Create a Career Tree from your LinkedIn Profile

Career Tree LinkedIn

This diagram illustrates the career path of the American President – the branches represent his education and the work experience. I think the size of the circles represent the relative time spent in a particular role.

If you would like to have something similar for your own career, simple head over to Newsweek.com and import your LinkedIn profile.

The more details you have in your LinkedIn profile, the ‘fuller’ your tree will be. You may also add details of your career to the tree manually using the “career tree form” available on the same page without changing your main LinkedIn profile.

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Curriculum Vitae or CV writing - 5 must includes

CV is a written format of oneself. Hence you should be very careful in what you are projecting about yourself. Your CV would stand as an instrument to reach to the recruiters and also serve as tool to keep track of your career.

I am here trying to bring out some of the most important areas that needs more focus and should be making an appearance on your CV in one form or other.

1. Your Objective:

Though some feel this obsolete. I would give it weight-age as it would give a high level picture of your personality. If the recruiter is a professional enough he would never miss a read for this section.

While writing you objective make sure you summarize your way of life and work.

For example: If you are a bold person who likes to take risks and have tasted success that way then... "Sharp focused, result oriented and go-get attitude towards the responsibility I undertake" would make more sense.

2. Your Hobbies:

Another section which is ignored always. Hobbies would give some insights to the personal life attitude of yourself. The recruiter would try to connect all of these sections in your CV to create a complete mental understanding of the candidate.

Hence enter activities/things under "Hobbies" which you are passionate and love doing in you life.

3. Roles and responsibilities:

Often I have seen resumes with 4 + pages with lengthy job responsibilities section for each prior jobs. I would strongly suggest to keep two things in mind while entering your previous employment details:

a. Keep it short, meaning keep each of the responsibility points short so that it would give you an opportunity to speak about them.
b. Only enter those responsibility pointers which make sense and are more meaningful.

4. Add a picture of yourself:

Adding a picture of yourself would be an extra detail which is lacks in most of the profiles. This gives an initial impression about the candidate to the recruiter.

5. Not to exceed two pages:

Always try to make sure that your Curriculum Vitae/CV as whole would not exceed two or maximum three pages. The recruiters interested dies if he sees a unreasonably long CV with huge amount of text in each sheet. He might not go through all of the details provided and may lose interest in you candidature. Hence keep it short and crisp.

Give yourself a chance to speak and paint picture verbally during the interview rather than trying to paint the whole career story in five pager CV

Some references:
vandelaydesign.com/blog/business/37-stylish-resume-templates/
bashooka.com/template/20-best-resume-templates/

Top 5 Tools Every Data Analyst Needs in 2025 (From a Pro)

If you are starting a career in Data Analytics in 2025, you don't need a $3,000 setup. But you do need the right tools to handle heavy datasets without your laptop crashing.

After years of working with Tableau, SQL, and Python, here is my "No-Nonsense" list of essentials. These are the tools I actually use or recommend to my junior analysts.

1. The "Workhorse" Laptop: MacBook Air M2 (or M3)

Forget the Pro if you are just starting. The MacBook Air (M2/M3) is the best value for money for coding and visualization. It’s silent, the battery lasts all day, and it handles large Excel sheets and Tableau dashboards without freezing.

My Pick: Apple MacBook Air 15-inch Laptop

Why? It handles Python & SQL scripts effortlessly and is light enough to carry to coffee shops.

2. The Bible: "Storytelling with Data"

Knowing how to code is only 50% of the job. The other 50% is explaining what it means to your boss. This book changed my career. It teaches you why a simple bar chart is often better than a fancy 3D pie chart.

3. The Certification: Google Data Analytics (Coursera)

If you have zero experience and want a job in 6 months, this is the gold standard entry ticket. It covers SQL, R, and Tableau basics. It’s recognized by employers everywhere.

4. The Ergonomic Savior: Logitech MX Master 3S

Data analysis means 8 hours of scrolling through spreadsheets. Your wrist will hate you. The MX Master 3S is the industry standard mouse for a reason. The "MagSpeed" scroll wheel lets you fly through 1,000 rows in a second.

My Pick: Logitech MX Master 3S Performance Wireless Mouse

5. Reliable Storage: Seagate Portable 2TB

Never trust the cloud 100%. I keep a physical backup of all my raw datasets and project files. It’s cheap insurance against losing hours of work.

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How to create a donut chart on tableau

In our example we are going to use the sample data – Superstore available in tableau.


Step 1: Create a calculated field and Name it as ‘Donut’.


Step 2: Drag the Donut calculated field we created into the Rows shelf twice.


Step 3: Right click on the second instance of the field ‘Sum(Donut) shelf’ and make it a ‘Dual axis’


Step 4: Uncheck the ‘Show header’ option in the same menu once you right click on the ‘Sum(Donut) shelf’ field.


Step 5: Drag the ‘Sales’ measure into the first instance of Sum(Donut) shelf as below twice. Mark Sum(Sales) as label and color respectively and change the chart type to ‘Pie’




Step 6: Drag the ‘Sales’ Measure again into the Sum(Donut) (2) shelf as below and make it a label. Here as well change the chart type to ‘Pie’ as below.


Step 7: Now go back to Sum(Donut) shelf and adjust the size of the pie as below. Along with the color palette you would like to use.



Step 8: Similarly adjust the size of the Sum(Donut) (2) shelf as well. This would act as the mid-portion of the donut hence color it white with the overall number displayed at the mid of the Donut.





Step 9: Drag the corners of the chart to adjust the view of the chart as below.


Step 10: Drag the ‘Category’ field into the ‘Sum(Donut) shelf’ shelf and see the magic.(You can choose any field based on the type view you would like to see). Change the ‘Category’ field to color so that you can see the category names on the Donut chart. Drag another instance of ‘Category’ to ‘Sum(Donut) shelf’ and make it color as below.



Step 11: Now this is an overall donut chart for sales category by sales. If you would like to see a further split. Drag and drop the field by which you want to split the donut into multiple donuts. In this example we have put the ‘Region’ column into Column shelf and the results look as below.



Hopefully you have enjoyed creating Donut chart in tableau and implemented within you reporting environment.

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Experiences in a startup organisation

Working in a startup organization in India.

These experiences may be some thing generic or few of them may be specific to me

1. Your role is never defined and you should be ready to work in a wide variety of Job roles.

You would not be able to go in with a mindset that for next one year I will concentrate on this and polish my career. No you should have a open mind to accept things as they come along.

2. Friends change everyday.

In a span on three months an entire team would have swapped for fresh faces. So do not be discouraged or demotivated when you see people leaving. Probably at the end of one year you might be one of the oldest employees of the organization.

3. Your location is never constant.

Based on the on the responsibilities you have taken up your place to sit will be varying and never have settled approach in a startup. You would need to be dynamic and quick thinker.

4. Jobless days.

There might be a brief amount of time where in you might not be doing anything and sitting idle. Do not let your mind fool you and take control of your thoughts. Stay calm and focus, look around and think of how you can improve things which are in your purview. 

Hope this helps.

Good bye!

Lost Job and looking for a job? Here are few tips

Some life tips on how to deal with difficult times when it comes to losing your only earning mode.

1. Firstly, when you know that you are going to lose your Job from your employer, DO NOT PANIC.

  • Relax. Think about the possible consequences. - Take 2 to 3 days of time for this.
  • Discuss with your family or friends to identify additional consequences on there lives.
  • Prioritize the most destructive consequence. - Again 1 to 2 days of time.
  • Start building a solution to these in order. - This would require a week's time to manage a sustainable solution.

2. Once you have followed the above steps and have come up with a prospective solution, IT's TIME FOR ACTION.

3. You might have to face some headwinds while implementing the solution but do not be depressed. Instead be brave and take one step at a time and never lose sight of the destiny.

4. On a parallel note this situation you are dealing with will also teach the corrective steps so that you never encounter this situation again in Life.

  • Create a emergency fund (minimum two months of earnings a limit)
  • Be more social and try to proactive in identifying the brewing trouble in your workplace - Be it because of your own deeds or Organizations performance.
  • Never hesitate to be a humble person. Success comes to you rather you searching for it.
  • Be up-to-date on the financial performance of the organization and never miss any company wide meetings or critical meetings with your manager.
  • Pay attention to what your peers are talking about and only listen to stuff that matters to you which are genuine as well. There are lot of nitty gritty things that get discussed during peer talks.
  • Always keep an eye on the  Job market trend while not losing sight on your Job responsibility with 100% effort.
Some useful sites for job search sites:

- http://www.iimjobs.com/registration/login.php
- www.naukri.com

Hopefully some of the above tips will  help you in the career. Keep checking back for updates on this blog. Thanks for visiting. See you again.