The IT Career Builders Toolkit

Below you will find a summarized list of free chapters for
The IT Career Builder’s Toolkit:
Your Complete Guide To Building Your Technology Career In Any Economy

I wrote the book from the perspective of someone who works in the industry – not as an HR expert or writing from theory. It started as a series of articles I wrote in my career column for Power Media Group starting back in 2001.

You can pick it up at
Amazon, Cisco Press, or informit.

Eventually, readers and others on the now defunct Cramsession discussion boards asked for a guide or Toolkit of career development advice.The chapters are provided for free – something I had requested from Cisco Press from the start. My philosophy is that book people want books -if my content is good, you’ll buy it. If you are not a book person, you won’t. But having it available gives you access to it and you might pass it along to someone who is a book person.

Part I An Introduction To Career Building

Chapter 1 The Toolkit Approach to Career Development
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1156069

Chapter 2 Career Building Defined
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1156070

Chapter 3 Information Technology: A Great Career
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1156071

Chapter 4 Defining Yourself: Aptitudes and Desires
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1156072

Part II Filling Your Toolkit

Chapter 5 Self-Assessment
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1156073

Chapter 6 Attitude
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1156074

Chapter 7 Communication Skills
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1156075

Chapter 8 Technical Skills
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1156076

Chapter 9 The Cover Letter
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1156077

Chapter 10 The Résumé
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1156078