IT Job Descriptions

CIO - CTO
Chief Information Officer
Length of Employment

CIO Tenure is just over 4 years

In a survey of companies in the United States, South America, and Europe, Janco has found that CIOs jobs are not very secure in the current economic conditions. 

Janco has seen a fairly steady change in the CIO positions.  The median length of employment for CIO in their current companies is approximately 4 years and 1 month. There are a fair number of CIOs who have been in their positions for over 6 years, however many of them are close to retirement age.  As a result we feel the median length of employment for the CIO position will increase any time soon.  The good news is that there will opportunities of others to move into those positions.

CIO Lenght of Employment

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  • CIOs both visionary and pragmatic - It is not enough to plan for innovation, the CIO needs to be perceptive and realistic. As an insightful manager, a CIO promotes broad technology agenda to help the business profit from leading-edge initiatives.  At the same time as a pragmatist, a CIO deals with the realities of the business. The pragmatist also facilitates the productivity of current IT solutions.  The CIO focuses on minimizing cost and maximizing results, in addition the CIO helps to increase the customer and product/service base of the enterprise.

  • CIOs focus on ROI improvement of IT  - CIOs will find new ways to help customers and the organization profit from how data is used while focusing on managing budgets and processes to eliminate or reduce costs.

  • CIOs inspire the enterprise and expand the business impact of IT – CIOs will have proven expertise in both business and technical facets of their role. CIOs will interact with the enterprise and its executive team as enterprise leaders and drive new business initiatives and shifts jointly the other members of the executive team.

At the same time the role of the CIO and CTO is changing as more enterprises more towards a "Value Added" role for the Information Technology function.  Those changes are depicted in the detail job descriptions that have been created for all of the functions with IT -- especially for the CIO and CTO.  The table below depicts several of those changes.

CIO Job Description

You can purchase this book as a PDF Book, Word Book or as individual word files for each Job Description (in WORD 2007 .docx format) which makes for easier modification.  We have also combined the both book formats with the individual word files for each job descriptions to give you the best of both worlds.

HandiGuide & Job Descriptions - PDF format

The Internet and IT Position Descriptions comes in PDF format The PDF book is over 750 pages in length and contains 261 Job Descriptions in addition to a Job Progression Matrix Template, Employee Termination Checklist (Electronic Form), Job Evaluation Questionnaire, and Position Description Questionnaire.

Includes positions from CIO, CSO and CTO to Wireless and Metrics Mangers. All of the positions in the book have been created to reflect the technology world of 2013. PDF file can be printed and viewed only.

IT Job Descriptions - MS WORD format

261 Internet and IT Job Descriptions as individual files in WORD 2007 formats. Long file names have been used to make customization easier.

Includes positions from CIO, CSO, and CTO to Wireless and Metrics Mangers. All of the positions in the book have been created to reflect the technology world of 2013.

HandiGuide & Job Descriptions - pdf & MS WORD formats

The Internet and IT Position Descriptions comes in PDF format and WORD files. The PDF book is over 750 pages in length and contains 261 Job Descriptions in addition to a Job Progression Matrix Template, Employee Termination Checklist (Electronic Form), Job Evaluation Questionnaire, and Position Description Questionnaire. There is one word file for each job description (WORD 2007 format). Long file names have been used to make customization easier.

Includes positions from CIO, CSO and CTO to Wireless and Metrics Mangers. All of the positions in the book have been created to reflect the technology world of 2013.

BONUS ---- If you provide us with up to five (5) completed Position Description Questionnaires within 30 days of purchase, we will create the 5 position descriptions for you and provide you with 24 months of free update service for the HandiGuide and all job descriptions that we update and create.

Update Service & Custom IT Job Descriptions

This service will provide you with updates to each of the products listed below for a period of 12 months from the date of the purchase of the service. In addition, you are entitled to 3 custom job descriptions. You will have to complete the IT Position Description Questionnaire (which we will provide to you via email upon your request). It typically will take 5 working days to provide you with the completed job description.

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