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Good morning and welcome to another episode of Growth Mindset

so my name is Mahesh Chan the founder of C-sharp Corner today here I'm joining

everybody from Philadelphia outside Philadelphia it's a nice beautiful day 70 degrees this has to be one of the best days I would say here in Philadelphia

area if you are joining us first time welcome to the show if you are coming

back your regular frequent you know audience mr welcome back to the show as you may some of you

may already know this show focuses on growth mindset we discuss different topics we are not

married to one topic or other each week is a different topic we you know take a lot of questions

from audience so feel free to post your comment questions questions can be anything anything

related to the topic we are talking or without the topic we're talking it can be anything

all right so let's get started um everybody just say hi join us just feel free to say hi

so i know who's joining us today um and then uh deepak is already here vasker looks like

uh ton of people already joined uh and uh welcome vaskar deepak welcome to the show again you guys

our visitors regular visitors thanks for hanging out with me on this uh friday

noon here in the u.s and i'm sure it's evening at your place first thing first um i did get my

second kobe shot on wednesday and yesterday i had a little bit fever but nothing major mild fever

so i'm a little bit slow today but that's a normal side effect so i'm fully vaccinated now

in the u.s things are getting better you may have probably already heard that

in u.s now if you are fully vaccinated you all don't even need to wear a mask outside and maybe

not inside indoors okay outdoor indoor now mask is not required if you are fully vaccinated uh

US has also opened up vaccination for 12 years and older now

So they're slowly going to the younger people now. I know a lot of people, you know, you guys joining us, girls joining us from India

India is still, you know, things are still not good, but looks like they're improving

I talked to a couple of people, my family, friends in villages

They're saying things are kind of not that bad. I also talked to guys in Noida, they're saying now there's oxygen is available

Vaccine is still not available, I know, and I'm not sure why, but I think U.S. should be doing a lot more

Maybe they are waiting, they want to get the U.S. under control. Maybe that's the plan, but I think personally, if you ask me, U.S. should be sending a lot more vaccine to India

They should be producing more. Hopefully, they are doing it. We just don't know

Welcome to the show. Pradeep, welcome to the show. We are hanging out today. Today also I'm going to cut short. This show is going to be only 45 minutes. It's usually one hour from 12 to 1. The reason is I'm traveling. I'm traveling to Boston. It's a six hours drive for me. So I need to plan to leave at one. So we're going to cut a little bit short. So if you have any questions, just jump in before

So, yeah, so today I think we are going to talk about some resumes, career advice, any

questions you have about the COVID, you can update us on the situation, COVID situation

in your area, how things are going, anything you people are doing right or wrong or what

they should be doing, feel free to post any kind of comments here. We want to open this discussion for, you know, general topics

If you found some cases where people are doing a great job or not so good job

people do posts here as well. And then we are also going to talk about a new AMA coming out on 25th of this month

which is in two weeks. We are gonna have AMA show live here on this on Tuesday noon in couple of weeks on 25th

of May with Chris True. Chris is CEO and Founder of Stratus

If you don't know what Stratus is, I'm sure if you are a C Sharp Corner member, you probably

know Stratus already. platform is a blockchain product for c-sharp and dot net this is going to be very exciting we are

going to talk about the blockchain how to get started with blockchain cryptocurrencies and

stratus has its own cryptocurrency called strax we are also going to give away 500 strax

i don't know i'm going to talk to krushang about this maybe 500 maybe thousand but definitely

500 500 tracks is a pretty good money i think each stretch is strax is worth three dollars something

so it's 150 plus dollars giveaways uh so we're gonna give that giveaway as well during that live

show we will ask some questions related to stratus or blockchain or c corner and then five people will win 100 strikes each So that exciting If you are somebody who already in blockchain or in cryptocurrency already know about the stratus

view that's probably good chance for you to come and win some free stack tracks

So yeah that's kind of uh news we have today. Let's go dig deep into this and today's focus is uh

how to write a killer resume as you may and the idea came from the last show

where somebody asked a question like how come my resume doesn't get selected

you know I never get a call up for an interview and you want to talk about

more and I want you to get involved you if you get a lot of calls or you never

get a call or you have a feedback just jump in just share it's like a we are

having an open discussion okay it's not a one-way street just put your questions

here. If you are not getting any calls or you are getting calls or you have any questions about the

stress. I mean okay people are calling me the wrong time. If you have any questions about

resumes, you have questions about stratus, you have questions about you have any feedback or

anything to discuss about COVID situation in India just feel free to ask questions

And then one more thing before we start our resume thing is we are C sharp corner is a

community right and when we are a community we always think about how we all together can

help in different situations so from time to time like this we are raising funds for

COVID all 100% funds raised will go to help people in India who are affected by COVID so

there is a donation link if you are in a position to donate it can be anything it can be $1 $2

whatever you can feel free to donate there I believe we have already raised close to $2,000

and I think more is coming in everything counts right we have some good good

people donated a ton of money somebody donated $100 $200 $250 so but if you are

not in a position to give away that much you can give anything right or you can

help in different ways we are raising money we will continue to raise money

It looks like Covid is going to be here for a long time

Even at our conferences, all the conferences we are doing in the rest of the year, most

of them, we are raising money for Covid or different charity. Actually, before even Covid, we were raising money for different charities, but we will

continue to do that. There's upcoming conferences coming up, Simon. Is there any conferences coming up this month, next month

also talk about those so if you guys yeah you can post post on the screen so

this month we have angular conference coming up so if you are you are angular

developer or you want to learn angular this angular conference coming up next

month we have a react conference coming up so and then we have other conferences

coming up but there's a bigger conference is coming up this you know second half of the year where we are going to do large large conferences on

dotnet as your in other other bigger topics where we have more audience so

check that out check out the conferences website check out the events website oh

yeah and we are always looking for new guys new girls speakers feel free to

just ask us questions join us follow or contact somebody on social media if you

are one of the aspiring or you know one of the speakers who want to speak at

these different conferences feel free to reach out to any of them everything is public it's available so check it out alright let's take a pause and let's

talk about resumes how many of you have sent your resumes and did not get any

call feel free to reply say yes no how many times you submit a resume to how

many companies and you do not get a call so feel free to post some comments

right or in the region I'm going to tell you really I want to explain you how the

resume selection works how some HR departments works how how basically you

are selected to even get a call forget about the job to even get a call okay so

and what you should keep in mind when you are building this resume okay and if

you think you have a great resume and you every time you submit it and you get

ton of calls then also do that share let us know let us know where you are with this topic

um so first thing first right jobs calls interviews a lot of it is supply and demand

okay supply and demand means depending on the need if there's a big need in a company for

I don't know let's say C-sharp developers and if you are a Java developer you apply in that company

you are not going to get the call it's that simple right so that's one reason that you

do not have the skill set which company is looking for that's number one number two if you are you

have this skill set which not too many people have it means let's say let's take

an example if you are an Azure architect and who has worked on

exclusively on I don't know Active Directory and there are five companies

looking for that and you apply there you're gonna get call right away because

they need you okay you need them as much as you need them they also need you the

The best part of being a software developer in today's world is that there is a big demand

of software developers as long as you know what you're doing, as long as you are up to

date, as long as you have the skill set that is required

Does that make sense? Deepak said he has sent a lot of resumes 8 to 10 times but he does not get calls

is how it is right so as i said first of all is when you're applying are you applying for anything

or you applying for the job and you have the skill set that matching the job okay one other

thing i want to add here is a lot of people i seen that some developers change their resume based on the job do not do that I talk about that in my last show on resume you should have what you are what you know what you have done

that's how it should be resume you should not lie on your resume that's just not a good thing

that is just not a good thing okay um and that's what we'll talk more about today how to create

that you know i would not show the resume i don't have sample i was supposed to prepare a

resume template which i i have somewhere but yesterday because you know i had a little bit

fever i couldn't get work done third thing is if you are sending your resume to a company

where they're getting ton of resumes already so for example if let's say big company is

hiring in Delhi, I don't know, take an example, HCL for example, or in New York, Philadelphia

let's say Comcast is hiring 100 software developers and they get 1000 resumes. It will be really

really hard, it's like one out of 10 to get one resume selected, right? But I'm going to tell you

one more secret that in India maybe yes but in the US the majority of hiring

happens based on your connections based on who you know even in India right we

always you know like I work with companies and they're hiring first thing

they will go is to the network they will ask their employees like hey we are

hiring a C-shop developer do you have any friend who's looking for job then the

first thing you start with and that's why majority of hiring happens to you and

good thing is that if you come through a reference there's not I don't know

depends on company to company depend on the person who's interviewing you chances

are the interview will not be that difficult as well all right so um building that network

building that connection um is very important in this industry the company i see this a lot of time

is that when you leave a company you don't leave a with a good relationship with your old manager

or your old company or your peers you know some do some don't and i did mistake in the past i

you know i didn't keep a good relationship my previous companies and that's the last thing i

think worst thing we do keep in mind regardless of you leave company finding your job you should

still continue to have that good relationship with your existing company because they know somebody

they know somebody and that's how it is right we hire all the time people who left us in the past

we reach out to again hey are you still looking for a job we have another opening and people come

back it happens all the time so one thing one advice i will give everybody here is that

do not burn bridges okay and i have written an article on c-sharp corner too that do not burn

bridges if one advice i have to give you you may disagree with your manager or your

co-worker or your pair or somebody's working for you but it doesn't mean that you need to

spoil your relationship you still need to be friend with them be professional with them

at least continue to be professional with them have you know definitely link with them on

linkedin or wherever you link connect right um that's very important a lot of hiring happens

from who you know and sometimes you know i hire people like because i know them okay come join i

know this person may not have the technical skill but i know this person i can trust i know this

person can work hard i know this person i can you know give him some work or her some work and they

they will get it done so that's kind of it's a big big big it's a big big plus

when you are in this industry welcome ledger back to welcome back to the show

good to see you back here hopefully you're enjoying the show today everybody

welcome to the show today we are just talking about resumes getting selected

finding your next job one of the first advice I have to give you is that forget resume do not burn

your bridges with your existing company keep a professional relationship even a good close friend

to it when you leave make sure you thank everybody when you leave a company I know in the past people

leave they just go behind the back and they leave and say i'm leaving and they put a company in a

bad situation let's say project is going on and you don't give a enough notice and you leave

because you found a better job which is nothing wrong with it you know you definitely can leave

but then because you didn't communicate with your manager in you know ahead of time

you put them in a bad situation project going to suffer means client is not going to help you or

somebody's going to suffer somewhere so that's kind of no being not professional so if you have

to leave a company you've got to be professional let your company know that hey i found a better

job and i think it's a good fit for me i'm going to leave but let me help you what i can do before

ID so you have to really be able to work more when you are ready to leave than less and you

will say okay why do I care I'm already leaving I don't care well that's up to you but this is how

you build a good relationship and these relationships matter in this industry more than anything else

Okay. Yes, so I will have a template. As I said, I have a template we created on C Sharp Corner

which I will share in next week. I was supposed to work on yesterday, but I had a fever, a little

bit fever. I did not get to work. But yes, we will share a template resume here. Actually

Simon, if you want to, can you open resume.com slash resume? There's a resume

Builder on C-sharp corner so where you can create a resume there live

And it has three templates it has template for Somebody who's starting one year experience somebody who is like three to five year experience or somebody who is

Architect level or senior guys. So yeah, so we are Going to launch this is there. It's like a private beta right now, but you can see there's templates there. Yes

And you can fill out your information and it will create a resume for you So back to let get back to the when you are you know leaving your job the important part if I had to give one advice to everybody there is do not burn

bridges with your professional peers friends professional anybody in the company wherever you go work when you leave just nicely figure out the right

way to talk to them and explain them and I think this is like I think this new

job is really good for me because of these reasons and let me know the most

important part for you before you leave is ask them let me know I have one month

or two weeks or two months how can I help you make sure that the transition

is good and no work is nothing is affected once you do that you will have

a very very plus very plus point on your side with that existing company so

that's my biggest advice if I have to give you obviously now number two your

resume when you're building this resume it has to be good resume okay and when

I said good resume we talked a little bit last week is that I see some resume

I got some resume recently where I have to I have no idea how many years of

experience this person has okay so obviously your name your contact information your title current title how many years of experience you have in

what kind of job you're looking for that should be right there at the top okay

that gives you that's that's very important part right there so I don't

have to look around okay this person has five years six years let me go when did he start this

career right so that's one thing you do is you have to have your your name obviously everybody

has name nothing wrong contact number everybody has that current title some people do some don't

but make sure your current title but then you should also have you should start saying that

five years of experience and you know being as a software developer in this this fine then

And below that, you should have a skills listing what you are experiencing

Keep in mind, put your latest skill at the top, which you think you are really best at it

That's how it should be. And if you have five projects in your resume and one project you think you did a good job

make sure that's highlighted. or let's say in one project you led a team and you were a part of architecture and you did the

design make sure that's highlighted and if there's something in one project you did do you think

you're proud of you want to figure out you want to somehow explain that and try to show that this

is something i'm proud of it it's okay to do that it's it's i want to know what kind of work you did

you are proud of it okay that's kind of I wanna look in the resume if you have so you so you got

this you know you got the template you can go look at templates here you got the projects you can also

put your extra you know don't don't put your projects you let's say if you have five plus

years experience I don't think putting projects you did in school really

matters unless they were something amazing unless you did something innovative there that's great but more focus should be on your latest resumes obviously if

you are a young starting a student you won't have much so you want to put

everything there but if you're an experienced person don't make a 10 page

resume okay it should be three pages if you ask me nobody has time to go through 10 pages

and nobody really goes through 10 pages to me ideal is the three pages perfect two pages good

and just highlighted your latest projects and details everything else can be everything else

can be you know briefly um if in one of the projects let's say you really want to you know

say this is something i led you manage team you want to highlight your roles and responsibilities

very clearly sometimes i have to ask okay people go and write the resumes and there's like oh i

work on this product this product does this this this so for example i build a website c sharp

corner c sharp corner has forums it has you know um input output it's reading regimen people can

publish articles that's great but i want to know what you did in that project what was your roles

and responsibilities in that project did you architect were you involved in architecture

Did you do any design and did you do any documentation? Did you create any documentation on those design documentation

Were you involved in, of course you were involved in writing code if you're a programmer

Were you involved in writing code in the UI or in the API or in the back end

What kind of code were you involved in writing? That should be clear

Were you also involved in testing and deployment in products and releases

It should be clear there and at least in your first two or three projects because when I'm

looking at that resume, now I can, when I listen, I'm selecting resumes and if some, one resume

says, okay, this person was involved in design, he wrote code, he was also involved in testing

oh, wow, he did DevOps and deployment. So, out of sudden, I know that in this project, this person has gone through the entire lifecycle of software from architecture or even before that to the deploying on production

So, roles and responsibilities. There should be, in each project, there should be a line

It doesn't have to be a half page, okay? It doesn't have to be a big half page line

All you should say is one or two lines, say roles and responsibilities

Say I led four people team, created design documents, coding, build back-end API, did

you know installation docker deployed whatever you do so that should be clear

so it also helps interview if you are getting selected for the interview

that's what they will ask they will not if you don't say on your resume that you

did not involve in deployment chances are they won't ask any questions they

will only ask questions was written there hopefully it makes sense guys keep

keep posting your comments if you agree, disagree. Again, we have 15 more minutes to go

Just go ahead, feel free to ask your questions. But if you are agreeing

just agreeing with these you know what I'm saying here and ask questions so I

know actually you know at least I'm making sense in your listening. Welcome

to the show Muhammad, welcome for joining us today this Friday here in

Philadelphia at noon we have 15 more minutes to go so we are today talking

about the resumes. So we covered quickly a few things here in the resume how to

write a killer resume, you should have clearly mentioned at the top how many years of experience

do you have, what your current role is and what kind of job you're looking for. You should also

have, don't have a resume of 10 page resume, you should have 3-4 page resumes, your recent projects

should be highlighted at the top, make sure you highlighted what technologies you have used on

those projects. The technology you are really good at, that should be at the top, that should be

highlighted maybe in the board. So, interviewee will ask you more on that. Each project should

also have clearly specified what kind of role responsibilities you had in that project

means what kind of work you have done in that project nice to see uh muhammad joining us from africa that's great you are a c-sharp developer angular

developer great let these keep comments comments keep coming uh today yeah so that's kind of gives

you a brief idea of what a killer regime may look like okay resume should also say um

Obviously, clearly, I see some people don't have phone numbers in time to contact

If you are full time, just make sure you put it there. Best time to call

Some don't. Emails are great. That's awesome. Make sure your email is the one you put is up to date

Some people put old emails and things go to spam. I've seen that. And I have to ask, like, did you get the email? No

Then go check spam and they find it. So anyway, so those are some of the tips

In coming week we're going to share templates of the killer resume

I'll have three templates for beginner or intermediate positions for senior guy

So I'll share those. It's my bad I didn't get time to actually work yesterday so I could share live

So I'll have that ready. So we have only 10 minutes left now

If you have any questions, feel free to let them come in. last thing I want to talk about is this AMA coming up on on 25th okay so any of you are you know these days blockchain is growing

blockchain is going to be a one of the emerging techs coming up and it's already there in

cryptocurrencies I'm sure if some of you have heard of cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and all that

they're all growing right so this space is opening up a lot if you know the new

C-sharp corner has partnered with the Stratus Stratus platform is a blockchain

excuse me the blockchain product for C-sharp and .NET developers so what does

that mean that means if you or your company wants to implement blockchain in

your C-sharp.net, ASP.net, those projects, you don't have to learn anything new. You can use

their APIs and integrate blockchain in literally very, you know, very easy. It's not hard to do

It's just a matter of learning how to use it. Okay. And then blockchain has its own

different usage, use cases, it has different products, you know like for

example when you think about web technologies, web has different uses, you

know same thing with blockchain. So on C-sharp corner we are launching new section

categories on blockchain, there's going to be a lot more learning on blockchain

So that's coming up, blockchain is going to be another big focus for us this

year going forward. If you are in cryptocurrencies we are going to give away StriX also. So Chris

True who is coming on our EMA on 25th is the CEO of StriX. So you can ask any questions you have

You can ask him bring your questions. Let's take one question. There was a question here on

solidity can you go back there simon yeah so join us on yeah it's possible blockchain i use solidity

so solidity is only for ethereum blockchain ethereum blockchain if you're planning to use

ethereum blockchain in your projects it's usually a public blockchain that's solidity it's a new

language but if you are a c-sharp and dotnet developer you're like yeah i don't feel like

learning a new solid language i only know c stratus is for you because you don need to learn anything you know you already know C sharp so for example Stratus has smart contracts ethereum and solid T are used to write a

smart contract you can write your own smart contract in C sharp other part of

Stratus is that the code is written C sharp it's also compiled native dotnet so

you can write dotnet code means dotnet 5 dotnet 6 when their upgrades come you'll

have advantage of latest features of dotnet in the performance. I'm sure you may have heard that

.net 5 and .net 6 are really much faster than anything out there or previous versions

So we are going to talk about these. We are also going to... there's an article coming out on C

t-shirt corner next week it's on how to get started with stress so we are going to share that

as well so if somebody wants to learn they can get started with that

um and i see there's a question from deepak that many times i saw cover letters mentored for many

companies yes and no yeah if companies asking for a cover letter then yes you should send that

But I don't think these days really cover letters are important. Cover letters used to be when you're faxing resumes so they can read cover letter before

they really spend time on resumes. These days everything is online. Everything is email

You're sending resumes in email. So I don't think cover letter is that important as long as the purpose of cover letter was what

Who you are? What's your current role? What kind of job you're looking for? do you want to join this company right that's the kind of but this should tell your resume should

tell you me already um as we you know said earlier what are the things you need to think about when

you're writing a resume um do you have a blog to learn um learn about what um yes if you're talking

about blockchain stratus yes so we are launching a new category called stratus blockchain on c

sharp corner we already have a two articles there right now so that's where you can learn blockchain

um using stratus and that's where we are publishing articles so simon you want to

quick share the screen it's in category Stratus yeah there you go so you can

go there and that's where you can find all the blogs slash articles or

tutorials on Stratus blockchain yeah and there more coming more coming in next week or two Every week there going to be more content on how to do different things with the Strahd blockchain And it

not that we are just writing these articles. We are actually going to be using this Strahdus

in some of our projects for our clients too. So there is also going to be jobs and projects

available in this too. So if you are a C-sharp.net person, you want to learn

something new in blockchain and looking to get some jobs, that's also a good

opportunity for you. So that's something to think about. With that, if you don't

have any other questions, I think that covers all my talks today. If you don't

have anything, we'll close it early today. Sorry about making it short because

because as I said, I have to run, I have to get ready and drive for six hours

But I will have the resume template more designed by next week or two

maybe next Friday, we will share the link before you can download the template

for resume template. And then we will be announcing more about this status on our social media

and what this AMA means, who is joining us, what are the rules for winning different prizes

we will also be announcing that. With that said, I hope everybody is staying safe

everybody is kind of getting better, hopefully the COVID situation goes away soon and then

in the meantime, just stay safe and see what you can do to help others if you are able to

I'll see you next Friday same time 12 noon Eastern everybody thank you so much

for joining and joining us and all those great questions that was awesome

I'll see you next week