Professionals throughout the information technology job market have a varying set of aspirations depending on where they are in their career. Graduates and young professionals need to look for entry level or trainee jobs that allow them to gain a foothold in the corporate world. Younger professionals with some experience often are looking for supervisory or management positions that can lead to great wages and more responsibility. Experienced IT professionals often look for jobs as IT directors and executives with major firms. Essentially, experienced IT professionals need to find director's positions to meet the ultimate point in their careers.

Managers, supervisors, and small business owners often look to directorships as a way to earn more money and gain higher esteem within the IT industry. However, IT workers need to understand the daily life and responsibilities of an IT director before beginning their job hunt. IT directors are responsible for managing teams ranging from entire departments within a larger corporation to an entire firm of IT professionals. As such, IT directors have busy days and long hours to work. Directors sit in on meetings with major clients, shareholders, and executives in order to determine the general direction of information technology within their firm. As well, directors act as cheerleaders of sorts to the public in regards to the products and services they provide.

Finally, directors are ultimately responsible for the functionality and efficiency of IT professionals and services within the firm. Director positions within IT departments or firms need to be highly skilled in a number of areas in order to succeed. First, IT professionals who take director jobs need to be highly organized and able to bring together complex ideas into simple concepts for customers and employees. Organization is on a grander scale from director positions, with chains of command and office flowcharts are necessary to show how the department or firm is organized.

As well, the ability to communicate the complexities of information technology to a general audience is critical to professional success. As well, directors need to be well versed in the IT industry and the general marketplace. Directors, after all, often make speeches to client groups or the public on behalf of their company.

As well, their objectives and goals need to be inline with the realities of the marketplace and their firm's capabilities. In the end, an experienced IT professional who wants to be an IT director needs to be the smartest person in the room on every IT issue in order to succeed.

Steve Bishop is the Managing Partner of Damia Group. The company specialise in information technology jobs and UK recruitment solutions as well as IT jobs in Europe.