies 12 major technologies that global companies from a wide
range of industry sectors will embrace in the next two years, and the list
includes big data analytics, internet of things, machine learning, artificial
intelligence, virtual reality and blockchain. All these technologies are constantly
evolving, as is everything connected to the cloud, and that signals some future
vulnerabilities for IT professionals who have skill gaps. In “Future-Proof Your IT Career” we’ve distilled those technologies into six key areas
Six Strategies for Getting
Your Employer to Pay for Training
You might be perfectly happy in your current
job. Or, you might be thinking about moving up or moving on. Either way, upgrading
your skills is beneficial. With new skills, you’ll be better positioned to
assume a leadership role in your organization, but, should you decide it’s time
for a change, those new skills will also make you substantially more attractive
to prospective employers. Regardless of your career goals, you want your company
to support you in upgrading your skills, and in ExitCertified’s “Future-Proof Your IT Career,” you’ll find six clear strategies for making that happen.
Any of them could help in your campaign to improve your credentials.
Four Key Times to Pursue
Certification
Individual courses can do a lot to build your
skills. And pursuing a certification might require more training than you feel
able to take on right now. But consider this: There are many opportunities that
require external validation of your knowledge — the kind of external validation
that’s available only through certification. These opportunities may deliver a
higher salary from your current employer, or they may attract an offer from someone
else. In any case, the prestige that comes with a recognized certification is
something you’ll never regret. In “Future-Proof Your IT Career” we spell out four clear situations that present good
opportunities for you to pursue certification.
Understanding the Next Steps
With so much upheaval in the IT industry and the
economy at large, one thing is clear: IT professionals have to take charge of
their own career paths. And that means abandoning the old-school attitude that
training is a once-in-a-while thing. Serious IT professionals now understand
that they are going to be lifelong learners, as the nonstop pace of digital
innovation has made it mandatory. The ExitCertified whitepaper Future-Proof Your IT Career: How to Stay Relevant in a Field of Constant Change,” is here to help
you plan your own route to ongoing job security, advancement and satisfaction.