Sorry CEO!!, you are not my Target Audience

There might be many reasons why many start up's fail, but after a lot of Q and A and discussion in my upper membrane, I came to a conclusion. If you have a list of all the things you shouldn't do, you can turn that into a recipe for succeeding just by negating. And this form of list may be more useful in practice. It's easier to catch yourself doing something you shouldn't than always to remember to do something you should. In a sense there's just one mistake that kills startups: not making something users want. If you make something users want, you'll probably be fine; whatever else you do or don't do. And if you don't make something users want, then you're dead, whatever else you do or don't do. The warning signal comes when you think and make your product for your own convenience rather with respect to your user.

In my career, I have made products which user wish to use. Sorry Mr. CEO, I don’t make products for you because you’re not my TG and I am not here to impress you.

I am listing few reasons for failure since most of the start up's failure funnel through these:-

1. Single Founder

2. Multiple Founder with limited powers and Zero Expertise

3. Bad Location

4. Concentration on Marginal Niche to Avoid competition hoping to get success

5. Derivative Ideas

6. Obstinacy/Being stubborn or Refractory / Not willing to accept failure and stubborn to accept better ideas

7. Hiring Bad Programmers

8. Choosing wrong platform / No research done

9. Tortoise Steps in launching / Else Launching before time without fixes

10. Having no specific Target User in Mind

11. Hiring best employee's with less pay / Bad HR resources.

12. Raising too little money or Spending excess of money

13. Poor Investor management

14. Sacrificing users to Profit

15. Tussle between founders

16. No research and getting self hands dirty

17. Hiring people with no competitive role and out of bounds competition employees

18. Giving employees a platform to work for their own. Remember a Start-up is neither a ground of interns neither it is a home for parasites who work for them using your own resource. Most Dangerous.

19. Hiring HR with no expertise in your Domain. Remember they bring no value as consultants.

20. Imbalance appreciation of work, low motivation, and no interaction with employees. Instead fake promises are biggest cause of failure.

Mr Rocket Singh, My Mozo Man

Literally a man who helps as main assistant or porter is a Mozo. What happens when your friend a Mozo kill your share of value taking advantage of friendship and innocence. At the beginning you feel to let it go. But later you learn never to commit such mistakes on blind trust.

Agreed my friend business starts like a Rocket Singh, but Rocket Singh in your own stuff is funny. So Mr. Mozo, agreed it’s your job to get the things done, whether alone, by your team, or by free-lancer, I hardly give a damn to it. My share remains mine. Irrespective of whether you work for 1 or 10 companies at a time, I don’t care. It is as simple as that, whether you have to buy 10 apartments or single, broker commission remains flat. If you have short sightedness, and if you think locally, then I am sorry I cannot help you out. You lost many things man.

Secrets to getting the job you really want

I'd like to make your job search more successful. When applying for a job, it's critical to deliver your resume to the right person. In most job listings, the recipient of the resume is an HR professional. That's fine, but it's not the only way to apply for the job. If you find a job where you're a perfect fit, an alternative approach is to send a resume directly to the hiring manager. For example, if you were applying for a sales position, you could call the company and ask for the name of the sales manager, and then send a cover letter and resume directly to that person. My advice is to only use this tactic when you're a perfect fit, and to not apply to the job via the traditional HR process as well. You don't want to be seen as someone who is sending two resumes in an attempt to end-run the HR process. Your goal is to have the hiring manager call the HR recruiter and tell him or her to bring you in for an interview.

I also advise job seekers to be sure that their resumes highlight the relevant accomplishments they have for the job they want. Most job seekers have resumes listing their skills and responsibilities, which isn't enough. It makes them look like every other job seeker who will be ignored for the job. Your resume should highlight your relevant accomplishments in a way that will make the employer say, "Wow, she's succeeded at doing a similar job before." You want your resume reader to perceive you as being accomplished in your profession. Transitioning your resume to this better approach isn't easy, but it will surely get you more interviews.

When your CEO or COO updates Resume

Is this the time to take a nap or time to hammer your head? Shocking to listen when you see your COO or CEO updates his or her resume and later his resume comes back to you in your mail floating. Time to recap all hard work and get into a safe place, since the virus of insecurity is eating your boss even. Go to your flash back when those were the people who made you promises. Dude, we are this and that and bla bla bla!!!! . You stepped in and worked for them. Now suddenly you realized Trust is indirectly proportional to promises. What do you wait for now, a pink slip when you see your organization is in losses? Kill that feeling of loyalty, eagerness, attitude towards work, and of-course kill your sleep and find the next right job. I am not promoting job hopping; instead I am making you cautious to beware of skeleton of danger.

I remember when flood came to my home, I prayed to god, why didn’t I choose for Top Floor apartment. It happens in life when you realize that time is still not gone and better time is yet to come. There are many good things to do in life rather living with moles.

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Play this game, worth trying.

Top 10 mistakes that bosses make, Encash these mistakes..Be Smart..

Calling the boss H - Hitler, A - Arrogant, R - Rascal and I - Idiot caught everyone's attention in Naukri's TV commercial, would you do the same if given an opportunity? Even though it was just an advertisement, it did reflect the plight of employees in the IT industry. Lets find out top ten mistakes that even good managers and bosses make. So I am listing below the top ten mistakes which are very common amongst bosses.

1. Fake Promises
2. Micro-management
3. Using improper mode of communication
4. Leading through intimidation
5. Lacking empathy for employee's situation
6. Becoming inaccessible to your employees
7. Not providing guidance or motivating employees
8. Not providing a clear picture - Transparency
9. Insecurity about their post
10. Trying to be friend as well as boss or showing partiality

10 most popular incentives that firms offer BEWARE

From project completion lunches to holiday sponsorship, companies around the world dole out several innovative incentives to employees, in a bid to retain them. Employee's should be cautious before joining an organization that is the offer a bait or butter? I think, the ten most popular incentives that employers offer, and employees enjoy today are:-

1. Cash Bonus
2. ESOP's
3. Project Completion Lunch
4. Joining Bonus
5. Tax Saving Incentives
6. Trip Abroad or Holiday Sponsorship
7. Corporate Discounts
8. Motivational Employee Recognition
9. Insurance
10. Rewards and Recognition

Infosys employees vent anger on HR issues in blogs

Employee activism is on the rise at Infosys, India's second-largest information technology services firm, which employs close to 114,000 in India and across the world.

The company's effort to tame the disgruntled employees, who were earlier venting their anger in public forums and some social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, by giving them a blogging platform on its intranet, seems to have back-fired.

So much so, the company's HR Head, Nandita Gurjar claims to be getting thousands of negative reactions to her blog postings in the company's intranet 'Sparsh'. This has forced her to set up a team of six to moderate the blogs and 'My voice', the dedicated website the company has developed to seek the opinion of employees on important policy matters. Infosys is understood to have changed some of its HR policy decisions, coming under severe attacks by the employees in these blogs and 'My voice'.

Read more on:-
 http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/apr/15/slide-show-1-infosys-employees-vent-anger-on-hr-issues-in-blogs.htm

Welcome to Blow Your Job blog

All,
Welcome to Blow Your Job blog. This blog is for employee's who feel their job is not justified by their employer in the terms of their profile, increments- bonuses, salary, promotions, and specially those who hate company policies and their bosses. Feel free to add comments on their drive in their previous and current employers. Be open to others and express your feelings to help people who expect to join.
Also you all can share tips of interviews and questions asked to get into any organization.
Justify injustice to you at its best. You never thought your career will shape in the way your employer took it. At times you must have felt that your employer took an advantage of your situation, your innocence, your honesty, and your loyalty towards work. Many a time’s credit which you deserved was never yours. Be a Robin Hood of your dreams. This blog is all about just one thing “Dreams Shattered” by your employer.
Remember love your job not the employer, because you never know when your employer stops loving you. Be Venom to them.