Executing Your Career Path to Becoming a CIO or CISO

This chapter aims to help you understand how to build a career plan to get you to your destination.

The fundamental question that is to be addressed in this chapter as follows:

How do I develop my career path to become a CIO and CISO?

There are conscious choices you must make regarding your career objective and position goal as you contemplate your career. A career objective and position goal are elements that I have included at the start of my own resume in the past. Doing so can help both you and your prospective employers to understand your career ambitions, and more importantly, how the role you seek is aligned to your long-term plan.

In this chapter, we will cover the following main topics:

• Developing your objectives
• Building a plan to make you grow and be uncomfortable
• Paths to becoming a CIO or CISO
• Exploring career approaches to progress
• Reviewing the CIO and CISO interview process

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