Book to help your career (especially for tech workers)

Bizbooks has a review on a new book for IT professionals careers.

The book is called “Beyond Code: Learn to Distinguish Yourself in 9 Simple Steps!” by Rajesh Setty.

A good quote on BizBooks that I fully agree with:

"You’ll be become irrelevant if you don’t take personal branding in your own hands.In “Beyond Code” by Rajesh Setty you’ll learn ways to become invaluable to your employer. Although it was written for the IT professional in mind, it’s chock full of advice, examples, and interviews that anyone will find beneficial."

One of the readers on BizBooks adds another comment that I find very relevant:

Attitude, Good - You can train skills, but you can’t train attitude. A miserable, highly skilled person is still miserable to be around.

Indeed, how many high geeks do you know who are very good at what they but think way too highly of themselves and are often arrogant? Would I promote them if I were their boss? hmmm ...:-)

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When layoffs occur, the people who are seen as 'important' won't be those let go first. (I could be wrong here, what do you think?) I think in this era of outsourcing it's even more important to nurture your career in the IT field.

A lot of people do become complacent in their career and as programming and other IT functions become commoditized, you will need a different set of skills to thrive. I intend to read the book for my own benefit. I'll let you know what I find. The Amazon rating is 4.5 stars which is a good start :-)