More job opportunities exist for IT leaders today than ever before, but it's getting harder to land those jobs. More competition from business executives and rigorous candidate selection processes present new challenges for job seekers. CIO.com predicts the career opportunities that exist for IT leaders in 2008 and what they need to do to sieze them.
By Meridith Levinson
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Three Things IT Leaders Need to Do to Earn Promotions in 2008
- Run the IT department like a profit and loss center.
- Generate ideas for business growth and work with a business unit head to implement them.
- Solve business problems. "You want executives coming to you with IT issues and issues that have nothing to do with IT because you're a good problem-solver," says Stephen Pickett, vice president and CIO of transportation services company Penske.
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