Summary

We have learned that, to advance your technical career, learning is the key to your success. The skills that you have learned in this chapter include how to derive maximum benefit from formal learning, how to grow your options through informal learning, how to be independent by learning how to learn, how to acquire and benefit from certification, and how to apply it all towards career growth.

If you apply these skills to your learning path, you will be one of the employees who are not only skilled and expert in their current role but also ready to take on the next high-profile assignment, promotion, or new role. When these opportunities come along, you do not want to be scrambling to acquire the necessary skills; you want to be the individual who is ready with the skills needed to tackle the next step in your career path and journey.

In the next chapter, now that we have mastered learning, we will show you how to optimize your social network. Your social network can be...