There are serious
economic meltdown in worldwide and everybody is affected. As a
software developer we are also in same boat. We all are now thinking about
Dos and Don'ts so that we can avoid or at least minimize the
damage. While writing the article I am not sure (and cannot be in any case ;) ) what going to happened tomorrow morning or in next couple of weeks or months. But while thinking about all these horrible things I feel following things should be taken care for avoid damage.
The only think which can save the job in this kind of environment is "
Your Criticality" in your task/project/assignments. More critical
responsibility means more stable jobs and even when all goes well in future then more promotions, hikes etc.
If you are not having any critical tasks/assignments/project in your bucket then tries to
grab it as soon as possible.
Some tips to be
Critical Resource
1. Try to do participate in some extra curriculum activities of business (Do help in business guys to grab the project).
2. Do some
techno social service in the project of next cubical (other teams).
3. Don't miss any opportunity to show off your
technical skills to your manager.
4. Always try to finish your task within
estimated time frame at least if not before.
5. Don't give any indication that you are not having
interest in your current project (due to some maintains work, old technology, less learning opportunity, not happy with manager/pears/juniors etc.)
6. Don't even think to change your
current job.
Apart from your criticality followings are important tips for personal improvement so that if anything goes wrong you can minimize the risk of not to have job.
1. Try to improve your
technical skills (as .NET developer we can see lots of things are happening around like ASP.NET MVC, LINQ, Functional programming, JQuery etc. also getting idea about other programming language can also help as lot like Ruby on Rails)
2. Try to study some
team management stuffs specially Agile, Scrum etc.
3. Do some
original blog post, so that recruiters can have idea about your technical skills. It also improves your technical skills (In one of my interview, the recruiter asked most of the questions from my blog posts).
All these tips are just ideas which I normally have in my mind when I think about messy economic recursion now days.
This is late a late night post, might be I am not able to edit it properly.
Please put your comments to improve this post so that maximum people can get benefited in tough time.
Good night and have sweet dreams.