Hi,

I am starting a thread on useful resources, FAQ, useful on jobs/careers. Please post any hints/information relating find jobs, office politics and so on. For those people with plenty of job experience, please post information that will help fresh graduates to adapt to a working life.

The following web site is very useful:

www.asktheheadhunter.com

It has information on how to look for jobs, negotiating salary, how to resign and how to handle interview.

Dreamer

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This post has been edited by dreamer101: Aug 15 2005, 09:30 AM

Hi,

There is a major disconnect between our education and the job market. Our education resulted in certificates but the job market only care about capabilities. Capabilities means ability to do something. For example,

1 ) Ability to sale almost anything

2) Ability to market almost anything

3) Ability to communicate in English

4) Ability to listen

5) Ability to troubleshoot problem.

6) Ability to read

7) Ability to write

8) Ability to lead a team of people to accomplish a task.

Having cert or experience mean absolutely nothing if those two items do not result in any kind of capability. For example, if someone has a cert in marketing but that person has no idea on how to market anything. That cert is useless..

We have too many people pursuing cert but did not cultivate their capabilities.

Dreamer

Hi,

Does a manager really care whether you are

"getting the job done and knows how to go around to get the job done" ??

The answer is no as long as the job is done.

"Certs shows that you have the knowledge"

Somehow, I am not really convince about that especially on the IT field..

"eto market it needs expierenc"

Market needs capability to do the job. If the experience helps, then it is fine.. Given that the technology evolves so fast, a person will most likely be doing a lot of new things aka things that he/she has no experience in.

Dreamer

Hi,

Unfortunate fact of life is that, if a manager assign a task to A and A get B to do it, the manager may not know or cares as long as the task is done on time with quality.

As far as I know, BSC and KPI measure result and quality of the result. It does not ensure that everybody do their job with their own effort.

Dreamer

Hi,

I do not like to call people for that reason. I normally will e-mail someone. However if I cannot reach someone by phone, I will e-mail the person instead.

Dreamer

Hi,

Self-improvement in what area?? www.amazon.com would be a good place to start.

Dreamer

Hi,

Amazon.com has free e-book too.. You still did not tell me which area that you are interested in. For each area, there are probably some web site that provide great informations.

There are free magazines too.

Dreamer

Hi,

"The Secret of Consulting" by Gerald M. Weinberg

"How to win friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie

Dreamer

Hi,

For any subject that you are looking for, you could google for the free article/magazine that talk about that subject. I do not know of any free e-book site but you could google for that.

Dreamer

You are welcome... I am doing what I can to help...

Dreamer

Ignorance is the path to knowledge.

A good EE is a person that likes to solve problem. Do you like to solve problem??

Dreamer

This post has been edited by dreamer101: Jul 30 2006, 11:26 AM

otherwise,

You DO NOT write a letter to ask for salary increment. You go and talk to YOUR BOSS.

Dreamer

kelvin_tan,

XYZ project brought in $$$ amount of revenue for this division. A had been promoted because of this. Given that I am a key person in making this happen, I pointed out this to our GM and said that I deserve a pay raise plus bonus.

This is NOT in the right time of the year for pay raise. So, I got my pay raise later. However, I got a SPECIAL BONUS out of this.

YOU need to be able to justify and quantify YOUR CONTRIBUTION to the company success.

Dreamer