IT Experience!

"Experience does not matter, only knowledge matters"...."There is no need of having yrs of experience to become a Team Lead"..."One does not know as per one's experience"... such sentences and many more similar sentences I hear from people. When I mulled over this, it is true in one sense that knowledge we gain from our experience matters. But what knowledge people mean here, writing code, learning new programming languages or new technology.. Is that the only knowledge qualified to call it as a real experience? I see many people who works very well, who have good command over technical skills but they lack in many things such as communication (not fluency but clarity in thinking and listening to others), team work, positive thinking, professionalism. What technical knowledge you gain over years that depend upon the project you have worked on so that is partially not in our hand to gain quality of technical experience (why partially because we can learn technical things on our interest).. but other experience which people automatically gains and which is not in their control to refuse not to gain is the professionalism, learning how to talk in team, how to communicate among team members, how to take things positively. If a person says he has so and so yrs of experience that means he has that much maturity and professionalism in him. So irrespective of technical knowledge gained over years and the quality of project one has worked on, we should give due respect to a person for his number of years experience.

I used to concentrate on my technical skills.. that time I was not knowing there are other important things also I have to concentrate upon. Sometimes I had misunderstood people and taken things wrongly. I thank to my last company (Infospectrum India Pvt Ltd), who made me realize this. We had been given trainings to know importance of team ethics, importance of punctuality, importance of listening to others and the way we should take others feedback into consideration rather considering it as criticized statements. I feel my Infospectrum experience was indeed quality experience for me. Now, I am in different country, Singapore… and here I am working in different surrounding so I am still learning new things day by day and helping myself to be better day by day.

So, if you want to make your work experience fully sensible and qualified, do notice and observe the things surrounding you, don’t just concentrate on your technical knowledge. Along with technical knowledge, team ethics and positive thinking also matters. Now, when we say technical knowledge depends on projects we work, in the same sense, team ethics and other things which I mentioned, depends upon the culture and surrounding you work in. It is better if we concentrate on self improvement along with our technical knowledge improvement. If you can analyze and think, you can gain from your surroundings. If you feel your surrounding can not give you as much as you wish, start reading self help books and be a better man ( you are already a good man), more positive thinker and a best team member which will help you in long run in your professional and personal life.