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  • Kick your career into high gear

    Whether you want to move up, or move on, it's time to dust off and buff up your career strategy. Here are specific steps for moving ahead in your current role, and tips on making that jump over the fence into greener pastures.

  • Is a career in IT management right for you?

    Many IT support professionals view management as the next step in their career, but few understand the consequences of such a move. Find out what you should consider before you accept an IT management position.

  • Saving your life in bits and bytes

    "Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanised private file and library," wrote information technology visionary Vannevar Bush in the July 1945 issue of the Atlantic Monthly.

  • Staying afloat in a skills storm

    Professionals caught up in the ebb and flow in IT demand are well aware that today's "hot property" can quickly find themselves on the skills scrap-heap. ZDNet Australia offers these tips to help you avoid career obsolesence.

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    Formalised policies and procedures help protect you, your company, and your employees. Here are tips on planning your policy strategy.

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    I'm a celebrity, don't back me up

    Celebrity comes with its perks free alcohol, better-looking partners, lots of holiday time and disadvantages constant media intrusions, being forced to appear in films with Eddie Murphy for the long-term good of your career, and having to do mindless radio interviews with angry men who've been awake since 4am.

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  • Food authority cooks up top CIO role

    One of the government's regulatory agencies is on the hunt to fill a newly-created head of IT position, bucking the trend for technology outsourcing in public services.

  • How to get on the CIO career track

    Making the move into IT management, and ultimately the CIO role, requires some deep evaluation of the pros and cons. The second step to move up to the C level is choosing the right type of employer.

  • Kick your career into high gear

    Whether you want to move up, or move on, it's time to dust off and buff up your career strategy. Here are specific steps for moving ahead in your current role, and tips on making that jump over the fence into greener pastures.

  • Is a career in IT management right for you?

    Many IT support professionals view management as the next step in their career, but few understand the consequences of such a move. Find out what you should consider before you accept an IT management position.

  • From CIO to coach

    It doesn't pay the same to start, and it requires strong communication skills. Working as a career coach can be a satisfying career move, as one former CIO explains.

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  • Opinion: "Buy more stuff!"

    In front of 95,000 people and a prime time television audience, John Polson, creative director for the Intel-Tropfest short-film festival, donned a figurative candy-striped suit to became technology's spruiker for a few moments at Sydney’s Domain last Sunday. He read out the Intel prize (a PC package) for best cinematograhper with whiz-bang enthusiasm... but the crowd wasn't having a bar of it.

  • IBM's big thinker

    Executive Irving Wladawsky-Berger helped steer Big Blue to the Internet, Linux and open-source computing. His newest mission: grid computing.

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