Your Career Is Your Business Manage It Like a CEO
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good evening guys
how are you guys doing great well i was
hoping to see you guys in person
but then this pandemic happened and here
we are
my name is karan bhandari and i’m a
really common guy like most of you are
here today
same school same studies then you guys
must be wondering what i’m doing on the
tedx platform
well uh let’s let’s start with this
thing what’s the timeline for tedx
ideas worth spreading so i’m definitely
sure that
your organizers must have liked my idea
and that’s why i’m here today
well uh to start with
what i’m gonna talk about here today is
something that will
impact most of you guys if not the
hundred percent i can say at least the
90 or
90 odd percent here i’m not talking
about those guys who are going to become
the entrepreneurs or the influencers
but i’m talking about the rest of you
who are going to end up in the most
competitive world out there
the corporate world and the professional
world
well yes today my focus
is on how i can convey the
mentorship how i can convey the message
that i have learned across
in my corporate career so that you guys
get a leverage when you enter the
corporate world well once again
my name is karan madari 26 years old i’m
a chartered accountant and an mba
and most of my career i have worked with
one of the largest consulting companies
in the world
and right now i’m heading the tax
function at one of the largest public
sector entities in the uae
now why i chose this topic today like
take a chance from our school days
how many people you think actually
become entrepreneurs or influencers
few of them where do the rest of them go
to the corporate world
few of us are introverts we are not so
open to talking to public and you know
we we
close we like being closed so where do
we go
to the corporate world so you know the
majority of the people
in the world go to the corporate world
and that’s why it’s one of the most
competitive world out there
well today my focus is how do i convey
the message
that how you can excel in the corporate
world and by excel i mean it’s a pretty
weird term
excel is a pretty vague term but what
i’m trying to focus here is
how do you grow in the corporate world
how do you climb the ladder in the
corporate world
and lastly but not the least how do you
make sure you achieve that seven digit
salary package at the earliest
well corporate world in itself is a
journey it’s not an overnight sensation
or it’s not an overnight thing that
happens
you learn you fail and that’s how you
grow upon
so uh sit back and relax as i take you
through my corporate journey as well as
my learnings
and we see what what can
you take out of this one i’m going to
talk about three major things today
the first one setting your goals right
you guys are the best stage of your life
where you need to decide
where do you want to end up being in
your career where what do you want to
end up
at the end of your work and at the end
of your studies at the
start of your career where do you want
to go and
the same was with me what i wanted when
i was in my 12th i had decided that what
i want to do
is get my mba from one of the best b
schools
and get a good high paying job but then
getting into mba was easy cracking a
gmat or a
cat and getting into the college and
then
fracking the interview and getting into
the job but
this the thought struck me when i was
thinking that whether i will be able
to justify the job that i get into
because i had no previous experiences
i i didn’t think of any work experiences
that i should go through before
i get into the job so then it struck me
what should i do and that’s when i ended
up taking a cda course the chartered
accountancy goes
trust me it was one of the best
decisions i took out of my life
i started my ca journey when i was in my
12th
and it took me almost four and a half to
five years to complete the ca
course but you know in the four and a
half years that i
spent doing the ca it turned me into a
different man altogether
you know i had learned
business skills i had learned financial
skills but most of them
ca gave me three great life lessons
three life lessons i think which will
remain with me all
throughout my life the first thing
staying up without the help of caffeine
well you know because we study almost 18
hours 16 hours a day
so at the time of exam so that that
really gave
me the learnings of how to stay awake
without the help of caffeine
and you know just stay study and focus
on what your goal is
the second thing overcoming the failures
i think you guys must be knowing that
the passing percentage in
ca is like three percent five percent
seven percent or sometimes max to max 10
then but then what do the rest of them
do do they quit do they drop out
no they they focus they study and they
try to come back
overcome the failures and that’s how
ca gives you a different perspective in
life on how to overcome the failures
and the third thing this designation ca
karan mandari
remains with me for my life and well
i cannot be less thankful for that one
well the second most important thing
is experiences actually i would say this
is the most important thing
why because you know degrees help you to
enter the job market
but when you have to climb the ladder or
you have to jump the ladder
all that the other person cares about is
what experience do you bring in
so trust me the experience matters the
most
at the larger later part of your career
now
uh let’s let’s take this thing why do
you think
most of the job course things or the job
advertisements have minimum work years
of experience
why because people have a tendency to
you know
believe that when you come from a
certain place with certain years of
experiences
you bring in the knowledge you bring in
the learnings and that’s what they are
counting upon
when they want to hire you or they want
to work with you
so that’s the that’s the power of
experience
you know let me bring an example of
my my internships days when we used to
you know literally print 300 400 pages
of you know documents and stuff like
that i used to wonder that you know why
have i joined such a huge company to
print pages
but then those are the learnings that i
and
that i got that that are still remain
because you know that for
that waiting for those 400 pages to be
printed to make sure they are in
alignment
when it goes to the client the the way
we staple the way
that we punch in it’s also systematic
that that is still there in me
even if today i’m stapling a document i
have the same habit
and that’s what experiences builds upon
you
the second thing learn from people’s
experiences
see our journey is not just not our
journey but our journey is all
we have to keep a watch on other people
also because this world is cruel
so when other people are keeping a watch
on you you need to keep a watch on other
people you need to
just not learn from your experiences but
you need to learn from people’s
experiences
you need to see what others are doing
you need to see
what good they are doing than you and
you need to incorporate that in yourself
and that’s what i’m trying to focus here
in the second part
is learn from people’s experiences from
your friends from your relatives from
your
colleagues everyone just try to learn
take their experiences
make it as you have lived the
experiences so that
you have that portion to quote somewhere
when you are being asked upon the last
thing
confidence booster you know sometimes
the corporate world gets boring
your daily going on the same job eight
to five
coming back home and tired and stuff
like that so
it kind of gets boring also so what do
you do quit one day and
just leave you know few of them might do
also but
most of them cannot because we have
commitments we have responsibilities and
other things in life so what do we do we
need to keep our confidence rolling
and how do you do that is interviews
yes you heard it right interview as soon
as you crack an interview
it gives you the confidence that yes
there is still a demand for you there is
still a
need for you in the market and
nonetheless if you do want to move
at least you still have a base to
renegotiate at your current job
that boss i’m getting a good package
outside either you give me a good salary
here or i’m moving out there
so you know don’t take interviews as a
negative thing take interviews as a
confidence booster
and trust me it works very well to be
frank i give interviews every three to
six months
once in a while why why because you know
it keeps my confidence rolling you know
it keeps me
uh searching hunting for new
opportunities and you never know you
know
it just makes me feel that okay i need
to reevaluate my market value i need to
reevaluate what is the market demand for
me
what is the market uh is the market
looking out for
professionals like me and when i see
that i can crack an interview and i see
the acceptance
it just makes my confidence more uh you
know
going uh going more confidently moving
more confidently into the market that
okay the demand is there there is a need
i
i need to be happy i need to be
confident when i am performing at my job
and this is how i do it and lastly
if you don’t track an interview it is a
learning
it is a learning that we still need more
focus
more redesigning on ourselves because we
need to take
the learnings from the recruiter or
from the interviewer that why did he not
select us
what went missing and take that learning
into you
incorporate that into you and trust me
the next time you will be able to crack
the same interview what you were looking
for
so don’t take interviews as a challenge
or jinx but
try to take it more as a confidence
booster and trust me you will be able to
do wonders with it
so yeah these are the few things that i
wanted to convey to you guys you know
because this is the right age you guys
are getting out of school you’re gonna
get into colleges
these are the right times when you need
to set your goals right you need to
decide upon what experiences you want to
gain upon
what where do you want to end up in your
career and what do you want to do in
your career
what learnings from your experiences you
need to take
and you know things like that and lastly
but not the least
keep your confidence rolling guys
because that’s what is going to keep you
rolling in your life
thanks for hearing me out take care guys
bye bye