Comments on: Job security worries? Advice for keeping your CIO job in a recession http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cio/job-security-worries-advice-for-keeping-your-cio-job-in-a-recession/ A SearchCIO-Midmarket.com blog Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:39:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Raphael73 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cio/job-security-worries-advice-for-keeping-your-cio-job-in-a-recession/#comment-100 Raphael73 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:30:20 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cio/?p=258#comment-100 This is excellent advice for regular IT employees, but as detailed at [A href="http://www.ciostrategycenter.com/wjz/Board/peers/leading_reasons_why_cios_get_fired/index.html"]CIO Strategy[/A], CIO's are usually fired for one of 4 reasons: Not focused on the business, Major application failure, Projects never get finished or goes over-budget or Compliance/Risk management failure. The best way to ensure job security is to therefore to eliminate these problems, as described in the following document: [A href="http://www.enterprisewizard.com/cio-job-security.pdf"]CIO Job Security[/A] This is excellent advice for regular IT employees, but as detailed at CIO Strategy, CIO’s are usually fired for one of 4 reasons: Not focused on the business, Major application failure, Projects never get finished or goes over-budget or Compliance/Risk management failure.
The best way to ensure job security is to therefore to eliminate these problems, as described in the following document: CIO Job Security

]]> By: KevinBeaver http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cio/job-security-worries-advice-for-keeping-your-cio-job-in-a-recession/#comment-71 KevinBeaver Fri, 08 May 2009 16:57:51 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cio/?p=258#comment-71 In addition to these things you have to make/keep yourself visible within the organization. It's not as much of a problem at the CIO level but it does happen. Staying out of sight and out of touch with others is one of the best ways to lower your perceived value. Really, more important that anything else is having a clear set of goals that you work on every single day. I wrote about this recently for SearchWinIT.com here: [A href="http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid1_gci1353107_mem1,00.html"]Eight steps to accomplishing your IT career goals[/A] Cheers, Kevin Beaver, CISSP Consultant*Author*Speaker*Expert Witness - Principle Logic, LLC company: www.principlelogic.com audio programs: securityonwheels.com blog: securityonwheels.com/blog In addition to these things you have to make/keep yourself visible within the organization. It’s not as much of a problem at the CIO level but it does happen. Staying out of sight and out of touch with others is one of the best ways to lower your perceived value.

Really, more important that anything else is having a clear set of goals that you work on every single day. I wrote about this recently for <a href="http://SearchWinIT.com" title="http://SearchWinIT. " target="_blank">SearchWinIT.com</a> here:
Eight steps to accomplishing your IT career goals

Cheers,
Kevin Beaver, CISSP
Consultant*Author*Speaker*Expert Witness - Principle Logic, LLC
company: <a href="http://www.principlelogic.com" title="http://www.principlelogic. " target="_blank">www.principlelogic.com</a>
audio programs: <a href="http://securityonwheels.com" title="http://securityonwheels. " target="_blank">securityonwheels.com</a>
blog: <a href="http://securityonwheels.com" title="http://securityonwheels. " target="_blank">securityonwheels.com</a>

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