In order to successfully upgrade
your career into a high-demand, rapidly growing
career path
such as Information Assurance, you need to obtain
or possess the following:
-
Good communication skills
-
High
motivation to work hard
-
Project experience
relevant to potential employers
-
Career
transition or upgrade skills (networking,
interviewing, etc.)
-
A career plan that
builds on what you know
Many individuals seek a career
transition that ignores their prior experience.
However,
that experience, earned with hard work
over many
years, is an extremely valuable asset that
should not
be ignored and should serve as the foundation
for your next career move. You need to
build on what you know and add to it. One example
illustrates this career strategy: A nurse
experiencing burnout
sought a new career in IT. His compensation
as a nurse was $48K/year. In 13 weeks,
he
became an IT professional and increased
his compensation
to $70K. How did he do this? He positioned
his
career search carefully by seeking employers
who would value both his medical background
and his IT skills. He found a position
with a firm
that manages clinical databases for new
drug releases. His new employer valued both
his
medical background and his IT background.
He could communicate
with both the end users and the technical
staff.
Our nurse was able to make this transition
because he:
-
Had communication skills
valued by his new employer
-
Had project experience
relevant to his
new position
-
Had the motivation
to work hard
-
Built on his past experience
-
Possessed
the motivation to work hard on both developing
new projects and
using his
career
skills
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