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Salary of IT Professionals in 2021: Insider Pro Survey Results

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The Insider Pro and Computerworld survey of more than 1,100 IT professionals reveals salary trends for a wide range of tech job titles from CIO and other leadership roles to middle management to non-management roles.

They also asked the 503 respondents who identified themselves as managers about their hiring plans in terms of budget and most-in-demand skillets. Unsurprisingly, the top IT skills in demand this year will be application development, security and cloud computing, but which skills are no longer attractive to hiring managers?

They share how their job title, experience, and gender affect their compensation plan. And reveal whether having certifications will help you land a job, pay rise or promotion.

And what of the other side of the table – what are IT professionals looking for in their careers? They also asked IT pros how satisfied they are — not just with salary, but also other factors such as job stability, flexibility, career advancement and more. A large percent said they either actively or passively look for a new job – and they told us why.

Of their total 1,759 respondents, 1,172 there employed full or part time or as an IT contractor. Of note is that 9% of respondents reported being unemployed – a significant jump from last year’s figure of 1%. The percent that are retired remained relatively consistent at 5% (6% in 2020).

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IT Salary Survey 2021: Compensation holds steady despite pandemic

Despite economic uncertainty heading into 2021 and rapidly changing industry dynamics, the outlook for IT professionals is a positive one. If the COVID-19 pandemic has done one thing for the IT industry, it’s that it has shone a very bright light on the increasingly critical nature of digital IT tools and infrastructures. What they wanted to find out is how this has impacted salaries and earning potential?

IT Salary Survey 2021: Over half of IT pros are satisfied at work – but nearly half are job hunting

Given the year they have all had and the changes in working patterns they have had to adopt, IT professionals could be forgiven for being unsettled in their work. For many though, 2020 has been a year of growth and acceleration. Their 2021 salary survey of IT professionals reveals current attitudes to pay, responsibilities and what matters most in their current jobs.

IT Salary Survey 2021: Hiring rate expected to increase but priorities will shift

In what has been a most extraordinary 12 months, they wanted to understand the prospects for IT professionals as they look forward to another year of disruption and change. How strong will the IT recruitment market be and which skills are in most demand? Has the pandemic changed hiring plans and which IT skills are no longer considered critical?

2021 Salary Survey: Get the full data set

After you read about how IT pros’ compensation is trending higher, how hiring expectations are robust and the way IT pros feel about their jobs, you may want to get their hands on critical data to help with budgeting, retention or compensation trends – you’ll need the raw file of their salary survey data. Here’s how.

 IT Salary Survey 2021: Security and cloud computing certifications on the up

Investing time, effort and money in technology certifications to improve understanding and competency across a range of technical skills certainly adds value from a personal development perspective but what does it actually mean in terms of job prospects and salary increases? Are all certifications equal or are some more valuable than others?

EduTech Industry on a Rise in 2021: Here’s Why

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EduTech Industry on a Rise in 2021: Here’s Why

2020 came with a blow to our dreams. However, some still believe that there is hope. While we sit in our homes, with less to do, many have taken to the internet to explore their hobbies, learn new skills and enhance those they already possess. The initiators are making the most of this time by increasing their learning right now.

Here are 10 ways in which you can do that too:

  1. YouTube Tutorials

YouTube is a free platform where multiple creators bring the best of their knowledge for your understanding. It is a wonderful platform to explore and dwell into the trial-and-error method. YouTube provides the opportunity for you to explore and learn as many skills as you might wish to. The pandemic has done everything but break hope.

YouTube tutorials can keep you busy and provide you the brief insights of what might be best for you.

  • Reading

Reading has by far been the best way of learning. Most of us stop reading or never pick it up due to the busy schedules that we live our lives in. These times, however, can be used to our advantage. As we are at our homes with the minimal hours of working from home and no transport hours, we can make the most of this time to pick up a book and learn something new.

70% of the leaders in the world of technology have great habits, one of which is reading everyday for at least 30 minutes. Now, you can let go of your excuse and pick up the book.

  • Live Webinars

A number of trainers have taken to the internet to provide the best of their knowledge through live webinars wherein they not only provide the brief information of the skill you wish to conquer, but also provide discount offers on their full-fledged trainings.

Live webinars can be a great way to keep yourself occupied as well as productive during the 2020 pandemic.

  • Video Conferencing

The college lectures as well school classes have taken to the internet to continue with their curriculum as usual. Anything that you want to pursue is now available on the internet. Make the most of these trainings by video conferencing with your teachers and making sure that you attend your classes as scheduled by your professors.

The graduating class of 2020 is in dire need of scoring perfectly to be able to stand out of the crowd and attain the best of the opportunities available as soon as the pandemic resides.

  • Online Trainings

The extra curriculum trainings that were a part of your natural routine do not need to stop. All your additional skills can now be attained online. For all kinds of hands-on experiences or the training centres providing lab accesses and practical training of the skill are now in the position to turn to the internet as well.

You have the chance right now, to make the best of these times and saving up on your fee structures by enrolling with centres that provide completely internet-based trainings along with the best trainers and industry standard learning material.

  • One-On-One Mentoring

On tools such as Instagram, we find that one-on-one mentors now provide the training for growing businesses online and other such requirements. You can choose any skill today and find yourself a one-on-one trainer or mentor.

This can be a great way of learning something new along with the examples of the industry experts and their experiences.

Mentors provide the best coaching and training there ever has been. Lucky for you, our platform already has that option available with our trainers being the experienced staff of the industry with more than nine year of experience each, they provide the best ever training to our students.

  • Outdoor activity in your backyard or balcony.

As they say, all work and no play make Jack a dull boy, well! That is what is happening to all of us in these difficult times. However, nowhere does it say that we are not permitted to step out to our backyards, terraces, balconies or even our apartment compounds to work-out. Make sure that you keep your bodily fluids running which will enhance your learning capacity.

It also keeps you interested in learning regularly and keeps you productive.

  • Lastly, Application of your knowledge.

The last recession period of 2008 was devastating and brought a huge blow to the economy, leaving lesser number of jobs in the market. However, the flip side of the recession was that leading organizations like Uber, Zomato, Airbnb and more were all founded during that stretch.

The leading companies ten years from now would most definitely be the ones found in these difficult times.

You have the opportunity to decide if you would be one of those founders ten years from now who changed the market completely.

Whatever it is that you do, requires learning, however it is useless unless you apply it somewhere.

Build a whole network, invent something new, make the market a better supplier to the customer or apply your knowledge whichever way possible.

Learn as much as possible in the times of the global pandemic through the greatest asset known to man – the internet.

Never stop learning!

COVID-19 Leaves Industries Impacted: 5 Industries That Will Survive 2021 with Prosperity

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COVID-19 Leaves Industries Impacted: 5 Industries That Will Survive 2021 with Prosperity

Exploring how Covid-19 is killing not only people but careers is becoming the need of the hour. The consequences are starting to feel much similar to what the 2008 recession looked like. COVID-19 is definitely worse than just flu. We must understand that it doesn’t only impact the health stability of the world, but the economic stability is in jeopardy as well.

Let’s explore how this deadly virus has impacted the world of networking. As per the research of one of the leading global brands in the field of network devices, Nokia published that within a few days, the internet usage increased from 20-40%. The networks that we function on are ready to see and adhere to the increase of 30-45% within a year, instead of days.

The question is that within an industry where backend maintenance is of utmost importance, will the Work from Home agenda and lifestyle work or will take the internet down globally?

This factually became a point of concern for the Vice President of Cisco. While he issued the statement that looking at the increased traffic, the networks across the globe seem to be handling it pretty well, he still continues to monitor the impact of COVID-19 on the global networks.

The areas that are using maximum of the data and affecting networks are:

  • Online Gamers
  • Work-From-Home Individuals
  • Schools and Colleges
  • High-resolution Video Streaming
  • Teleworkers

All of these users and more have increased the number of times they are now relying on networks and the internet to get through the day. The constant usage of the networks has increased the network impact by more than 10% higher growth as compared to the expected rate.

Wollenweber explained by that a single network in Italy, one of the first countries to enter a complete shutdown, Telecom Italia, saw a 70% spike in usage on its fixed network. While these changes have happened at a similar level in the rest of the world as well, with China returning to normalcy, the average however was gradually slowed down.

Yet, the focus now that we have, globally is to prepare for such emergency situations. Global networks like Cisco and more are looking to expand their horizons as to how they function and serve to the new arriving traffic.

Taking a look at the individual application growth rates and how they increased the way that networks adhere to their requirements, Nokia did an extensive research.

According to Nokia, WhatsApp usage spike from 117-217% within the first day of the global lockdown. While it continues to grow with multiple news articles and videos forwarded through WhatsApp daily, the networks seemingly, are performing very well.

Also, the usage of Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hotstar also increased multifolds. This increased the streaming of high definition videos. YouTube has by far been the platform most used for streaming high-definition videos whilst YouTube also provides for the standard definition processing which in turn helps the networks well.

The usage of network data for all purposes including professional and entertainment have impacted the usage of networks immensely.

LET’S SEE IF THE NETWORKING JOBS ARE NOW SECURE?

Job Placements Held back.The job sector has taken a blow. The leading institutes in India such as ISB and IIMs under management, Maximum IITs as well under technology have not seen the campus placements take the spike, they usually do this time of the year. Organizations have put back more than 200 job offers single handily putting the job sector in jeopardy.

Flipkart to honour job offers without any salary deductions. While amidst all this negativity, a ray of hope shone when Flipkart put out a release that all job offers will be honoured and no pay-cuts will be imposed on Flipkart employees. This arena remains unexplored for maximum and major organizations.

India handled traffic growth well. Among the Indian organizations that have handled the situation and traffic well, we honour a few such as Airtel, Vodafone, Den Networks and more.

Rising Demand for Network Usage.With the above data however, I feel it is safe to conclude that networking jobs are very well secure. With repeatedly increasing users of the networks and traffic rising every day, the requirement for personnel among networks is bound to rise, rather than reduce. We are definite and positive that the demand is increasing.

Smooth Transition of Networks. It is undoubted that the networks have handled the increased traffic smoothly within a matter of days with the help of their personnel. The jobs are undoubtedly secure without any foreseeable pay-cuts.

Requirements of the Networks to Increase among Profits.In fact, we expect the jobs among the networking organizations to rise higher than expected initially. Doesn’t this sound assuring as a network engineer or an architect? Doesn’t this calm your horses down in regards with your career?

We encourage you to strengthen your portfolio as a networking professional for the requirement is bound to shoot high. The revenues and resultingly, the salaries are bound to rise too.

Network Kings Brings the Best Career Oriented Courses You Need in 2021

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Experts have been training students and aspirants for years now, yet professionals continue to fail time after time, identifying the correct direction and the correct field of knowledge required for them to acquire forthwith.

Not too long ago, even I had the major dilemma as to what exactly I needed to move into the right direction for my career. It took me a little while to realise what I needed to learn and the skills that I was lacking as to achieve the goals I had in my mind.

The only thing that helped me understand what the right direction is, was through the experience of professionals who knew what the industry was all about and understood it well enough through their experiences.

Let’s take a look at the 10 major courses that can help you grow your career, pivot if you need to and find the right direction. The reason why we need to continue to engage ourselves in these courses is because similar to medicine, even technology is a world that changes continuously today. If you lag behind, there is no recovering from the loss you incur.

  1. Beginner Programs

Let us explore the courses best suitable for you if you happen to be a fresher. The most common mistake that professional make today with an abundance of knowledge available, is that they misidentify the courses they need to invest their time in.

As a fresher, if you end up enrolling yourself for a course that the industry accepts only for experienced professionals, you end up doing nothing but wasting your resources.

Therefore, it is important to identify the correct courses for yourself.

  1. Cisco Networking Basic Specialization

Now, as a technology student, I should assume that you are most definitely pursuing a bachelor’s in technology currently. While that is the basic education threshold for you, it is important to understand the basics of the specialization you are trying to pursue as well.

A bachelor’s in tech would simply provide the knowledge required for the vast field of technology. Once a student identifies the field that they wish to proceed in, understanding every detail of the field is equally important. This course provides exactly that knowledge.

Leading companies like Google provide the most basic and important courses for the knowledge that a fresher or beginner might need while stepping into networking. While that serves as a perfect steppingstone for a lot of people, most students find it difficult to pay such high fees and end up not gaining the knowledge at all.

This is where is comes in necessary for student to pursue these courses with the help of the training platforms who train through the experiences personnel of the industry to provide the best possible knowledge, however still, offer the same curriculum at affordable prices and fee structures.

This makes it possible for the aspirants who do not have proper financial support for their education, to be able to enrol for these courses and attain the necessary education.

  • Computer Network Courses

Computer network courses most often include the curriculum necessary to understand the specifications behind the computer networks. The most basic courses are available with the names that are easy to understand and adapt for freshers. The name of the course merely clarifies to the student, what they would reap by investing in a certain course. While the curriculum is quite advanced in these courses such as Phase 1 by Network Kings, which clearly suggests that it’s the very first step to take to build a career in networking, it is important to understand that all necessary details will be taught during the sessions.

  • Introduction to Computer Networking

Introduction to Computer Networking is a field of courses which has a vast curriculum designed by the experts and is taught by a number of training platforms. Students in fact may find these articulated by different names at different training platforms, however, it still makes the course to remain the same.

No training platforms ever ignore the very basics of the trainings required. The introduction to computer networking is an umbrella of courses that surfs through anything and everything necessary for a career in networking.

  • Networking courses by Cisco

Cisco has by far, been proven the best ever networking organization across the world. Leading the market as such in the field of networking, cisco has conquered the platform with its outstanding approach to other networking organization as well. From devices to services, Cisco has not left anything behind.

Yet, similar to Google, students also find it hard to be able to pay for the Cisco training services.

As the Cisco curriculum is the best and widely accepted so far, the training platforms worldwide have taken upon themselves to provide the exact same curriculum to the students as acceptable fee prices.

  • Intermediate and Advanced Programs

Experienced professionals are expected to have the most basic of the knowledge of the field that they are associated with. That is the reason why for experienced professionals, there is a whole separate set of courses which helps the aspirants grow faster and reach higher for the sky instead of staying stagnant.

Let’s take a look at what is best suited for the networking professionals as of today, in the times of 2020.

  1. CCNP R&S and Security

CCNP or Cisco Certified Networking Professional is a curriculum designed by Cisco itself for the understanding of how Cisco networks and devices function. The most important aspect of this training is to learn about securing networks. As a fresher, the industry would expect merely the understanding of creating and deploying networks while as an experienced professionals, the expectations rise. Being able to secure those networks are of utmost importance to organizations. That is what CCNP entails for an aspirant network engineer. While one is bound to learn these details eventually with experience anyhow, companies across the industry appreciate those who go out of their way to learn these aspects even before the industry itself presents the opportunity with higher packages.

  • CCIE Enterprise and Security

CCIE is also a Cisco presented curriculum with, as it suggests, is an integrated course which provides the knowledge of all cisco network enterprise and security information. While a lot of training platforms today provide the training for CCIE at much better prices than Cisco themselves, hardly do they ever share with their students that as a fresher, this course holds no credibility in the industry.

In fact, a student holding the qualification of CCIE as a fresher on their resume, would rather be considered as too eager by the industry instead of what the students usually expect.

The curriculum of this course is designed as such that it is best suited to be attained only by experienced professionals.

  • CompTIA Networking+

When the basics are covered and understood through the education and experience, the professionals are required to reach the next level.

This can be done by identifying the next step.

CompTIA Networking+ is a course that provides the advanced knowledge required for any network engineer to move onto the next level in their career.

The reason behind this is that this course provides the advance level knowledge which is also not suitable for a fresher. As it is, the industry would definitely frown upon that, apart from that the knowledge would also not be understood by a fresher well.

  • Certified Ethical Hacker

A certified ethical hacker, as it suggests, is bound to learn how to hack into systems. However, the purpose of this course is not to hack into the systems of others but to protect their own. A company providing networking solutions is bound to get hacked into from time to time by competitors or others.

The advantage and requirement here are to prevent their own systems from getting hacked into.

This is the best possible course to understand all that one needs to, to be able to prevent the network systems from getting hacked into.

  • F5 Technology Specialist

F5, similar to Checkpoint and Palo Alto, is a Firewall training which comes as a next step for networking professionals.

Explore more of such courses at https://nwkings.com/s/store/courses

4 Reasons you are running behind in your career & how you can change that.

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Reasons you are running behind in your career how you can change it?

The online training platform for networking trainings, Network Kings, is here to help you attain jobs in the market and prepare you for the challenges ahead that you might face in your fight for the industry you wish to thrive in.

Network Kings has a pool and bundles of courses like CCNA – Cisco Certified Network Associate, MCSA – Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate, Linux, Palo Alto, Checkpoint Firewall, F5, ASA Firewall and more to support your learning and grow your career prospects in the tech industry.

Network King is soon launching with job-oriented courses for the cloud with a Master Cloud Program including a combination of AWS, Azure and Google cloud, all under one roof to enhance your career in the field of cloud engineering.

Just like many of our students, we understand how rapidly the industry is growing and wish to adhere to all the points on a graph for tech growth. Since all of our trainers are also acutely and deeply associated with leading IT organizations as a part of their employees, we gain in-depth and the ground level knowledge of what happens in the field of tech, today. That has helped us build and bind trainings for you which make you wonderfully job ready!

Career is the point of attention for you and we acknowledge that! You can attain the in-depth understanding of skills through our renowned and experienced faculty. In fact, you can also grow your personality with our grooming instructors; you are Corporate Ready!

  1. You don’t know your path yet.

    Here’s what Network Kings does: We build your path!

We take the liberty to help you and build you a standard path which outlines the guide way for you to walk on and build your personality along with your technical skills. For any organization today, having a multi-tasker is a wonderful asset as their employee role. We ensure that we train you in every aspect desirable.

With most of our courses, you receive the basic understanding of communication skills and presentability as you learn from industry professionals. Their experiences have proved to teach more to students than what a mere text format of theoretical learning can teach them.

Your pathway towards a Job

  • Enrol for certification
  • Complete Training
  • Personality Grooming
  • CV Building
  • Mock Interviews
  • Ready to kickstart your career

In fact, we also offer combinations of courses wherein you are entitled to detailed learning for personality grooming and CV building as well. For the students who might find themselves in such needs, we also offer them with resume writers who then help them in creating their resumes.

We know that the industry is fast-changing, yet it takes a long time for new trends to emerge and be accepted in the market. We hold the audacity and courage to one of those changers. In the times where most trainers and students are looking for ways to be able to climb up the ladder as quickly as possible simply on the basis of their certificates, we intend to build your personality with a strength that doesn’t leave you hanging dry once you get into the industry and find yourselves unable to deliver project requirements.

  • You don’t understand your priorities yet.

    Here’s what Network Kings does: Your Job is our Priority

We intend to build our students’ careers, not only kickstart the engine but also enable them to go for a long way. With that intention, we introduce the concept of 50% job guarantee!

What do we mean by 50% Job Guarantee?

Job guarantee is a combination of efforts that brings you to convert your skills into job prospects.

We walk towards you with the trainings and certifications, whilst you walk ahead towards your job goals.

So how about changing the relationship and terminologies from a guaranteed package while compromising on quality?

Let’s get to the best available opportunities and work on ourselves together and get to the best packages on our own capabilities.

  • You Need an Experienced Mentor.

    Here’s what Network Kings does: Your Prospects are the Sunshine

It is important to know for a candidate, where he or she might stand once they put in all their efforts to learn an entirely new skill and get certified with expensive and rigorous trainings. We know that you are inquisitive and anxious. To calm that anxiety of a fresher stepping into the world or an experienced engineer nervous to move ahead as soon as possible, in his or her career, we provide you the answers to your questions. You can find the prospective job titles that you may take up in your career below.

Career Prospects

  • Level 0: Support Engineer
  • Level 1: Support Engineer
  • Support Engineer
  • Network Administrator
  • Senior Analyst
  • IT Manager
  • General IT and IMS

You can also find out more about this in detail or try and build your career as your desired designation, with the help of our guidance counsellors available 24*7 on our support helpline. The details for the helpline can be found under our contact details on the website as well.

  • You don’t know who to seek help from.

    Here’s what Network Kings does: You are in Good Hands!

What do you gain with us?

  • Practical Learning
  • English Speaking
  • Communication Skills
  • Interview Grooming
  • Job Ready

We hope that you can well decide what is best for you, however, if you ever find yourselves in a situation where you can’t, we are always behind you, having your back.

Interview Tips for Freshers: How to Ace Your Interview While Switching a Job

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Don’t you wish someone would tell you how to nail the job interview you are appearing for? How easy would it be if someone told you clearly, how to easily nail your job interview? Well, now there is. With over a 100 job interviews that I have reviewed and about a 30 interviews that I have appeared for myself, it is safe to say to that I can clearly help you with how you can make sure you nail the job interview.

Making a great impression on your interviewer will be a cakewalk with these FIVE steps. Understanding the art of nailing an interview is the surety of landing every job you set your eyes on. I understand that in most cases, just reaching the PI level can be tough. While the initial steps of an application process involve the requirement of skills deeply related to the job role you are appearing for, such as the Aptitude test and the Group Discussion round, most people who reach a PI fail at the final step. This is both heart-breaking and negative for your career.

Well, there is no need to worry. Here are the most basic yet often ignored FIVE steps to nailing your job interview.

  1. Know the organization you’re interviewing for.

A huge number of interviewees often forget or ignore this step. Making sure that you get selected for an organization is way more than just acquiring the skills. In a world where everything is interconnected, one can never neglect the fact that a backend job like tele-calling or database management can also require top of the notch communication skills.

The organization has only one way of knowing that you are devoted to them and care about what the organizational needs are, and that is through finding out whether or not you understand what the nature of the organization is. How they can ensure that you are a good fit for them is through questioning whether you know them or not.

There is no need to freak out at this point though. They do not expect you to understand the inner workings of the organization or the work culture. The basic requirement on their minds is that you understand or are at least familiar with what the basic product or service of the organization is, you know what their website looks like and understand what the organization needs from you when you become a part of their community.

  • Stand apart from your resume.

The first question that a PI interviewer usually proceeds with is to understand whether the candidate knows so much as themselves. It’s a reliable saying, that one who can’t sell themselves has no business selling anything else. You are a product by yourself whilst in a job interview. The product being you and the seller being you, this should come off as a cakewalk. Yet, many fail because they simply do not know themselves. Worse yet, they do not understand how to portray themselves. Well, no more.

Here I am, telling you that selling yourself is by far the easiest tasks to do. The most common mistake that a candidate would make is letting their resume reek of their personality. Resumes are like advertisement slogans. They do let the viewer know what they are looking at but not understand it fully. After all, if the slogan gives everything away, why would a viewer sit through the whole commercial anyway.

You need to let the interviewer get to know you beyond your resume. My advice? Always answer that question with the statement “Apart from my resume….” Highlighting the core characteristics of your personality such as the things you define yourself with, whether it is that you love coffee or are a vegan.

Your hobbies play a huge role in letting the interviewer know whether you are serious about growth or not, too.

  • Give examples and increase your credibility.

It is the interviewer’s job to interview people day in and day out. Would it come as a surprise to you if they were able to tell your lies apart from the truth? Not at all. They are well accustomed to reading faces as much as they can read your resume. The first question as soon as you say ‘Yes’ to something is going to be requesting for an incident to support your affirmation.

Let’s say that I let my interviewer know that I am a traveller while the last time I travelled was back in my sixth grade, would you even trust me? I wouldn’t trust myself with that my friend, let along my interviewer.

All he or she cares about is if they will be able to get the work done by me or not. These questions about you are not for them to dwell into a chit chat with you. Neither do they have any interest in going out for a walk with you. All they care for is understanding the type of person you are, professionally.

Now, in the same example, if I was to say that I am a traveller and am able to support the statement with more than five trips that I took in the previous year itself, that makes me a reliable individual.

The bottom line is, make yourself reliable and your statements trustworthy with incidents to support them.

Don’t be afraid to say no when that answer is negative. All they would appreciate in that case is your honesty. Your lack of ability for one particular thing is of no concern to them. They would honour your acceptance of yourself than focus on the qualities you don’t possess.

  • Eye contact with your interviewer goes a long way.

Once you reach the personal interview round, you are no more just a candidate out of a hundred or thousand. You are now a potential member of their community. Today, the communication skills are not limited to the way you speak. Your body language plays a huge role in your interview. While it is important to make eye contact, it is equally important not to forget the rest of the panellists.

It is natural to get dwelled into a conversation with the one person on the panel who is speaking to you at the moment, while it is crucial that you remember the others. This portrays how serious you are about the job and the company more than ever.

It is important you make each of the panellists feel important, just the way you would want to feel important amongst each of them. Imagine if one of the panellists only cared about demoralising you, wouldn’t you develop a disliking towards them? This works vice versa too. Unlike your opinion however, their opinion about you matters. So, make sure you help each of the panellists feel heard and answer the questions to the point. Don’t beat around the bush. Don’t simply fall prey to the confusing points of the interview they may create for you.

Making an eye contact develops a brief relationship with your interviewer. Help your interviewer feel significant as you would wish for yourself.

  • FINALLY, BE A CLOSER!

Have you ever felt like once you are done, you don’t know how to let the listener know that you are done speaking? Well, that is one skill highly crucial for the interview sessions. You know how the person who knows how to end a conversation can actually lead the conversation? When I let my listener know that I am done speaking, they are not confused anymore and are completely satisfied. Sticking to the topic and being a closer, helps you not over-share.

Sharing too much in fact, can actually land you into trouble at times. When you share too much, you leave room for more questioning. However, when you are a closer, you know when to end and the interviewer knows that you have mental clarity about yourself and your ambitions.

Being a closer can help you dictate your own interview instead of leaving that up to the interviewer.

Picture this that when you ask me how my weekend went; I tell you that it was good. It leaves room for you to ask me what I did, who I met, what I ate, which club I went to, what kind of friends I have, if I have a boyfriend/girlfriend and so on. While it comes off as a great gesture that you would want to know more about me, it might leave me in an uncomfortable position. Instead if I simply told you that I had a great weekend, I spent it with a bunch of friends hanging out at my apartment watching movies of Drew Barrymore and having pizza; it provides the basic yet detailed information which leaves you either saying that’s great or sharing your own weekend events. This way I could simply dictate how much I wanted to share and closed my end of the conversation.

I hope you can remember to make the best impression the next time you walk in for a job interview and wish you all the very best to leave them astounded!

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How to Become a High Paid Manager in IT?

Being a manager can seem a relatively easy task yet takes a lot of the new managers by surprise. Managers have been known to fail time after time, ending up asking the question about what they are potentially doing wrong.

Like many other, even being a manager in technology is a role that takes a lot of experience and mistakes to learn the best ways and practices. However, while trial and error method can be the best teacher for all mistakes, the time taken to understand the mistakes by a manager can hamper the clients’ quality time as well as money.

No wonder that even though trial and error can be extremely helpful in realizing and rectifying mistakes, a little extra help can do no hard. Seeing the people in my first organization ever, struggle with the simplest things such as writing an email triggered me to find out more about how managers feel the overwhelm where they end up not knowing how to approach situations. Sitting behind screens and solving technical problems are their fortes. There is no doubt about that. While dealing with and leading people can be an entirely different story.

  1. Upgrade Your Skills with Certifications.

Many a leadership teams now have the resources as well as the potential to build learning and development teams so as to provide the trainings that their employees might need to bridge the gap between where they are and the role they are required to fulfil.

Among these trainings, can be your initiative to make yourself learn more about what you don’t already know. Training can be the easiest way to learn something. While people with jobs hesitate in taking up new courses and trainings, being able to train during the work hours is a wonderful solution which almost all major corporations now invest in.

They understand that a few hours of training provided to their employees can result in reduced mistakes and better understanding, benefitting the organization in the long run.

That is most precisely where your role is to realize that you lack a skill and must be willing to learn. While your organization can very well provide the resources for you to do so, showing up to learn something is on you.

  • Value Your People More Than The Tasks.

Even though the opposite is exactly what your organization needs you to, the question to be wondered upon here is what the big picture is. The big picture remains to achieve the goals of the organization.

If given a task, your company and leadership would be less than bothered about how the goals have been achieved.

That being said, your team shall only understand that once they feel valued by you. Feeling valued by the organization is a translation of by far being valued by you itself.

Once your team feels that you value them, you understand their goals and personal requirements and are willing to go the distance to help them achieve those, their dedication changes from their personal goals to those of yours.

The managers’ task is basically to align their own interests with that of the organization since the team members who are dedicated to their managers will then automatically work towards achieving the goals of the organization.

  • Lead. Don’t Manage.

Even though being a manager brings power, well, so does responsibility. Being a manager is a step-up when looked at with the perspective of designation. While considering the responsibilities, it makes a manager a servant to both parties: their team as well as the organization.

No surprise to the fact that the organization already had you working for them as per what they needed, but now you are in fact responsible for what your team needs as well.

Simply meeting the goals and achieving the targets is not enough anymore. No matter the number of people on your team, each of them needs to be valued, understood and given the chances and the work environment that they personally feel comfortable in.

Imagine having to adhere to ten different kinds of mindsets and evolving the situation for each one of them separately. Well, that is exactly what it is like to be a manager.

  • Use Communication & Transparency as Your Pillars.

One might think that this ends up being generic to all kinds of managers. The specification here as to what a technical manager can do, is about the work-related communication.

While as human beings, all of us are looking for the same things as acceptance and appreciation, as technical managers, the communication matters more.

Technical personnel are rarely known to open up and take the initiative to ask for the things they want. The lack of communication between a manager and their team members leads to distancing from the organization amongst mindsets therefore decreasing the chances of the organization at success.

Being communicative and transparent about the events of the organization and the mindset of the manager themselves, can help the team understand the inner workings of the organization. It also helps them create relatability with the manager. As humans, feeling relatable is a form of acceptance to us. This creates respect towards the manager and colludes the personal as well as professional goals.

  • Connect with you team members.

Connecting doesn’t merely mean to align your interests with theirs. Connects are utterly crucial when we talk about understanding the needs of your team.

Often times, while being stuck in a loop to deliver the release that one might be working on, managers can tend to forget what their team members need.

Let’s face it, it’s hard to realise and remember each of your team members’ requirements. However, the way to make them feel valued can be to remember to connect with them regularly.

Meeting one-on-one with your team members gives them the opportunity to open up more and express the thoughts that usually are held back in team connects.

Both being equally important, managers should ensure that they show up for team connects as well as one-on-one connects consecutively. I personally feel that being a manager with a technical background is a blessing. Being able to understand the job of your team members is the first step to build a connection with them. Make sure you understand their needs and find a way to fulfil those too.