Houston IT Career Management Resources Articles > Managing Your Career - Advice for the Next Generation of IT Execs Printer Friendly Managing Your Career - Advice for the Next Generation of IT Execs Advice for the Next Generation of IT Execs By Linda Leung, Network World How should today's IT students prepare for the next 20 years? "For those who want to be tech guys, their career path is pretty limited to what they can do. If you have an MIS degree, you should start somewhere in programming or systems analysis. The goal is to leverage technology to get into a functional position ASAP - that means understand the supply chain, apply technology to business, look at the bigger picture. You should do this by the second or third year. In the old days, this would take four, five or six years. . . . You should be able to work in a team, but at some point you need to have individual accountability, where independent thinking [rather than] group consensus becomes important." -James Del Monte For full article click here << Back to the Articles Printer Friendly