Non-IT Matters

Career advice for software engineers by a software engineer-turned-entrepreneur

• Be in a profit center to increase revenues and/or to reduce costs
• Co-workers and bosses are not usually your friends
• Networking
• Modesty is not a career-enhancing character trait
• Work to live, don’t live to work.

Rule #4: Make your boss look good :-)

Most disliked job is my boss’s job as boss of IT.  Yeh, I understand.  Try to image you are trying to ask a bunch of kittens to move in a straight line!

Pondering of IT career in a Wall Street firm?  Besides the fat paycheck, how is it feel like working in a IT department of Wall Street firm?

1. “But literally the feeling I always had is that it was basically moving things from left to right or from right to left. And those things would move just fine even if we didn’t move them. … If we hadn’t been there, the world would not be any worse off.”
2. “I can tell you from experience that most software engineers I know really, truly want to have an effect on people’s lives with their work.”

Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! 

Career advice from Wall Street executives on landing a quant job. One surprise is “I think every hiring manager is looking for someone smarter than him/her and nicer than him/her”. As mentioned before, don’t be a jerk.

The webinar is led by Sital Ruparelia, a career coach in banking and finance industry.

Secret of changing career is learn fast, really fast.

1. Deliver a clear message
2. Highlight your selling points
3. Exude professionalism
4. Protect your reputation
5. Rely on multiple resources

Original title is “工作不只靠努力 抱對大腿升官去?” or “Working hard is not enough, you need to stroke your boss ego”

1. Be the First to Arrive and the Last to Leave
2. Cut the Company’s Costs
3. Make the Company More Money
4. Just Say No to Drama
5. Be Aware
6. Learn New Skills
7. Give Progress Reports
8. Make Everybody Love You
9. Show You Are a Leader
10. Show You Are a Team Player
11. Get Personal
12. Don’t Take Unfair Advantage of Sick Days
13. Take on Responsibilities that No One Else Wants to Do
14. Positivity Goes a Long Way
15. Don’t Abuse Internet Privileges
16. Be the Social Chair