Return to Hyderabad - Job Hunt

Job hunt before R2I ... well in writing the title, it struck me that well its the same thought process everybody goes through when we originally went abroad. We all would have asked ourself these quetion when we left India:

- Which job ?
- What pay ?
- How much enough is ENOUGH ?
- Where do we start ?
- What are loop holes ?
- How much will be the tax ?
- What's the market trend ?
- Which domain/technology to choose ?

Well, R2I process is not any different and one has to go through exactly same process. Based on my experience,I have taken up job hunt for R2I in 3 phases:

1. Explore and get general view of market, areas of growth, what's the pulse of Stock Market. This excercise should be started quite early, but atleast 6 months before R2I. This data can be easily obtained from samachar.com, rediff.com, economictimes.com or in general any popular news website from India.

2. Define your job profile based on personal needs, in terms of Skills, travel, location, education for kids, home, both couple working

3. With research from above 1 and needs defined in 2, start actual process of targetting companies, roles using online job sites and more agressively your friends, relatives working in those segments.

Most important learning I had is that in this global market you stand a chance only if you network. Never loose or shy away from networking friends in malls, festivals, temples etc etc. In my expereince only through friends I got a lead and able to get up to the interview process. No amount of online applications and resume rabbits will help. Only replies from bulk mailing came from recruiters. In fact the present job which is my dream job came through a class friend in my graduate.

In terms of positions any experience above 10yrs are usually channeled to manager role. Still there is no concept of growing career as a completly techie guy in India. As far as i know only 2 companies support such roles Microsoft and Google. In companies like Infosys, Wipro etc manager role is the defacto and ones needs to negotiate based on size of team which may range from 100 to 400 people.