Navigating Your Career in IT - Going Beyond how to get started in IT (Part 1)
Channel: ITOpsTalk
Date: 31/01/2024

This video is part 1 of a long form keynote delivered to IT Pros back in June of 2023. 

Most industry advice for careers in IT are focused on the first part of your career: How to get hired. How to move up from the support desk to managing the big workloads. How to build a portfolio of valuable career skills that allow you to solve the problems. But what’s rarely discussed is how to manage and tend to your career beyond that first decade – how do you keep your career resilient and continue to have a rewarding and valuable career through middle age and on to retirement? If you’re intending to spend the bulk of your career working in IT, you need to have a strategy to capitalize on your valuable experience as well as how to make the right choices on what new skills to add to your portfolio. 

In this 5 part series - we’ll take you through how to take the long term approach to navigating the rest of your life in IT – not just what you should learn in the next few years, but what you should know to be successful for the rest of your days in the profession.

Presenters: 
Rick Claus, Principal Cloud Advocate Team Lead at Microsoft. 
Orin Thomas, Principal Hybrid Cloud Advocate at Microsoft. 

🎥 Video Summary: In this 1st part of "Navigating Your Career in IT," Rick and Orin Thomas debunk the myth that IT is a profession only for the young. They explain that IT professionals can experience peak performance in their mid-40s and that the field's constant evolution necessitates continuous learning and adaptation. 
Rick and Orin compare IT to other knowledge-based professions and argue that the relatively young age of IT as a profession contributes to the requirement for constant progress. They encourage viewers to continue developing their skills proactively, rather than reactively addressing common issues, and emphasize that IT careers can span an entire lifetime.

⚡ Hashtags: #ITCareerMythsDebunked #ContinuousLearningJourney #careergrowthtips 

Part 1: Going Beyond how to get started in IT
https://youtu.be/EpSXVzFP1dQ

Part 2:  Keeping up with new Tech & Tools, but not getting distracted
https://youtu.be/rxIU8Rcn6GQ

Part 3: Embedding Knowledge and Effective Knowledge Retention
https://youtu.be/hAaqjQU31wA

Part 4: Myth: Seniority = Management
https://youtu.be/4lTmdslx8tg

Part 5: Crystallized Intelligence and Mentorship
https://youtu.be/ktFNjuNbH6o