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1. Career Thinking
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My Objective today
Make you understand WHY you need a career Path
Some key facts to know before taking career decisions
Provide valuable guidelines for some of you and make youaware of important things nobody will tell you!
Entertain the others.
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Your Tasks Today
Listen
Ask questions, give feedback at any time
Take a sheet of paper and answer the following questions
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Question 1: Who is Your Hero ?
Why?
You do not have one? Its time to Think
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Question 2: What Made Zuck, Gates,Larry Page Etc Succeed?
Lets brainstorm a while, throw ideas around
They were damn smart (Harvard, Harvard,Stanford) and had at least one hard skill:PROGRAMMING.
Lesson 1: invest time to learn one thing well, even if ittakes 10000 hrs to be expert in it
Lesson 2: dont think that the big guys just had ONE greatidea and that was it. It is not true!! Lots of (hard) skillsbehind and its the same for Steve Jobs, Sean Parker etc.
Lesson 3: Software is eating the world, if you do notprogram be ready to be programmed.
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Question 3: What Do You Love To DoThe Most?
Create content
Sell contentEntertain
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Question 4: What Is Your Ideal Job?
Correct answer: one that gives me sufficient money fordoing what I love (see above)?
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Question 5: What Is Your Value For TheBusiness?
A Starter
A GrowerA Runner?
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Other Questions
If you already know:
What business domainyou want to work in?
What will be your idealposition in 3 years?
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What to write down
During the day
What impressed you, make you
change your mind, discover newthing, disagree.
Day end
A simple sentence to summarizethis training to sell it to otherstudents
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Now Lets Start
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China and Piano
How many Chinese Play Piano?
Nearly as many as the France population (60 millions)
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China and Piano
Whats the impacts?
Lots of Chinese manufacturers: Nieer, Hsinghai, Dong Bei, PearlRiver, Parrot, Shanghai, etc.
Low cost
Medium to low quality
What is the probability to have a Chinese piano genius inthe next 5 years
HIGH
Lang Lang genius and Rebel
Andy Lee Genius from Hong Kong (since 3 years old)
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Recipes For Future YoungEmployees
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Recipes For Future Young EmployeesCommunication
Manage your e-reputation since day one
Protect your private life by separating business/private life
Invest in your LinkedIn profile
Beware of social networks and your friends!
Communicate clearlyUse face to face communication
Avoid email
If you have something to say, say it (Blog, ESN, etc.) do notbecome frustrated
Speak Several languages or learn them
English first and learn another language then
Know how to Program (at least in JavaScript)
Ask questions (5 Why) to understand, be agile in the org.
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Recipes For Future Young EmployeesChoosing your employer
Small is beautiful! Vs. Too Big to fail?
Ask for a clear Job Description
Negotiate your salary
Money: Fixed and Variable part
Health insuranceTravel Policy
Other: mobile phones, travel policy, training, work from home
Select and stay in a domain area
Business knowledge is long to acquire! Need 10000 hours to become
an expert
Select your scope carefully
local - regional International
Do not live too far away from the office (45 mn max)
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Recipes For Future Young EmployeesWhen Hired
Say hello in the morning
Fail fast (1 month) or stay long (2 years min)
Advancement is not only linked to performance!
Manage wisely your budget! Money can be an issue quickly.
File every thing youve done (finish) for the team, theproject and the company once a week! Celebrate success.
Adapt to the enterprise bio-rhythm
You can disagree, but stay positive, do not be negative (soFrench)!
Take notes during meeting!
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Recipes For Future Young EmployeesMentoring
The world is unfair accept this!
Not every fight is good to make!
Listen Steve Jobs Stanford Speech 2005
Listen J.K. Rowling Harvard Speech
Manager is not a job, it is a roleTrain and learn by yourself
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Recipes For Future Young EmployeesLife Balance
Working too much proves that you are not well organized,or that there is an issue somewhere!
Keep your friends! Force to go out with them
Organize your time for Nothing to do
Take risks before 35 or leave with Regrets!
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Recipes For Future Young EmployeesImproving Continuously
Never stop learning and training (or you will beoutsourced!)
You need a mentor, you need tools, you need organization.
Finding a job is not and end, its a beginning.
You will have to change your job and train again 4 times inaverage during your career
Make small steps often instead of big changes that neverhappen (or are mandatory and painful)
Go to conference or fares or meetup often, stay in contactwith the field and the business domain trends
Always finish what you start! And celebrate
Keep your free will
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Now, Its up to YOU Re-imagine The World
Zuckerberg, Larry Page, etc. are changing the world
Why?
They decided to change the world, they believed insomething and wanted to change the wor
You can do the same
Nothing is impossible, just dream and use technology tomake your dreams come true
Stay foolish, stay Hungry said Steve Jobs
Technology is cheap
World is flatIts up to YOU now
And when you will be rich and famous, never forget to give back
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