There are so many areas for IT professionals to work in. In many of them it is possible to move up the career ladder. The main thing is to work hard and develop professionally. However, even a couple of mistakes can ruin an IT professional’s career.

No training. To successfully advance on the professional and career ladder, you need to constantly learn and develop, maintain and develop technical skills, gain new experience. If an IT specialist does not do any of the above, his professionalism continues to remain at the same level, or begins to decline at all.

No plans for the future. Every IT-specialist must have a goal to strive for. You cannot live only for today and hope for tomorrow. At any moment the situation can change and you will become a nobody. Plan your development, plan and allocate your finances, plan new projects. Plan. And, of course, following the plan, achieve the goals set in it.

No communication and networking. In addition to technical skills and experience gain skills and experience communicating with other IT-specialists and executives. New contacts and connections will allow you to gain credibility and recognition from the IT field. In cases of problems with your current job, you’ll have plenty of people who know you and invite you into profitable new projects.

Rejection of company offers. As a good professional who does his or her job well, you will be trusted and offered a raise and work on another company project. You shouldn’t turn down such offers, even if you’re used to your position or are afraid you won’t be able to handle the new assignment. After all, this is a great opportunity to climb higher in your career. There may not be a second chance. Either way, you have to try.

Too narrow a specialization. Being a specialist in a particular area is, of course, very good. But if you lose your demand, it will be difficult for you to move to another field. Therefore, you need to be a generalist, able to deal with any programming language, tool, technology. That is not to be “WordPress programmer” or “Javascript programmer.

However, you need to have a high level of knowledge and extensive experience. Then you definitely will not find yourself without a job.

And what, in your opinion, are the mistakes that can ruin the career of an IT-specialist?