Opportunity for College Management / Placement Officers to help students in getting job they desire

Personal note to College Managements:

At the outset let me congratulate you all for helping the students gain confidence to be with Corporate. We would like to contribute in your efforts by way of creation of opportunities for these students.  As you are aware that we work with companies where we are the only HR connect for them.  As part of our relationship we help these companies who do not do campus or do not post on regular job sites to find alternative.  We have worked with more than 200 companies and the number is increasing day-by-day. 

To consolidate the efforts we are bringing all our employers (clients) on one platform for Hiring in future. We have created a special career site to help these students to get direct connect with these companies. This effort is free of cost at the end of student. 

I would request you to share the following link to students who are in the 1st and 2nd year to make sure that they are updated with what is happening with these employers. Let them register for free.  They would be able to access various internship options, job options in the future. 

Link ; www.jobhirejob.com   (spelled as in Hindi   Job hi re job )

Please feel free to circulate this to your known contacts as well.  Please feel free to contact  our Office for any help.

Thank you and have a great academic year ahead.

Warm Regards,

G R Reddy  |  Founder & Chief Facilitator |  Husys Consulting Pvt. Ltd. Santacruz (E), Mumbai-400 098, Maharastra   |   India  www.husys.net, www.hrsme.blogspot.com; www.inhusys.com

Managing "First Job"

This blog post would focus on how to manage the first job.  Here we would dicsuss about the preparation, execution in managing the first job.

"First day and First job" is always a memorable one and a great Change that one ever could go through till then. I am focusing on two facets of the First Job : Managing the Environment for yourself and Be Managed by the Environment in the new job.

Manage Environment: First Job ! Its always a great inflection point of change in anyone's life. It would help if one understand the differences between the previous life environment(Student) to the future environment(Professional)..

Understanding: One of the most important aspect of new job management is to know the difference between your earlier environment and what environment you would be getting into.  This can be achieved through : Taking help from your seniors, Your mentors in life, "Your Social Mentors - on Facebook etc., : I mean you post a question there are many to comment & offer support", Previous employees in the same organisation etc.,

Preparing: Based on the feedback and inputs from various sources, please do analyse the way the inputs are given and make sure you build clarity on what is that environment.  You don't need to assume the same way the others have commented/advised.  Because, remember "YOU ARE UNIQUE" anyway.. and your sample of comments doesn't represent the size of population.  

Living : List out the challenges that you may go through in the first job. That would help you to prepare mentally. The success and failure of your first job is in your "MIND". Build some of the do's and don'ts that you can follow. Improve that list constantly and review what is relevant and what is not relevant. 

Examples of Preparation(Indicative only... Of-course, these are 0.0001% of what you can do): 

• Visit the Work location before joining
• Meet some of the people in the work location - Reception, Security, Administrative team, Of-course HR, team manager etc.,
• Try and attend any seminars / networking events where the company representatives may visit.  You may find the connectivity with the Top Management itself. 
• Talking to people who worked earlier in that company and what their experience has been. 
• Visiting the Blogs and social/professional networking locations where the presence of company
• and the list goes on....

Find where you are: be managed 

Be Managed by Environment : Now the next best part you need to do is Managed by the Environment. Its like "Be a Roman when you are in Rome". It applies to your first Job as well. I can tell you that you feel-like RUN AWAY the first few days (As though after marriage you go to the SASURAL -In-laws the first day - remember this is nothing less than that...Ask a married women she can give you the feel what it means.... But this is manageable.. Be Brave!!!! )

Understanding : Your understanding of the environment when you are outside is one level.  Now that you are in - Its time to do some "KHOJ (Search)" again. Your half success (50%) would be based on your first level of appreciation of "Managing Environment". Now Here you need to  understand in depth about : 

• Organisational Vision, Mission & near term objective they want to achieve (You need to know how you can play a role there)
• The culture and the way it is interpreted would be of great help...
• Teams and Team Dynamics : The Boss & subordinate Relationships. 
• Support Teams and their role including : HR, Administration, Finance & Accounts etc.,
• Check what's there on the Internal Communication system(Intranet, HRIS-web2.0,Notice boards etc.,). 
• and so on....

Preparing: Now... the best is to prepare to live the way the environment is.. In other words "Be Managed by the Environment"... You have a feeling in the beginning that I can't change... If you have any intentions that way... prepare to leave now..."Don't waste your time and Organisation Time". But adapting to the environment which is not known to you would take time... Prepare yourself to brace the big change in your life.... Focus on one by one and understand the following: 

• What are the organisational norms and how they are interpreted and understood by people around and essentially how they are translated in the "doings". Example: Integrity : difficult to understand but "do not claim/produce a bill for which you did not spend money" could be a Doing definition.
• How does the performance plays a role in people evaluation.  Understand your role, responsibilities, deliverable's and clarify the measures for outcomes(In writing preferably).
• How does the teams come together and work for a common goal or uncommon goals.
• What are the team dynamics and where you should not be getting into..
• What is the top management style and how does it reflect in the working environment in the organisation
• Look for past history in each of the above and how they are treated
• In short - get yourself Inducted  (Of-course, HR folks : this is what you may want to consider helping to manage the environment for your first time job holders. Induction!!!!)

Living: is "Visualizing where are you contributing and delivering..  You can do it in many ways, some of them are listed below: 

• Make your own time sheet - record what you have done on a daily basis - record hourly for more clarity
• Measure your Output with the expected performance and clarify with the team manager (don't sound like buttering him/her while doing so). 
• Be with the team whenever possible and wherever the occasions are there (Never, be away from the team preferably )
• Be Focused and Be firm on what you wanted to do.. without sounding "Arrogant" (This is very important balance that you have to strike). 
• Have a mentor on Job whom you can share and express yourself. 
• and so on....

I do hope these brief inputs would help in building little clarity on "Your First Job"...  

Happy  New Life ahead....

About Husys:

Husys - HR Function Management Company ( www.husys.net ) is striving to build HR Department for Start-up, Small and Medium businesses since 2002. Husys strive to help in managing to stream line the change that organizations go through during their growth phase. Husys addresses the key Human related issues to support organizational Growth. We integrate the Hiring, Inducting, Performance Measurement, Policies, Employee Bonding and Development. Reach for any support in HR Services / HR Outsourcing / HR Function Management / Customized HR Outsourcing in India.

We truly live our Vision: "Synergizing Human Potential for Business & Society".

Manage your References for Advantage

If you have done Interview well and you want your reference also to go perfect... Here are some of the key things you may want to consider before letting your future employer know references.

First thing to bear in mind in giving a reference is :"Think the company is going to interview your reference the way they want to hire you". Since the reference is not a conversation but an Interview of the Reference... Hence,

1st Important - Reference should have complete understanding of the Job Role & critical attributes of the Position in the organisation - ( This is to help the context in which the other person would take reference):

Generally the companies take the personal reference would be the previous boss or worked with them... When the Hiring person calls the reference they make notes on the type of job, complexities and the attributes that they would be looking at... also they make a preparation of what kind of questions to ask and assess the responses (in a detailed "Reference Interview" ). There are chances that if the person giving reference doesn't know these inputs chances that he may give information which may be perceivable change in the opinion of the Hiring Person. Hence, its important that the person giving reference should be aware of the details to respond which would not be perceived other than the purpose of reference (The decision is mostly on the perception of the interviewer from Hiring company at the end of a conversation... which is typically on phone many a times).

2nd Important - Reference should be made aware of the Cultural Understanding of the Organisation where you are seeking job: (This is to help the person to understand how they could perceive the feedback given to them)

Making the Reference aware of the cultural indication would help them to relate the various questions/situations during the reference call. They reference is well prepared to build his/her conversation to suit to the requirement. (After all we give reference for positive outcome). This is important as certain behaviours and attributes are good in some environement and may not be true in other environment. eg: Do you ever bribe to get things done... ( may be right in one environment... may be extremely negative in other company)

3rd Important - Keep the reference informed about the call. Also try and seek specific timinings he/she could receive calls for ease of communication.

Hope these inputs helps.

Career Aspirations in 2009 by Sudhakar - Director Operations - Husys

The original article by Sudhakar appeared on EENADU the No.1 daily in AP. Please read the Eenadu link :
http://www.eenadu.net/specialpages/sp-edumain.asp?qry=sp-edumain5

Career Preparation for JOB in 2009

Economic recession, Global meltdown of Jobs in the Global Market, ofcourse leaves a thought in mind on how to get a job during this year. Its time to understand more deep about the market realities and realize our opportunities and threatens than just be in the old laurels of our brother and sisters who have succeeded and would like to travel in the same path. Its good to follow however important to customize the thoughts to be successful during the year 2009.

Emotional preparation

• Create a confidence to represent and drive yourself than others drive you with the ideas.
• Identify your unique strength (everybody in this world would have) as quality to be tough during hard times.
• Seek information but should have discretional ability to justify to your unique strength.
• Ready to be strong during all delayed communication and failure during and after the interview.
• Magnify your Listen skills to the Opportunity / Opportunities and filter your listen to the market of Jobs Lost/ Pink Slips internationally and even in domestic market.

Societal Realities

• Educate your family member especially the parents about the present industry situation and job market to ensure they are not in the world of hipe for you.
• Realize that 80% of the companies don’t have brand image to satisfy you social system where your job market is.
• Job opportunities need to be explored constantly through all sources. Now companies stopped investing on the Paper ads & Postings like previous, You would known through Social networking
• Never go along with sympathy / Pitiness against you which would kill your confidence level for your preparation in the Job Market.

Professional Focus

• Understand the Business of various Companies and your generalist role in each of the organization.
• Have a clear cut thought on why you have chosen your academic and scope of your qualification.
• Be clear, How are you going to contribute to the company, working for 8- 10 hours is not your contribution.
• Do a paper work on mapping you role in each of the organization along with related behavioural skills required.
• Bring maturity to your thoughts in expressing right in simple during the interviews understanding the domain Industry.
• Introspect yourself where you stand in the highly volatile, dynamic Business and Job market with sample question like
o Why Company X should give me a Job
o What is that I have gained since I have born?
o How well I am able to express myself about my creative thinking
o Is my thinking Conventional/ contemporary to the Business and Market changes
• Be ready to work for Risk-Reward style (Create a benefit to the Organsation and Seek for Self benefit.
• Its important to have a fairly good understanding of various functional skill to be jack of all trades to gain quick result for your academic and skills.

Personalised Focus for career

• Understand various kind/ types of jobs available in the market for your Study.
• Realise your competencies, practice on it
• Need to come out of the false prestige regarding Job expectations relating to your role and Pay.
• Express your thoughts clearly with good communication
• Prepare your profile simple covering all your competencies that you can Justify and never use Jargon, or spelling mistakes in the resume
• Optimistic approach to contribute to organization and be clear that your working in the organization is not a favour to the employer.
• Each Business Man hour is important for the organization to contribute, hence obligation to keep yourself fit and healthy.
• Its self responsibility for searching the sources of opportunities for Job availability and be connected to people and companies for your Job.

Employer would stretch from their end and would support in getting you a job in a win- win situation.

Career Aspirants Wish you all a great success during the year 2009