career guidence

7/29/2019 career guidence

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Successful Career in Science &

Technology

Naresh Chand

BAE Systems, Wayne, NJ 07059


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What is success? Gaining or achieving the desired goal

We must define our career goals

Chances favor the prepared mind - Louis Pasteur

If we dont know where we want to get to, it does not matter which way

we go Cheshire Cat

Work towards achieving the defined goals Prepare to pay the necessary price

Even to win a lottery, we need to buy a ticket

If we do our best with right attitude, everything is success and nothing

is a failure I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often end up somewhere

that I needed to be - Douglas Adams

We are the authors of our actions but the results are subject to hidden

laws of nature Karma Yoga


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Primary goal of life

Pursuit of Happiness


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Happiness is a state of mind based on perceived needs

PHYSICAL NEEDS

Physiological: Food, shelter, clothes,

Safety

Job securitySOCIAL NEEDS

Belongingness and love: Intimate family members and

friends.

Esteem and status: Drive for higher standing, reputation,

and prestige relative to others.SELF ACTUALIZATION NEED

Personal system of values leading to self realization.

A right choice of career with wisdom can fulfill most of these needs.


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Happiness for:

An hour : Take a nap

A day

Go on picnic A week

Go on vacation

A month

Get married

A year

Inherit wealth


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Happiness for the lifetime

Enjoy what you do for living

(Then you will never have to work)

When work is pleasure, life is a joy.


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Why Science and Engineering (S&E) career?

Fruits of S&E are essential to our modern society.

For a respectful, honest and meaningful life

To improve quality of life, develop the next generation of products and

technologies, combat hunger and disease,

To join the community of intellectuals and exchange knowledge with them

To learn laws of nature and formulate theories for new ways of thinking

To sow seeds and then help the plants bear fruits

To do wonders by combining talent, technical skills, logical minds and proper

human interfaces

To be an entrepreneur

Study of S&E is challenging. It is not for everyone because it is very

rigorous and demanding physically, mentally, and emotionally.


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Scientists and engineers see themselves

Ambitious PerseveringAssertive Hardworking

Caring Risk taker

Clever People oriented

Confident Machine oriented

Emotional Passive

Determined Team player

Creative Intuitive

Possessing leadership capability Imaginative

Rational LogicalCooperative Methodical

Competitive


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S&E offers numerous career opportunities1. University Teaching (need MS or Ph.D.)

2. Basic or fundamental research (Need Ph.D.)- More by academia, disappearing in corporate world

3. Applied research (MS or Ph.D.)4. Defense services5. Civil administrative services6. United Nations, world Bank, or other international services7. Foreign service

8. Product (both hardware & software) development9. Product manufacturing10. Communication service providers (TELCOs, satellite and cableTV)11. Product or project management12. Marketing & Sales13. Technical services

14. Entrepreneurships15. Financial world (investment and banking)16. Law Patent law17. Patent inspector18. Medical field Technical jobs19. High School science teachers20. Entertainment industry

S&E opens more doors than any other discipline.

If one door closes, another opens so long

we are flexible and mobile.


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Excel in whatever career you choose

Burn as bright and as long as possible in the service of what really matters

Compete against yourself, not others, for that is who

is truly your best competition - -Feggy Flemming


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A few technological trends in Electronics and Computers Engineering

Continued innovations in consumer products withy friendly human interfaces

Embedded intelligence

Software defined devices and systems

Dynamically reconfigurable communication networks

System of systems

Mobile ad hoc networks

Sensor Networks

Alternative energy sources Scavenge of energy

Micro sensor networks

Energy efficient network protocols

Multilevel security

Technologies to deal with terrorist threats

Detect human intentions Look through concrete walls to detect human movement

Remote detection of explosive material

Persistent surveillance

More functionality at reduced size, weight, power and costs

For technology trends:

Proceedings of IEEE

January issues of IEEE spectrum

Subjects of Technology Conferences (e.g., MILCOM)


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Hardware, software, firmware and glueware

Hardware continues to get better, smaller, lighter and cheaper

Software is getting bigger, more complex, and expensive

Through firmware (embedded software), products are becoming

more intelligent

As the product matures, 15% cost is hardware and 85% cost is

software

Often products fail due to software

So software offers more opportunities

Glueware is most important in making system of systems work in the

global economy


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BS, MS, MBA or PhD?

Depends on our goals

Many people find satisfying careers just after BS

MS or MBA can equip us well for professional careers

PhD is required for research and university teaching No degree guarantees lifetime employment.

You may have to change jobs and even careers

Lay the foundation for your journey, no matter how manyturns your path takes.

We need to continue learning to avoid obsolescence


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Careers in science and engineering have changed

Fewer full-time academic and R&D positions in

Universities, Industries, and Government labs

Global competition and outsourcing

Demand for a breadth of competencies, both managerial

and technical

Working on wrong or risky technologies

Threat from disruptive technologies

Too early or too late in the market

Wall street pressure, downsizing and limited resources More opportunities in military and home land security

We need to be more flexible and mobile for moreopportunities and control over our careers


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Evaluating possible careers

Watch people around you

People play multiple roles. Find which role appeals to

you

Ask where do you want to be after 5 years

Consider your personal values and circumstances The more we plan our career, the better we can face

unplanned events.

Decide what you want to do and

make others to pay for it.


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Action points Talk to people working in the fields of your interests

Their work and how they got where they are today

How do they spend their time?

What do they find most satisfying and most disagreeable?

Does the life that they describe appeal to you?

Ask them if anything they wished they had known early in their

careers.

Pursue every opportunity to gain first-hand practical experience

Go to conferences, trade shows, and job fairs

Build network of friends and well-wishers

If you are in a wrong field, change it.

Most of us would rather hold on to a familiar pain

than trade it to unfamiliar pleasure - unknown


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While employed: Always respect your hiring manger

Ask, if you dont know Go an extra mile

Try to work on winning and long-term projects

Find team-mates or collaborators

Give credit to others. They will credit you Take advantage of career development opportunities at work

Be honest to yourself and others

Never stop learning

In the beginning, learn as much technical skills as possible

Work hard and smartly as best as you can

Be ready to accept higher and meaningful responsibilities

Periodically evaluate your career

Beware of disruptive technologies and economic conditions

You can achieve anything if you do not care who gets credit President Reagan


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Find a mentor

A mentor listens to us and gives advice and objectivefeedback with our interests at heart

A mentor shows us the rope at the time of distress

A mentor identifies our internal strengths, weaknesses,

opportunities and threats A mentor in your organization is more beneficial in teaching

corporate culture and valuable career moves.

Help us think through career options and goals and

develop action plans We usually have multiple mentors

A two way street

We get advice and the mentor gets the chance to pass on wisdom


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We need to be visionary, innovative and creative

Make full use of head, heart and hands

Self and highly motivated

Self learner, enthusiastic, optimistic, and risk takers

Naturally curious, visionary, humorous, and self-accepting

Adaptive, reflective, committed, intuitive, analytic and collaborative

Articulate, resilient, persevering, and inspired

Tolerate ambiguity, strive for perfection, and love to do jobs at hands

Think objectively and have uncommon capacity for self instruction

Challenge the status quo

Innovators require no policing environment

They want their ideas to be heard and listened

Champions arent made in gyms. Champions are made from something

they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, and a vision.

- Muhammad Ali


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Some winning strategies

We are responsible for our career

Dont count on others, laws and regulations

Be comfortable with yourself and project a winning image

Seek and accept help graciously, and prepare to listen NO

Build clusters and networks of friends and well wishers If unsuccessful, change the game

Be persistent, never give up

Help others and others will help you

Recognize your hidden strengths and weaknesses

Thank others and express gratitude for their help

Gratitude resonates: People who feel appreciated are more

willing to help those who make them feel valued


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To be mentally strong, bring spirituality in your Life

To be fearless

To purify head and heart

To discover a path for self-realization or enlightenment More we

know ourselves, more burden of the life is gone

We need Spiritual strength: commitment to our deepest values regardless

of circumstances or any personal sacrifices, and

Spiritual flexibility: tolerance for values and beliefs that are

different from ours, so long they dont bring harm to others.

Spirituality is not religion which is about fear (fear of unknown) and

worldly desires

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is to be understood.

- Marie Curie

Spirituality: Knowing who am I?


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Keep your head and heart clean

Anything that is used becomes dirty

Head and heart are used constantly and can be full of garbage, if

not cleaned

A varieties of agents for cleaning body, none for internal cleaning

A meaningful prayer, meditation and service to others is internal

purifying Remove jealousy, hatred and various other painful emotions and

bring their opposites in your lives

Be kind to yourself and others.

Find out the features in you and others which are definitely

appreciable. Accept non-conducive situations cheerfully without reacting,

complaining or blaming.

Clean head and heart before going to sleep like cleaning teeth.


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Stand Tall and proud

Sink your roots into the earth

Be content with natural beauty

Go out on a limb

Drink plenty of water

Remember your roots

Enjoy the view and your true nature

Take a lesson from a tree


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Summary

Define your short- term and long-term career goals Make a careful choice of your career

Take advantage of dynamic, and vibrant global economy

Find a mentor, and ask if you dont know

Seek and accept help graciously

Build network of friends

Continue learning to avoid stagnation and obsolescence

The more flexible and mobile we are, the moreopportunities we will have and the greater will be our

control over the shape of our career

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