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Your steps to
Job Readiness
at Amity

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The steps I took to becoming

Your steps to
Job Ready
at Amity

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Who am I?

 

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Who am I?

 

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My time at Amity

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My time at Amity

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Why should you care?

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The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort

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2016

  • Too naive, impressionable, and studious
  • Open to feedback & personal change
  • Optimistic & by the book
  • Didn't find the right people

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2016

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2017

  • Restarted ALiAS, started contributing to open-source
  • Still studious but worked on learning practical skills
  • Got a major project at the CRC with ALiAS team
  • Tried to do too many things at once.
  • Found mentors, guidance, and thankfully a little bit purpose

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2018

  • Started focusing a lot more on open-source
  • Organized meetups for ALiAS, PyDelhi, volunteered for PyCon India
  • Expanded online & offline network
  • Worked with Sugar Labs for 5 months in GSoC
  • Amity helped with HackMIT to access opportunities out of reach

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2019

  • Became organizer for PyDelhi
  • Mentored 16+ students to participate in the ALiAS GSoC AMA program.
  • Contributed in building a new validation framework for Scrapy
  • Even more talks, hackathons wins, workshops
  • Started Mixster, first-year turnover was 16k
  • Started looking for roles. Miserable first attempt.

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2020

  • Mixster grew. Team of 11, turnover 1.4 lakh INR, retained by 3 companies
  • After 7 rounds of interviews, finally rejected but then rehired by the company I am working for, starting in April 2020
  • Financially independent. Wrote about it.

  • Judging hackathons now, grew my role at PyCon India
     
  • Then the pandemic came...
  • Graduated from Amity. Online.
  • Thought to travel to Europe on my own but ended up canceling 7+ flights.
  • Joined balena and worked remotely. Wrote about it.

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A record of everything I did for the last 4 years

"How did I reach here"
"How did I become job ready"

If you ask others, they will say it's either programming skills, projects I did, opportunities I had from the start, talking at big conferences, organizing meetups, having mentors, being with the right group, or just blind luck.

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"How did I reach here"
"How did I become job ready"

If you ask me, I would agree.

Because whatever the reason might be that extra bit of work is what made the difference. And, I wanted to let my journey at Amity be an example to show that it isn't magic. I believe you can do it too.

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So, why should you care?

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Because, your first job is cruical

  • Experience & mentorship
  • Learning critical life skills
  • Path to the next goal to find better work and designation
  • And, of course, money.

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Your steps for job readiness

  • Finding your group at college. This is the key.
  • Finding seniors & mentors to guide you.
  • Finding a community to contribute towards.
  • Building credibility with teachers & college to support you.
  • Be open to feedback from all sources.
  • Build the ability to sell yourself in the job market
  • Always keep looking for new opportunities
  • Sharpen those soft skills to talk, write and lead when it matters
  • Build skills, work on your craft, & the resume will take care of itself
  • Contribute to open-source ethically, not for the money.

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Resources

  • http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/i-want-2-do-project-tell-me-wat-2-do.pdf
  • https://foss.training/
  • https://opensource.guide/
  • Join ALiAS: https://asetalias.in
  • https://www.firsttimersonly.com/
  • Learn more about local communities & join meetups with meetup.com
  • https://mixstersite.wordpress.com/2021/06/06/remote-job-hunt-what-worked-for-me/
  • https://mixstersite.wordpress.com/2020/12/20/rat-race/

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And, that's about it!

Questions?

Vipul Gupta

Part-time remote setup builder, solves GitHub issues and makes memes that no one asked for.

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