Augment your online presence

Be engulfed by the Job Market in 2020

Karan Bhandari

Table of contents

• Overview of tips
• Recommended resources: Book, Summary, Podcasts
• Networking opportunities
• Tips: Webinar tips, github, be noticed in in-person events, project ideas, Stackoverflow, youtube, blog, freelance, interview

Overview of tips

Physical	Projects	Profile	Participation	Education
Biz Cards	Github	Behance	Webinars	Udemy/ Coursera
Brochure	Cloud	Art-station	Meetups	Kindle/ PDFs /git
Resume	Fiver, freelance	Linkedin	HackerEarth/ Kaggle	tutorialpoint, geeks4geeks

Recommended resources

Book

What Color Is Your Parachute 2020

Summary

• Social accounts ought to be professional
• Thy name should show results on Google
• Bio on LinkedIn
• Change the wording on your CV and Cover Letter
• Network of people
• First identify your skill and your "joy"
• Increasing your presence in LinkedIn groups
• share interesting articles
• researching the company: press releases, find out what is being said about them online. Look up the employees you could be working with on LinkedIn Note: This will only appear in the speaker notes window.

Podcasts on this topics

• be-the-lion-of-the-tech-food-chain
• http://ocdevel.com/mlg
• Toolsday
• Sql
• aws and AwsReinvent and Aws
• brandcreators
• More...

Networking opportunities

Web/mobile	Big Data/ML	Cloud	Forums	Clubs
ReactJs	Kafka	IBM	MillMams	Rotary
Android	Analytics	Google	Medicousel	Toastmasters
dotnet	Disrupt	aws
		azure

Others

https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/find-work

Tips

Webinar tips

• Ask questions that could project your technical prowess.
• Sometimes answer the questions of other participants.
• bring up one of the github issue they are experiencing
• talk about a competitor feature and even offer to help them to implement.

Github getting started tips

• Use azure web app or AWS Lamda function or Azure function for free computing
• Use AWS Dyanamo- db for free DB
• Blob/s3 for free storage
• Azure devops / gitlab for free building
• Install git/sourcetree and VS code
• Start Contributing to docs
• solve an issue
• make presentations on git

Tips to be noticed in in-person events

• Have a business card
• Research/study the product prior to the event. Prepare Q&A in advance
• Look the linkedin profile of the speaker
• Ask on how can you collaborate to the product community
• Be close to the speaker and try to complete sentences when he looks at audience for answers or is stuck himself.

What if I dont have ideas for projects

• Take up projects on freelancing
• Convert some devantart/dribble projects to life
• Solve github issues on some repos
• Take inspiration from family/peer's family/use to tool to realize webinar
• Make sense of datasets
• How can you help during Pandemic

Stackoverflow tips

• When you google for solutions, appreciate those who have answered your question
• Search for topics you have mastery on - answer them.
• If an example is explained loosely - without code - try to link it to your github repo with examples
• When you are stuck and oblivious of solution – post a question online

Youtube tips

• Camstudio , screenomatic, one note to capture your screen
• Edit using Openshot, Windows Movie Maker, Lightworks
• Images/Screenshots/Logos could be made using Gimp/Inkscape
• Even RevealJs presentations could be recorded with voiceover.
• Free Video transcript using google docs.

Blogs

• Create a free web-app using azure or wordpress
• Blog about your projects, practicals, a solution you digitized, a thing you learnt
• Blog about a webinar you attended, coursework done
• Use grammarly to correct, cognitive services for voice to text.
• Collection of blog articles could be marketted as books
• Promote its link on social media

Freelance

- Fiver
- Upwork.com.
- Freelancer.com.
- PeoplePerHour.com.
- Guru.com.
- TopTal.com.
- Codeable.io.
- Outsourcely.com.
- Truelancer.com.

Interview tips

• Have a tablet or smart phone with project videos handy
• Keep your three fold brochure handy and Three copies of your resume
• datastructure+algo: Go through "crack coding interview" book and geeksforgeeks.org
• Know one web framework (react or angular), know one high level (java or c# or python)
• DB (either postgre/oracle/sql), bigdata (spark or hadoop ecosystem or kafka or kinesis/athena/big query/data analytics)
• ML: start with auto ml or sagemaker then go to pytorch or tensorflow