Deep Nishar

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Technology

LinkedIn Plots Career Success Paths

Quentin Hardy, 08.12.10, 01:00 PM EDT
Forbes Magazine dated August 30, 2010

LinkedIn’s Deep Nishar is building algorithms that show steps to a chief exec spot.

Deep Nishar spends his days poring over the terabytes of data amassed from the 75 million members of LinkedIn, the networking site. (One terabyte holds the text of a million books.) These days he is building “data maps” that help people identify the connections they have now and learn what they need to do to be in that ideal job–or on the right path to it.

If you aim to be a chief financial officer of a 5,000-person company, for example, the data show you need to get an M.B.A. within nine years of starting work. Graduate from college with a physics degree and there is a 22% chance you’ll be a software engineer in two years. Join the military and your chances of being homeless someday go way up, since you lose your support network when you leave the service. Nishar is tackling this last problem by finding ways that army skills can turn into private-sector work.

Nishar, whose title is vice president of products and user experience, combs work histories that often go back decades and looks at the 2,500 new connections a minute formed among LinkedIn members. He gets insights into American economic history (job switching almost doubled between 1970 and 2000, to 3.1 jobs a decade), résumé tips (”proven track record” is an overused phrase) and thoughts on fate (chief executives tend to have short names–like Jack, Amir and Boris).

Nishar, 41, grew up in India and earned a master’s in electrical engineering and a Harvard M.B.A. before joining search giant Google ( GOOG - news - people ) in 2003. There he won a “founder’s award” for improving the advertising placement algorithm, then headed the products business in Asia. Today 100 data researchers among LinkedIn’s 700 employees look at everything from data center behavior, search and mobile communications, as well as analysis of personal data. The researchers have experience in such fields as brain surgery, computer science, meteorology and poetry.

“They all love data,” he says. “It’s hard to synopsize a life or tell someone what they might do next with their skills, but looking at where people worked, who they know, what conferences they attend, can do that well.” That is a big thing, says Nishar. “Machine-based systems like Google can’t keep up with organizing all the data,” he says. “Interesting and important problems will be solved by looking at social networks.”

Just making common descriptions of how people characterize themselves is a challenge: LinkedIn has seen 6,000 variants of the job “software engineer” described in English and 8,000 different ways people say they worked at IBM, including hundreds of company locations, nicknames of divisions, variations on job titles, even some misspellings.

That is the question of the day…..

The bay area is a land of opportunities. As we are seeing lot of new restaurants popping up these days, there seems to be a growth in the after school enrichment care business too.

For the last few years i have been hearing from colleagues at work that they send their kids to chinese after school programs. I was wondering how come there are no indian day cares. And this year i see couple of new day care centers have opened.
Of course there are small home based providers as well who pick up the kids from one school in their car and get some homework + basic activity done. But these day care centers cater to kids from various schools as well provide lot of other activities to the kids. This post aims to capture such options across bayarea, i am hoping it will be helpful to someone - either who is looking for care or is planning to start providing one

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Little Champs Enrichment Care

Tulip After School

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KaatiFresh Restaurant
www.kaatifresh.com
680 River Oaks Pkwy
San Jose

Its Indian Burrito restaurant. They make it kind of dosa roll with stuff. They have with combo lunch menu. I have tried their combo with Tofu Roll, Aloo Methi Roll, and Paneer Roll, and 5 Bean Soup, Vege Biryani with white rice. I really like their Paneer roll is the best.

Present Generation:

Present Generation is typically impatient, independent, ambitious, fast and furious. It is the product of cut throat competition. More people are chasing fewer opportunities, be it an admission to engineering or medical college, admission to a foreign university, getting a job in a well known company etc. etc.

Impatience is the result of deadlines. I have to do this before someone else does the same thing. At job, boss says “I want this, NOW”. When this goes deeper, it becomes part of his personality. He expects speed from every one, be it his wife, children or even friends. This sometimes affects their interpersonal relationship. To achieve this speed, they could dilute their ethics. The END assumes more importance than MEANS.

Higher education leads them to join a different kind of work, instead of joining existing family business. This gives them financial INDEPENDENCE, which leads to several other kinds of Independence. This independence creates some distance from his parents, some time even without his realisation.

While it is good to be ambitious, but when they fail to achieve what they want they become either vindictive or depressed. Both these are bad traits. Some time their physical health is affected. Their relations with people, who are more successful, are strained out of jealousy. They lose social life and become lonely.

-P. K. Davda