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• Project management salaries show earnings growth, career potential

  By Meridith Levinson | 03 February, 2012 04:19

  Project management may not be the most exciting job in IT these days, especially when most of the talk about hot IT jobs pertains to software developers, information security professionals and business intelligence analysts.

• How to tame a bad boss: 8 practical techniques

  By Meridith Levinson | 08 December, 2011 07:18

  If you're one of the many unfortunate souls who reports to a bad boss, you may think your only options are to find a new job or continue to take crap from your corporate Caligula.

• Q&A: Barwon Health CIO, Ann Larkins

  By Chloe Herrick | 02 November, 2011 12:02

  A tertiary nursing education and years of clinical experience combined with a Masters in Business Technology helped prepare Ann Larkins for the CIO role at Barwon Health.

• Steve Jobs: A pictorial look at his career

  By CIO Staff | 06 October, 2011 11:00

  A pictorial look at Steve Jobs career as Apple's CEO

• How to address failure in a job interview

  By Meridith Levinson | 29 June, 2011 06:55

  For CIOs who experience some kind of enterprise IT failure in the course of their careers-whether a high-profile security breach, massive network outage, or multi-million dollar ERP boondoggle-the incident can feel like a career killer. But unless a CIO repeatedly makes the same mistake, or the failure stemmed from some illegal or "just plain stupid" action, it won't end a CIO's career, says Mark Polansky, senior client partner and managing director of Korn/Ferry International's Information Officers practice.

• Cloud CIO: In defense of corporate IT

  By Bernard Golden | 16 June, 2011 02:33

  Last week's blog post, Cloud CIO: Yes, Your Job is at Risk, was one of the most widely-read-and definitely the most -post I've ever written for CIO.com. Clearly, the discussion of cloud computing's effect on a CIO's career struck a nerve with readers.

• CIOs come of age as business leaders: Study

  By Georgina Swan | 18 May, 2011 13:11

  We have been talking about it for years but it looks as if it’s finally happening; CEOs and CIOs are aligned in their thinking around the future challenges and complexity and IT plays a critical role.

• Pathways extends 2011 program

  By CIO Staff | 24 April, 2011 09:00

  With the rhetoric around the IT skills crisis reaching a crescendo, one thing remains clear: Today’s CIOs must take an active role in developing their star performers into real business leaders. Until recently, that was easier said than done and would-be CIOs lacked a certified career path. A little over a year ago, however, that situation changed.

• How to build a network in 12 days (before Christmas)

  By Debra Feldman | 03 December, 2010 04:51

  The holiday season is an ideal time for re-connecting, making new contacts and strengthening relationships. Networking is, in fact, the best job search method: It generates more than 80 per cent of new hires.

• How to network: 7 ways to give, not just receive

  By Meridith Levinson | 27 October, 2010 06:15

  One of the reasons you may not like to network is because, in asking others for help with a job search, you feel you're imposing on your contacts (and their contacts). But viewing networking as an imposition demonstrates several common misconceptions about the practice: that only one person benefits from the exchange; that job seekers have nothing to give to the people with whom they're networking; and that the people being contacted don't want to meet or see the job seeker.

• IT career guide: Advice for IT professionals

  By Meridith Levinson | 21 September, 2010 04:33

  Is an IT career a good idea right now?

• CIO role needs revision in govt shared services model

  By Lisa Banks | 09 September, 2010 00:11

  The role and responsibilities of the CIO must change in order for the public sector to create a successful shared services model.

• SEEK CIO picks up $168k pay rise in strong year

  By Renai LeMay | 24 August, 2010 15:52

  The chief information officer of SEEK has picked up an extra $168,000 over the past year, as the online employment giant's revenues and profits soared over the past year.

• IT skills must include business nous: BMC CIO

  By Georgina Swan | 09 June, 2010 14:13

  With the constant commoditisation of skills in IT, value is generated at the interface of IT and the business and people who want to make IT their profession need work more closely to that boundary. That is the advice from Mark Settle, CIO of BMC Software, who has first-hand experience across global markets.

• LinkedIn etiquette: The right way to request new connections

  By Kristin Burnham | 05 June, 2010 03:43

  We've all done this: You sign into LinkedIn, glance at the "People You May Know" box and recognise a few names. Perhaps they're former colleagues, friends from university, or maybe they're people you've never met before, but you know they'd be a good connection to make. You click "Connect," choose how you know him or her, and fire off the invitation with the typical boilerplate, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.