Jay Samit : Cheat Your Way to Your Dream Job

No judging. All's fair in love and war. I'd give Jay four stars though the research could be better in multiple places. Some fact checking will show him up. For example, he could easily have figured out that Afate Gnikou is from Togo, yet he states he collects his e-waste from Nigerian scrapyards. (Togo is Africa's dumping ground for e-waste - about 60 million tonnes a year!) I'm definitely better for reading this one. Thank you Jay Samit


Now, how did he "cheat" his way to this dream job? When he finished at UCLA, economy was down and so was hiring. So, what did he do? He took out an ad looking to hire for a fantasy job for someone with his skills - i.e., trying to get the answer to "who's out there that thinks they're qualified to do what I WANT to do?" People applied - and this gave him three pieces of valuable data :

  1. What is the field like - who are his competition? What do their resumes look like? Helped him craft the perfect entry-level resume!
  2. What places should he spend time at as a stepping stone to his dream job? (this is where the people who think they're qualified for the dream job are)
  3. Which employers (out of these "stepping stone" places) are going to lose people soon? Think about - people at these places are submitting resumes!

He polished up his resume, submitted it, and voila! Well done Jay. Out of the box thinking!


Links:

Adrian Bowyer : RepRap talk at PopTech 2007. (3D Printing)

Vijay Govindarajan : The Other Side of Innovation

Ryan Holiday : The Obstacle is the Way

Innovation Arts, London - use visual facilitation to get your shop to think holistically and come up with new ideas



Afate Gnikou of Togo, Africa's McGyver. Winner of something at NASA's International Space Apps Challenge. Uses metal shafts and threaded rods from old printers. Wants to build prosthetics to improve the quality of life for Africans. Help him out y'all!


And Jay's award for disruptive innovation - Groupe Casino's chicken battery. How do you use chicken breasts stored in your freezer to save energy?

Do nothing? Then you have to spend some energy keeping them cool at night when your solar panels give you zilch. But, if you cool them BELOW the required minimum temperature DURING the DAY, when you have your panels working AND when power is cheaper, then you have to do nothing at all during the night - they will slowly absorb heat from the environment and get back to close to the minimum temperature - consuming no energy at all during the night!


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