IT career advice: Personality trumps tech smarts

PetManimal writes: "Computerworld's Rob Mitchell has interviewed four IT career coaches who talk about what it takes to advance your technology career. Unfortunately for a lot of low-level IT worker bees, personality and communication skills trump tech brilliance:

... When you're designing and developing, it's fun, it's creative, it's low key. Then all of a sudden, because you're so good at it, you get promoted, and it pulls you out of what you enjoy and into an administrative role, managing other people and doing paperwork. You're forced into left-brain mode. That becomes stressful.

Mitchell also reveals in his blog that advice from IT career coaches is not cheap: a single meeting can cost $500/hour."