How Do I change Career Track Into Data Sciences?
How do I change career track into data sciences? >> Assess whether you have the flair for maths, analysis and are comfortable with numbers. If yes, take the plunge. >> I recommend that you opt for a good course. Data science is not easy to grasp on a part time basis and is these days …
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Embrace Your Inner Futurist
Facts: >> No job is permanent. >> Skills in demand are continuously evolving. >> Industrialization reduced the dependence on human brawn. The new age is reducing the dependence on human brain. >> Organizational guidance on skill development is no longer enough. The onus is on YOU. >> Episodic careers and freelancing are taking over. >> …
10 Tips to Modernise Your Resume
Career Change is a fact of life in today’s economy. In the case of many of us, it is about being proactive and expanding one’s repertoire of skills. For several others, the change is forced on them because of rightsizing or layoffs in a tough economy. Even with the popularity of networking sites like LinkedIn, …
Fake It Till You Make It.
How often have you heard the advice “Fake it till you make it.” Self-help books are full of this since the seventies 🤦♀️. The idea is that false bravado in interviews makes you look ready to take on the world and crack the interview. 🐱🏍 ***WRONG*** ☑️ Authentic confidence always comes from your competence in …
5 Tips to Close Your Interview – Leave a Lasting Impression
You get an interview call for THE FIRM (big, tony, startup, NGO – whichever may be your dream firm). What follows next is an obsession with preparing to be our best in the interview. Interview over. Whew!! Time to Reflect: What could be better? In most instances, we have conveniently handed over the reins of …
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“#1 Secret”- Find a Job Faster on LinkedIn
You have invested time, perhaps even taken professional help and updated your LinkedIn profile. The headline is perfect, content is eye-catching, updated and keyword optimized. Skills are updated and references gleaned from ex-colleagues and clients. You nailed the headshot and have a great background picture. Why is it that you still appear in fewer searches …
173 Action Words For Your IT Resume – Free
Go on to read the list of action words that I have compiled right here –> IT Action Words for Resume. This is my way of paying you, my network for trusting me and NimTalkingTalent over the last year and giving us the opportunity to makeover your personal brand, career documents and help you with focused …
Choosing the Right Resume for Your Career Story
When do you use a traditional reverse chronological resume and when do you use a functional resume? Or a combination of both of them. This is not an easy choice. Your resume is your CAREER STORY. The purpose of the resume is to open doors and provide you the right talking points for the interview …
Top 10 Management & Life Lessons: Mission Mangal
We have always had an ambivalent relationship with Mars, the red planet. When not getting a job, experiencing a delay in marriage, having relationship issues with parents, siblings, spouses or not getting promoted, we are usually very prompt to blame it on a retrograde Mars in our horoscope. Director Jagan Shakti, and writers R.Balki and …
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It’s OK to be Ambitious
Picture this: You have a job you like, with hours which suit you. You have this job for 7 years. Should you change your job? Do your friends ask you – “what next“? Does your sibling/friend with the exciting job in Investment Banking or Marketing or Digital Analysis (you get the drift), often pass comments …
7 Ways to Prepare Your Lifeboat
This is the follow up article to 7 Signs A Layoff Is Coming Your Way. You read about some of the clear as day signs that a layoff may be coming your way. How do we ensure that our lifeboat is ready at all times? It’s not a one-day reaction to a crisis. We have to …
7 Signs a Layoff is Coming Your Way
Layoffs are classic blind curves up a mountain road. One simply cannot predict them. These mountain roads have so many warnings of curves, landslides ahead, etc.. However, the rush of going up the mountain can blind one to those warnings. Those traveling up in the Himalayas may remember the Border Roads signs. One particular one …
Discover Your Career Path. Don’t Decide It.
I love kids. They can be a fireman, a nurse, a doctor, a postman, space explorer within minutes and with sky-high confidence. Where did we lose that confidence growing up? With adulthood, comes EXPECTATIONS. Parents, Educators, Friends, Partners and many more – everyone has expectations. And with expectations, comes ANXIETY. It starts with high school and continues …
Help Your Children Discover Their Career
Book your consultation – send an email to nimtalkingtalent@gmail.com to help you advance and accelerate. Let my experience work for you – offering the full spectrum of career coaching and career documents (Resume, LinkedIn, Leadership Bios) to help you position your career for impact. Be prepared for the opportunities the universe has. Parents, well educated, …