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The IT skills gap is getting worse. Here are 10 ways you can avoid a crisis
More than two-thirds of digital leaders can't keep pace with change because of a lack of technology talent.
Bev White, chief executive of Harvey Nash Group, says her conversations with CIOs suggest that companies with IT skills gaps are going to find it much harder to hit their digital transformation targets.
White says CIOs who want to keep innovating on behalf of their businesses must wake up to the growing skills crisis. She suggests 10 tactics for digital leaders who are looking to recruit and retain hard-to-find talent:
Do’s and Don’ts for Software Engineer Job Interview
In my estimation, I have given over 2,500 interviews in my career, the bulk of them for Software Engineer positions. I have been interviewing Software Engineers for over 25 years and in my current role as CEO of Solution Street, I conduct, on average, two interviews a week. Solution Street has been evolving its interview process for over 18 years, and we feel like we offer a pretty robust and fair process. In this article, I will give you the tips you need to put your best foot forward and succeed in your next technical interview.
https://dzone.com/articles/dos-and-donts-for-your-next-software-engineer-job
What types of questions can you expect in a UX Design Interview?
A rough process of UX design interview.
Hey, guys, what I want to do today is give you a bit of insight as to the types of interview questions that you can expect to get asked in the user experience or product design interview. I’ve seen a few blog articles, a few videos giving people really specific types of questions that they can expect to get asked. This article is going to be a little bit different to that. I’m going to tell you more about the types of questions you might get asked so the kind of the broad category of questions and then give you some ways that you can respond to those questions and things you can talk about. Hopefully, this help you get hired and get the job or the project that you want. So let’s get started.
https://uxplanet.org/what-types-of-questions-can-you-expect-in-a-ux-design-interview-c67aab460f3e
Amazon Careers: Everything You Need to Know
Amazon careers span a wide range of categories: software, hardware, business development, sales, design, product, facilities, HR, marketing, and more. Founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994, Amazon began as an online bookseller and then branched out to include many more products.
Today, there are over 600,000 Amazon employees worldwide, and the company headquarters are in Seattle. There are about 45,000 employees in this location, and there will be a second headquarters opening, which eventually will have tens of thousands of employees.
https://www.teamblind.com/blog/index.php/2021/06/18/amazon-careers-everything-you-need-to-know/
Similar to Careers in Amazon, for careers in other companies such as Spotify, Lyft, Salesforce, Cisco, Intel, Uber, Airbnb, Microsoft, Apple & Facebook, pl visit https://www.teamblind.com/blog/index.php/tag/careers/
Here’s Bill Gates’s Advice to New Programmers. It Should Not be Ignored.
A programmer’s journey is a fascinating one. It is a long and arduous one, full of trials and tribulations. When you’re just starting, you’re bound to run into a few obstacles along the way. Learning your first programming language can be difficult, and it can be easy to get discouraged if you’re not sure what you’re doing. However, if there’s one person who knows a thing or two about programming, it’s Bill Gates.
Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft and one of the richest people in the world. He’s an iconic figure in the technology sector. When he has something to say, the industry stops and listens. That’s why his advice to new programmers should not be ignored. He inspired me on many levels, and I hope you can benefit from his wise insights as well.
Here is some advice from one of the famous programmers — Bill Gates.
Top 8 Recommended Books To Become a Better Programmer
DZone is an ever-growing community of authors from various technical fields having a wide range of skill-sets, sharing their knowledge with the rest of the development community.
We asked our DZone Core community members to recommend books they swear helped them up-skill or improvise in their work. We received a list of awesome books that are not only helpful but an interesting read.
Programming, architecture, design patterns, all are included in this list so stay tuned till the end and get exciting additions to your library.
Read these books to become a better programmer:
https://dzone.com/articles/top-recommended-books-dzone-community
8 Types of Programmers That You Can’t Ignore in the Workplace: Whether you are their leader, boss, or colleague.
Some types of programmers are essential for the smooth running of the organization; others have flaws that can harm the entire team. Meet in today’s post eight types of programmers and see how their presence can influence a team's performance!
From AI to ZI. An encyclopedia of the “I-tier” tech stack.
The digital revolution shoves us in the direction of individualism. Ironically, our only chance of salvation is a total commitment to the “I”, beating our corporate overlords at their own game.
I humbly present the following programme, which takes a series of technocrat buzz-words with the letter “I” as the second element in a dyad of Latin uppercase letters, and fills the blanks to complete an alphabet of ouroborosian perfection. Dear reader, I believe that the text speaks for itself. I hope that you follow its directives for the glory of our dystopic wasteland.
https://link.medium.com/abyYPA5iAlb
Qlan: Indian startup fires up a social network just for gamers
The pitch for Qlan is to develop a complete social network where gamers are empowered in such a way that they take their first step to becoming a professional eSports player or gaining skills to make a career in the gaming industry.
The founder Nair calls “Qlan” a cross of Linkedin and Instagram, a social platform made for gamers.
The esports market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 46% to touch ₹11 billion by 2025, according to a report by professional services firm EY.
Future of college will involve fewer professors
At a large private university in Northern California, a business professor uses an avatar to lecture on a virtual stage.
Meanwhile, at a Southern university, graduate students in an artificial intelligence course discover that one of their nine teaching assistants is a virtual avatar, Jill Watson, also known as Watson, IBM’s question-answering computer system. Of the 10,000 messages posted to an online message board in one semester, Jill participated in student conversations and responded to all inquiries with 97% accuracy.
At a private college on the East Coast, students interact with an AI chat agent in a virtual restaurant set in China to learn the Mandarin language.
These examples provide a glimpse into the future of teaching and learning in college. It is a future that will involve a drastically reduced role for full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty who teach face to face.
https://theconversation.com/future-of-college-will-involve-fewer-professors-166394
Robots in 2022: Six robotics predictions from industry-leading humans
The past five years have seen robots move from a developing technology in a number of sectors to an indispensable tool supporting operations across a vast range of enterprises. Logistics, manufacturing, materials handling, inspection, healthcare... the list of sectors that have "gone robotic" in short order is long indeed, and with industries like construction and delivery reaching a tipping point, there can be no denying we're in the midst of a robotic renaissance.
We're also at a fulcrum moment. Automation technologies are maturing, developers are merging and standardizing engineering approaches, and technologies like AI and machine vision are intersecting to unlock a new wave of capability and efficiency.
In other words, it's an exciting moment in robotics. We surveyed some of the most respected and innovation-minded executives shaping the world of automation on what they expect in 2022 and beyond. The below predictions are from the front lines of the robotics world, and while challenges clearly exist, the future looks bright indeed.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/2022-robotics-predictions-from-industry-leading-execs
Blockchain Explained in 50 Lines of Code
Blockchain, blockchain, blockchain! We have heard this tech buzzword again and again through the last decade. It’s the underlying technology that many cryptocurrencies are based on and it is considered one of the most important inventions in the 21st century.
If you have heard of blockchain but do not fully understand it, that’s ok! In this article, I will show you how Blockchain works by building it from scratch with only 50 lines of JavaScript code.
https://medium.com/geekculture/blockchain-explained-in-50-lines-of-code-1dbf4eda0201
How To Make and Sell Your First NFT In 10 Minutes
This year, it seems like everybody is buying cryptocurrency — even your grandma probably got some. An NFT is the latest craze in the cryptocurrency space. You probably heard something about those already: Grimes getting millions of dollars for NFTs or how people are spending six figures on pictures of NFT rocks. But what is an NFT? Is it an art form? Platform? Type of coin? And how creatives can take advantage of this new trend?
Even though the whole concept might sound complicated at first, anyone can post their NFTs. Believe it not, it takes only 10 minutes to do the entire thing, even if you don’t have a cryptocurrency wallet or have no idea how cryptocurrency works. This quick and easy tutorial will show you how to create a MetaMask wallet, connect it to an OpenSea account, and post your first masterpiece for the entire world to see. After that, all you need to do is to market and sell your newly created NFT:
https://medium.com/dare-to-be-better/how-to-make-your-first-nft-in-under-10-minutes-802745993a81
Free Design Resources Collection
Tons of graphic design resources and tools that can help you be even more creative are right at your fingertips. Looking for vectors? Or stock images? How about trendy, unique fonts? Or maybe a little bit of inspiration? It’s all within reach — especially if you know where to go.
Save some time and needless web wandering with this guide to the best graphic design resources and tools for designers and enthusiasts alike. Whatever your project, you’ll find the resources you need.
https://uxplanet.org/free-design-resources-collection-276fbc90f27d
Factory for Factories: Consistently Automating for Innovation
I like to envision software delivery automation as a factory for software, with centralized enterprise delivery automation acting as a factory for these factories. The objective of any factory is to produce something as quickly and efficiently as possible without compromising quality. The factory for factories — let’s call it a meta-factory — understands, at a very high level, what it takes to produce products of similar ilk. Specific variations of this product family and affiliated quality measures may differ, but the general process for creating them remains largely the same.
https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/factory-for-factories-79ef77704d26
21 Accelerators, Incubators, Programs and More for Female Founders
In the US, only about 9 percent of venture-backed entrepreneurs are women. Less than 3 percent of the $130B+ given every year out of VC funding goes to female founders. Only about 11 percent of venture capitalists themselves are women.
Womentech looked into programs, accelerators, incubators, and other opportunities that focus on women Founders and present that list to you.
So here are 21 opportunities for Female Founders to turn their ideas into a business:
https://www.womentech.net/en-in/blog/21-accelerators-incubators-programs-and-more-female-founders
The 20 Top-Rated Business Books of 2021: A reading list for all entrepreneurs
2021 hasn’t been the year we all hoped for but I’m hopeful 2022 will be brighter.
You might have struggled to find the time to keep up to date with the best business books this year so I’ve compiled this list for you. The current times are reflected in what people were reading with several corporate catastrophe books as well as books covering equality and the climate.
Ranking books is always highly subjective and I use a simple formula to order this list. Like movies, the first people to review are super fans or know the author personally. I account for that by giving extra weight to the number of reviews then I normalize the raw figures to give a score out of 100.
This isn’t a list of my favorite books but based on the views of the highly engaged readers of Goodreads.com.
https://entrepreneurshandbook.co/the-20-top-rated-business-books-of-2021-41118151fa09
9 Retention Strategies Unlocked by Customer Data
On average, it costs 5 to 25 times less to retain an existing customer than acquire a new one
With user acquisition costs increasing year over year, it's never been more important to tap into one source of growth you already own — your customers.
Yet few businesses have the right data to measure customer retention or the tools to address it.
To guide businesses through the art of retention, we’ve put together the following use cases and strategies centered around doing more for — and generating more revenue from — your existing customers with high-quality data.
Included in this e-Book:
The ROI of customer retention on your business
The data infrastructure and tools needed to implement scalable customer retention strategies
Nine unique strategies designed to deliver the type of high-quality customer experiences that drive retention, optimize LTV, and prevent churn
https://www-cmswire.simplermedia.com/cw-cp-segment-2021-02-cx.html
Performing Under Pressure
Pressure is inevitable. It’s not the situation, but rather how you react to it, which will make you either confident or anxious. Your reaction will determine whether you will thrive or barely survive under pressure. You may have all the expertise, skills, and knowledge to do well, but if you don’t know how to handle pressure situations well, if you lose control of your emotions, if you see the situation as a threat, pressure will make you do worse, and lead you to fail utterly.
https://www.techtello.com/performing-under-pressure/
The Case for Analog Skills in a Digital Age
Growing up digital is not exactly conducive to developing the very skills that technology cannot replace.
A rotary telephone. A typewriter. An LP player. These are all foreign objects to our kids. Generation Z (and the generations to follow) don’t know a world without Wi-Fi, smartphones and tablets.
A hallmark distinction between the digital age and the analog past is efficiency. Don’t like that song on the playlist? Just press “next” (or yell at Alexa). Want to know what the weather will be like? Just check the phone. Curious about the eating habits of some exotic animal (my daughter likes the axolotl)? Just look it up on Wikipedia. No fast-forwarding on a cassette player, or waiting for the hourly radio weather update, or perusing dusty bookshelves at the local library to locate information.
I have a hunch that patience won’t be one of the next generations’ strong points. Still, it remains hard to tell what the effects of growing up in the digital age will be on the future workforce.
It’s frequently argued that the skills that matter most in a world where intelligent machines take over routine tasks are soft skills, including emotional intelligence. Robots still have a long way to go until they can be empathetic team players. And as workplaces become more ethnically, culturally and linguistically diverse, self-awareness, empathy and the ability to communicate are all the more critical. And who would want to entrust their toddler or ailing grandmother to a robot caretaker? Caretakers and nurses will continue to be in high demand – professions that require a high degree of interpersonal skills.
Budding research, however, suggests that growing up in the digital age is not exactly conducive to developing the very skills that technology cannot replace.
https://journal.getabstract.com/en/2021/05/20/the-case-for-analog-skills-in-a-digital-age/
How to Climb the Career Ladder Faster
Personal progress is a matter of moving forward, sure, and upward, at best. But where forward and up are, you should define before you start running! A few simple questions that everyone should answer for themselves can help: Where do you want to go? What is your goal? What motivates you? What possibilities do you have? And what holds you back and makes you think?
Once you have answered these questions, perhaps at the beginning of your professional life, or if you want to reorient or reinvent yourself, you can get started: From here on, the same laws of success always apply, in ever-varying shades, of course.
https://journal.getabstract.com/en/2021/02/05/how-to-climb-the-career-ladder-faster/
How to Improve Your Memory
The memories you store over the long term form the raw material for creativity and focused intentions.
Researchers estimate the information storage capacity of the human brain is quadrillion bytes. But where is that brain capacity when you can’t find your car keys? In The End of Absence, author Michael Harris cites research showing people are becoming better at remembering where to find data than remembering the data itself. Everybody forgets things from time to time. And maybe it seems old-fashioned to want to improve your memory. Since the internet puts every fact at your fingertips, why even bother?
Memory is how you know who you are and how you keep track of what you’re doing. Short-term, or working, memory, is like your brain’s central desk, where you keep track of constantly changing variables in order to make myriad decisions and navigate your day. Much of that information never makes it into long-term memory and is quickly forgotten. The memories you store over the long term form the raw material of your creative thought and focused intentions. You rely upon long-term memory for learning.
Your mind is a unique collection of what you remember – people, facts, events, songs, perceptions. Unlike a file cabinet, your memories are changing and dynamic. Creativity arises from the unique ways you connect them together. Build this capacity with these tips:
https://journal.getabstract.com/en/2021/04/09/how-to-improve-your-memory/
10 Strategies for Giving an Engaging Virtual Presentation
Giving a virtual presentation as opposed to giving one in front of a live audience can be intimidating. It's a very different experience responding to an audience gazing through a computer screen and building a rapport when people are mostly muted and hidden.
However, there are strategies you can incorporate in your virtual presentation to make it engaging for your viewers:
https://www.womentech.net/en-in/blog/10-strategies-giving-engaging-virtual-presentation
A year of Zoom Effects: Burnout, Eye contact & Staring At Yourself
According to a new study from Stanford researchers, the constant eye-straining Zoom calls are having a tangible effect on our brains.
According to data gathered by Blind through a survey, 77%of professionals are tired of Zoom calls. 100% of Nutanix, 85% of Microsoft, and 80% of Google professionals are tired from video calls. Nearly a quarter of professionals feel that their coworkers give them excessive eye contact during the video calls. Another 70% of professionals admit that they are just staring at themselves on Zoom calls.
25 Children’s Books to Teach Your Kids Meaningful Values
Books are awesome, aren’t they? They open a whole new world of imagination, letting the reader travel to a distant land or accomplish otherworldly feats without leaving the comfort of their home. They stimulate the mind, increase knowledge, expand the vocabulary – and also teach important life lessons. In honor of International Literacy Day on September 8, here are 25 quirky, colorful children’s books that are ingrained with fundamental values - for every child to discover and enjoy.
https://www.goodnet.org/articles/25-childrens-books-that-teach-kids-meaningful-values
IRAI Quiz -- 211201
1. Who had coined the term "information overload"
2. At Twitter, Parag Agrawal beats --------- as youngest CEO in S&P 500. He was born later than the earlier youngest CEO who was born in May 1984.
3. In (online) shopping, what follows the Black Friday?
4. The GoI's portal for database of unorganised workers is known as ------------ is all set to hit the 10-crore mark
5. According to the founder of "Qlan", the social platform made for gamers, it is a cross of Linkedin and ------------------
6. ----------- refers to the smallest fraction of a Bitcoin that can be sent, which is 0.00000001 of a Bitcoin.
7. Wolfe Herd launched social and dating app --------, an alternative to Tinder that allows the woman to make the first move in 2014.
8. International Girls in ICT Day marked annually on the ------------------
9. Japanese robot owners held Buddhist funerals for their --------- when Sony withdrew technical support for it
10. The term Erobotics is a combination of the words ---------- and "robot"
Answers to IRAI Quiz -- 211201
2. Mark Zuckerberg
3. Cyber Monday
4. e-Shram
5. Instagram
6. Satoshis
7. Bumble
8. fourth Thursday in April
9. AIBO robot dogs
10. erotic
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Essay Competition on Talent Acquisition
IEEE Computer Society Madras Chapter, ACM Chennai & Computer Society of India Chennai Chapter are pleased to announce an essay competition on the subject "Talent Acquisition"
Talent acquisition is a strategic role in an organisation to identify, target, and attract the most qualified candidates for a given role. Talent acquisition is beyond simple recruitment and involves several complex steps to ensure long term needs of an organisation.
Talent acquisition involves different stakeholders -- employer, employee & recruiter. While each one of them contribute for the effective talent acquisition in the overall hiring ecosystem, challenges are faced by everyone.
We expect the authors to focus on the challenges faced by any one of the three stakeholders -- employer/employee/recruiter and pen the essay and submit by 18th Dec 2021.
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