1) The document provides advice on how to progress your career in IT, including developing communication and networking skills, continuing your education, and focusing on company success when working with your boss. 2) It describes typical roles in an IT company such as development, testing, support, and sales and discusses trends in big data, cloud computing, ecommerce, and cybersecurity. 3) The document also offers life advice focused on financial independence through tax knowledge, insurance, and investments as well as maintaining a healthy lifestyle through exercise, learning, socializing, and valuing relationships over material possessions.

1. Career And Life After MZOS

2. About Career..

3. How to zoom in your career
You and only You are responsible for your career – So take charge NOW !!!
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Develop good communication skills
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Read correctly
Write crisply
Focus on building you own network
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Get a “real” mentor
Talk to seniors (including managers)
Be branded in your personal way
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Show your energy, enthusiasm
Continue your education (courses, certification, post-grad)......

4. A typical IT company
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Products / Services
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Components
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Code Development (Architects, Leads, developer)
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Test (FVT , SVT)
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Support (multiple levels)
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Information Development
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Build / Install
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Sales (Pre and Post)
Casual Terms: Repo (repository), build break, npe (null pointer
error),

5. How to handle your boss
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Always think about Company's success.
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Ask for work / Find the work
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Be the “GoTo” person
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Document everything – Date/Time/Person/Work
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Find out loop-holes in the current project.
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Report them
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Overcome them – either by yourself or take help
Don't ignore mundane / mediocre jobs

6. Where is the IT world moving ?
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Big Data (#hadoop, #mapreduce, #nosql)
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Social and Mobile Computing
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Cloud Storage and Cloud Computing
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Ecommerce & Cyber security
Make sure you are aware of each and
every domain mentioned above as this is
where the IT world is moving to...

7. About Life....

8. Financial Know-How
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Tax
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Learn about Income Tax slabs
Exemptions from Income Tax
Insurance
– Get insured for you and your family
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Investments & Savings
– Get advice from “known” financial planner
“After getting a job, one usually gets financially independent. But
financial independence does not mean you splurge everything”

9. Life style
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Exercise – Daily
Learn new language (need not be perl, python, c, ++) spanish,german, mandarin are high in demand.
Diligent use of 'virtual' social networks
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why not fire your own blog ? Write about your travel,
food , your expirences...
Good people make time for their friends – socialize / increase
network as much as possible.
Remember – 30 years later no one will remember what mobile
you carried, or what shoes or jeans you are wearing, but people
will remember what you learnt today, how you used it and how
well you got along with people !