Are you applying for jobs but not
getting interview calls?
many times people complain that I'm
fresher out of the college I'm applying
for the jobs
and everyone is asking for an experience
so it's a chicken egg problem
unless I get a job I'm not gonna have
experience and if I don't have
experience they're not giving me a job
what to do in this video I'm going to
share
five very effective tips if you work
on them
you will surely get an interview call so
let's start with tip number one the
first
for most important thing is to have
reference
what it means is let's say I'm applying
in Flipkart and if
an employee of flipkart refers
me then there is a huge chance I will
get an interview call
now how do you build connections with
people?
There are several ways if you are in
college
try to build a rapport and connection
with your seniors
because your seniors are already working
in the industry working for some
companies
they can refer you for the jobs in their
company
many colleges have portals using which
you can connect with alumni for example
my
my college has this portal called alumni
connect
and via that portal I can connect with
all my seniors
you can also go to tech fest
or technical conferences and using
those events you can build
connections
many times people think that those
conferences are to learn
technology well the main objective of
these conferences
is to build your network
you can also participate on stack
overflow
various discord servers for example
on my channel I have a code basics
discord server
where there is one person his name is
Vedant
he's he just passed his 12th grade and
he's contributing so much
that he has built a very good rapport
with me as well as some
smart data scientist and software
engineers
in the industry now when Vedant goes out
looking for a job he will have so many
people
who will be willing to do a referral for
him
so when you help someone for without any
selfish motive
the law of reciprocity kicks in
and that you will get a reward for that
help
for sure in one or the other form
so try to help people as much as you can
without any selfish motive
and without keeping a score card
you can also contribute to open source
when you contribute to open source
people will do your code review
you can talk to those people during
the code review and that will also build
good connections
many times successful engineers they
don't get get a job
through you know porters like indeed.com
nokia.com etc
they get a job via their contacts only
so context and reference is the most
important thing
second tip is you have to go live
in a city or a place where job market is
hot
if you are in India let's say you can go
to Bangalore
Pune, Hyderabad. These cities have a lot
of jobs if you're in U.S.
New York, Silicon Valley these are like
hot locations for jobs when you're
physically present
at this location it will help you
tremendously
because you're talking with people you
always get news on the
new upcoming jobs you get news on
how to better prepare for the jobs and
so on
so living in a city where
job location is job market is hot is
very very important third is
you have to apply through direct
company website in addition to applying
through job portal such as monster.com
or nakri.com or indeed.com
if you're just relying on let's say
indeed.com for your job application
it's not gonna help much because many
times
companies you know they don't post their
jobs on these job portals
or they they prefer the direct
applications
so if you're living in a city or
wherever
just try to identify the companies and
just do Google right
if you just do Google you will find that
company's website
go to careers page and apply directly
point number four is building
or solid resuming recruiters receive
thousands of application and they have
to pick
few applications for interview
they will do it based on your resume now
people make so many mistakes in the
resume
for example never have a resume which is
more than two pages long
I generally prefer like one page long
resume but if you have two pages fine
I have seen resume where you know like
there are like five pages
you are you will get rejected for sure
if you have five page resume
you will not get an interview call okay
because the recruiter will think this
person doesn't have any sense on how to
build a resume
I did a resume review session with my
friend
who is an experienced data analyst and
I'm gonna link a video
below where we reviewed some 25 resumes
so look at that video
and you will identify the mistakes in
your resume
based on those 25 resumes because your
resume will probably fall into one of
those categories
in your resume mention your specific
role
and what you did exactly people write
paragraphs you know
of their projects and they talk about
project in general client and all that
but mention what was your role your
achievement
there is a star technique which is which
means
situation then task action and result
so if I'm mentioning let's say the
project which I
worked on in my resume
I need to have specific concrete details
like this was the situation
for example I'm look let's say I did a
project in data analyst role
I would say the company's sales were
declining
and we were asked to build this
dashboard in power BI
which we did and using that they were
able to make some business decision
which improved the sales by two million
dollar
when you specifically mention this kind
of achievements it makes a very positive
impression on the person who is reading
your resume
also highlight your skills and technical
achievements
at the very beginning sometimes people
mention their education
as a fresher the education is fine but
they mention unnecessary details their
personal details and so on
in the top you want to mention the
specific thing that
that recruiter is looking for which
means
you might have to customize your resume
based on the job need
I've seen people where they have one
resume they go to indeed.com
applying 20 jobs same resume
customize your resume based on the
specific
job role because you have to think like
a recruiter like what that person who is
reading your resume is gonna think
so you know the recruiter who is reading
your resume
he has a job description here and he has
your resume here
he will just do a match okay so if you
are if he's looking for 10 skills and
you have highlighted
50 skills in which your 10 skills are
buried
your resume is rejected many times
people are trying to move their career
let's say there is a mechanical engineer
10-year experience now he wants to do
become
data analyst so if you have five page
resume
out of which four pager mechanical
engineer experience you know you have
mentioned about your boilers and
everything
you will get rejected for your
data analyst job
you have to mention your irrelevant
experience very short like
two-three lines and then let's say as a
mechanical engineer
you did some data crunching in excel
mention that
you know mention the things which are of
interest to the recruiter or the person
who is reading your resume
if you have done some courses some
training
mention that but any irrelevant part
you know sometimes people have teaching
experience let's say 5 year teaching
experience
now I learn coding I want to apply for
software engineering job
fine but don't mention too much about
your teaching experience
you know mention maybe about the
software projects
that you did during your teaching
experience so
mention the things which are relevant to
that particular
job sometimes there is a bias due to
your personal situation so do not ever
mention your
personal situation in your resume I have
seen people mention okay I'm married
Ilive here they mention their address
why
you should mention only your phone
number, your name
and email that's it because
see subtle things might happen let's say
a job is in Bangalore
and the person is looking for immediate
you know they want to immediately hire
few people
and you get a resume which is in
Rajasthan you know the person's address
is in Rajasthan
there could be a biased person would be
like oh why would I hire this Rajasthan
person let me just get someone locally
so don't sometimes people say okay I'm
married i've seen resume where they
mention okay I'm married
and it can create bias in some people
some some recruiters
it's not a good practice but they might
think oh I would rather hire a fresher
guy who is not married
so that person will work 12 hours every
day you know
so you don't want to be in a situation
where you create this kind of
bias intentionally or unintentionally
tip number five is having a solid
project portfolio
so if you are already experienced
then of course mention about the
projects that you have done in a
manner if you don't have experience
let's say you are fresher
or you are trying to switch your domain
mechanical engineer to data analyst
or teaching professor to a programmer
so what you can do is you can go to
nearby NGO
or if you have a relative let's say
who is a doctor
you know ask that person that okay i
will build your
mobile application or website for free
or go to a lesson nearby grocery store
or a clothing store
and you know what you should do
is take some template
learn some web development skill and
let's say the clothing store
name is Bharat clothing store so make a
website
for Bharat clothing store put the logo
of Bharat closing store put some
details about Bharat clothing store now
with your laptop
go to that store and say look Ihave
built your website it's not complete
I'm trying to learn things I can build
this full-fledged website for you
for free that person when he looks at it
oh Bharat closing store this is my
store
oh my website looks like this and he
will
most likely give you that project now if
the person is decent enough he will
actually
pay you the money for remaining work
even if they don't pay you money you're
still learning a lot of valuable skills
valuable skills such as client
experience you know how do you negotiate
how do you
collect requirements and then technical
skills of course you're learning
and then how does it look on
your resume
it looks pretty awesome because it's a
real project it's not like some dummy
project
I have seen some data analyst data
scientists resume as you know where they
mention
did classification for titanic data set
did a classification for iris data
set rejected you will never get
interview call
mention real projects okay
if you don't want to do this NGO or
whatever helping your relative
you can still take titanic data set and
maybe customize it for a different data
set
you know bring novelty into your project
so that when a recruiter is reading your
resume he should he or she needs to get
impressed otherwise you're not getting
an interview call
other way of building good project
portfolio will be
to contribute in open source there are
so many open source projects out there
work on those projects rather than
working on your stupid dummy project
which will be thrown in a dust wing okay
so when you work on
those real projects you build connection
you learn some real good skills
one other way is freelancing you know
the whole bharath clothing store that I
mentioned
is freelancing if you don't want to do
in-person freelancing
maybe go to upwork.com or freelancer.com
favor.com there are so many freelancer
websites look for small projects
and offer your help for very cheap rate
it will require some work
yeah but eventually you will get your
project
you know I did this interview with a
person
his name is qasim he he he's he was a
college fresher
he registered himself on upwork within
four months
he's earning so much money now he he has
so many projects in the queue
so if you do a right strategy if you
build a right strategy have a patience
do hard work it works you know you get a
upwork type of freelancing projects and
these projects will help you get
an interview call there are some other
general tips as well
first of all if you're a fresher looking
for a job or if you're
changing your domain it will take time
no miracle is gonna happen you're not
going to get a job next month
it might take six months one year
two year don't get frustrated
you have that valuable time period
during which
you can help these people you can help
NGOs your relatives or any other shop or
business in your town help people I'm
telling you
see the problem is we are so calculative
we maintain our scorecard
okay I help this person build the
website what am I getting
like it's so stupid to think that way
just help people without maintaining
scorecard
you will see after some time the reward
will come back to you
and it will be multiplied all right so I
hope you like all these five tips
if you're looking for a job getting
frustrated why I'm not getting into
recalls then
work on these tips today don't just
watch the video and go to sleep
the art of getting things done is to act
you have to act right now so pause this
video
don't look don't do anything else put
your action
right now right now modify your resume
and do everything which Imentioned in
this video
if you have any question please post in
a comment below I try my best to answer
as many comments as possible if you have
friends who are looking for a job
frustrated not getting into recalls
share this video with them
maybe they will learn something and this
will go back to our original principle
try to help people without maintaining
scorecard
thank you