Agenda Topics:

• Technical Skills Assessment: 
• • Identifying individual strengths and areas for improvement
• Goal Setting: 
• • Defining personal and professional development goals for the program
  • • Technical Skills and Proficiency goals
    • Projects and Achievements 
    • Areas for Improvement
    • Technical Tools and Resources you currently use
    • Training and Development
• IT Landscape: 
• • Understanding different IT specializations and career paths
• The bitter sweet insider knowledge of the IT profession:
  • Tech profession is a boom and bust profession
  • Certification matters more than degrees
  • Experience means more than credentials
  • Imposter Syndrome vs being the real deal
  • The knowledge treadmill- either you keep moving or you fall off and get left behind
  • Be aware of the rice bowl culture
  • Its who you know and what they know about you more than what's on actual paper paper
  • Learn communication skills or be the first to go
  • The path of the generalist vs the specialist
  • Mentorship is necessity at ever level