Greetings everyone. It’s been a tiring week. Although it is a difficult challenge to work until 12 at night and to maintain the same tempo again the next day and not to miss the gym while all this is happening, I thank you for overcoming it. This week, I will list the mistakes of young informatics that I am tired of warning as I see them. Even though I am a junior, I think that my sectoral knowledge is quite strong in what I do.
- Self Confidence Problem
The man has English, can speak well and can understand what is being said. But for some reason, he is not confident in English. You do not live in England, friends, we are in Turkey. 10 per cent of Turkey’s can speak English properly. If you are able to maintain 80 per cent of your daily life in English, you can easily say that your English is very good in Turkish conditions.
2. Claiming to Know What They Don’t Know
This is the exact opposite of the above item. When I asked someone who writes very well on CSS, do you know how to write SASS, he asked me what SASS is. Claiming to know CSS very well, this friend did not have normalize.css and its alternatives in his projects. When I asked why not, he said that it was the first time he had heard of normalize.css.
You need to be aware that you will be held responsible in the interviews for everything you claim to know. Everyone shows themselves better than they are. It’s like the rule of business life. But keep in mind that the excess of this will be very clearly noticed by the competent hiring people. To say that you are good at a job, you need to have worked at that job for a minimum of 1 year to say that you are a master for 5 years.
3. Inability to Express Themselves
Generally, the following questions are asked in interviews. “Why should we hire you? What value can you add to our company as a plus?” When this question is asked, most friends begin to explain themselves, like the character traits in the RPG game. Or they can say really creative sentences like “I need a job”.
There are 3 reasons for asking this question. “Is your self-confidence enough, how well do you know yourself, and have you researched the qualifications of this job before? “. Before you go to that interview, if you research the job of that title thoroughly, weigh its suitability for you, and enter that interview with confidence, you can easily exceed 80 per cent.
In order to explain this, you need to be an individual who knows how to speak and has come out of his comfort zone. Friends, if a Nerd 130 Kg Discord asocial has enough technical knowledge, he can be hired. But in his business life, he will always have problems because his social relations are not good and he cannot express himself well. (I stopped being such a man for this reason.)
4. Restricted to School
There are many universities in the country we live in. We are a country with a truly disgraceful academic world. Unfortunately, neither our teachers at the school nor our students at the school are of good quality. Being content with what the school gives you means, unfortunately if you are not one of the elite universities, you are an ordinary average university graduate.
Just use the school as a tool. Do Erasmus and be present in social environments as much as possible at school. But if it comes to self-development and if we are talking about the field of informatics, the content you can find on youtube, billions of lines of open-source code on the internet will add more than your teacher, whose biggest dream is to be promoted from Opel Astra to Audi A3. Although there are very high-quality teachers who really add a lot to their students, unfortunately, the number of them is very, very small.
If you tell about the lessons you have taken and the project assignments given by your teacher, I am afraid that you will be no different from the majority who tell them.
5. Be Different From Your Competitors
Today, tons of applications are made for a job posting, especially a job posting that is looking for an inexperienced university student. And many of these CVs are very, very similar to each other. At this point, you need to make a difference. Experiencing different things and experiencing different scenarios related to your job while you were a student will help you a lot.
I have 2 recommendations. A nice infographic CV and a website that introduces yourself will put you far ahead of your competitors. If you add a portfolio of different interesting projects (Behance, Github, etc.) and present them to the employer, you will increase your chances of standing out from the really mediocre average. For example, https://kaancancalkan.github.io
Take care of yourself, hope to see you in new articles
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