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Career Thinking

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My Objective today

Make you understand WHY you need a career Path

Some key facts to know before taking career decisions
Provide valuable guidelines for some of you and make you
aware of important things nobody will tell you!
Entertain the others.

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Your Tasks Today

Listen
Ask questions, give feedback at any time
Take a sheet of paper and answer the following questions …

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Question 1: Who is Your Hero ?

Why?
You do not have one? It’s time to Think …

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Question 2: What Made Zuck, Gates,
Larry Page Etc Succeed?
Let’s brainstorm a while, throw ideas around…

They were damn smart (Harvard, Harvard,

Stanford) and had at least one hard skill:
PROGRAMMING.
Lesson 1: invest time to learn one thing well, even if it
takes 10000 hrs to be expert in it
Lesson 2: don’t think that the big guys just had ONE great
idea and that was it. It is not true!! Lots of (hard) skills
behind and it’s the same for Steve Jobs, Sean Parker etc.
Lesson 3: Software is eating the world, if you do not
program be ready to be programmed.

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Question 3: What Do You Love To Do
The Most?

Create content
Sell content
Entertain

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Question 4: What Is Your Ideal Job?

Correct answer: one that gives me sufficient money for

doing what I love (see above)?

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Question 5: What Is Your Value For The
Business?

A Starter
A Grower
A Runner?

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Other Questions

If you already know:

What business domain
you want to work in?
What will be your ideal
position in 3 years?

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What to write down …

During the day

What impressed you, make you
change your mind, discover new
thing, disagree.
Day end
A simple sentence to summarize
this training to sell it to other
students
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Now Let’s Start

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China and Piano

How many Chinese Play Piano?

Nearly as many as the France population (60 millions)

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China and Piano

What’s the impacts?

Lots of Chinese manufacturers: Nieer, Hsinghai, Dong Bei, Pearl
River, Parrot, Shanghai, etc.
Low cost …
Medium to low quality
What is the probability to have a Chinese piano genius in
the next 5 years
HIGH
Lang Lang – genius and Rebel
Andy Lee – Genius from Hong Kong (since 3 years old)

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India

How many Top 1% of engineer

more than All EU engineers
What’s the impacts?
IT Companies investing massively in India
Top engineers in US startup are often Indian people
If your job could be outsourced, it will be!!!
Some terminology
Top 1% = Talent = company will invest in you
Others = employees = average = standard career path

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Recipes For Future Young
Employees

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Recipes For Future Young Employees
Communication
Manage your e-reputation since day one
Protect your private life by separating business/private life
Invest in your LinkedIn profile
Beware of social networks and “your friends!”
Communicate clearly
Use face to face communication
Avoid email
If you have something to say, say it (Blog, ESN, etc.) do not
become frustrated
Speak Several languages or learn them
English first and learn another language then
Know how to Program (at least in JavaScript)
Ask questions (5 Why) to understand, be agile in the org.

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Recipes For Future Young Employees
Choosing your employer
Small is beautiful! Vs. Too Big to fail?
Ask for a clear Job Description
Negotiate your salary
Money: Fixed and Variable part
Health insurance
Travel Policy
Other: mobile phones, travel policy, training, work from home
Select and stay in a domain area
Business knowledge is long to acquire! Need 10000 hours to become
an expert
Select your scope carefully
local - regional – International
Do not live too far away from the office (45 mn max)

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Recipes For Future Young Employees
When Hired
Say hello in the morning
Fail fast (1 month) or stay long (2 years min)
Advancement is not only linked to performance!
Manage wisely your budget! Money can be an issue quickly.
File every thing you’ve done (finish) for the team, the
project and the company once a week! Celebrate success.
Adapt to the “enterprise bio-rhythm”
You can disagree, but stay positive, do not be negative (so
French)!
Take notes during meeting!

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Recipes For Future Young Employees
Mentoring
The world is unfair … accept this!
Not every fight is good to make!
Listen Steve Jobs Stanford Speech 2005
Listen J.K. Rowling Harvard Speech
Manager is not a job, it is a role
Train and learn by yourself

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Recipes For Future Young Employees
Life Balance
Working too much proves that you are not well organized,
or that there is an issue somewhere!
Keep your friends! Force to go out with them
Organize your time for “Nothing to do”
Take risks before 35 or leave with Regrets!

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Recipes For Future Young Employees
Improving Continuously
Never stop learning and training (or you will be
outsourced!)
You need a mentor, you need tools, you need organization.
Finding a job is not and end, it’s a beginning.
You will have to change your job and train again 4 times in
average during your career
Make small steps often instead of big changes that never
happen (or are mandatory and painful)
Go to conference or fares or meetup often, stay in contact
with the field and the business domain trends
Always finish what you start! And celebrate …
Keep your free will

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Now, It’s up to YOU …
Re-imagine The World
Zuckerberg, Larry Page, etc. are changing the world …
Why?
They decided to change the world, they believed in
something and wanted to change the wor
You can do the same …
Nothing is impossible, just dream and use technology to
make your dreams come true
“Stay foolish, stay Hungry” said Steve Jobs
Technology is cheap
World is flat
It’s up to YOU now
And when you will be rich and famous, never forget to give back …

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