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Tech Job Hunting in Sri Lanka – Part 2 – To the Interview and Beyond!
This is the sequel to my earlier post “Tech Job Hunting in Sri Lanka – Part 1 – Getting that Interview!“. If you haven’t read the first post yet, please read it before you continue. That will probably change your mind bout reading this one. Part 1 was my thoughts about the application process. This post is about what will follow if you have done the first part right. This is even longer and more boring than the first one. Read it if you really don’t have anything more interesting to do.
Tech Job Hunting in Sri Lanka – Part 1 – Getting that Interview!
These days there are so many people looking for jobs. But only few are hiring. If you find one, it’s even harder to keep it. Whether you get to keep the job or not does not depend only on your performance. It depends on your employers performance too. If you lose yours, don’t get too depressed about it. There is always another one right around the corner, if you play your cards right. You might notice that there are people waiting without jobs for longer period due to recession. But in my experience it happen mainly due to the choices they have made, knowingly or unknowingly . At least in tech sector in this part of the world, there are jobs if you know how to get them.
Each of us did our share of job hunting once we leave the school. Number of times I had the opportunity to help few friends who were having a bad time securing a job opportunity. There are often comments on the web by students complaining about difficulties of finding a job. They keep blaming on everything except on them self. But more often than not it’s because of their mistakes they lose the opportunity . Over the years I learned a thing or two about job hunting. I was hoping to write something about it for a while. But I did not find much time or motivation for it. Even if I wanted, I did not have a place to write it until I start this blog.
I am not an employment adviser. Therefore don’t consider this as employment advice in any way. If you want to take this as advice, please do that with your own risk. I don’t know much about all sectors of employment. I’ll try to focus on tech field in Sri Lanka. That is where myself and most of my friends are working. But some of the points mentioned here might be applicable to other fields/regions too.
Following are few things that I think important for effective job hunting. Even though I have put them in a list, they do not happen in sequence. Most of them are on going activities. And most of them happen in parallel. I hope this is not completely useless.
I was originally putting everything in to a single article. But it turned out to be bit too long. So I break it to two posts. This is the first part, it talks about the application process. Grab a cup of coffee and take a seat. I said coffee, not tea. It’s going to get boring 
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Outsource…..!
Assignments, Student Projects, Assignment…! We all have gone through that hell. If you are too young to say that well just hang on your turn will come. Some of us copy pasted stuff from web, and we helped each other to do the assignment. If you are lucky enough you may have been offered money to do other peoples assignments. Also there is a number of outsourcing/off-shoring web sites in which most clients are students who are trying to get someone else to do their work. This is nothing new. But all of them had one thing in common. You never did that as an open business.
Recently when I was browsing through Facebook pages I noticed this interesting advertisement . It reads “Nothing to worry about your projects and assignments. We will do it for you…”. Not only that, the advertisement carried the logos SLIIT and BIT (UCSC BIT). Even though it’s too late for me to use such a service I couldn’t resist clicking this link. I was not surprised to see people doing assignments for money but this guy (I really doubt that this is a company) has taken it to a complete new level. An open business with its own marketing.
