Saturday, November 6, 2010

Nikhil Kulkarni Visits SDM again

Nikhil Kulkarni has visited SDM earlier  and had shared his invaluable experience with our students. See comments by Vanishree and Pavan Here . Nikhil visited us again us on 4th and held a lively discussions with our VII semester students. Here are the highlights


  • Develop interest and passion for something and chase it. Try to explore each thing things u learn in the wider context of their use and application. Friends suggestions made in SNS is based on algorithms
  • How to plan u r career. Take it as a 30 year journey; break into 6 parts of 5 year each. For each part have some specific purpose   
    • 0-5 years – learn as much as possible about your work and domain
    • 6-10 years – specialize in one or more domains.
    • 10-15 try out different roles
    • 15-20 – consider opening up u r own venture ( Mitesh Naik
    • 20-21 become best known name in the field
  • Communication skills- contact people; read their blogs, comments on them, write small messages in email – not more than 7 sentences
  • Networking – find people and join their address list – get their cards etc 

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