You are living in the best of the times

Network /Participate/ Compete

• Meetup.com (.NET/Nodejs/Android/java/bigdata/ML/IOT) communities
• Hackathons
• Hackerrank, codeathons, college fests, Startup challenges
• Present a paper
• Never eat lunch alone
• Travel
• Force your self to be an extrovert (the in the design thinking lines)

Your online presence

• Github
  • Contribute to open source projects
  • Look at issues of projects and raise a Pull-request to fix it
  • Help in documentation of frameworks
• Stack overflow
  • When you are stuck and oblivious of solution – post a question online
  • Respond to questions
• Behance/Dropr
  • Document your projects here
  • Ensure each project has video / text / image
• FB/Insta/ twitter
  • Mark your technical achievements as public
  • Check-into conferences, events, competitions, seminars
• Itunes Kindle
  • try to launch a book
  • Start a radio station
• Write blogs

Manage Time

New ways of Job hunt

• Hollywood principle – ( they should call you)
• No online
• Judge (possible recruiter) from event should be audience to your speech
• While asking doubts as audience– tech presenter seeks spark in you
• While fixing github issue – company decides to onboard you
• Someone is stuck with a problem – your answer on stackoverflow will entice them

Book: what is the colour of parachute

Equip yourself

• Keep your videos of portfolio in your phone
• Business card
• Research the person on linkedin before meeting them.
• Develop an automation mindset
• Get a kindle
• Bluetooth headphones
• Install pluralsight, trello, kindle, podcast addict, coursera, udemy

For personal projects: thou shall not reinvent the wheel

• Authentication / Authorization
• Payments
• UI Libraries
• Market Place
• Telephony
• Mailing
• Physical Interface
• Ci / CD
• Device Lab
• Infrastructure
• Storage
• Service Bus

Appendix> In podcast -> subscribe to

• https://rss.simplecast.com/podcasts/4211/rss
• http://s.ch9.ms/Shows/Azure-Friday/feed/mp3
• http://groupby.libsyn.com/rss
• https://d3gih7jbfe3jlq.cloudfront.net/aws-podcast.rss
• http://aws-reinvent-audio.s3-website.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/2017/podcast.xml
• http://testtalks.libsyn.com/rss

by Karan Bhandari
Projects: https://dropr.com/karanbhandari

Or

https://be.net/karanbhandari,

Git: http://github.com/kurtzace,

Youtube: http://youtube.com/kurtzace

Website: http://kurtzace.com
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