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Nayagam P P

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Nayagam is a certified career counsellor and the founder of EduJob360.
He started his career as an HR professional and has over 10 years of experience in tutoring and mentoring students from Classes 8 to 12, helping them choose the right stream, course and college/university.
He also counsels students on how to prepare for entrance exams for getting admission into reputed universities /colleges for their graduate/postgraduate courses.
He has guided both fresh graduates and experienced professionals on how to write a resume, how to prepare for job interviews and how to negotiate their salary when joining a new job.
Nayagam has published an eBook, Professional Resume Writing Without Googling.
He has a postgraduate degree in human resources from Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, Delhi, a postgraduate diploma in labour law from Madras University, a postgraduate diploma in school counselling from Symbiosis, Pune, and a certification in child psychology from Counsel India.
He has also completed his master’s degree in career counselling from ICCC-Mindler and Counsel, India.
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Answered on Sep 12, 2024

Asked by Anonymous - Sep 09, 2024Hindi
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Hello Sir, I want to become a businesswoman and have ideas for a startup. I know that for a business, having skills is more important than a degree. However, my parents want me to go to university. I have shortlisted two courses and have been selected for them at MIT WPU- BBA LLB and BSc Economics. LLB because I also have an inclination towards civil services. I had discussed with a teacher who said that Bsc Economics will give me a business understanding better than BBA, however, the career opportunities in that are lesser than that of BBA LLB and my initial preference was BBA LLB itself. What will be suitable for me, I am not able to make up my mind? Thank you.
Ans: Please keep in mind that, according to a recent report in the 'Times of India', most law graduates prefer to work in corporations rather than practice law in courts. You can pursue a BBA LLB and prepare for Civil Services as you wish (or) work as an assistant to any senior in any of the organizations to obtain expertise. Please keep in mind that you will need to choose your specialization for your LLB, whether it is Civil, Labour, Taxation, Business, Corporate, or any other. Also, you should stay up with the latest amendments. If you want to appear for Civil Services Exam, you should conduct extensive research before beginning your preparations. If Civil Services does not work out, you should have a backup plan A & Plan B. All the BEST for Your Bright Future.

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Answered on Sep 09, 2024

Asked by Anonymous - Sep 03, 2024Hindi
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I'm a 23-year-old still struggling to find a job. I graduated in 2023 with a BBA in Finance, but I made a big mistake by not taking a job opportunity and instead started preparing for banking exams, in which I failed miserably. Now, I’m unemployed with a gap year, while my friends have jobs and are happy. I’ve lost all interest in government jobs, so I’ve started applying to private companies, but so far, I’ve had no success. Nobody wants to hire an obsolete product like me. I’m a worthless person who destroyed his own career. I wanted to build a career in finance but now I don’t know what to do—please, I need guidance.
Ans: You did not waste your time during the last 1 year and had been preparing for Bank exam only which itself is an experience. NEVER get demotivated by temporary failures. To gain experience, try to join any small or medium-sized company to begin with. You have mentioned you have started applying for jobs, but have NOT mentioned through which sources. LinkedIn is the 1st best source. Having a professional resume is important to get shortlisted at least for the interview and also you should customize your Resume for each job you are applying, based on the JD (job description) advertised. If possible & your economic conditions permit, join MBA-Finance in any reputed Distance Learning University such as IGNOU and / or join online courses, related to your domain. After conducting a research for 3-months on 'Resume Building', I prepared an eBook, containing 24 pages, titled, "What if you could create your Professional Resume without Googling". Some of the Tips I have reproduced below. Please go through it and try to follow them. 12 QUALITIES Your Resume Should Have: (1) Uniqueness & Outstanding (2) Updated Snapshot of Your Career (Brief & Relevant) (3) Keysords of Job Description (4) Adept to Job Description Advertised
(5) Your Expertises Relevant to The Job (6) Focusing More on Achievements Quantitatively (7) Being Selective & include Only Relevant Information (8) Concise & Maximum 2-Pages. Less is More. (9) Easily Scannable to Look for Desired Characteristics,
and Draw Attention to Experiences, if applicable (10) Having Several Versions of Your Resume tailored for Certain Employers or Types of Positions (11) Impress Recruiters To Meet You in the Interview & (12) PROFESSIONAL Email / Webmail ID & Professional LinkedIn URL. Strategize your Job searching skills. All the BEST for Your Bright Future.

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Answered on Sep 08, 2024

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Sir not able to find your tips/strategies to followed by 1st yr Engineering student till last yr . Kindly provide on which date was this given by you or link .my daughter doing CSE (AI& ML ) wants to do best online certification course which one would be best course for her on NPTEL - kindly advise My
Ans: Praveen Sir,

As desired by you, given below are the steps/strategies/techniques to be followed from 1st Year till last year.

1) Visit the college campus & your CSE Department. Spend around 2-3 hours, if the college has not yet opened.

2) Check the reviews/do thorough research about the college in Google/Quora. Please note, no college can be 100% perfect and the perception/opinion of the students about the college differs from one another. Keep in mind any negative evaluations of universities, but avoid making predetermined conclusions until you get them validated after joining the college, as the internet is flooded with information with differing opinions.
3) If the course curriculum is available on the college’s website, go through it.
4) Try to research your favorite subjects in Google / YouTube / LinkedIn etc. till college opens.
5) Now, create your professional-looking LinkedIn Profile.
6) It is advisable to create a new professional email ID (preferably Gmail ID) like ‘ravikant_btech or ravikant_tech or ravikant_cse_tech’ etc. (for LinkedIn/Job Applications/Certificate Courses) INSTEAD of using the same personal email ID that you might be having already.
7) You can provide your email ID to the college if it stresses for the same ID when you applied for the college No issue.
8) Have a limited/like-minded friends circle though you can interact with all the students of your classroom.
9) Involve in co/extra-curricular activities, related to your domain or which will be of your interest. This will help you in the long run for Campus Interviews/Abroad Education etc.
10) Avoid skipping any classes and take notes, provided by the Faculties. Class notes are more important for all tests/exams in your college.
11) Have a good/professional relationship with all faculties of the CS department.
12) Create a separate note-book for doubts for each subject.
13) Whenever doubt-clearing sessions are conducted, fully utilise them and get all your doubts cleared and note down to avoid 11th hour pressure before each test/exam.
14) Important: Maintain a decent SGPA/CGPA of 8.5 and above without any backlogs/arrears.
15) After 1st Semester is over, start learning and/or upgrading new skills from NPTEL, LinkedIn, Coursera, Upgrad, Internshala etc. and / or recommended by your faculties.
16) Once you complete the online/offline short-term courses & get certificates, immediately update them in LinkedIn.
17) MOST IMPORTANT: Put job alerts in LinkedIn, related to your domain (CSE), get notifications, go through the JD (Job Description) of each job vacancy to know the job market trends and prepare yourself for the same.
18) Whenever you get an opportunity, interact with the 2nd to 4th year students & get their advice which will enable you to plan after completing each academic year.
19) Whenever Campus Recruitments are taking place, if time permits, interact with the last year students after they attend the interview, to know about the assessment tests, interviews, group discussion, selection process & companies visited.
20) Placement cell of most of the colleges displays the names of the recruiters/companies visited during the last 3-years. Whenever time permits, do a research about each company by visiting its website.
21) It is advisable to start preparing for assessment tests of Campus Recruitment, once you enter into 4th year.
22) Decide in advance in 4th year itself, whether you want to go for the job after your BTech or to pursue your Masters in India or Abroad.
23) If decided for Masters, start preparing well for Entrance Exams/IELTS/TOEFL/PTE etc. whichever is applicable.
24) Before approaching an Abroad Education Consultant, conduct thorough study on the countries and universities you are interested in.
25) Please note, your college cannot arrange to provide internships for all students. If you get, well and good.
26) If not, you should start trying through LinkedIn, Internshala, any other Internship platforms, or through your parents/their colleagues in any of their companies for Internship (instead of relying only on your college).
27) As far as the Campus Interview is concerned, prepare a good/professional-looking Resume just in 1-page as you will be a fresher. Use ‘cultivatedculture’ Resume Building Platform which is very user-friendly and free also.
28) To prepare for the online or offline interview, prepare yourself with Mock Interviews using your mobile phone with the help of your family members/friends. Conduct at least 10 mock interviews, correcting yourself in each one for your responses to the questions as well as your body language.
29) Preparing around 20-25 technical / non-technical questions & answers for the same in advance will further boost your confidence when you face actual interviews.
30) When applying for campus interviews, prioritize organizations with job descriptions that fit your profile, hobbies, credentials, qualifications, location, job title, and company reputation.
31) However, have Plan B & Plan C if campus recruitment does not work out.

Hope, I have covered almost all aspects with value-additions.

Regarding NPTEL, to begin with, please advise her to join the course titled, "AN INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE'. This will boost her confidence. Please type in google ' NPTEL Artificial Intelligence'. You will get the link as I am not authorised to provide direct link here Sir.. This course is conducted by an IIT-Delhi Professor Mausam. Gradually, she can go on joining other certifications, recommended by her college faculties.
All the BEST for Your Daughter's Bright Future, Praveen Sir.

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Asked on - Sep 08, 2024 | Answered on Sep 09, 2024
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Ans: Welcome Sir.
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Answered on Sep 07, 2024

Asked by Anonymous - Sep 07, 2024Hindi
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Sir, my son is in 1st year B tech Computer Engineering with Data Science at Kiit, Bhubaneswar. Please suggest about certification courses and other learning which he should undertake in parallel to the college course, for enhancing domain knowledge both from learning and future professional career perspective. Kind Regards
Ans: There are a number of online platforms providing CERTIFICATION programs. One of the best online Certification Course Platform is NPTEL, the Certificate of which is recognized by most companies and even most colleges recommend it apart from other platforms like UpGrade, Coursera, LinkedIn, Internshala etc. And the best sources to recommend perfect courses would be his college faculties. Please advise him to create his Professional Linkedin Profile and should keep updating it every 3 months once he qualifies any certifications and / or any other activities. He should also put Job Alerts, based on his domain, in LinkedIn to get notifications of job vacancies to know the job market trends from the Job Description (JD). Please go through one of my lengthy answers in which I have provided the steps/tips/strategies to be followed by a 1st year Engineering Student till last year. If your son follows the same, it will boost his confidence when he reaches 4th year and gets ready for Campus Placement. All the BEST for Your Son's Bright Future.

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Asked on - Sep 07, 2024 | Answered on Sep 09, 2024
Sir, thank you very much for your guidance. Much appreciate the quality inputs. May I request for the link / copy of one year before ‘lengthy’ answer (unable to trace back); that would be of much helpful! Kind Regards
Ans: 1) Visit the college campus & your CSE Department. Spend around 2-3 hours, if the college has not yet opened. 2) Check the reviews/do thorough research about the college in Google/Quora. Please note, no college can be 100% perfect and the perception/opinion of the students about the college differs from one another. Keep in mind any negative evaluations of universities, but avoid making predetermined conclusions until you get them validated after joining the college, as the internet is flooded with information with differing opinions. 3) If the course curriculum is available on the college’s website, go through it. 4) Try to research your favorite subjects in Google / YouTube / LinkedIn etc. till college opens. 5) Now, create your professional-looking LinkedIn Profile. 6) It is advisable to create a new professional email ID (preferably Gmail ID) like ‘ravikant_btech or ravikant_tech or ravikant_cse_tech’ etc. (for LinkedIn/Job Applications/Certificate Courses) INSTEAD of using the same personal email ID that you might be having already. 7) You can provide your email ID to the college if it stresses for the same ID when you applied for the college No issue. 8) Have a limited/like-minded friends circle though you can interact with all the students of your classroom. 9) Involve in co/extra-curricular activities, related to your domain or which will be of your interest. This will help you in the long run for Campus Interviews/Abroad Education etc. 10) Avoid skipping any classes and take notes, provided by the Faculties. Class notes are more important for all tests/exams in your college. 11) Have a good/professional relationship with all faculties of the CS department. 12) Create a separate note-book for doubts for each subject. 13) Whenever doubt-clearing sessions are conducted, fully utilise them and get all your doubts cleared and note down to avoid 11th hour pressure before each test/exam. 14) Important: Maintain a decent SGPA/CGPA of 8.5 and above without any backlogs/arrears. 15) After 1st Semester is over, start learning and/or upgrading new skills from NPTEL, LinkedIn, Coursera, Upgrad, Internshala etc. and / or recommended by your faculties. 16) Once you complete the online/offline short-term courses & get certificates, immediately update them in LinkedIn. 17) MOST IMPORTANT: Put job alerts in LinkedIn, related to your domain (CSE), get notifications, go through the JD (Job Description) of each job vacancy to know the job market trends and prepare yourself for the same. 18) Whenever you get an opportunity, interact with the 2nd to 4th year students & get their advice which will enable you to plan after completing each academic year. 19) Whenever Campus Recruitments are taking place, if time permits, interact with the last year students after they attend the interview, to know about the assessment tests, interviews, group discussion, selection process & companies visited. 20) Placement cell of most of the colleges displays the names of the recruiters/companies visited during the last 3-years. Whenever time permits, do a research about each company by visiting its website. 21) It is advisable to start preparing for assessment tests of Campus Recruitment, once you enter into 4th year. 22) Decide in advance in 4th year itself, whether you want to go for the job after your BTech or to pursue your Masters in India or Abroad. 23) If decided for Masters, start preparing well for Entrance Exams/IELTS/TOEFL/PTE etc. whichever is applicable. 24) Before approaching an Abroad Education Consultant, conduct thorough study on the countries and universities you are interested in. 25) Please note, your college cannot arrange to provide internships for all students. If you get, well and good. 26) If not, you should start trying through LinkedIn, Internshala, any other Internship platforms, or through your parents/their colleagues in any of their companies for Internship (instead of relying only on your college). 27) As far as the Campus Interview is concerned, prepare a good/professional-looking Resume just in 1-page as you will be a fresher. Use ‘cultivatedculture’ Resume Building Platform which is very user-friendly and free also. 28) To prepare for the online or offline interview, prepare yourself with Mock Interviews using your mobile phone with the help of your family members/friends. Conduct at least 10 mock interviews, correcting yourself in each one for your responses to the questions as well as your body language. 29) Preparing around 20-25 technical / non-technical questions & answers for the same in advance will further boost your confidence when you face actual interviews. 30) When applying for campus interviews, prioritize organizations with job descriptions that fit your profile, hobbies, credentials, qualifications, location, job title, and company reputation. 31) However, have Plan B & Plan C if campus recruitment does not work out. I Hope, I have covered almost all aspects with value-additions. I am supposed NOT to provide any direct link here. Please visit Coursera, UpGrade, Internshala etc., go through the Courses available and make your son join. It is also advisable to seek guidance of his College Faculties who are the first best sources to provide information on this.
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Answered on Sep 05, 2024

Asked by Anonymous - Aug 28, 2024Hindi
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Hello Sir, My son is studying in Grade 7 with a CBSE course. He is extremely out of math and does not have any interest in that subject. He feels suffocated as soon math is there. We don't want to burden him with that , only somehow to go with Math till it's mandatory. He has an interest in animals , zoology ,and nature. Pretty much enjoy national geography contents. Just wanted to get correct guidance on his future classes , subject / stream to choose. Let him go and excel at what he enjoys. Thank you in advance.
Ans: I was drawn in by your words, "Let him go and excel at what he enjoys." Giving their kids opportunities to pursue their interests is how most parents should value their kids. Please respect his passion for nature, animals, and zoology. And science without math, which can be PCB, would be the best track for him in his twelfth year. Assure him that you would make an effort to satisfy his interests in science courses for his eleventh, twelfth, and higher education, but also persuade him not to be afraid of math as it is required up to the tenth grade. Ask him nicely to progressively raise his score. You can schedule a math tutor to come to your house, and the tutor ought to be able to persuade your kid of the value of learning math. Please be aware that his interests may change after two to three years because he is just twelve years old and his brain is still in the "development stage." All the BEST for Your Bright Future.

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