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Jaya
Jagannath,
2009 is going to be a tough year for the job market, but
still it is neither tough getting a job nor tough sustaining with
your job. To justify cost to company all it needs is
multidimensional ultimate skill set with cutting edge education and
certificates in one hand and flawless expertise in the other hand.
1. Prepare an ultimate a next
generation resume
: Now rather than preparing resume with only one kind of
skill set, design it to cover an end to end skill set. The other day
a multibillion IT giant company conducted interview for the position
of a tester. Within two days about one lakh resumes flooded the
inbox ( including eligible resumes and irrelevant resumes too ). All
the resumes had skill set matching just to the requirement, except
few. These few resumes had end to end skill set ( Skills with
expertise starting from Requirement gathering till Delivery and post
implementation phases ). Surprising the company higher management
decided to take all these eleven candidates against just one vacancy
after a thorough validation of their knowledge in the interview.
Internally the company decided to lay off one hundred of it’s
employees who are on bench. These eleven candidates were offered
salary more than double of their expectation.
Now if you ask these guys, They reply who says there is recession.
We have made recession and we have the potential to swim thru it
across to the shore. Friends, the moral of this story is scale up
your skills to have proficiency over an end to end SDLC cycle. This
slow down period is an opportunity for you to scale up to next
generation talent pool.
2. Optimize your network, ensure you get informed about career
related happenings around the globe instantly : Fine tune and optimize your friends network. Be alert
attentive towards all the happening related to career around. Ensure
your friends are scattered and have access to all the interviews and
walk ins happening around, have a regular glance of all the daily
news papers scanning for job openings, Have regular contacts with
friends inside companies so that you will get instant information of
any internal movements, Thoroughly scan the job sites and It company
web sites for any new openings that they publish, even if you can
convenience ITPL main gate security to inform you if he finds any
walk in going on given day, this also will keep you informed
frequently.
3. Ensure to have your CV in each portal,
each recruiter’s desk and each employer’s knowledge :
Spread your CV as it rains from sky. Ensure your resume to be at
every recruiter’s desk, uploaded to each and every Job portals,
forward to all job consultancies and HRs of companies.
4. Get your skills and understandings fine
tuned, well clarified and reviewed : Learn the latest of
the skills, have plenty of practice, gain expertise on an end to end
basis and repeated get your understanding evaluated by technically
superior individuals. This will not only fine tune your knowledge
base but also will get you that over other competitors during
interview.
5. Have rigorous mock practices of dummy
projects : This slow down period has offered a good
opportunity for people to scale up their skills and hands on. If you
are rowing on a skill set have a rigorous practice of hands on dummy
project experience extensively. Do mock projects with all nukes and
corners taken care off, all complex business functional covered and
all kinds of multi tier architecture framework attained.
6. Each one adopt one : Each and
every IT professional who are in Job, please come forward to adopt a
job onlooker. Adopting means let us be a mentor or buddy for someone
who is looking for job. Let’s guide him step by step on technical
skills, communication skills, educate him on his skills set, enhance
his personality, presentation skill, confidence level. All we need
to do is to select someone from the same skill set as of us and then
fixing schedules with him during weekends to start on building him
to be a best fit for job at the present market scenario. Just ten
minutes a day or few hours during week end if we spend concentrating
on one job onlooker then his career will be made. We do this today,
someone will help us in case we fall in the pit tomorrow. This
service should be free of any kind of return expectation from the
poor job onlooker. Preferably the mentor buddy and the job onlooker
should belong to same gender.
Please also walk thru the following mails communicated earlier. The
essence out of these if implemented at once will definitely fetch a
job in return for sure. Underline, bold, italic, red.
A secret plan to stay afloat during Recession
To be a TOP Talent in an IT industry
Tricks of getting a job within a week
To preserve the Impression of Odia people in IT Industry
Performance Appraisal and Salary Hike
The Lay off Cycle
Tricks to avoid lay offs
Performance in IT industry, Orissa Vs our neighbouring state
candidates
Before joining your first Job in a software company
25 top secrets to be the best employee
Why Employees Leave Organizations
Melting Global Economy and How far we are responsible
Regards
Team Nilachakra |
