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Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: SWOT Analysis

Chapter 3: Skill Up-Gradation

Chapter 4: Choosing a correct training partner

Chapter 5: Importance of Certifications

Chapter 6: Using LinkedIn

Chapter 7: Using other Social media sites

Chapter 8: Dummy interviews and Mock interviews

Chapter 9: Focus on Soft skills Chapter 10: How to prepare a good CV?

Chapter 11: Company background check to your advantage

Chapter 12: Domain change

Chapter 13: Non IT to IT

Chapter 14: Things to avoid

Chapter 15: Free Internship

Chapter 16: Target Start-up

Chapter 17: Check box approach Chapter 18: What after placement?


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Preface

Congratulations on grabbing a copy of this ebook. I believe that this is the onlyguide

you would need to read if you are looking to get a dream job in the information

technology sector.

But if you are wondering who am I and why I am writing this guide, here’s a short

introduction about myself.

I am a technology consultant/trainer/mentor specializing in ERP and databaseinvolved in IT & training industry from 2005. I am also a consultant for colleges

and universities in adopting digital media practices.

Since 2014, I am running an IT training company by the name Metaforum

Technologies. We currently focus our training in area like Hadoop, Android, Java,

.Net, ERP, Software testing, Web Design and SEO.

To learn more about my work experience check out my LinkedIn profile.You can find the link at www.metaforumtechnologies.com. You can also connect

with me on YouTube, Face book & LinkedIn, Follow me on Twitter.

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Chapter 1- Introduction

This ebook “Get your dream IT job” is a complete step by step guide to help

you find your dream job in the Information Technology field. This book will be

useful for

a. Students and fresh graduates to land a dream IT job

b. IT professionals who wish to change domain

c. Non IT professionals to land a IT job.

These are challenging times!!!!

Recent Nascom survey predicts that by the end of 2016, 30% of the currentIT jobs will become obsolete or they will lose out to automation process. Its high

time IT professionals must wake up to this reality and upgrade their skills and docertifications. Gone are those days when IT professionals are rare resource. With

1000’s of engineering colleges and mushrooming institutes, now IT resources arevery common in job market. It is important for you to stay updated, market

yourself better. This book will definitely help you to achieve that.

The problems of students and fresh graduates are in different dimensions

though. Lack of technical expertise, practical knowledge, tool exposure, domain

exposure is some of them. This guide will teach you how to approach interviews

by giving insights into techniques like CV preparation, LinkedIn connection, social

media marketing and stuff like that.

Non IT professionals or returning IT professionals!!! This book will guide

you to choose correct technologies, tools and clients by leveraging on your existing

domain experience. Also this will guide you in terms of jobs that require lot offreelancer skills.


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Chapter 2 – SWOT Analysis

A SWOT analysis focuses on the internal and external environments,

examining strengths and weaknesses in the internal environment and opportunities

and threats in the external environment. This is a key tool in the strategic planning

process and can also be applied to career planning.

In internal environment analyze your strength and weakness against following

parameters`

a. Education

b. Experience

c. Technical knowledge

d. Networking etc…

In external environment analyze opportunities and threats regarding your career

a. Trend in your field

b. Opportunities for advancement

c. Opportunities for career development

d. Location etc…

From this analysis, you will have a road map that shows you how to capitalize on

your strengths and minimize or eliminate your weaknesses. You should then use

this map to take advantage of opportunities and avoid or lessen threats.

After you’ve analyzed your strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities, you

should use that information to plan how to market yourself.


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Chapter 3 – Skill Up-gradation

Gone are those days, when are IT resources are rare. Today withmushrooming engineering colleges and institutes, IT resources are available in

plenty. There will always be people available who can do what you do and do it at

rather cheap cost. Please be aware of this, and learn new skills, upgrade existing

ones to stay ahead in the job market.

For fresh graduates and students, what you learn in colleges/ universities is not

going to be enough in job market. For ex: Many of you guys learn software testing

as theory, but do you know anyone testing tool? Similarly you may know concepts

of ERP theoretically, what about popular ERP software’s? Not only that many

colleges are not even focusing on latest tools or techniques like Mobiles apps, big

data, small data, Social media/ digital marketing etc…. You have to upgrade your

skills in these areas to face interviews.

For Non IT professionals, who wish to get into IT.? My one advice will be to

leverage your existing experience. Don’t jump careers without any logic . For

example, if you are accounts professional, choose finance related erp like tally, sap

fico etc or if you are an HR professional choose careers in SAP HCM, PeopleSoft

etc… Your greatest strength is your domain knowledge. Choose tools or careers

related to your domain knowledge or academic qualification.


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Chapter-4 Choose the correct Training partner

Once you decided to upgrade your skills and shortlisted on areas to upgrade, next process will be identifying where to get trained.

A. Get trained by your colleague or contacts internally in your company. Many

companies provide internal training or knowledge transfers. You can use them to

update your skills. Or you can ask help of your colleague to train you.

B. Get trained yourself online via websites like YouTube, Udemy, Coursera etc.. In

case of doubts you can always approach online forums or your seniors.

C. If you don’t have proper schedule or time needed to get trained online, approach

training institutes near your location and ask for their help. Choose institutes with

good training process; take demo class from multiple trainers and then shortlist one

of them. Before enrolling make sure that you have taken at least 3 demo classes.

Don’t trust institutes that offers 100% placement guarantee. Or don’t choose

institutes only for infrastructure or don’t choose an institute only because it comes

in first position of Google search. Talk to counselors, understand their training

process, interact with trainer and take demo class and then decide. This is

especially for freshers.


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Chapter 5- Importance of Certifications

Following advantage can be attributed to certified professionals

The right man is on the right job.

An IT certification distinguishes a keen and dedicated individual.

Certified IT professionals create quality work culture and attract the best.

IT certifications clinch more deals and give your organization superior

bargaining power.

Some internal and external customers work only with certified IT

professionals.

Popular IT Certification Courses in India

SAP

OCA/OCP

MCSE

Sun certified java professional

Ccna

Big data Google certified professional

ISTBQ

HP certification for testing professionals

PMP

Will certification assure a job?

Certainly no. It may give you advantage over some of your rivals. But

certainly having an industry certification does not guarantee any one a job.

Advantage of certification

It augments career growth of a professional

Gives edge over others in job market.


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Chapter 6 – Using LinkedIn

Here are some ways to use LinkedIn for job search

1. Have relevant headline – Head line is your brand, so choose correct one.

Ex. Instead of having “Fresh graduate looking for IT job”,

make it “Engineering professional looking for small IT firms to make big”

2. Eyes open – Even if you are not looking for jobs currently, find out what’s

happening in industry in terms of new positions, recruitments etc… 3. Follow target companies – Highly recommended. Follow their pages. Look

out for new like new branch or product launch etc…. It will be very useful

while you write cover letter to them.

4. Broaden your network – choose correct connections

5. Regularly post articles – videos, blogs etc…

6. Establish contact with HR managers

7. Send them personal messages like birthday wishes, congratulations on job

anniversary etc…

8. Endorse and get endorsed

9. Get recommendations from colleagues, managers, professors etc…

10. Regularly share job news , updates etc if you came across any


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Chapter 7 – Using other Social Media Sites

YouTube:

You can create videos using various screen capture tools like cam-studio,

webex, debut nch etc and upload them to YouTube freely. You can create a

youtube channel with your name and designation and upload all your videos overthere. For Example: create a yout channel like Raja Java Trainer and upload all

your java videos there. This will help in

a. Promoting yourself b. Demonstrating your skill set

c. Helping fellow java programmersd. Becoming popular among community

Blogs:

You can create technical blogs in your name and post various articles related

to your filed. You can use windows snipping app to take screen shot and create aknow- how blog. Again this will demonstrate your skill set

Face book:

You can create a face book page and group and share all your videos an blogs over there to make it popular

Benefits of using social media

If you can mention that you have created videos, blogs etc in your interview

a. It will create right impression among recruiters

b. Gives you edge over othersc. Increase your popularity


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Chapter – 8 Dummy interviews and mock interviews

Mock Interviews

Attend lot of mock interviews. You can ask your seniors, friends, trainers,

professor’s even relatives to conduct mock interviews. This will help you in

1. Answering common questions comfortably

2. Anticipate difficult questions

3. Finding your strengths and weakness

4. Improve your communication skill

5. Fine tune your skills

Dummy Interviews

It might not be 100% ethical, but it is good way to guage recruiter requirements.

You can create a dummy CV by changing Name, email, monile no etc andapproach walk in interviews. This will help you in

1. Understanding recruiter requirement

2. Eliminate interview fear

3. Makes you comfortable when you attend real interviews

4. Understand your weakness

5. To strategize better


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Chapter 9 – Focus of Soft Skills

Soft skills are as important as technical skills. You need to exhibit following

soft skills in interview

a. Communication skills

b. Team work and collaboration

c. Adaptability

d. Problem solving

e. Critical thinking

f. Conflict resolution

g. Emotional intelligence

h. Motivation

i. Energy

You can develop soft skills by

a. Undergoing a course

b. Seeking mentor help

c. Volunteering


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Chapter 10 - How to prepare a good CV?

a. If you are experienced pr ofessional, at least check 10 CV’s in your area,

understand their roles and responsibilities and then prepare your own CV

b. If you are fresh graduate, prepare your CV that highlights some of your

positive points like internships, workshops, seminars etc…

c. Always use relevant reference details in CV like your reporting manager

contact details or your HOD contact details

d. Prepare a single page CV, may max of 2 pages, not more than thate. Always be s pecific. For example don’t put Oracle bluntly, put Oracle 10 G

f. Don’t include in CV the technologies that you are not comfortable with. It

will create only negative impression

g. Highlight your achievements but don’t brag about it

h. Prepare Video CVs and upload to sites like YouTube

i. Maintain same CV consistently in all job portals. Don’t have one version in

one portal and other version in other portals

j. Don’t keep on updating CV inconsistently

k. Your LinkedIn, Face Book (if any) accounts must reflect your CV

information. Many companies perform social media background checks


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Chapter 11 - Company background check to your advantage

Normally Companies will perform background checks on employees. But as an

jobseeker it is always useful if you to do some background check on companies

like their vision, mission, technology statements, recruitment policy, HR process,

openings, branches. This information will help you in terms of short listing

companies and also in terms of writing cover letter.

Some useful sites to check on companies

a. LinkedIn

b. Glassdoor

c. Facebook

d. Youtube

It will help you in following areas

a. Understand company vision

b. Understand their recruitment process

c. Understand experience of past/ present employees

d. Understand job requirements

e. Allow you to have some connect with them while attending interviews

f. Make you comfortable during interview

g. Understand their clients

h. Help you to short list companies

i. Compare companies for their work culture.


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Chapter 12- Domain Change

This chapter is for IT professionals who wish to change domain within IT.

Consider following points before approaching domain change

1. You need to constant upgrade your skill set and move on to stay ahead in job

market

2. Choose the correct tool or domain that helps leverage your existing

experience

3. For example, if you are an SAP ABAP consultant, choose SAP BW or SAP

HANA which is actually normal.

4. Another example, if you are a manual test engineer, choose automation tools

like QTP, Selenium, appium etcc

5. Don’t choose technologies that has no connect with your current experience

6. For example if you are a manual test engineer don’t choose SAP HANA,

just because it is the hottest cake in the market

Things that will help you in domain change

1. Certifications

2. Create YouTube videos and demonstrate your technical skill

3. Write regular blogs and contribute to community

4. Share these things in linkedin to capture eyeballs of recruiters


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Chapter 13 – Career change from Non IT to IT

This chapter is for Non IT professionals who wish to get into IT. Here arefollowing points you need to focus on.

1. Choose a technology in IT that you can connect with.

2. For example , if you have MBA Finance degree, you can opt for SAP

FICO or Tally

3. Another example , if you have MBA HR degree you can opt for SAP

HCM or peoplesoft4. Also consider your domain experience. That can be leverage upon

5. For example, if you have marketing or sales experience you can choose

SAP SD module.

6. You can consider your passion. Suppose if you are passionate towards

database, you can Choose HANA course.

7. Don’t choose a course only because it is high paying

8. Talk to tech mentors or consultants first about the job market in particular

technology.

9. Choose a correct trainer. At least check demo classes from 3 trainers and

short list on them

10. Target companies that respect genuine CVs and don’t put fake

experience unnecessarily

11. Demonstrate your abilities via youtube and blog post materials

12. Share them with potential recruiters on linkedin and ask them a chance to

prove yourself

13. Don’t get lured by training institutes that promises you 100% job

guarantee

14. Don’t get lured by false promises like fake experience certificates and

stuff like that


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Chapter 14 – Things to Avoid

There are few common mistakes anyone wishes a dream IT job must avoid

1. Don’t trust training institutes that offer 100% placement guarantee

2. Don’t expect your institute to be desperate for your placement. It is you who

must be desperate.

3. Don’t put fake experience in your cv. That will spoil your reputation

4. Don’t go for any backdoor process. Most of them are simple scams.

5. Don’t expect just joining a course will get you immediate job. It is a process.

It might even take upto 6 months

6. Trash talking about your previous job, if any

7. Avoid too much of desperation

8. Showing up too early for interviews. Might increase nervousness

9. Talking money – just don’t talk only about pay package during interview

10. Underselling yourself. Please avoid this even if you are new to IT

11. Don’t apply indiscriminately for all jobs. Pick and apply for correct ones.

12. Don’t ignore social media.

13. Maintain job / education profile consistency across sites

14. Avoid saying I will do everything in interviews


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Chapter 15 - Internship

Internships will be most useful for fresh graduates and non IT guys to gather

great deal of experience about IT culture and SDLC. Following are the benefits of

internship

1. Gain work experience and transferable skills

2. Be able to experience a prospective career path

3. Gain practical experience, by applying methods and theories learned in

classes

4. Network with professionals in your field, for references and future job

opportunities

5. Develop new skills and refine others

6. Gain confidence in your abilities7. Possibly earn money

8. Demonstrate your skill set

9. Gives edge to your CV over others

10. Possible recruitment in the same company


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Chapter 16- Target Startup companies

If you are a fresh graduate or a non IT guy entering IT or returning IT

professionals, You can target startup companies. You will most probably suit their

requirements. You can find startup companies in many areas like web design,

digital marketing, seo, sem, ppc, Analytics, mobile apps etc….

Benefits

1. Relatively easy entry level criteria

2. High visibility

3. Faster growth

4. Better recognition

5. Fresh approach

6. Learn from true innovators

7. You will have lot of responsibility

8. You can try doing things differently

9. You will learn to be frugal

10. Ownership and self sustainability


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Chapter 17 – Check box

If you are an IT professional, fresh graduate or Non IT guy, and if you are

trying for a particular job in IT, please tick following check box before proceeding

1. YouTube videos that demonstrate your ability

2. Blog posts that help you to promote yourself

3. Sharing of video, post and other materials on your facebook page an

group

4. Relevant connection in LinkedIn and catching their eyeballs5. Single page CV and possible video CV

6. Consistent information on all portals including social media sites

7. Attend one or two dummy walking interviews?

8. Reworked on your CV?

9. Saw relevant video tutorials?

10. Prepared atleast 500 interview Q A?

11. Have knowledge on possible errors and solutions?

12. Taking feedback from every interview?

13. Talking to mentors and senior consultants?

14. Having correct reference in place?

15. All documents ready?


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Chapter 18- What after getting placed?

Placement is not the end of the world. Still you need to continuously upgrade

skills. Self promote yourself. Follow below strategies

1. Bond with new team

2. Get to know managers/ leads

3. Understand work culture

4. Understand reporting scenarios

5. Upgrade your technical skills

6. Give and take knowledge transfers

7. Look out for certification opportunities

8. Mentor juniors9. Adopt local college or universities and approach them t0 give free

weekend seminars or workshops

10. Continuously keep your social profile updated.

ConclusionI hope this guide helped you change your mindset about the process of getting a

job.

The ideas discussed here is not only applicable to get IT job. In fact you can usethese principles here to get job in any field by catching attention and self

promoting yourself

I wish you all the best for getting your dream job!!!

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