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Recently Unemployed

11
May
2019

Now a days being unemployed is very difficult and it becomes more difficult when you are leaving in a nuclear family, having home, car and other EMIs over your head.

If you are unemployed however having back support then it will not be an issue until you don’t have money in your pocket or you are unable to run your home.

Lets take an example:

Assume Tom is a good employee, however his company is running into lose, now the management want to shed some load.

One day they will call him and ask him to leave due to some reasons.

Since he had spent so many years in this company and had achieved a position, he’ll be tensed first about how to inform this to his family members. (Company doesn’t bother about all these)

After informing this to family, he will cross first phase of depression, then there will be questions from his relatives and other family members, he need to face all these questions and explain the situation.

He is very sensitive and dignified person. Now the third and most difficult phase will come for him, where he’ll be facing to his colleagues and friends.

How to answer them and at the same time to show them that he is doing well and will get a better job soon?

As the time will pass, gradually he’ll be isolating himself, his dependents, parent and family will stop asking anything where money will be involved and relatives will be gradually asking about if he need some financial or any type of help from them in a positive way.

His kids will decide by their own what is cheap and what is costly. Suddenly they will become mature for the financial matters. They will stop asking about outing, burger and Pizzas etc.

By now he’ll be thrashed, his confidence will be zero and it will difficult for him to apply anywhere. He’ll become a great thinker only. Trying to hide myself from questions and still pretending to apply in some of the companies.

Gradually he’ll try to contact to his friends and hopefully will find 2 or 3 among 300, who may try for him to get him back in business.

Hopefully he’ll get some interview call, however by then it will be very late, some companies after interview session will reduce his package upto 50% and some at the end will say, sorry your gap is more than what they were expected, some may contact him but seeing his gap time will reject him right away.

By now his saving will be exhausted and in front him, his family, his kids and parents will keep on standing with him. They will be the True Moral support for him.

He’ll try to sell his car to have some money in hand, however his wife will ask “what is the answer for kids for selling your car” and there he’ll surrender and will not sell it.

He’ll look for other savings and try to invest it at some places, however everything needs time to get mature and he will be running out of time.

There will be many who will ask free favor from him for their business or anything which can help them to grow and he’ll be doing it for free thinking that they may help him somewhere.

At this moment, he will start watching YouTube videos about how to earn x amount in few days. May be he’ll start making my “Freelancer, Fiver, Upwork” profiles and expecting some work to come to his bucket, however it is not that quick and easy

Later he may start making some videos and expecting these to go viral so that the YouTube will start giving him some money. (Getting 10k hours of watch time along with 100k subscriber is not that easy)

He may spend some of his valuable savings to purchase some domain and will be trying to sell something there.

He may be thinking about selling t-shirts, sometime to drive in Uber, sometime to give paid training but there are not 100% chance that these will work and give him some handsome money.

At the end, if his willpower remains with him, he’ll continue applying for jobs and may be get selected some day and if his willpower will be exhausted and he’ll be under huge debt and running out of money to pay his EMIs then the consequences may be dangerous. I hope and wish it will not.

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Why do we do a JOB?

09
Jun
2018

Interesting, while I was trying to search the answer of this question, “why do I do a job?” I found various answers such as;

  • A job will full fill my daily needs
  • Will help grow my career
  • Will become wealthier
  • Can purchase a new car may be after few years
  • May be in next few years, will be able to purchase a small home
  • Because I have certain knowledge so I have to do a job

 

What I didn’t found;

  • Will I be loving my job?
  • Will my family love me if I go for job?
  • Will job be able to secure my future?
  • Will I be able to full fill all my needs via a job?
  • Will I become healthier if I continue a job?
  • My friends will give me more respect if I go for a job?
  • Will I be able to spend more time with my loved ones?
  • Will I get beyond expectation rating?
  • Will I get the highest bonus and salary raise?
  • Will I be doing what I wanted to do?

The list is long of such questions.

 

In my personal opinion, one can help us by guiding and telling us about our strengths and weakness, however rest of the answers we have to find by our own.

 

Initially when we start the job, we used to be very excited, no matter whether we love the job or not and eventually all of us tried to put all the effort to learn new things and processes from the company, feeling proud to have a job. However as the time elapse, we start either loving the job or looking for other job, which we may love.

 

For those who are fortunate and get such a job, which they might love, become loyal to the company and spend most of their life in that company. This helps them eventually learn many new things and making them a process champion. However few of them later on starts looking for the answer of the above questions. Some of them are lucky enough to get most of the answers, whereas few among them are left hanging.

 

In both the cases, whether we love our job or not but if we are doing the job for almost 40 to 45 years of our life span, have we ever thought, what will happen after that? Some of us takes it lightly by saying who will live that long but the bitter truth is that almost 80% of us will. What will happen then?

 

I think this is one of the question, why so many entrepreneur are available now days. Many of them are still looking for the answers and few of them are indirectly just doing the job by only changing the label.

 

What do you think?

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Resume Writing

02
Apr
2018

Resume writing is always a challenge especially for those who are either changing their profession or changing job after a long gap. There are two main challenges, what to show and how to show? In my case, I have to write a resume after 10 years, things and trends all are changed. So how to proceed then?

I had consulted many of my well-wishers and few of them were really great and took a step ahead for me, they have not only guided me about writing the resume but also shared few valuable trainings about how to write a better resume.

Two points, which I learnt from all these are, write your resume according to the opportunity and write precise instead of a biography. However that is not so easy. I still needed guidance and expert to understand these two types of resume.

As an exercise, I have opened the LinkedIn and closely read many of my mentor’s and colleague’s profiles. Few of the profiles were ideal for me and helped me learning, how to craft a meaningful resume, still all these work was very manual and took lots of effort and time. Luckily my friends and mentors are with me and they helped me to get it finalized.

Many job seekers might not get such kind of guidance, but now they should not be worried as LinkedIn has recently introduced the Resume Assistance with Microsoft Office 365. This is amazing and will be a boon for all job seekers. It is simple and quicker. It allows us to explore the LinkedIn profile in a proper way and get the resume crafted. It kind of giving power to everyone and boosting their confidence.

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