View From the Top: Technology and New Media Gurus
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View From the Top: Technology and New Media Gurus
Are you an entry-level, midcareer or senior professional debating the technology field as a career choice?

In View From The Top: Technology and New Media Gurus, the latest Vault title, an eclectic mixture of executives address your concerns with their own tips and strategies. Selected from a wide range of technology and new media companies, including CareerBuilder, CBS, Gawker, Harris, Intel, LexisNexis, NVIDIA, SAIC and Skype, these chief technology officers, founders, scientists and engineers speak with intensity and candor in exclusive interviews with Vault. In an ever-changing global landscape of diversity and virtual workforces, their advice is real and relevant for not only technology students but also entrepreneurs and career changers.

Read their insights in how to make it all work at different levels and expertise within the industry.

Pages: 152
Price: 19.95



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With networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn having progressed into the corporate domain rather than being simple social sites, technology companies today offer a role for professionals with all backgrounds. Finance experts can excel at roles requiring business planning, revenue and growth experience; people in the communication field (broadly covering media, entertainment, public relations and advertising) can lend critical expertise to product development, product management and customer service roles; while consultants can help give the company a reality check on consumer demands and market viability.

Yes, technology has long been an industry with a reputation for being restrictive to engineering and science professionals only. Our experts further dispute this, saying technology is probably the only industry that accepts professionals from all careers and sectors. While one feels that non-science professionals "are the best out-of-the-box thinkers," a chief technology officer speaks about the immense demand for product development roles at tech companies. "They can work closely with marketing to paint a longer-term view of where a product is going," he says, illustrating the lesser-known fact that analytical and development roles need people from all industries and sectors to fill.

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