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Few Simple Ways to Build your professional networking

26
Apr
2019

LinkedIn, Quora, Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram etc. are the few quicker and simpler way to groom the professional networking. However first thing we need to think about what exactly are looking from professional networking?

What is our expectation from it?

Let’s talk about LinkedIn as mostly it is considered helpful in growing your professional networking. Now in LinkedIn itself we need to first set our profile in way that others can see and get understanding about who we are and what we can contribute to them if they join our networking.

So the unique ways to build your professional networking can be;

· Search and join the communities based on your interest

· Follow those who are your ideal or whom you wanted to know more about or learn from them

· Follow the companies whom you are interested

· Follow the recruiters if you want to know the current trend of hiring and wanted to appear for an interview

· Let your thoughts to over flow from your mind to LinkedIn Article

· If you are experienced and think capable to advice someone about their career or professional growth, go for it.

· Based on your interest and field try to connect those who are in the same filed or interest

· Start talking / chatting / commenting

· Keep your mind wide open for knowledge

· Share your experience and knowledge for others in the form of articles / videos or images

· Share your achievements and lesson learnt

I think these are the bast way to grow your professional networking. This will help others to know who actually you are and the ways you are trying to help others.

Cheers!

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Top 5 FREE Tips for Branding

18
Apr
2019

There are so many options available now a day to become famous or create your own brand. If you aren’t using these options to get yourselves famous or your product go famous then you might be losing a golden chance.

Believe be the Go Viral options, which are available today were never before earlier and I don’t think this will become easier in near future than at present.

Now lets talk about 5 simplest and easiest way to promote your brand or get yourselves famous.

  1. YouTube, why YouTube is at number 1, because it is the simplest and easiest way. All you need your smart phone and a Gmail account, that’s it. You can shoot whatever you have to show to the world and let it go viral over the social media
  2. Facebook. This is another simplest one, however not like YouTube though, so it is at second position. In this also you can create your own page and get your imagination and passion to work on it. It will not take much time to get the things in the wind.
  3. LinkedIn. Once you are done with the above options, then you definitely want to show your professional to the world. For example, your career experience, the kind of technical knowledge you have, research work you have done etc. This will give you boost to making your professional network and get quick contacts to the right business personals.
  4. Blogging. There is a big amount of audience who like to hear directly from you, want to know you more and read your thoughts. Blogging is at the 4th number as it will need some of your attention before you consolidate your matter for the outer world. Start writing here, it will increase your fans and awareness about yourself and product.
  5. Quora. This is tricky and a bit tough, but it will build robust following for you and your business. In this people may ask random questions, which may test your patience and dark side but if you stay positive, then this may make a big impact to your future plan ahead.

So above are the simple, free and round the clock popularity options available for you to groom, grow, become popular and have an impact.

Hope it will help. All the Best!

Cheers!

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What do you think about your Manager?

17
Apr
2019

I would like to help you understand the two types of managers, basically good and bad manager. Why am I doing so, because if you understand the root cause, it will be easier for you deal with the situation and you’ll become more confident while dealing with such managers.

Managers are the one who are having huge pressure from the top management and clients. Their course of action to tackle client issues and management pressure make them good or bad. Let see how;

Most common and everyone’s favorite topic “bad managers”. Reasons for a manager to be consider as bad manager;

  • I am a Manager and I am not supposed to do anything.
  • Not trusting the team members
  • Not sharing complete knowledge to the team
  • No transparency
  • Micro management (refer to my blog)
  • Nano management (refer to my blog)
  • Becoming bottle neck for all the activities
  • Single handling client communication
  • No segregation of duties
  • Overlooking the team’s personal growth
  • Not ready to accept his / her fault or lack of subject knowledge
  • Always worried about, if he misses anything
  • Putting team in front of the management during issues
  • Taking all the credit to themselves in case of success

Why all the above happen because of two reasons;

  • Comfort zone
  • Threat of losing position or job

On the other hand, due to “cost cutting” ghost, many companies are putting extra pressure over their managers to hire low CTC team members, get them trained and increase the output. Due to which such managers putting whole team on the fire line and they themselves sometimes find appeasement is the only path to save their position.

Now there is another type of managers and those are sometimes called good manager.

  • They make sure their team members are well trained
  • Assure proper personal and professional life balance of the team member
  • Plan and maintain proper learning curve for each team member
  • Keep on working with the team members to find out simplest and quickest way to tackle any situation
  • Keep an eye to their team members but not micro-managing them
  • Instead of waiting for appraisal meeting, they keep on giving feedback as and when required based on the right situation and time
  • They are making themselves always available for their team members
  • For them their team is the priority
  • Stand in front of the team as a shield in case of any escalation
  • Give credit to the team members in case of success

Now what makes these managers to do all above. Well there are again two reasons;

  • They always want healthy environment in the office and out of office
  • They don’t want their company’s brand name to be defamed due to attritions or client escalations

Cheers!

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Ever thought about hiring cost to the company?

12
Apr
2019

General perception is that an applicant is the one who is bearing the cost of being interviewed and get hired to any organization. The applicant think that he/she is the one who spent money to reach to the interview venue, spent time, while waiting to get interviewed and remain patient during the interview session. Once the applicant through from all the processes and get rejected, he/she thinks that this is the interviewer who had rejected him/her otherwise they were capable enough to handle the challenges.

Being an applicant many of us will agreed with the rejected applicant’s thought. Some of us might think that they are better than this applicant until they get rejected by the interviewer and few will say, why have they called us if they don’t want to hire us?

Before we go further, let’s see what a third person’s thought over this situation;

  • Are companies or organizations are doing these interviews just for the sack of fun or they really want to hire someone?
  • Are companies having so much of free time to play hiring game?
  • Do they deliberately reject candidates?
  • They don’t want to hire a candidate until the reject many?
  • They don’t want to pay
  • They have ample amount of time

Now let’s see the other picture from the organization prospective. Organization want the hiring process should be as follows;

  1. Applicant applied for the opportunity in a company
  2. HR shortlists the application
  3. HR inquires about the shortlisted candidate
    1. HR finds Green data
      1. HR schedules the interview
    1. In case HR finds Black data
      1. HR will continue with other applications
  4. Selected candidates deployed to the resource pool.

Are the organizations spending money on these interviews?

Let’s take an example;

  • Suppose, Saatpro Group has vacancy of 15 Java developers, for its collaborating company C9Software pvt. Ltd.
  • HR has posted the vacancy’s information to various job portals and received 458 applications for this position.
  • Company HR has shortlisted 57 candidates for the interview

As per the process, total 4 rounds of interviews will be conducted for this position;

  1. HR round (25 minutes) – Cost Rs.200
  2. Technical round (35 minutes) – Cost Rs.800
  3. Manager round (15 minutes) – Cost Rs.1000
  4. Salary negotiation (25 minutes) – Cost Rs.200
  5. Total time and cost spend over one selected candidate will be approx. 100 minutes which costs approx. Rs.2200
  6. Total cost over 15 candidates – Rs.33000
  7. Training cost– Rs.10,00,000
  8. Approx. cost spent over remaining 42 applicants – Rs. 60,000
  9. Company will spend from Rs.1000 to Rs. 10,000 for every 15 selected candidates for the BGC followed by spending 10 to 20 more working days. Total cost – Rs.1,50,000

In case of Black BGC, company will be losing precious time, money and opportunity as the whole process takes almost 2 months to get it completed.

Imagine if the hiring organization gets the right candidate in first interview itself, well in that case an organization will save this expenditure and convert it into profit.

To conclude;

  • Organizations want to get the right candidate in the first slot
  • Interviewers are there to select the right candidate but not to reject
  • Interview sessions are not free for organizations; they had pay a hefty cost of it

Think these before concurring an interview.

Hope you agree?

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What is the definition of Being Young?

11
Apr
2019

Most of the time, a person who is between 15 to 40 years of age, considered as young person. If the same person doesn’t behave well or not take right decision, then the same person is called immature.

If a person who is between 41 to 55 years of age says that he is young, people sometimes not ready to digest it, at the same time if he is active and great in looks, some of us agrees with him

What about those who eventually cross 56 years’ line? Well they are simply become a part of senior citizen. However even crossing 60 or 70 years of age, there are so many examples who are still active and doing what they love to do and achieving, what they want to achieve or what they haven’t achieve so far, even when they were young.

For example: Debbie Harry, Grandma Moses, Harland Sanders, Harriette Thompson, Jacinto Bonilla, Johanna Quaas, Nola Ochs, Fred Mack, Khushwant Singh, Amitabh Bacchan, Fauja Singh, Judi Dench and on and on. The list is long with such people across the globe.

There are many career, where seniors are considered more reliable, such as doctors, lawyers, business man etc.

Mr. Henry Ford once said,

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”

I think if your heart is young then age are just the numbers! Do you agree?

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Why 504 Occurs?

09
Apr
2019

504, Gateway Timeout can occur to any website or web application, no matter how giant that application or site be.

Recently I came across the same experience with Quora, where people are continuously searching, posting, responding from all over the globe and is expected to be available 24×7.

Now what is this 504 error anyway, which is getting so famous as the web applications are growing. If we search over any search engine, let say Google then we’ll get the below definition or similar to this one;

“The 504 Gateway Timeout error is an HTTP status code that means that one server did not receive a timely response from another server that it was accessing while attempting to load the web page or fill another request by the browser.”

Many of us now a days educated enough either by the experience or by learning books that we know what is 504 error, I mean common thing right, but think about those who don’t understand these numbers, how can we explain them?

I think in a lay man term we can say it’s kind of Relay Race, where one participant has to wait for his counterpart to give him baton / flag then only he can complete the race. In case of the counterpart doesn’t reach to him, mean time up, race up there will be 504 error.

Otherwise if I make someone who doesn’t know computer much to understand how server works, how they communicate with each may create a 504 error on my face when there will connection break between my mind and face. There may be 404, 400, 405, 403, 406 and at the end, there will be 503.

To conclude, there are so many dependencies, so many teams, lots of resources which are behind the scene working for us to help us what we want to see or what we want to get. Saying Quora is not working well might not be correct in such scenario, the glitch and outage can happen, what matters that how soon that gets corrected or rectified.  

Hope you agree, don’t you?

Cheers!

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Tech Update

Budget & Requirement

05
Apr
2019

Interesting heading, isn’t it? You got right where I am going.

Being from the IT world, it is a very common and well known scenario for me. Clients has their own assumptions and knowledge, based on that, they used to plan for the budget. Post deciding the budget sometimes clients do research a bit more however once they make up their mind and finalize the budget, it is hard to get it changed.

Lets talk the other side of the coin.

As soon as the client interact the vendor or the service provider about the requirement, the marketing technique, greed and brand name comes first in picture then other things, such as security, optimization, duration etc.

So during the requirement gathering, vendor helps their client by providing various of options, be it less or more useful for client. Till this stage all the conversation goes happily and both parties respond, talk to each other frequently until the cost presented to the client.

Dramatic factor suddenly makes the client to ignore the marketing team member of the vendor or if the budget matches with client’s budget then suddenly time crunch comes in picture, which forces the marketing team to complete the project ASAP.

In both the cases the pressure further passes to the developers or workers, their incentives, salary hike, working hours etc. for them if the project allocated to them then load of work and if the project doesn’t allocate then loosing job issue.

Getting back to the point Requirement and Budget, in some cases smart client used to exploit the vendor and in some cases vendors and their marketing team play smartly with the vendor.

Apart from all that, most of the time the vendors are actually providing right suggestions to the client and not ready to compromise the quality or brand name of themselves.

Only in this scenario, when both gets on the same page the desirable and quality results are achievable.

Hope you agree, don’t you?

Cheers!

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April

01
Apr
2019

1st April

April is having its own significance compare to rest of the 11 months. December and January are having their importance for being at the end or at the beginning of the year, whereas April nether starts the year nor ends the year. On the other hand, it almost does the same. Think about the new budget year and April first will knock your head. So yes in that manner April does starts a year.

Let’s see why April moth is so unique.

All of us know about its 1st date and most of us know it as a Fool’s day. If we talk about the history, then it was started when April then was second month of the Roman Calendar was moved two steps down to fourth step and January promoted to 1st month of the year. This change might have made the start of this month as fool’s day.

If we talk about the financial year, then those who are happy with the new budget makes fun of those who are not happy or vice versa.  

Today the e-commerce is in boom, so every day and every moment considered to be converted in the form of business and earning, so do this day as well. There are various applications and accessories floating around to get most of it from this day.

The April 1st is also known for many other reasons, such as;

In 1918, the British Royal Air Force was founded (RAF)

In 1970, federal law was created for the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act in the United States. It was designed to control the practice of smoking along with banning the cigarette advertisements on American radio and television.

Even the Nature also changes as April starts, but it is not making us fool though.

Due to financial year changes in India, the April 1st is also a bank holiday this year.

Cheers!!

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Training Sessions

28
Mar
2019

Training, a very common word as well as very engaged word.

Today’s world is full with content and those who are part of today are very lucky in terms of getting all most all sort of trainings whatever they need and where ever they need.

It’s all together a different thing that personal training via an individual person or trainer can make more impact rather than an automated training session. The good part is that at least we have what we need and it totally depend on individual to individual how will s/he grab it.

We have also organized few training sessions in the past for non-corporate world and it was a challenge and fun with in.

Usually, when we have live training session, (here LIVE means not online but physical availability in the training centers) we simultaneously had to manage a lot of thing.

The key areas are as follows;

  1. Get ourselves ready to share the training contents
  2. Rehearse prior to appear
  3. Maintain the physical appearance
  4. Clear the throat
  5. Lose all the tensions, health issues and most difficult one is the smart phone
  6. Be patient
  7. Be calm
  8. Be a mentor
  9. Pay full attention to every trainee
  10. Get all of them to the equal platform
  11. Avoid irrelevant discussions
  12. Revolving around the topic
  13. Maintain the decorum
  14. Share all the possible knowledge and experience

Sometimes it become easy and a few times it become a challenge.

This short video will share the thoughts a trainer might have while getting engage in the training sessions

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