Vipul Gupta
Vipul is a software engineer at balena and a documentarian running his docs initiative called Mixster. He advocates strongly for open-source, cheesecakes and party parrots.
Digging Opportunities
Open-Source Edition
Where Do
you Get
them opportunities?
Opportunity
derived from the word - Opportune
-
Any activity that leads to
growth of self. - Companies hiring interns, new job listings
- Hackathons, conferences, developer meetups
- Freelancer tasks, contracts, mentoring, talks
how it helps?
- Immeasurable Experience
- Personal and Professional Growth
- Building a global network
- Helping solve problems that matter
- The list is endless,
- Opportunities are great.
- We know that.
- Next slide, please.
- M O N E Y
how
What
Where
Steps to hit the
ground running
- Asking RIGHT questions
- Meeting RIGHT people
- Growing RIGHT mindset
How can you find them
Asking the Right Questions
- Be specific
- Pinch of Empathy
- And follow these guidelines by Shaktimaan.
Meeting the Right people
- See what others are trying to do, take inspiration and follow.
- If you missed a deadline, make sure to mark the calendar at least.
Growing the Right Mindset
- Failing is okay.
- Digging deep is necessary
- Confidence in everything you do.
Where can you find them
- Newsletters (Loads of them)
- Twitter (Follow people, then follow their mentors)
- Communities (Lots of them)
- Mailing lists (Loads of them)
- Your Network (ALiAS)
- Opportunity websites/books/wiki-pages/blogs
- Going through LinkedIn
feedsprofiles. - Facebook Groups (Flow, FBDev)
- Checking out Instagram, to grow that network of yours
Will fill them slides with a flood of links
Wait for it, Dwight knows.
What TO-do when you find one
- Procrastinating
- Application process
- Selection process
- Funding
- Visa Troubles if any
- Getting the most of it
- Never stop looking
Testimonials
Getting you some examples
Fail multiples times
only to succeed
My story ...
Keep a negative mindset
Unlimited source
of motivation
Always Help others,
Human tend to help back ...
Be consistent
I keep a calendar of opportunities that I like to follow up on each month
That's what she said
When you realize the new way to find opportunities in life
To all the awesome people who have helped or would help in the near future to make this presentation awesome, and more comprehensive. I say,
Cred-Deets
and soooo many more ...
Danke scheon !!
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Vipul Gupta
Student, Programmer, Writer, Open-Source Contributor, Traveller, C&H Comics Collector
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[ALiAS] Finding opportunities at University
By Vipul Gupta
[ALiAS] Finding opportunities at University
A never ending presentation by Vipul Gupta, on a topic close to his heart of how one goes about digging the right opportunities of all kinds in life.
