It sounds counterintuitive, but learning new technical skills will not significantly increase your chances of moving up the corporate ladder in the technology world. So what skills should you develop to grow your career?

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While a university degree may help you to learn specialized knowledge and hone your critical thinking skills, it is not a job training program.

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CEOs and other executives see things with a very different “lens” than a geek does. While a geek might think about how cool their solution was, an executive thinks, “how will we monetize that?” Many executives simply filter out all the details they don’t believe are important, which could be a large portion of what you’re saying — if not everything you’re saying.

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Creating the killer technology resume is a bit of a black art. Many resume guides explain the importance of things like good formatting, spell-checking, and grammar. And while it’s true that grammatical mistakes can ruin your resume just like wearing wrinkled clothes can kill an interview, simply avoiding these pitfalls alone won’t be enough to succeed. With that introduction, here are the fundamentals that I believe you need to build a great resume.

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Do you sit at your desk all day, working away, thinking that everyone knows what you’re doing and how valuable it is to the company? The reality is that management, and especially senior management, has no idea what you’re up to or why it matters. Even your peers might only have a foggy idea what it is that you do.

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If you’re a geek with leadership aspirations, this article is for you. Geeks typically have personal strengths that are great for writing algorithms but less useful for leading teams and organizations. I personally believe that both “geeks” and “leaders” (broadly speaking) bring valuable ideas to the table. If you can be both, it will help your career immensely.

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