How to prepare for a technology job- understand how organizations work, business trends, and preparing for a technology job with the right skills.

1. Trending Business
Areas and Skills
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2.  Business Model
 B2C
 Bank Of America, Verizon, Airlines, etc.
 B2B
 Visa, Mastercard, ADP, Ford, WalMart, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc.
 C2C
 Amazon, Uber, eBay, LendingClub, GoFundMe, YouTube, etc.
 C2B
 TripAdviser, Freelancer, etc.
 Other
 B2G Lockheed martin, Ford, SpaceX, etc.
 C2G Informers, Farm produce, Tax Return, Election, etc.
 G2B Special Economy Zones, Ports, Airport, etc.
 G2C SBI, Indian Railway, Government Libraries, etc.
 G2G Security data exchange, Diplomacy, etc.
 G2E Benefits, Payrolls, Trainings, etc.

3.  Changing Trends
 New Business Model
 Traditional operational model
 New Business Model
 NetFlix, AirBNB, Amazon, Robinhood, LendingClub, Uber, Youtube, TikTok, many more
 Smart Work Culture
 Traditional work Culture
 Smart work culture
 Anywhere, BYOD, Virtual Meeting/Conferences/Socialization
 Online Businesses Reduced Infrastructure Footprint
 Entrepreneurship
 Crowd sourcing

4.  Work Engagement Areas for Technology Employees
 Technology Building Blocks
 Common Foundation and Infrastructure
 Technology Roadmap and Strategy (need collaboration with Architect/Enterprise Architect)
 Product and Operation Support
 Product Roadmap and Strategy
 Operation enablement
 Product lifecycle support
 Operational support
 Security, Risk and Compliance
 Business Continuity
 Operational Compliance
 Data Security
 Application/Product Security
 Audit
 Enterprise Strategy
Above are just few common work areas for technology professionals. With right experience and individuals work
anyone can work at any level and any area.

5.  Technology Engagement Roles
 DevOps On-prem, Cloud
 Developer- Frontend, backend, full stack
 Quality Assurance/Testing Manual, Automation, Performance and Load Tester
 Data Scientist
 DBA and Database Specialist Relational Database, NoSQL
 SaaS specialist Salesforce, Oracle, Workday, SAP, Pega, Amazon, Microsoft
 PaaS and IaaS specialist Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, IBM
 Architecture Application, Technology, Platform, Enterprise

6.  Trending Technology Job Areas
 Cloud Specialist/Transformers  Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
 Big Data and Data Scientist
 Machine Learning and AI Developer
 Robotics Engineers
 Mobile/IoT Developers
 Full stack Developers Can perform end-to-end development
 Block chain Developer
 Data/Information Security Specialist
 Integration Specialist (SaaS Integration Specialist)  Salesforce, Oracle,
Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, etc.
 DevOps

7.  Trending Technologies
 Cloud Service providers and services Amazon, Microsoft, Google
 DevOps  Gitlab, Jenkin, Airflow, Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation, Docker,
kubernetes
 Machine Learning and AI Python, R, Java, C/C++, LISP, ProLog
 Block chain  Crytography, Python, C/C++, Java, Solidity, WASM, Vyper
 IoT API, Alexa(Amazon), MQTT(Message Queuing Telemetry Transport)
 Microservice Architectural Framework REST and GraphQL
 Microservice/Backend Languages Python, Java, nodejs, Go, Ruby, C/C++
 Frontend Languages- React, AngularJS
 Infrastructure as a code Ansible, Terraform, Cloud formation, etc.
 Identity and Access Management Okta, Ping, Oracle, Microsoft, etc.

8.  Other Key Notes
 Employee or Employer You decide what you want to be- a employee or be a
entrepreneur and create jobs/opportunities for others. Again both are good, but you
decide what you want to do- Do your own research and think strategic- keep long term
target, but keep short term goals which can challenge you, yet achievable.
 Diversity Ensure you understand how to work in multicultural and diverse
environment, this is key to success
 Mistakes It happens and often happens when you try to do something different or
new or even what we do everyday. Learn from mistakes.
 Share and Learn Share your knowledge with others and always keep yourself open to
learning
 Keep Trying- Remember failures are our learning opportunities, learn from it and
improve
 Stay prepared- Challenges, bad economy, pandemic, etc. are sometimes difficult for us
to handle, but these are the things which brings opportunities. Ex- Zoom, Beyond Meat,
PLUG, JMIA, NVDA, GameStop, Wayfair, Amazon, etc.

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