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miercuri, 24 iulie 2013

5 pasi pentru a verifica daca aplici pentru jobul corect

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Nu stiu cati dintre voi v-ati pus problema daca ati aplicat la jobul corect. In principiu, eu nu m-am intrebat niciodata aceasta inainte de a avea 5 ani de experienta, adica deja dupa ce am luat ultimul job.
Imagine preluata de la 303network.blogspot.comn

1. Cat timp vreau sa stau la jobul respectiv?
Daca ati raspuns la prima intrebarea cu "Sub 18 luni", nu prea conteaza unde aplici. In principiu, minim 2-3 dureaza pana devii cat de cat bun pe pozitia ta, chiar si mai mult daca jobul e mai complex. Dupa 1 an, esti chiar pe treaba ta si incepi sa faci cate ceva. Iar cand ti-e lumea mai draga, ti-ai programat sa pleci. In consecinta nu conteaza ce raspunzi la urmatoarele intrebari.

2. E un job temporar pentru a acumula experienta ori pentru a castiga bine?
Daca zici ca te duci "pentru a acumula experienta", cauta orice firma care investeste in training (cu diploma sau fara). E bine sa urmaresti oportunitati recunoscute, despre care stie toata lumea. Desigur, bataia e mai mare, dar si recompensa pe masura. Am auzit despre arhitecti mari care platesc execrabil, dar care ofera o scoala practica deosebita. Nu ratati daca sunteti tineri sau faceti o schimbare in cariera. Verifica si optiunea b) de la intrebarea 3.
Dimpotriva, daca va uitati dupa un job in care conteaza plata, verificati daca pe langa salariu mai e ceva. Ori daca mai creste vreodata salariul de intrare. Ori daca nu lucrati de luni pana vineri, pana sambata si duminica. De fapt, verificati tot pachetul. Daca e chiar asa de bun ori s-au mutat toate cheltuielile posibile ca beneficii in salariu. Verifica totusi si optiunea a) de la intrebarea 3. Poate vi se ia dupa o vreme sa inghitit **cat cu lingurita.
3. E un job care indeplineste pasiunea sau care ofera oportunitati?
Nu conteaza ce ati raspuns la 1 si la 2, daca ati ajuns pana aici, dar luati in considerare ca pasiunea aduce banuti, dar nu cei mai multi. Iar daca urmariti o cariera, faceti ca la sah. Considerati 2-3 mutari inainte si verificati daca sunt si alte oportunitati in continuarea celei pentru care aplicati la jobul respectiv.

4. Daca totusi imi schimb jobul curent, ce obtin mai mult?
E o intrebare la care raspunsul nu e doar financiar. Poate fi un sef mai misto, o comunitate mai interesanta la lucru, un birou mai aproape de casa ori mai putine ore de munca. Ori altceva ce nu mi-a trecut prin minte acum. Intotdeauna sa urmaresti un progres. Macar la o mutare ulterioara.

5. Si ultimul. Stiu ceva despre compania respectiva?
Toata lumea a auzit de "Pe afara-i vopsit gardul, inauntru-i leopardul". Cautati cateva referinte, informatii despre ce inseamna sa lucrezi acolo. Daca nu cumva sunt beton la recrutare si mai putin beton la politicile de retentie. Vezi si bancul de mai jos, preluat de pe Hotnews.ro
Intr-o zi, o directoare de succes de la resurse umane a fost calcata de un autobuz in timp ce se plimba si a murit. Sufletul ei a fost intampinat la portzile Raiului de catre Sf. Petru in persoana.

- Bine ai venit in Rai. Dar inainte sa te instalezi se pare ca avem o problema. Vezi tu, n-am mai avut niciodata un director de la resurse umane care sa ajunga pana aici si nu suntem prea siguri ce sa facem cu tine.

- Nici o problema, doar lasati-ma inauntru.
- As vrea eu, dar am ordine de sus. Vei petrece o zi in Iad si una in Rai si apoi vei alege in care din ele vei vrea sa-ti petreci eternitatea.
- De fapt eu m-am decis. Prefer sa raman in Rai.
- Imi pare rau, regulile sunt reguli.

Si astfel Sf. Petru o pune intr-un lift si s-a dus direct in Iad. Usile s-au deschis si ea s-a gasit calcand pe iarba verde a unui teren de golf minunat. Mai departe era un local si in fata ei erau toti prietenii ei - directori cu care lucrase si toti o aclamau. Au alergat toti spre ea, au sarutat-o pe ambii obraji si au discutat despre vremurile trecute.

Au jucat o runda excelenta de golf apoi, seara s-au duc in local unde a mancat o cina excelenta formata din friptura si homar. A facut cunostinta si cu Diavolul, care era de fapt un tip de treaba (chiar dragut) si s-a distrat de minune spunand bancuri si dansand. Toti au dat mana cu ea si si-au luat ramas bun in timp ce se urca in lift.

Urmatoarele 24 de ore si le-a petrecut in Rai odihnindu-se pe nori si cantand la harpa. S-a distrat de minune, si cele 24 de ore au trecut
au trecut fara sa-si dea seama.

Sf.Petru a venit si a luat-o.
- Deci, ai petrecut o zi in Iad si una in Rai. Acum alegeti eternitatea.
- Nu credeam c-am sa spun asta, adica, in Rai a fost beton, dar cred ca m-am simtit mai bine in Iad.

Asa ca Sf.Petru a escortat-o la lift, care s-a reintors in Iad. Cand usile s-au deschis, i-a gasit stand intr-un peisaj dezolant, pustiu, acoperit cu gunoi si mizerie. Prietenii ei erau imbracatzi in zdrente si colectau gunoiul in saci. Diavolul a venit si el si si-a pus bratul in jurul ei.

- Nu inteleg, spuse femeia tremurand, ieri cand am fost aici era un teren de golf si un local unde am mancat homar, am dansat si m-am simtzit bine. Acum nu mai e decat pustiu si gunoi,iar prietenii mei sunt toti mizerabili.

Diavolul s-a uitat la ea si a zambit.
- Ieri te recrutam. Azi esti angajata...
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sâmbătă, 2 februarie 2013

Cum sa ingrasi porcul in ajun - Mic tratat de superficialitate

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Sunt cateva proverbe romanesti de mare efect. Unul dintre ele se refera la ingrasatul porcului in ajun, cu scopul declarat al unui castig financiar suplimentar. Asa s-ar fi exprimat ziarul Scanteia. In ultima vreme am tot observat ca toti porcii se ingrasa in ajun. Studentul nu invata nimic in timpul semestrului, dar baga material in ultimele 48 de ore de dinainte de examen. Proiectele se fac in saptamana de dinaintea predarii. Pentru bac se invata in semestrul doi din clasa a doispea, pentru interviu se pregatesc in ziua de dinainte. A aparut unu nou super erou: Omul Student. In fine, comenzile nu se pregatesc niciodata cu cateva zile inainte, chiar daca fluiera vantul prin firma, Noul erou : omul student, care invata intr-o noapte cat nu a invatat in 3 luni.

Totusi, pedagogia afirma ca sunt 3 stagii ale invatarii: predare, consolidare, verificare. Asta presupune a face lucrurile asezat, pentru a avea un beneficiu in timp. Totusi, la ce bun sa inveti? In momentul in care examenele de admitere in liceu si facultatea s-au masluit ani la rand, cand notele din scoala generala si liceu au fost folosite ca medie de intrare mai departe, cu toate ca metrul de masurat avea un numar variabil de centimetri, nu prea are mare sens sa inveti, dar mai ales nu are sens sa studiezi. Modelul rapid de obtinut rezultate e compilarea unui eseu din alte 10 eseuri de pe net, nu are rost sa mai citesti decat pe diagonala si sa generezi cele 3 pagini cerute de profesori. Diploma e cheia avansarii in cariera, iar universitatile particulare si mai nou cele de stat, au raspuns acestei cereri prin modele simplificate de obtinerea a diplomelor de drept, economie si asistenta sociala.
Aruncati o privire asupra ofertei educationale ale universitatilor private si veti observa ca au specializari ce se adreseaza destul de mult posturilor din sistemul de stat. Nu genereaza ingineri, nu genereaza arhitecti sau alte meserii care se adreseaza direct pietei de munca. Nici nu vor introduce, pentru ca baza principala de clienti sunt cei care au nevoie de hartie pentru a da o spaga si a se angaja la stat.

Intrebarea principala ramane: cum pot sa obtin mai rpd o diploma?
Cunostintele nu prea conteaza, pot sa ma plang mai apoi ca nu m-a invatat nimic facultatea, ca profesorii sunt incompetenti, chiar daca nu am pus o intrebare de-a lungul facultatii.

Deci, unde e porcul ala? Ca maine am examen.

Daca mai vreti, pe tema va recomand si o carte: Superficialii. o gasiti la Publica.
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duminică, 1 aprilie 2012

Omul gospodar isi face iarna caruta, iar vara sanie. Iar primavara...

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Cred ca va aduceti aminte cu totii acest proverb. Ion Creanga il foloseste in povestile lui. Bunicii si parintii vi l-au amintit poate...

Am citit de curand in Harvard Business Review cum companiile cu o strategie de personal coerenta au angajat oameni buni in timpul crizei si acum sunt mai pregatiti sa beneficieze de revenirea pietelor (asta acolo unde se intampla).

Planificarea si investitiile facute atunci cand nu esti foarte presat de timp aduc beneficii nesperate in vremuri tulburi. In 2011 am cules roadele unor actiuni din 2008 carora nu le-am dat la vremea respectiva mai multa importanta decat faptul ca imi placeau  si invatam lucruri noi. Nici o idee despre cum voi beneficia peste ani din asta.

Va incurajez sa planificati si ziua de poimaine, nu doar ce faceti acum si maine dimineata. Ganditi in perspectiva, iar daca nu va este la indemana, gasiti un tip care o poate face pentru voi.
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duminică, 15 ianuarie 2012

Sport and personal development

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Personal development is a trendy topic these years. I put my two cents with this post. There are multiple authors, lots of wisdom and many things to choose from.
I learned during the years that being part of a sports team in your youth brings a lot of advantages that I could not find summarized elsewhere.
Health
First of all (no news, just old wisdom), you are a healthier person. Usually, having the training before 16 years gives more power, better muscles, better stamina that supports you during the complete lifetime. I expect that blood pressure, fat suppose to be in lower levels, not to mention the daily food habits.
The health I consider to be just the surface. On top of this you learn a lot of soft skills that can make you stand out of the crowd.
Self discipline
Sports without discipline is nothing. All coaches will push to have the discipline implemented in their teams. Performance is most of the times built on discipline. Even when speaking about average Joe, that could not made the step to great performance, he was trained to respect a certain schedule, to work hard and push his limits.
Team work
My article is basically triggered by the sports where you play with the ball. I cannot imagine a great team where you are allowed to play by yourself. Messi is a greater star in the team working environment imagined by Barcelona. Individuals are melted in the teamwork vessel, without melting their personality. Having this soft skill trained in your youth, you are better able to integrate in bigger teams, support others and defeat the hipercompetitivity deamon.
Decision making
Coming back to ball playing, you need to make decisions in quarters of seconds. Of course, you are not all the time in this position, there are certain tactics to be played, but the decisions are made on the field. Even tactics are chosen on the field, depending on your opponent's play. In training, you learn a lot about how to behave on the field (schemes, tricks). This is a resemblance to long term strategy. You have prepared several scenarios and you play by them, doing less preparation during the game.

The sportsmen have a limited time to make their career. Usually, they end up their career by the age of 35. This is the age when most of the managers starts their star period, when the senior engineers become seniors and so on. Of course, a good career planning for sportsmen starts at the age of 15 or earlier, when others don't care too much about what they suppose to do. Being exposed early enough to this small game, makes people think a little bit in advance about the career choices they have to do. It's not much, it might be even not noticed, but it develops a certain internal paradigm and people act according to behaviors that cannot be explained.
I encourage everyone to do some sports in the youth. It might be of greater value for personal life than you might imagine.

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sâmbătă, 26 noiembrie 2011

Mentoring journey

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It seems that once your are nominated a mentor for others, you end your trip as mentee and start another one as mentor.
This is not true.
It is just the next step of mentee-mentor equation.
I have read recently a post on HBR.org about mentorship and started to look back in my life how this is going on.


Mentorship is not always official, not always coming from HR department. In my case, I realized that I had a great mentor only after more than one year. He was able to guide me through decisions without doing it by himself. The other thing is that he was not pushed to be a mentor, it has been somehow facilitated by some chemistry between the persons.
Look for a mentor relationship even this is not coming through an oficial channel. Look for more than one mentor that can help you to progress. You can return the favor by supporting their initiatives with candid feedback and a little bit of evangelism, when fitting to own beliefs.

The more the mentor is up on the performance scale, the more he can guide easily the mentee through the career journey. Some things come up easily, as there are so many things the mentee didn't experienced. It's like a basket full of toys of all sorts. Giving this to a child with very few toys, he can find in the first hours many things maybe new. He will be passionate about some of the things and spend more time with these ones. Others toys might not be of interest at all, as others are already boring.
The other thing is that mentee cannot discriminate which toys are inside the basket from the beginning. It's a matter of try-and-error for her and a matter of guidance from mentor to reach the meaningful items from the first tries.





The other thing in this equation is the purpose of the journey. If this is clearly defined and there is enough fuel for this (that is motivation), than the journey is smooth and direct. I've seen good guys rocketing to top with a clear picture of what they want. Others, with comparable potential and less vision about their destination, struggle in their way and sometimes even fail to reach it. How come this fuel is so important? Why is not enough to have a great mentor? Just because the mentor is the facilitator, she cannot overcome the lack of will. It's like the old joke with the old lady who is helped to pass the street. The mentor who push you to do the passing without your will is not doing a good deed. It is all about you working in a team and getting the right help.


In the end, one can be in both positions in the same time, as the organization is behaving like a pipeline. Look to get more while helping the others coming from behind to catch up. The team you will be part of has the chance to be great. You, alone, have the chance to shine like the sun in desert.

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duminică, 28 august 2011

Software Developer and Football Player

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This is the first translation of Romanian articles. Enjoy...


Being Software Developer makes you consume more neurons than in others. One could see it as liberal art, as Joel is telling us. Technology is constantly changing, new ideas have to be brought, new programming paradigms are coming up. All these are consuming a software developer and, if you are not a kind of Maldini, to actually make engineering until your 50s, it happens that you are looking for a management job, open a business, go for some theory, anything that could keep you in a position which is not include 8-10 hours per day in front of the monitor.


If you are an average software developer, you need to make a good effort in the first jobs to get some experience. This should save your ass in the area 35-40 years, when the hungry young wolves and new technologies are coming from behind. For instance, why to use a code generator when you could decently write the same code, maybe with better quality. 20 years ago, the same story happened with ASM and C programming. It was always more controllable the output of ASM code.

Same happens with football players. They get a good contract and start some savings for bad days. If a new coach comes, a new playing system is implemented and they might not have a place in the first team. Eventually, one could go to a smaller team, with not so demanding playing system. This is translated in "Software developer goes to a smaller company, where his experience is valuable and the processes or new tools are not enforced."

We are not speaking about great software developers. They are covered. There is always some one to pay this talent. In 2008, Rivaldo had a good salary in Greece at the end of the career. In 2011, Roberto Carlos has a great wage in Russia, 5 years after he left Real Madrid.


Looking forward for comments!
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