DR.

BINOY MATHEW
M.Com,MBA,LLB,PGDCA,CELI,DPC,CPTP,D.Litt,Ph.D

Associate Professor & Director

Module: 1-3

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“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is
worse than the suffering itself. And that no
heart has ever suffered when it goes in search
of its dreams, because every second of the
search is a second's encounter with God and
with eternity.”

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 What do you want to become?
 What career do you want?
 What does success look like?
 Your answer may be: “I don’t know.”
 There’s nothing wrong with that. And yet, we
think it’s the worst thing in the world if you
don’t know what you want to do in life.
& If you know what you want….
 “It is not enough to know what you want. You
have to do what you want to be what you
wants”

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 Will you stay healthy? Will the stock market
crash? Will you get a job as you wish?

NO ONE KNOWS!

That’s the beauty of life

 “If life were predictable it would cease to be

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 My Parents wanted me to be an engineer
 I was not good in biology
 Money, Status..etc
 Curiosity
 My parents are engineers…
 Want to work in an MNC
 Want to invent something
new/entrepreneurship

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 So it is not important to know exactly what
you want to do with your life. People change.
Economies change. So, it is not even realistic
to boldly claim “I know what I want!”

 The only thing every person needs is a sense

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 Jay Abraham Getting Everything You Can Out of
All You’ve Got
 “Your first priority is to identify what you want
and then make sure you take the path that’s
going to give you that. There’s nothing sadder
than to see someone get to be seventy-five or
eighty years old and look back regrettably
because they pursued the wrong target.”
You see that he doesn’t say you should know
exactly what you want? That would not be
realistic.
 Instead, we need to know where we’re roughly
going. I know, it remains intangible. But that’s
the only helpful answer that I’ve found in life.

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 Self-Discipline: Get better at ignoring the negative voice in your
head. Get out of your bed. Don’t listen to “I don’t want to.”
 Personal Effectiveness: Learn how to maximize the results you
can get during the 16–18 hours you’re awake. Get more done —
 effectively.
 Communication: We think we are all master communicators.
Communication is both art and science. And our ability to work
with others depends on it.
 Negotiation: You negotiate all the time. With your parents,
spouse, kids, teachers, friends, co-workers, managers, etc. Learn
to get the best deal for all parties.
 Persuasion: Learn how to get what you want in an ethical way.
 Physical Strength & Stamina: Getting stronger is a skill. It is
something every human should be able to do.
 Flexibility: Sitting all day long behind your computer turns you
into a stiff being. Learn how to stretch your hips, lower back, and
calves — the most common weak points of desk workers. Darius
Foroux, author of Think Straight.

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“You're always learning. The problem is,
sometimes you stop and think you
understand the world. This is not correct. The
world is always moving. You never reach the
point you can stop making an effort.” Paulo
Coelho
“All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons
always arrive when you are ready, and if you
can read the signs, you will learn everything
you need to know in order to take the next
step.”~ Paulo Coelho

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 How Conscious Are Your Decisions?
 Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of the most
conscious thinkers of all time, said it best:
 “The only person you are destined to become
is the person you decide to be.”

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 5 steps that can help you to get started.
 1. Analyze yourself
 I have never met a successful person who did not
build a career on their strengths. It simply does not
exist. No one can perform well by doing something
they are bad at.
 Sure, you can improve your weaknesses. But it’s not
an effective strategy. Like Peter Drucker says
in Managing Oneself:
 “It takes far more energy and work to improve from
incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve
from first-rate performance to excellence.”So figure
out how you perform. Identify your strengths. Then,
go to the next step.

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 2. Identify an industry that fits your strengths
 This is a tough one. On one side, I believe that
we should pursue a career we are passionate
about. But on the other side, I think we should
NOT do something we are bad at.
 3. Improve your ultimate skills
 4. Start at the bottom
 I never understand why people are so impatient.
No one ever became successful by starting at the
top. That’s simply not how life works.

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 5. Keep developing yourself
 One thing I always notice when I talk to
successful people is how excited they are
about the future. Have you ever experienced
that as well?

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 No one formula for success
 Engineering is a field that requires many people
with different skills to work together to solve
complex problems in a simple way.
 Like best engineering problems, there’s no single
algorithm to follow
◦ But there are “Best Practices”
◦ There are Things To Avoid
 Do not make all mistakes yourself
◦ Learning from other’s errors is much better
◦ Be competent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnHW6o8WMas

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 Mere competence will never trump real passion
◦ Match your skills, interest to what world wants
• Artificial intelligence
• Robotic Process Automation
• Helping the Blind See With Their Tongues: new
innovations that can help about 285 million people
around the world living with a visual impairment move
around with a little more ease. the innovation works by
using the surface of their tongues.
• There’s an increasing number of sensory-substitution
devices being developed that use the brain in the most
remarkable way. These devices take in visual information
from the environment and translate it into forms of
physical touch or sound in order to be interpreted by the
user as vision.

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 Space drones: NASA has challenged designers to
develop a conventional drone to work inside a space
station, navigating with no ‘up’ or ‘down’.
 760mph trains: Hate commuting? Imagine, instead,
your train carriage hurtling down a tunnel at the
same speed as a commercial jet airliner. That’s the
dream of PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon
Musk. His Hyperloop system would see ‘train’
passengers travel at up to 760mph through a vacuum
tube, propelled by compressed air and induction
motors. A site has been chosen with the goal of
starting test runs in two years. Once built, the loop
will ferry passengers between San Francisco and LA in
35 minutes, compared to 7.5 hours by train.

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 Coffee power: London’s coffee industry creates over
200,000 tonnes of waste every year, so what do we do
with it? Entrepreneur Arthur Kay’s big idea is to use his
company, bio-bean, to turn 85 per cent of coffee waste
into biofuels for heating buildings and powering transport.
 Drown forest fires in sound: Forest fires could one day be
dealt with by drones that would direct loud noises at the
trees below. Since sound is made up of pressure waves, it
can be used to disrupt the air surrounding a fire,
essentially cutting off the supply of oxygen to the fuel. At
the right frequency, the fire simply dies out, as
researchers at George Mason University in Virginia recently
demonstrated with their sonic extinguisher. Apparently,
bass frequencies work best.

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 Space balloon: If you want to take a trip into
space, your quickest bet might be to take a
balloon.
 The company World View Enterprises wants to
send tourists into the stratosphere, 32km
above Earth, on hot air balloons.
 Technically ‘space’ is defined as 100km
above sea level, but 32km is high enough to
witness the curvature of the Earth, just
as Felix Baumgartner did on his space jump.

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 Breathalyser cars: The US National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration has developed devices that can monitor
alcohol levels by sniffing a driver’s breath or scanning the
blood in their fingertips via the steering wheel,
immobilising the car if levels are too high. Drivers using
the system could be offered lower insurance premiums.
 Crowd-sourced antibiotics: Swallowing seawater is part of
surfing. But now the scientists behind a new initiative
called Beach Bums want to swab the rectums of surfers, to
see if this water contains the key to developing new
antibiotics. They’re searching for antibiotic resistant
bacteria known as superbugs: by studying the samples
from the surfers, they hope to learn more about these
potentially dangerous organisms in the hope of producing
new drugs to combat them.

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 Self-driving trucks: We’ve almost got used to the idea
of driverless cars before we’ve even seen one on the
roads. The truth is, you might well see a lot
more driverless trucks – after all, logistics make the
world go round.
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 Sleep in a petri dish: A team at Washington State
University has identified the smallest set of neurones
in our brains responsible for sleeping, grown a tiny
group of these cells in the lab and induced them to
fall asleep and wake up. Their work could help to
unravel the science of sleep disorders.
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Human head transplants: Sergio Canavero , an Italian
neurosurgeon

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 Holiday by Airship: modern airships are filled
with helium rather than hydrogen, and can fly for
thousands of kilometres while burning less fuel
than an aeroplane. The UK-built Airlander 10 is
actually a hybrid, using helium to provide 60 per
cent of its lift, while the rest is provided by its
wide, wing-like hull. The first airships have been
given government grants to investigate whether
they could replace long-haul freight trucks and
cargo ships, but the company also has more
ambitious plans for tourism.
 Computer forensic analyst
 Computer forensic investigator

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 The Los Angeles Times, “Robots, not
immigrants, are taking American jobs.” It
states, “A White House report released in
December says 83% of U.S. jobs in which
people make less than $20 per hour are now,
or soon will be, subject to automation … and
warns Americans to get ready for an era of
60% unemployment.”
 IS IT TRUE?

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 Machines and algorithms in the workplace are
expected to create 133 million new roles, but cause
75 million jobs to be displaced by 2022 according to
a new report from the World Economic Forum (WEF)
called “The Future of Jobs 2018.”
 This means that the growth of artificial intelligence
could create 58 million net new jobs in the next few
years.
 With this net positive job growth, there is expected to
be a major shift in quality, location and permanency
for the new roles. And companies are expected to
expand the use of contractors doing specialized work
and utilize remote staffing.

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 This report is intended to provide guidance on how to
improve the quality of the work being done by
humans and how people should become prepared for
emerging roles.
 And it is based on a survey of chief human resources
officers and strategy executives from more than 300
global companies across 12 industries and 20
emerging economies.
 Plus the report has determined that 54% of
employees of large companies would need to up-skill
in order to fully harness these growth
opportunities. Over half of the companies surveyed
said that they plan to train only employees in key
roles and only one-third are planning to train at-risk
workers.

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 Nearly 50% of all companies are expecting their
full-time workforce to shrink by 2022 due to
automation, but 40% are expecting to extend
their workforce and more than 25% are expecting
automation to create new roles in the enterprise.
 Some of the fastest growing job opportunities
across all industries include data analysts,
software developers and social media specialists.
Plus jobs that require “human skills” like sales
and marketing, innovation and customer service
are also expected to increase in demand. Some
of the jobs that are expected to go away include
data entry, payroll and certain accounting
functions

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 Companies that are projecting a higher
amount of job losses tend to be in the
mining, consumer and IT industries than
companies in professionals services.
 Between 2018 and 2022, the aviation and
tourism industries are expected to see the
highest amount of retraining.
 Physical tasks are also expected to be
significantly replaced by mechanized labor so
that humans can focus on more productive
tasks.

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 There is expecting to be a growing demand of
financial and investment advisors in East Asia
and the Pacific and Western Europe, assembly
and factory workers in Latin America and the
Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, South
Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa and electrical
engineers in North America.
 This WEF report seems to reaffirm a previous
study that PwC put together where it was
determined that AI, robotics and smart
automation technology will bring greater
economic benefits. And this could contribute up
to $15 trillion to global GDP by 2030.

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 Your answers will change with time
◦ Let career evolve
◦ You can find career value in any job
 Just do outstanding work no matter the task
 It is mostly the choice you make not talent or IQ

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 Look 10 years out & place your career as a
bet
◦ Which technologies or business domains are most
powerful/promising?
◦ Biotech, IT, Clean Energy, Health Care, Telecom,
Micro Finance
 Which line up with your personal belief
system?
◦ Defense, medicine, consumer, corporate, academia

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 Weight these factors heavily:
 Do you believe in the mission
 How outstanding is the team
 How well-run is the company
 Would this position leverage your strengths yet
demand intellectual growth
 Geography, local culture, educational opportunities
 Then consider salary, bonuses, stock,
benefits

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 No matter what it is, become best in world at it
◦ Plan on 2-3 years to get really comfortable & productive
 Work as hard as you can
◦ You are setting your own reputation & trajectory
◦ Only Top Performers have choice of options for next
project
◦ Find mentors & role models (don’t struggle in silence)
 Don’t Let Your Team Down
◦ Know when to stand your ground v/s which battles
aren’t worth fighting
 Settle for nothing less than outstanding work.

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 If you never fail you aren’t trying hard enough
 Not all failures equally forgivable
◦ Well-conceived risks: good
 Learn from your failures
◦ Do not blame others
◦ Own up and take responsibility

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 From spoon-feeding to self-learning
Though engineering has now become a common professional degree, it
is always a unique and evergreen course.
 Focus on personality development
Students should focus on their personality development, particularly
their communication capabilities and professional manners. Spoken
English has to be given special attention.
 Extracurricular activities
Extracurricular activities shall be given a taken up by students as they
form important part of their resume when they start applying for jobs
and higher studies. The students should participate in various
competitions in different colleges at state level and at national level.
Be clear on career goal!
The students should be very clear about their career goals. Selection of
correct career path will offer them lifelong economical and social
stability. Having higher aims in life is not sufficient, but it should be
accompanied with great determination and hard work. One should be
careful in choosing one’s career. They should consider all pro and cons
of various available career options.

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 Wide options through Engineering
A wide variety of options are available to be taken up after
engineering such as pursuing higher studies, taking up a job or
striving for Civil services or Engineering services.
Higher studies
Higher studies may be pursued either abroad or in India in
engineering or management streams. Getting admission for post
graduation in India is very difficult due to tough competition
compared to abroad admissions. However, if one aims to get
admission into top ranking institutes, he /she must ensure
initially whether they have good percentile of marks/CGPA in
graduation
 Management studies
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Getting good scores
If one aims to pursue higher education in engineering in India,
they should prepare for GATE exam.

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 Live projects
Whatever be the chosen career path, during final year, the students should aim to
do project work of good quality in which their contributions are evidently
observable.
 Internships and workshops
It is advisable if one can get internships from well known companies where they
will work alongside project teams on live projects.
 Placement scenario
 Preparing for campus placements
If getting good campus placement is your target, then efforts must be put right
from day one of final year. Students targeting at core jobs should have sound
knowledge of fundamentals of their branches. Students targeting software jobs
should be good at soft skills and programming. If target is to get an opening in a
multi national company, then learning a foreign language would be very much
helpful.
 On the day of the interview
On the day of campus interview, reach the placement office in proper dress code
with all requisite certificates and documents well before time. Attend pre
placement talks by the companies and interact with company officials to clarify
any queries you have on the job profile/ selection process.

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 After qualifying through technical interviews,
candidates need to attend HR
Interviews. During interviews, always be
cheerful, calm and composed. It is not
necessary to answer all questions of the panel
members

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Thank you

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