Hello Seniors,
Hope you're all doing great!!!
I am Mohan BN, pass-out of RVCE, Bangalore. I was an academic topper with CET rank of 29 for Karnataka state. I was a topper in my college too in the ECE branch and landed in the open dream job offer of Oracle in 2009 during campus placements for 6.3 LPA. I worked in Oracle for 3 years 1 month and then quit the company to take up my dream of entrepreneurship along with few friends. After 3 years in the field of entrepreneurship wherein I took up lot of responsibilities and leadership roles in sales, marketing, training, mentoring, event management, editing etc, I had differences with other team members and as a result was forced to leave the group. So, with 3 years of technical industry experience and 3 years of non-technical entrepreneurial experience I stand jobless at this point of time. I started preparing my resume and uploading it in a lot of job portals. Though I received few calls from some consultants I haven't been able to attend a single interview for past one month. I have taken suggestions and reviews from my Oracle peers and updated my resume such that it speaks more of the BI industry language. I have even sent across this resume to them to refer me to any valid job opportunities but haven't succeeded in attending a single interview still. For time being, I have been brushing up all my BI and Datawarehousing concepts and am working to build a small BI project using the open source BI tools like Pentaho for a school ecosystem where the head of the school should be able to play around with data like the marks scored by different students in different subjects in different classes, evaluate teacher's performances based on the BI model created so that I apply my BI knowledge to a practical example. Even when I left Oracle and started training children in schools this idea of building a BI project for school had struck me. But I didn't give it much attention at that time due to other priorities. So, I am using my technical edge to build such a prototype so that it shall also prove to the recruiters that I might have lost the technical hands on experience for last 3 years but my analytical skills and functional knowledge have only become stronger dealing with real world business practices. At this point, even the situation at home is pretty tough where in my government employed father thinks that I am not even eligible to secure a job in a call centre. I know that getting into a call centre might give some money for present but wouldn't help in anyway for the career in BI domain that I am looking for. Hence I have been patient enough to wait for some calls from BI companies. However, I stand amidst darkness without any guidance from appropriate seniors working in the field. Hence I am posting this query of mine looking forward for some guidance from experienced professionals in this group.
Q1. What else should I do at this point of time to get back into the BI industry soon enough?
Q2. Would doing certifications related to BI like OBIEE 11g, Big Data etc be beneficial in the job search?
Q3. What should be my monetary expectations from the companies that are ready to hire me now?
It would be of great help if some senior personnel can share your thoughts and advice in this regard.
I am looking forward for all your replies soon....
Thanks in advance,
Mohan BN
Hope you're all doing great!!!
I am Mohan BN, pass-out of RVCE, Bangalore. I was an academic topper with CET rank of 29 for Karnataka state. I was a topper in my college too in the ECE branch and landed in the open dream job offer of Oracle in 2009 during campus placements for 6.3 LPA. I worked in Oracle for 3 years 1 month and then quit the company to take up my dream of entrepreneurship along with few friends. After 3 years in the field of entrepreneurship wherein I took up lot of responsibilities and leadership roles in sales, marketing, training, mentoring, event management, editing etc, I had differences with other team members and as a result was forced to leave the group. So, with 3 years of technical industry experience and 3 years of non-technical entrepreneurial experience I stand jobless at this point of time. I started preparing my resume and uploading it in a lot of job portals. Though I received few calls from some consultants I haven't been able to attend a single interview for past one month. I have taken suggestions and reviews from my Oracle peers and updated my resume such that it speaks more of the BI industry language. I have even sent across this resume to them to refer me to any valid job opportunities but haven't succeeded in attending a single interview still. For time being, I have been brushing up all my BI and Datawarehousing concepts and am working to build a small BI project using the open source BI tools like Pentaho for a school ecosystem where the head of the school should be able to play around with data like the marks scored by different students in different subjects in different classes, evaluate teacher's performances based on the BI model created so that I apply my BI knowledge to a practical example. Even when I left Oracle and started training children in schools this idea of building a BI project for school had struck me. But I didn't give it much attention at that time due to other priorities. So, I am using my technical edge to build such a prototype so that it shall also prove to the recruiters that I might have lost the technical hands on experience for last 3 years but my analytical skills and functional knowledge have only become stronger dealing with real world business practices. At this point, even the situation at home is pretty tough where in my government employed father thinks that I am not even eligible to secure a job in a call centre. I know that getting into a call centre might give some money for present but wouldn't help in anyway for the career in BI domain that I am looking for. Hence I have been patient enough to wait for some calls from BI companies. However, I stand amidst darkness without any guidance from appropriate seniors working in the field. Hence I am posting this query of mine looking forward for some guidance from experienced professionals in this group.
Q1. What else should I do at this point of time to get back into the BI industry soon enough?
Q2. Would doing certifications related to BI like OBIEE 11g, Big Data etc be beneficial in the job search?
Q3. What should be my monetary expectations from the companies that are ready to hire me now?
It would be of great help if some senior personnel can share your thoughts and advice in this regard.
I am looking forward for all your replies soon....
Thanks in advance,
Mohan BN