5-Year IT Career Plan Template and Guide
Build a 5-year IT career plan with this template: target role reverse engineering, milestone mapping, certification sequencing, and annual review framework.
The exact change
"The professionals I've seen advance fastest in IT are not necessarily the most technically gifted... Deliberate career management compounds over time in ways that accidental career progression never does." -- Lisa Martinez, VP of Engineering talent acquisition at a SaaS company
The professionals who advance fastest in IT are not necessarily the most technically gifted. They are the ones who know where they are going and make deliberate choices about each role, each project, and each certification based on that destination. Deliberate career management compounds over time in ways that accidental career progression never does.
Suggested change
BEFORE: "The professionals I've seen advance fastest in IT are not necessarily the most technically gifted... Deliberate career management compounds over time in ways that accidental career progression never does." -- Lisa Martinez, VP of Engineering talent acquisition at a SaaS company AFTER: The professionals who advance fastest in IT are not necessarily the most technically gifted. They are the ones who know where they are going and make deliberate choices about each role, each project, and each certification based on that destination. Deliberate career management compounds over time in ways that accidental career progression never does.
Why this is better
Applied the fix described in this contribution's suggested_change: removed the unverified attributed quote from Lisa Martinez, VP of Engineering talent acquisition at a SaaS company. Web search found no such person, title, or quote anywhere. Kept the underlying reasonable career advice (deliberate career management beats accidental progression) as de-attributed plain prose rather than deleting it outright. Verified via re-fetch of live post id 678 (5-year-it-career-plan-template) that the unverified attribution is gone and HTML tags remain balanced.
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