career thinking

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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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