Career Advice from Richard Branson, Suze Orman, Michael Powel, Marry Barra, Chip Bergh, Maynard Webb, Beth Comstock and Robert Herjavec

Best career advice in one line check the infographics below

Be careful while choosing a company

While surfing through the net this morning I came across an interesting article on Rediff.com on layoffs right from a manager on other side of table engaged in decision making for some layoffs in his company.

For detailed article go through this link
http://getahead.rediff.com/report/2009/may/13/be-very-careful-while-choosing-a-company.htm

He writes his story and sums up with some pieace of advice as below :

My advice to any management

• Do not hire people unless you are sure about their roles


• Make long-term priorities.


• Employees should not be treated as physical assets but as living beings with emotions. If you are not able to afford them do not hire them

My advice to any youngster or an employee

• Be very careful while choosing a company.


• Small companies are becoming cheats these days by adopting American work policy of hire & fire


• Before joining a company, go for a history check.


• If an employer has the right to verify your professional background, an an employee you too have every right to verify the company credentials.


• Contact its previous or current employees and take feedback from them. You may get the real picture of the company


• While on the interview table, clarify each and every point with your employer.


• Do not hesitate to ask the HR manager to mail you the company's HR policies for its employees


• Last but not the least, do not always blame your manager for the pink slip you have received.

10 Skills

While surfing through various posts, I stumbled upon this interesting piece of article. Go through the main article to have the authors view on what should be focus in terms of industry skill-sets for developers.


Skills to have as your next 5 year plan. Summary of a post at TechRepublic:

1. One of the “Big Three” (.NET, Java, PHP)


2. Rich Internet Applications (Flash, Silverlight, JavaFX)Web development (JavaScript, CSS, HTML)


3. Web Development


4. Web services


5. Soft skills


6. One dyanamic and or functional programming language


7. Agile methodologies


8. Domain Knowledge


9. Development hygiene - Bug Tracking, SCM …


10. Mobile development

Read the post in detail here.


Also if you are maverick at a particular skill and believe this going to stay...so please go ahead and post a comment on the actual blog to alter the skills list.