IT Career Energizer
IT Career Energizer is a weekly podcast hosted by technology consultant Phil Burgess. If you’re looking to advance your career in tech, learn from over 300 industry professionals and experts about their career experiences and career development advice. Listen in to add to your skillset and invest in your own tech career success.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 369
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Stay Curious Try Everything and Get Involved in the Community with Arlene Andrews
Arlene Andrews is a self-guided learner who has moved into the Quality Advocate section of the tech world with Lightning Fox.
In this episode Phil and Arlene discuss the importance of continual learn…
Stay Positive and Seek Out New Opportunities to Energize Your Tech Career with Thomas Maurer
My guest on today’s show is a senior cloud advocate for Microsoft. As a member of the Azure engineering team, he engages with the community and customers around the world to share his knowledge and …
Write to Help Others and Crystallize What You Learn With Jimmy Bogard
My guest on today’s show is Chief Architect at Headspring, author of MVC in Action books, an international speaker and a prolific OSS developer. He is an expert in distributed systems, REST, messagi…
Work Collaboratively with Your Clients to Produce Radical Solutions That Work with Henrik Joreteg
My guest on today’s show is a JavaScript developer, consultant, author and, educator. He is a huge proponent of the web as a mobile app platform and wants to help developers push it to the next leve…
Communicate Clearly and Concisely to Create Applications That Break the Mould with Heidi Waterhouse
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My guest on today’s show is a public speaker, blogger, and technical writer. She has spoken at more than 40 conferences in three continents on a variety of topics. She is also a Senior D…
Accurately Identify Your Training Needs and Learn to Network to Improve Your Skill Set with Jeremy Clark
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My guest on today’s show helps developers to take a step up in their skill set with a focus on making complex topics approachable, regardless of skill level.
He is a Microsoft MVP for .NET…
Map Your Own Career Path and Avoid Promoting Yourself into Misery with Jake Archibald
My guest on today’s show is a Developer Advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools. Prior to Google he worked at Lanyrd on their mobile …
Negotiate the Best Salary and Land Exciting IT Roles with Jeff Pierce
My guest on today’s show is a Staff Operations Engineer from Zendesk. He describes himself as a Linux systems geek with a passion for making systems serve great content. And he is recognized as an …
Be Open-Minded And Willing to Collaborate to Take Your Career to The Next Level with Anthony Bartolo
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My guest on today’s show is a Senior Cloud Advocate for Microsoft. He conducts “science experiment” Hackathons with industry-leading organizations to test theories and create Proof of Con…
Embrace Change, Become More Empathetic and Give Back with Shaquilla Johnson
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My guest on today’s show is an aspiring tech polymath, a coder, a speaker and a teacher. She joined Atos’s rotational graduate scheme in 2016 under the Technical Consultancy Stream and wa…
Build a Strong Network and Become a Continuous Learner to Stay Relevant In Your IT Career with Sibeesh Venu
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My guest on today’s show is a software engineer working in Germany. He has been working in the IT industry for seven years and has received multiple awards, including three from Microsoft…
Learn to Prioritize Your Happiness to Become More Productive and Succeed in the IT Industry with Jen Tong
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My guest on today’s show is a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform. This gives her the opportunity to do silly things with lots of computers and to help developers build cool stuf…
Learn to Develop Empathy and to Constantly Challenge Yourself to Become a Better IT Professional with Neil Killick
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My guest on today’s show is a world-class software practitioner and business coach, consultant, and trainer.
He is an author, keynote speaker and a globally recognized expert in software…
Treat Your IT Career as a Business to Maximize Your Success with Andy Budd
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My guest on today’s show was an early pioneer of Web Standards, writing a best-selling book on the subject of CSS. He then went on to found Clearleft, arguably the first dedicated UX cons…
Learn As Much As You Can About A Subject That Interests You with Tom Raftery
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My guest on today’s show set up a software company while studying for a Ph.D. in Plant Science. He has since worked for a number of companies at Group IT Manager and CTO level as well as …
Focus On Work That Makes You Happy with Reuven Lerner
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My guest on today’s show is a full-time Python trainer. In a given year, he teaches courses at companies in the United States, Europe, Israel, and China as well as to people around the wo…
Be Curious and Identify What You Feel Passionate About with Jamie Phelps
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My guest on today’s show is a full-stack developer, having recently joined Test Double which is an agency of highly skilled developers on a mission to improve how the world writes software…
Learn to Build a Strong Network and Help Others to Grow Your Reputation with Rosie Sherry
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My guest on today’s show has spent most of her career in the software testing world, which led to her founding the Software Testing Club. This evolved to become the Ministry of Testing wh…
Treat Your Career like a Marathon Rather Than a Sprint with Nicholas Walsh
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My guest on today’s show is Nicholas Walsh. Nicholas is a Technical Evangelist for Amazon Web Services, working to empower developers everywhere and to create engaging educational content…
Learn to Overcome Adversity and Use Your Soft Skills to Progress your IT Career with Tejas Kumar
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My guest on today’s show is a front end developer who has been writing code since he was 8 years old. He enjoys people, code and talking to people about code.
He now travels around the wo…