It's campus recruitment time! Its a crucial time for students ready to embark on their career journey.
You are eager to take you first job, but are you in control of where you are headed? Do you know which is the right company to start your journey with?
To get an alternate perspective about this question, join Mithi Academy in our upcoming webinar, to learn:
Why it is important to start your career with the right company and how to go about choosing the "Right company, Right industry" to begin with.
During this webinar we discussed:
1. How to determine whats the best industry for you.
2. How to research the industry you want to build a career in.
3. How to shortlist companies to apply for the job.
4. How to go about preparing for your Dream Interview.
5. Personal Tips: For a balanced Work life.
4. Build a Portfolio
College Project
Do a Good Job
Pick Something Fun
But Showcases Existing Skill
Learn New Skill
Useful+Unique
Do Other Projects
Make Interview Irrelevant
8. Who gets hired?
The best person for the job?
The one how knows best how to
get hired
—Richard Lathrop
9. Employers Perspective
Too many resumes
50 to 150 resumes per job opening
Many Job-seekers are liars
HR don't understand
The Technical Skills
The Business requirements
Everyone short of time
10. Busy Executive
Too Busy
100s of work emails every day
Wont Look at Resume
Unless filtered
Will only read Email Subject
Won't open email unless subject interesting
Or sender already known
11. What doesn't work
Naukri/Monster
Sending email to address on
website
Sending email to HR
Sending bad email to Executive
12. How are Jobs Filled?
Existing Employees
Employee Referral
Recommended by a known person
Recruiting Agency
Via Website
Responses to Job Ads
Monster/Naukri
Decreasing
Importanc
e
13. What to do?
Apply through contacts
Existing employees (1
st
priority)
Common connections
Use Linkedin to find
Customize the resume
Write a good email (“cover letter”)
14. Linkedin
Extremely Important in a Job Hunt
Update your profile
Fully, with details
Not just job titles, describe role/achievements
Put a sensible photograph
This is not Facebook
Connect to everyone you know
Even when not looking for a job
15. Writing a Good Email: Subject
Bad
No Subject
“Resume”
“Looking for a job”
Good
Looking for a job: Java/SpringMVC Dev. (5 years
exp)
16. Writing a Good Email: Content
Short, and to-the-point
Customized to this job
Contents:
Why You Are Writing (1 sentence)
Your Overall Background (1-2 sentences)
Why You Are Ideal For This Job (1-2 sentences)
17. No, No, No, No,
No, No, No, No,
No, No, No, Yes
18. Shy?
Are you bad a Interviews?
The “3-Types Of Interviews”
Technique
Practice Interviews
Information Interviews
Real Interviews
19. Practice Interviews
Not Related to Work
About Topic You’re Passionate
About
With Friends/Acqaintances
“Conversation”
20. Informational Interviews
You Interview Other People
To Find Out about a Domain/Job
Gives You Knowledge/Confidence
Easy, Because You're Not Asking
For a Job
23. Choosing An Industry?
All are equally good
Every industry has scope
All are equally bad
Any industry might collapse suddenly
Use other principles to guide you
Key skill: making the best of
whereever you land up
24. Choosing a Company
Product vs Services
Large vs Medium vs Small
Company
Which City?
How Much Salary?
MNC vs Indian
25. Product vs Services
Product
Long-term focus
Depth
Better salaries (avg)
More Relaxed
Services
Fast moving
Breadth
More Growth
More Driven
26. Company Size
Large
Relaxed
Narrower
focus
Lots of smart
peole
Much larger
scale
Some things
only
possible
Medium
Compromise
between
large and
small
Possibility of
starting
small, taking
on
responsibiliti
es and
growing with
Small
Lots of
responsibilit
y
But also lots
of “other”
work
Uncertainty
and Risk
Terrible if
bad
33. Optimize for the Long Term
Your Career is 50 Year
1 “lost year” doesn’t matter
Starting salary doesn’t matter
“You overestimate what you can achieve
in 2 years, and underestimate what you
can achieve in 10 years” -Bill Gates
34. कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते
Focus on process/systems not
goals
Success (goals) is luck-based
Not in your control
Creating/adjusting
processes/systems/habits
In your control
Lead to success in the long term
35. The Future is Uncertain
Nobody can predict the future
People confident of their predications are deluded,
or lairs
Prepare for an Uncertain Future
Have broad/transferable skills
Be good at reacting fast to
changes
Awareness + learning + smart career transitions
36. Seek Help / Give Help
Those who take help from others
and provide help to others always
outperform those who don’t
Seniors/mentors always willing to
help
If you show initiative / passion / hard work
37. Asking for Help
No Need to Feel Ashamed
Have Mentors
Law of Weak Links
38. Help Others
Teaching others is the best way to
learn
Even those you don't know very
well
Remember Law of Weak Links
40. Keep Learning
World Keeps Changing
Learning is Easier Than Ever
The More you Learn, The Easier it
Becomes
What to Learn:
What's Hot or What you Enjoy?
41. Social-Media
Friend not Enemy
Use for Business/Career/Contacts
Follow the Right People
Unfollow the Wrong People
42. Software Is Eating The World
Your job could go
Your business could go
Must understand software
Apps / Websites / Packages
43. Small Steps
We overestimate what we can
achieve in 2 years and
underestimate what we can
achieve in 10 years
44. Suggested Reading
Designing Your Life
Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
What Colour Is My Parachute
Richard Bolles
Atomic Habits
James Clear
How to Fail at Almost Everything
and still Win Big