Job Hunting Like A Boss!!

These days, Job Hunting has become an inevitable part in most people's career at various stages. Job seekers and Recruiters often use LinkedIn as one of the platforms for Job Hunt/Search. Often you would have seen in LinkedIn that some of the Job Seekers have the headline as "Actively looking out for New Opportunities". One should be cautious while putting such statement as it is visible to all the connected people in the network and if anyone in the network is from the same organisation, it will become evident, which may not be good.

How about Job Seeker indicating that he/she is "Actively looking out for New Opportunities" which should only be visible to Recruiters and not visible to your connected people in the network? Lovely isn't it? Yes Linked has the below privacy setting which allows the same.

Navigate to Your Profile --> Settings & Privacy --> Privacy --> Job seeking -->Let recruiters know you're open to opportunities, click it & turn it on to"Yes"

This will be on for a period of 90 days and it will get turned off automatically after 90 days. Again one can turn it on for another 90 days. After turned on, it also displays for how many days it has been turned on!

Clicking on "Update career interests" link, one can indicate the below:-

• Note to Recruiters (for up to 300 characters)
• What Job Titles are they considering?
• Which Job Locations?
• What type of jobs: Full-time or Part-time or Contract or Freelance etc
• Which industries are preferred - Computer Software, Financial Services etc
• Size (headcount) of the company

Once all these have been set, Job Seeker's Profile will be ready to appear in the search results of Recruiters (who are using LinkedIn's Recruiter Product Subscription) based on the matching career interests.

Also, the LinkedIn feed will start showing up Jobs matching the career interests.

Update the Current Company correctly in your profile so that LinkedIn doesn't show up (of course with a disclaimer) your Profile if any of your Current Company's Recruiters are searching and it matches your career interests!!!

All the Best in case You are Job Hunting! Feel free to Comment!

In which *Ship are you sailing?

In which *Ship are you sailing?

This article is an attempt to capture the meaning of different jargons that we come across often reading in the internet.

Appreneurship means Entrepreneurial activities undertaken in the business of Mobile Application development.

Entrepreneurship can be simply defined as Investment of Time & Money in creating and developing a new enterprise.

Ideapreneurship means the ability to generate ideas which will add value to Customer's Business.

Innerpreneurship means taking charge of our own life by setting self direction in managing whether it is our health or career or finance etc.

Interpreneurship means a group taking a charge for the greater interest of the company as a whole.

Intrapreneurship means taking charge within a business or being an entrepreneur while working for an organisation.

Multipreneurship means willingness to start many different entrepreneurial endeavours, one after another.

Solopreneurship means one man entrepreneurship.

Technopreneurship means new age entrepreneurship which involves the process of merging the technology prowess with entrepreneurial skills & talents.

Wantrepreneurship means the act of wanting to be an entrepreneur, but not being able to transform the idea into a viable business.

SUCCESS = SUC(ks) + CESS

Looks like most of the people are chasing Success and few of them are becoming Successful as accepted by World.

What is Success ? Success = Suc(ks) + Cess

Success really Sucks and one has to pay Cess (Tax) as well.

Success is just like an Iceberg, which is hidden and deeper beneath the Sea/Ocean, meaning the sacrifices made by any Successful Person is not seen so easily as the Glory of the Success takes all the limelight. Successful Person would have gone through many hardships and very few would be vocal about it. All these can be termed as Cess paid by the Successful Person.

We are sure that all these Successful Persons have paid Cess in one or the other form - Be it AK (Akshay Kumar, Anil Kapur), DK (Kapil Dev), JK (Juggilal Kamalapat), KK (Kareena Kapur), RK (Raj Kumar, Raj Kapur) SK (Salman Khan), SRK (Shiva Raj Kumar, Siddharth Roy Kapur, Shah Rukh Khan), VK (Virat Kohli).

Success is Subjective & everybody can become Successful in his/her own ways.

Being Happy in Life can be attributed to Success 

Doing Higher Studies can be attributed to Success 

Attaining peak in Profession can be attributed to Success 

Holding a Patent can be attributed to Success

Staying Employed in the Current Job Market can be attributed to Success too

It is proven that All Human Beings whether Good or Bad, Masculine or Feminine want to Stay Happy. Being Successful makes a Person certainly Happy, All that matters is whether someone is Happy or Not. Not certainly whether the Person is Successful or Not.

No doubt, the World would like to follow the Successful Persons. If you think, Your Family is Your World and they Follow You, indeed You are Simply Successful and Nothing can Beat that.

GHOD - Oh My GOD, It Works✔

It is often observed that in our daily routines at Office, if we don't plan our work properly, it will be very difficult to make a day to day progress on the same. If we are working by employing an Agile Project Methodology, then even if one of the days become unproductive, it will impact the Sprint Commitments of the entire team. In my opinion, meetings are one of the prominent time & mood killers because of the below depicted reasons:-

• Not all, but most of the meetings don't have a proper agenda & if there is, then agenda is not shared, which makes people not to be much resourceful in meetings.
• Not all, but most of the meetings end up late exceeding the stipulated time.
• If the meetings are wrongly scheduled, it will be an absolute time killer. Let's say 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM meeting is going to kill most of the people's time as they are going to reach office to start the day by attending the meeting and if the meeting turns out to be "beating", people step out of the meeting in a bad mood and sooner or later leave for leisure lunch break and come back by 2 PM, by which half of the day has gone already.

At the same time, important stake-holders of meeting need to prepare to actively participate in the meeting, which needs at least 15 minutes of preparation. Also it would take sometime for people to resume their work with the same pace after the meeting.

Eventually the point is meetings are going to disrupt the work schedule. Of course, without Meetings it is going to be difficult to work too. So in an attempt to solve this problem, proposing "GHOD - Golden Hours Of Day", which aims at accommodating meetings without the side effects of it. 

Depending upon the consensus of the Team, GHOD defines a minimum of couple of hours both halves of the day wherein there will not be any meetings absolutely. Any meetings must be before or after GHOD. One of the examples of GHOD - 10 30 AM to 12:30 PM and 3:00 PM To 5:30 PM. Meetings can take place before GHOD or after GHOD or the intervals between GHOD. 5 Hours of GHOD/Day yields amazing results. Try it out to realize the benefits. 

With GHOD being set, people become time conscious to start off but eventually become work conscious. Also daily tasks are getting accomplished easily because of more focus. Apart from that if there are no meetings/less number of meetings in a day, people can make use of that time in building professional networking in the organisation or for self development or for better work life balance. 

GHOD acts as GOD, pretty much powerful and helpful.

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How to Succeed in Next Job Search

Smartly U should DRIVE the Interview rather than the Interviewer

You should Answer what they want to Hear; not what you Know

This write-up is mainly intended for those who are in their Middle of Career : 10+ Years of Experience !!!

• At the very first outset and before You get to hear "Introduce Yourself", start by saying --- "Hearty Thanks for this Opportunity to represent myself; Glad if you could Share your Association with the Organization precisely on the Roles/Responsibilities. You should be looking forward to get to know his/herTitle/Designation (Team Lead/Tech Lead/Architect /Manager etc). If You do not get the Designation exactly, at least You will get to know his/her area of work.
• DRIVE it this Way for "Introduce Yourself posed by Tech Lead/Architect" -After precisely sharing your Academic Qualification/Certification(s) start saying Being Hands-On, thoroughly involved in the Design/Design Review/Development/Code Review/Unit Testing/Code Coverage/Continuous Engineering.
• DRIVE it this Way for "Notable Accomplishments in the Project posed by Lead/Architect" - Refactored the Code/Module which was a bottleneck and improved the Performance of Product/Service by X%. Saved considerable amount of time/efforts in Setting-up the Customer Demo Environment by Initiating and Implementing Continuous Deployment Process in the Project.
• DRIVE it this Way for "Introduce Yourself posed by Manager" - After precisely sharing your Academic Qualification/Certification(s) start saying Instrumental in bridging the gaps between the Requirements and Implementation by bringing in effective SDLC Processes.Measuring Resource Utilization, Doing Effort Estimation, Preparing   Project Metrics, Controlling Cost Over-run as well as Providing Status Report in Dashboards/Graphs.
• DRIVE it this Way for "Notable Accomplishments in the Project posed by Manager" - Proactively worked with Customer/Product Owner to minimize the "Changing Requirements" and convinced the Customer that the Requirements Change will be delivered as a "Change Request". Prepared "Defect Trend Analysis" as well as "Route Cause Analysis" Reports for the Project and instrumental in addressing and minimizing the defects. 

Design/Performance/Review/Refactor

Techies get excited by hearing the above words

Cost/Processes/Metrics/Estimation/Utilization !! 

Managers also get attracted to the above magical words  

Succeeding in Interview May or May Not Lead to the Job  

Sailing in "SHIPS @ StartUps"

At the very first outset, I would say, One gets an Opportunity to sail in multiple SHIPS @ StartUps

Progressive OwnerSHIP

Experience would be better if one is a Part of Middle Management in StartUps. Even though you are neither a Co-Founder, nor an Investor in a StartUp, but will be a part of Leadership Team, which you may not get it in MNCs for the years of experience you have (Am referring to 10 – 12 years of experience). Leadership Team would be tightly knit and closely work!

In most cases, Middle Level Managers would have been granted Private Equity. MNC do offer RSU/ESOP; but you may not be a part of Leadership Team. Private Equity coupled with part of Leadership Team would certainly make anyone to get gratified and in turn leads to higher Enthusiasm/Efforts/Energy Levels leading to better contribution. You would start not only working; but will certainly do a Value Addition to grow the Valuation of the StartUp. If the work profile is driving You (and not the money), its the stepping stone for achieving great heights in the career. No doubt, Money will start chasing You; rather You chasing the Money!!!

Intra-PreneurSHIP

Quite a good amount of people would join a StartUp to experience “What does it really take to be an Entrepreneur ???” without being a Real Entrepreneur!!! All I meant to say that, the Work Floor is thrown open to various challenges in terms of running the Business/Enterprise. Everyone would have the opportunity to deal with the challenges on 3 Ps Processes/People/Products OR Services. One may not get these type of ground level challenges in MNCs as they have already set up the SOPs --> Standard Operating Procedures. Also if one is quite good in terms of Finance/Accounts, might as well have the challenge to be accountable in terms of PnL!!! There you Go!!!. To get to such heights in an MNC, it would take probably ones Life Time!!!

Having dealt with all the above, what else you need to become a Successful Gen Y Entrepreneur? You need a Brilliant Idea with Execution Excellence

Idea-PreneurSHIP

It’s very much Human to say – You will encourage what you like or You will like those who is treading your path!!! StartUps usually will be born out of a Brilliant Idea. So if you have a Brilliant Idea, that will be nourished with care to make it cherished! And pretty good chances are there to make it as a Extended Venture/Sister-Concern under the same StartUp.

Certainly, apart from these, there are other aspects that make a StartUp as an Attractive Employer!!!

Ending with a Note "Experience can never be Expressed nor Explained; the Only way is to just Experience it".