The IT Leadership Deal

For you to progress in your career, and to help them to do the same

Do this for your team - get together and brainstorm the top 12 skills, talents and behaviours you need to be succesful. Do this before you read the Extended Entry...go on, do it now...

...To have maximum impact, (i.e. you get the job or you get that promotion)follow these three simple rules:

1. Maximum of two pages

2. Start with one paragraph summary - and each part of your cv emphasising leadership, delivery and results for the overall company

3. Start with most recent career, ending with last and then education and personal details, with three referees at the bottom

...At your interview, or in life, they will decide if they like you in just three seconds. That's three seconds.. And it's kind of important to get them to like you, as you have this much chance of being promoted / offered the job if they don't. So, before reading the Extended Entry, write down now the three top things you need to do to create a fantastic first impression, in most cultures in the world...

...Is to make yourself totally, and absolutely dispensible. In other words, to know that your career and success is down to you, not to the job you happen to be doing at the moment. Your company needs you far more than you need them.

How?...

The interview, or chat with your boss at review time, is going well, then they ask you the dreaded trap question - "so, tell me, what is the biggest mistake you have made in your job or career?" Forget everything else you have read on this, there is only one answer that works, I know, I have interviewed for top project managers, and their answer to this question is the biggest factor in whether they got on the short-list, or not...