Tech My Breath Away

CGPAs, Freshers’ Job Search, AI in Recruitment, and a Solo Founder’s Life: Reczee’s Raj Patel | Tech My Breath Away #2

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In this episode, Abbhinav (123 of AI) and Raj Patel (Reczee) discuss maintaining work-life balance, having a supportive family, focusing on innovative solutions for recruiters rather than becoming another Naukri or LinkedIn, expected changes in recruiters' roles due to automation, skill/expectation gaps in industry requirements and candidates' qualifications, and working with freelancers when you have limited resources.

This is part 2, of our discussion with Raj.


RAJ REVEALS:

  • The necessity for grit in entrepreneurship, combining ambition, patience, and persistence
  • Freshers' approach to job search
  • Market competition and perseverance
  • The importance of having sound personal finances before jumping into entrepreneurship.
  • The influence of financial influencers, misinformation, and the need for basic financial literacy in India.
  • Entrepreneurship’s impact on work-life balance
  • A Key Motivation in entrepreneurship: Control over once’s time
  • Loneliness as a solo founder
  • Co-founder dynamics
  • Mentorship via content consumption
  • Discrepancy between industry requirements and college coursework.
  • Companies still consider CGPA while seeking practical experience from candidates.
  • AI’s influence: Recruiters' manual tasks may be automated by technology.
  • AI’s influence: Candidates might resort to using doctored resumes, making the recruitment process more challenging.


    • BEST MOMENTS:

    “Starting up right now - you’ll face competition... and lots of downs.. and, will have to figure it out in your own way.”

    “I haven’t stopped my door for any co-founder... I am still not exactly waiting, but then I am not closed as well”

    “Every day is like a weekend... you probably chill out whenever... so it is also like positive”

    “With AI, A lot of those things would go away... role descriptions would change right?”

    “There is enough wisdom out there... but the mass is not still following those.”

    “For some reason, it's also contradictory because companies are still seeing the CGPA of the candidate.”


    ABOUT THE HOST

    Abbhinav Venkat, is the founder of 123 of AI, an ed-tech company enabling working professionals upskill in AI/ML. He is an entrepreneur, AI researcher, and podcaster. Prior to starting 123 of AI, he spent several years at multiple Silicon Valley startups as a Computer Vision Scientist. His academic career involved AI research at IIIT-H and Stanford University with several top-tier publications in BMVC, ICCV, ACPR. For his research, he was awarded Qualcomm’s Innovation Fellowship, felicitated by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), GOI, as well as invited for talks in 4 continents.

    CONTACT

    123 of AI’s website: https://www.123ofai.com/contact

    LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/abbhinavvenkat

    GUEST LINKS (Raj Patel)

    Reczee : ⁠https://www.reczee.com⁠

    LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/raj454raj/⁠

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