Nullcon Resume Clinic Testimonial

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This is a testimonial video about Anant Shrivastava’s experience with the NULLCon Resume Clinic mentorship program.

Key Points

Resume Clinic Experience:

• Overall positive experience: Been part of multiple resume clinics so far
• Feel-good factor: Helping people
• Different backgrounds: Mentees have had different backgrounds ranging from someone trying to get into field to someone trying to survive or thrive
• Perspectives differ: Navigating ways in corporate world differ depending on if you’re a fresher, late entrant, or seasoned pro
• Aspect also change: Along with work environment
• Different experiences: With different mentees, overall positive feel to all of it

Mentorship Value:

• Corporate world unforgiving: Very less redos that you get
• Finding someone to trust: Ask questions openly and discuss things becomes very challenging
• Mentor: Someone you can be open with, honest about own insecurities, own flaws, have clear discussion
• NULLCon resume clinic: Offers very small amount of time, however time provided is with trusted set of community members who have shown appetite to help others
• Brief interaction: Can actually become long-term mentorship opportunity if synergies found between mentee and mentor
• Can continue discussion: Work on larger level
• Irrespective: Whether work happens on large scale or not, you get focus of mentor for 10 minutes, can get resolution for at least one of current major problems
• That’s what adds value: In whole system

Why Attend Resume Clinic:

• Very few such initiatives: Found online
• 10-15 minutes of time: With someone willing to help you out - big help in current environment
• Important criteria: One - if have certain doubts or scenarios where feeling difficulties to navigate around, that’s when should be stepping and asking question
• Two: Should have very clear focus - what do you want to achieve out of this interaction
• If fresher: Do you just want resume to be checked whether it’s good or not
• If seasoned professional: Do you want help in navigating corporate politics or corporate environment, or help around jumping companies or increasing scope of work
• Be very clear: On what you want to achieve because 10 minutes looks like good time but becomes very short time if do not have clear focus
• First time: Most of scenarios where interacting with person - person giving third person feedback of current situation based on resume, based on discussion
• Need to be absolutely clear: About what you want to achieve
• If someone needing: Second opinion, needing help in navigating this environment - this is right place to be

Key Insights:

• Resume clinic provides feel-good factor of helping people
• Corporate world is unforgiving with very less redos
• Mentor is someone you can be open with about insecurities and flaws
• Brief interaction can become long-term mentorship if synergies found
• 10 minutes can resolve at least one major problem
• Very few such initiatives found online
• Need clear focus on what you want to achieve
• Right place for second opinion and help navigating environment

Actionable Takeaways:

1. Resume clinic provides trusted community members willing to help
2. Corporate world unforgiving - mentorship valuable
3. Brief interaction can become long-term if synergies found
4. 10 minutes can resolve at least one major problem
5. Need clear focus on what you want to achieve
6. Right place for second opinion and navigating environment