Whatever your road to success, you'll benefit from the toolbox of career-boosting techniques you'll find in Own IT: How to succeed in your tech career. You'll discover in-demand communication and teamwork skills, essential rules for professionalism, tactics of the modern job hunt, and more.

Whatever your road to success, you'll benefit from the toolbox of career-boosting techniques you'll find in Own IT: How to succeed in your tech career. You'll discover in-demand communication and teamwork skills, essential rules for professionalism, tactics of the modern job hunt, and more.

Own IT: How to succeed in your tech career is a guide to taking control of your professional life. First, you'll define your ambitions --whether that's a high salary, a great work/life balance, or something else entirely. Then you'll begin your journey to success with adaptable advice to guide you on your way. You'll take a deep dive into the communication, conflict resolution, and teamwork skills that employers prize in technologists, and master "nine rules of professionalism" that will keep you on track through the daily grind. Finally, you'll pay it forward with advice on becoming an amazing mentor to your juniors, and leader of your peers.

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