Linkedin connection study

January 18, 2017

Introduction

Julia took 2 hour to go over her linkedin connections - 820 connections, and then she finished to review all of them. A lot of surprises, and then she was amazed that she had experience to work with so many people before, now some of them are really doing very well. It is the beginning of the year 2017 and it is also good time to see how others are doing.

Study

Julia likes to have some numbers, a small statistics to share.

1. Two of her connections started to work for Amazon in the middle of 2016. Two are her Florida friends back to year 2000.

2. One of facebook engineer becomes an engineer manager. She knew him through Vancouver facebook tech talks. She learned to work hard, cannot depend on the luck. Those people working in facebook are really hard-working people as well.

3. One starts to be the principle engineer for auto industry research in 2016.

4.  A few of new principle lead and principle engineer for HP, EMC in 2016. Those are her Florida Atlantic University's classmates.

SUCCESS

ISN'T JUST ABOUT

what you accomplish in your life

IT'S ABOUT

WHAT YOU INSPIRE

    OTHERS TO DO

From carowozniacki, former No. 1 WTA player (Highest rank: No 1, 11 Oct. 2010) 

8 Do not - Relax and Be Yourself

January 5, 2016

Be yourself and relax in 2017. It will be a great year for hard working people, Julia, you are one of them.

A - Do not act like you know everything.    (I am still learning, do one thing a time.)
B - Do not be a hero.                      (I make mistakes, and then know how to calculate the risk better)
B - Do not be overly format.  (Specially, do not purchase too many clothes.)
O - Do not over-prepare.        (Treat yourself as a human being. Stay in the moment. )
P  - Do not panic if a problem stumps you. (Nobody is perfect. Even champions will fail over and over again.)
S - Do not second-guess yourself.   (Practice makes perfect. Do one thing a time)
S - Do not stress if you are not a 10X coder. (Julia, you fail so many times in programming contests, then you learn the difficulty of problem solving.)


Review the interview cheat sheet blog's notes, write down most favorite ones:

1. Don't be overly format. "Don't act like somebody you're not - it's really a come-as-you-are environment."
2. Don't second-guess yourself. "You have to have confidence in your ability to make connections, because executives are going to challenging your recommendations. You'll be expected to back them up."
3. Don't act like you know everything.
4. Don't stress if you're not a 10X coder.
5. "The interview isn't grading you on your improv skills, but whether you steer difficult conversations forward without falling for distraction."
6. Don't be a hero. "Be able to articulate your specific contributions instead of doing everything yourself."
7. Don't over-prepare. "Planning everything you're going to say and do in the case study portion of the interview makes for a stale presentation and misses the mark. The point of the case is to see how you approach problems in real time."
8. Don't panic if a problem stumps you. "We're really trying to assess your thought process, so if you get stuck or make a mistake, don't stress out - nobody is perfect."

Be an inspiration 🙌

A photo posted by Caroline Wozniacki (@carowozniacki) on May 3, 2015 at 9:29am PDT