How to Explore Career Opportunities in this pandemic?
By: Nikhil Kumar
Tags: Students, Student Life, Careers, Career Advice, Opportunity

Explore the reality in unreality.

Do you also feel stuck while searching for any opportunity or you see people doing so many things and you often miss out on opportunities so in this blog we will be discussing exploring new opportunities?

Hunting for new opportunities can be fun, motivating, inspiring, or maybe scary, frightening, and daunting, depending upon your perspective.

But you must have an inspection before diving deep into this big ocean of technology.

Golden advice,

“Don’t always believe in someone else’s perspective, In this long journey you’ll

get hundreds of people who will share their outlook towards the opportunities out there, but always remember that every time you don’t share the same strength and weaknesses with others, it might be possible that something that has no value in front of others, add infinite values to your life.”

So, before believing, just enquire.

Below are some of the ways through which you can explore new opportunities

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional networking platform. It’s one of the most influential social media networks with a whopping more than 700 million active users.

LinkedIn enables you to network with people and professional organizations in your industry. This is a great way to stay updated with the latest developments and to share information with others in your field.

Once you’ve made connections with the required set of people with similar goals or someone whom you can look up to, reach out to their profile and look what new opportunities they’ve explored and achieved, it can be anything from working in a community to being an ambassador of an organization to winning or participating in hackathons or contests that you’ve not even heard of.

If you’ve any doubt, you can freely ask them and most of them are willing to help you.

Apart from connecting with new people, you can use the search bar at the top of your profile page to look for interesting groups to join, or you can find new groups via the group you’ve already joined.

LinkedIn can be a valuable source of information, ideas, and support. Share your knowledge in groups or even your posts, but make sure that your posts are useful, informative, and relevant to your professional connections.

YouTube

YouTube is unbelievably marvelous. Surf from exciting reels to dilettante vlogs to high-quality episodic vlogs, all under one network.

But how to find a particular video from billions of hours of video available to choose from, how does one go about tailoring his interest and finding people who create that great stuff?

If you arrive at YouTube’s homepage with no clear search goals in mind, it can be difficult to discover something new.

For computer science-related exploration, start with the channels like Aman Dhattarwal, Code for cause, take U forward, Apna college, and many other prime channels that have way too much to offer you.

These channels would provide extensive knowledge and opportunities from 1st-year road map to internships to resume building to how to grab a great package? They have it all there.

Once you’ve found a few channels you like, check out the sidebars on each channel page. It features channels that user has recommended or the views of that channels subscribed to, most of the time it is relevant to your search. You’ll find great suggestions.

Communities

Communities like the Google Developer Groups would help you to connect with people with a similar mindset.

You are helped to develop your skills and also uncover abilities and aptitude that open new career paths to explore and countless other opportunities.

You may neglect this at the beginning, but this is the best way of learning things and growing personally at the same time.

Google It!

Almost every major company like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Adobe, Intel, VISA, and many other significant companies have something for students on their Careers page and you’re just a click away from it.

The best thing to do is to start exploring there’s no other way.

And the most foremost point, don’t get discouraged by all the content. While there might be a lot of crap on YouTube you’ll find the best and

the most relevant stuff by staying active.

In the end, if you have an opportunity, go for it. The only way it’s going to happen is if you give it a go.

All we’re saying is take a bit of time to consider options and do some planning too. You can do many things and learn a lot but if you have zero strategies.

~You can be in trouble!

As you explore an opportunity, remember that there are supports out there to help you make it happen.

What are some of your tips for finding new opportunities?

Please share them in the comments.

Keep hustling.