What A Manager Should Do When They Are In The Wrong Job
Managers may find themselves in new jobs that don’t live up to the promises that were made to them and they need to find ways to avoid this
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Before You Take That New Job, Check Out Its Culture
Before switching jobs, managers need to find out about the corporate culture at the job that they are considering in order to make sure that it’s a good fit
Is It Time To Quit?
Managers who are thinking about quitting their job need to be very careful and consider what it is going to take to make them happy
Managers Need To Know How To Write Effective Job Postings
If you are a manager and you have an opening on your team, what do you do? If you are like most of us your HR department is going to come to you and ask that you create a job description so that they can go post it and see who applies for it. This … Read more
What’s The Best Way For A Manager To Switch Jobs?
No job that any of us have will probably last us for our entire career. What that means is that we’re all going to be packing up our manager skills and switching jobs at some point in time. This is where things can get a bit tricky because none of us have had any manager … Read more
What Managers Need To Do Before They Quit
So what’s the worst thing that could happen to you as a manager? The list of things could be quite long, but I think that we could all agree that finding yourself trapped in a job that you don’t like would have to be close to the top of the list. We can probably make … Read more
How To Use A Decision Matrix As Part Of The Hiring Process
This hiring of new members for your IT team can be very difficult to do at times even though it is one of the critical IT manager skills. The problem comes up when you’ve interviewed a group of qualified candidates. Now comes the hard part: how do you choose the right one for your team? … Read more
How An IT Manager Should Prepare To Conduct An Interview
Those pesky job interviews – management always seems to put them on your to-do list just when you have a million other things to do. Yes, they are important, I mean after all who you hire will shape your IT team for years to come. However, when you are pressed for time, what’s the best … Read more
Discover The Secret To IT Manager Career Success
IT managers are asked to do a lot of things during the average day: recruit new workers, keep the ones that they already have, resolve disputes, etc. The one thing that they also need to be doing every day is probably the thing that gets overlooked all too often: manage their careers. Just What Is … Read more
Dealing With High Worker Expectations Requires Real IT Leadership
Can we talk frankly for just a moment? Who’s really in charge in IT departments when it comes to hiring and retaining new talent? You’d think that with the global recession, companies would have the upper hand. However, with the critical importance of IT solutions to existing company operations and increasing global competition, it’s possible … Read more