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    Choose your Career

    Choosing Career is an important step for fresher's.

    Different technologies, huge competition, so many companies, there are so many questions
    that arise in the young brains as soon as they enter in the IT market.

    Try to choose your technology very carefully. There will be many people who will merely join
    some course and keep on trying for years together in the same technology..but of course of
    no use.  Finally they will realize that it is not their cup of tea,  but at the cost of 2 or 3 years.

    What are the reasons for this kind of failure??

    1) They might have joined the course just because their friends told them to join
    that course.

    2) Lack of dedication & Hard work.

    3) The course they have joined did not match their natural skills.

    Then how to choose a right course ??

    You should pretty well know where you best fit.

    If your mathematics is very good, your aptitude is fantastic, even your communications are
    normal, then better you choose
    a course like C, C++, Java, VB etc....

    If your English is extraordinary but mathematics is poor/normal then choose a course like
    Testing tools, i.e win runner, silk runner etc... OR data integration tools like Mercator,
    business objects  like cognos.


    If your English is good, Analytical also good but lazy to coding, then better choose a course
    like ERP such as SAP, Oracle Applications, People soft etc..


    One important thing here to learn is, though if you choose any of these courses, it is very
    very important to learn a Database first. Such as Oracle, SQL Sever etc...

    Because in any project to be completed, you need a database to store the data and a
    language to extract data from the database & insert data into the database.  So, SQL
    queries role is very important to extract & insert data to database.
    SQL is widely used in any project in real time..whether it is JAVA or SAP what ever..

    So, first start your career with a database and then learn any language.. Even for testing
    tools also SQL is important.

    So choose your technology carefully according to your skill set.
    All the best....Success is yours.

FIRST  JOB

    It takes hard work to get work -- whether you're a recent high-school or college graduate looking
    for your first job, or a mature person entering the labor market for the first time. Be prepared to
    put a lot of effort into landing your first job.

    You've got at least one thing in your favor. Employers are letting go experienced workers and are
    hiring entry-level ones, although at much lower salaries.

    Still, no one is going to offer you the job of your dreams -- or any job at all -- unless you conduct a
    savvy job search.

    Start Looking Early

    If you're a junior or senior in college, get ready to job hunt while you're still in school. Check out
    your school's placement center and follow these tips for college students.

    If you're a mature job seeker, begin at least six months before you start pounding the pavement.

    Try to get some experience. Ironically, even though employers know you haven't held a job, they
    still expect you to hit the ground running. Any relevant work experience, whether it be volunteer or
    school-related, is better than nothing.

    Get Experience

    Here's how to beef up your résumé:

    If you're in school, sign up for cooperative education, a school-work program or an internship. Do
    well in it. Hold responsible positions in school activities. Get references from bosses, advisers or
    mentors and make sure they address your strengths and abilities.
    If you're a mature worker, do volunteer, temporary or part-time work, or create an internship in
    your field of interest. Make connections with important executives and use them for job leads and
    references.
    Join professional organizations in your field. Most of them have job banks and all of them have
    members who know about job openings before they're ever advertised.

    At the job....

    This article tells you how to choose your career so as to avoid being "abandoned" by your employer in
    the future when your specialised skills are no longer wanted. .

    THE SUPPLY CHAIN IN THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY

    In the manufacturing industry, we have the supply chain concept that describes how the goods/services
    move through different stages of manufacture, from the raw materials in the plant to the finished
    products enjoyed by the end users.

    A simplified version is presented here:
    RAW MATERIALS -> MANUFACTURER -> DISTRIBUTORS -> RETAILERS -> END USERS.

    In a company, we have a similar analogy describing how an organization is set up to serve its customers.

    THE INFORMATION SUPPLY CHAIN IN A COMPANY

    OWNER -> SENIOR MANAGEMENT -> MIDDLE MANAGEMENT -> FRONT LINE STAFF -
    >CUSTOMERS

    In the manufacturing world, the supply chain has been greatly shortened as technology works
    effectively to remove the middle steps. We are now enjoying cheaper but better services. This is because
    MANUFCTURERS can directly access the END USERS by using innovative ways to distribute their
    products. One possibility is to use Internet incorporated with fully automated software to handle
    customers' order directly. This effectively eliminates the middleman and transfers the cost savings to
    end users.

    SHORTENING OF THE INFORMATION SUPPLY CHAIN

    The same trend alsooccurs in modern companies. I call it the "Shortening of the Information Supply
    Chain in Modern Enterprises". In the past, the middle management plays the role of co-coordinating and
    disseminating company information and management power from the top to bottom. They also assist in
    collecting information aboutthe frontline situation and reflect it to senior management and owners of a
    company.

    Technology is gradually changing this. We now have very powerful information system software and
    hardware that enables senior management people to collect and analyse all necessary information
    required to run a company anywhere in the world.
    We have the latest communication devices to enable fast and responsive mutual communication
    betweenfrontline staff and senior management.

    As a result, we are now seeing that companies gradually curtail the information supply chain by cutting
    back on the middle management simply because they don't need them.

    To remain competitive, companies aim to reduce their management reporting layer (the information
    supply chain) and hence achieve a more responsive management structure with less human resource
    burden.

    WHAT IS THE INSIGHT?

    Don't choose to become the middle management or you'll be eliminated in the future.

    WHAT TO CHOOSE?

    Choose to play the role of either front line information worker or strike to become the very senior
    management or even start up your own company.

    Don't rest on your laurels and simply hope that one day you would be promoted,manage a good
    number of people . enjoy your life without having topay real effort to work on the front line, and
    ultimately think that what you have to do is to serve your boss "comfortably".

    THOSE DAYS ARE GONE

    I have seen many candidates aged between 40 to 55 working as the middle management lost their jobs
    because of this market trend and they are never, ever able to find another good one. It is because there
    are fewer and fewer well-paid but comfortable middle management positions.