IT Resume Makeover: How (and When) to Break the Rules

ATK CIO says metrics-driven IT paves the way for innovation | Caught in the breach: How a good CSO confronts inevitable bad news September 18, 2014 INSIDER Alert Your guide to the top content posted this week for Insider members Network World IT Resume Makeover: How (and When) to Break the Rules What does resume makeover candidate Michael Wallace have in common with Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg? Each created something very big at the beginning of their careers and spent the rest of their professional lives building on that initial success. Wallace isn't a typical IT job candidate and trying to organize his resume and career story into a traditional resume format wasn't working for resume writer, career consultant and personal branding expert Donald Burns of Executive Promotions.Breaking the Rules "As a resume writer I must condense a typical two-hour career story into a document that can be read and understood in about six seconds," says Burns.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE CIO ATK CIO says metrics-driven IT paves the way for innovation As CIO for ATK, Jeff Kubacki has instituted a rigorous benchmarking approach aimed at delivering world-class IT at continually improving cost. Kubacki has built a strong rapport with his CEO and other business leaders because he runs IT operations like a business and speaks the results-centered language of his peers at ATK. In this installment of the IDG Enterprise CIO Interview Series, Kubacki talked with Chief Content Officer John Gallant about the realities of moving to a metrics-driven IT operation and how it has paved the way to more trust and visibility for IT. Furthermore, this discipline has freed IT to focus more on the innovations that are fueling the $5 billion diversified company's growth.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE CSO Caught in the breach: How a good CSO confronts inevitable bad news What goes through the mind of a CSO/CISO upon being told by his or her team that their organization has been breached? This is not an idle or theoretical question. It seems that almost every day brings news of yet another breach of a high-profile organization, with the potential number of consumer victims running into the tens of millions, and the costs to the company running into hundreds of millions, or even billions when the long-term cost of brand damage is included. So it makes sense that C-level executives with "Security" as part of their title would be the ones facing questions about how it happened and what to do about it, not to mention accountability for it.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE Computerworld Taking control of data debris How much of the data your organization is storing is actually debris that should be swept up and disposed of?Corporations are drowning in data, and IT budgets can no longer keep up. The amount of data we create, collect and store is ever increasing, and the days of simply buying more storage space or shifting the data off to the cloud for somebody else to store are numbered, because it's inefficient and expensive. IT budgets can now be as high as 7% of total corporate revenues in many sectors, putting significant pressure on CIOs to cut costs wherever possible. While responses such as system consolidation, outsourcing and cloud storage may help, they are just chips in the peak of an iceberg. Companies must think more strategically about their information management and retention strategies if they want to stay afloat.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE Computerworld Betting big on the 'SMAC stack' The concept of creating an IT infrastructure that supports and integrates social, mobile, analytics and cloud is gaining ground, and some industry experts and IT executives are convinced that the next generation of IT will revolve around SMAC components as the key foundational technologies. "We see a lot companies focusing on one or more of these trends. But it's when they converge that it becomes really interesting," says Ed Anderson, research vice president at Gartner. "It's like an industrial revolution of sorts, where you're achieving the digital critical mass of some key foundational elements," Anderson says. "We have this platform in cloud services that presents us with unlimited capacity of computational resources. With mobile we have this unprecedented ability to put connectivity into the hands of individuals and devices. Analytics gives us specific insights we never had before, and social media makes it all personal."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE Network World Mint with Cinnamon makes for a sweet desktop If Red Hat's specialization is enterprise application, development and hosting, and Ubuntu's is anything that moves, then Linux Mint is carving only one niche: desktop dominance.Linux Mint 17 continues in a line of Linux desktop-focused releases, and in testing we found it's become more mature. Like the other two Linux distributions we recently tested, Linux Mint is supported for a longer term — five years from April 2014. Linux Mint gives you a choice of user interfaces, including Gnome-branch Cinnamon, its half-brother Mate, or the lightweight Xfce version. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE InfoWorld Hands-on with 10 JavaScript tools JavaScript has taken over the Web, and it's creeping onto mobile apps and back-end services too. Programmers would be well-advised to get in on the JavaScript wave, and with today's surplus of editors and IDEs, they have no excuse to pass up the opportunity. On the other hand, the sheer number of JavaScript programming tools may befuddle developers and companies. Which editor or IDE should you pick? It all depends on your needs, preferences, and pocketbook. In this downloadable PDF, InfoWorld puts 10 JavaScript editors and IDEs, ranging from Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 to Netbeans to Komodo Edit and more, from a full-featured integrated development environment to code editors-plus. Most run on Windows, iOS, and Linux, to keep the options open. With such a diverse and capable roster of tools, dev shops can surely find the best addition for their JavaScript toolkit.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE Get more Insider content from these brands: CIO | CITEworld | Computerworld | CSO | InfoWorld | JavaWorld | Network World You are currently subscribed to idge_insider_newsletter as garn14.tech@blogger.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Privacy Policy If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: bglynn@idgenterprise.com To contact us, please send an e-mail to online@idgenterprise.com Copyright (C) 2014 IDG Enterprise 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@idgenterprise.com. **