Career decisions pivot on education Whether you're looking to move ahead, move up, or move on, learning is the key to success. The days of a 20-year career with a giant corporate conglomerate, or similar longevity in a particular tech arena for that matter, have bitten the dust. Surprisingly, when techies talk about critical career moves, decisions such as relocating, changing fields, heading into management, or moving into a dot-com workplace aren't anywhere near the top of the list. Education and training are what techies say were the determining factors in the ability to move ahead and open doors to new opportunities.
Career moves go smoothly with sharpened skills.
We recently polled members, asking them about critical career choices and decisions. The big key was taking the courses and learning as much as I could about the new field I was heading into. Initially Satz thought the best Web path would be ASP development, because he was already working with Visual Basic development using Microsoft Transaction Server. But when he went looking for a new job, he learned that most companies wanted to hire only experienced ASP developers at his current salary requirements. Identifying Java, ASP, and Cold Fusion as hot technologies, he took more courses.