My one year as Chief Technology Officer !
My one year as Chief Technology Officer!
-How I became C.T.O?
I'm studying B.tech in Electronics and communication.
I have a bench mate in college who is also my best friend. He used to work for small youtube channels by helping them to build their channel while doing that he also learnt digital marketing. In digital marketing, he is strong at Facebook marketing and it was booming at that time in 2018. So, he used to work for small channels and I used to help him or he would take my suggestions because of my experience on Youtube. I make youtube videos and I know all the things which we have to do to create a youtube channel and I know all the work which requires to shoot and upload the video.
One day he said I got a job in a new Telugu news channel and I'm the head for digital marketing. I said great bro and this time also he used to ask few things like that. But one day he suddenly says "Bro I'm planning to start a company and it is about digital marketing." and I said great if you have a job to offer me I would definitely do it. He said yes I have work which you can do. Like that my journey started.
--How prepared for it?
This happened in August 2018. I have given this C.T.O position. The main important thing is I have got this designation is because of strategical knowledge and the way I think. At that time I don't know a computer language perfectly neither good at network securities nor android or web development. So I said- "I would do this but give me some time I need to be good at some technical work which your company does then I will join". He said until then create some visiting cards and some basic work for the office. So I did all that work till September. From then I started to know about digital marketing and what are the technical things and What exactly does a C.T.O do.
--How I got selected?
See I was good at managing team and how to create a product from start to end, I know the process and I was good. Finally, in December, I was ready and he took a test. My test was to build a Wordpress website. It was a realtime project and I did well. I forgot to mention generally these Digital marketing companies also make websites also, mostly static websites.
I started to work as a C.T.O from mid-January 2019. The company name is S Infinity Solutions. My best friend is the founder and he wasn't biased towards me while selecting.
This is how you should use an opportunity. If you have the skillset you will not get a job if your friend has a company you will not get a job if you have both skillset and a friend with a company which suits you you will not get a job until you try for it. You should know how to use an opportunity and help yourself to be in a good position. Also, be an opportunist.
-What I used to do as C.T.O?
So first my skill set is :
- Graphic designing
- Video editing
- Wordpress web development
- Good at digital marketing especially I know what type of demographics of the audience and ad should target to get more engagements and reach.
- Youtube work
- Good at computer hardware
I used to do anything related to above-mentioned skills. More than that I'm like a right hand to my boss. This is where you really be a C.T.O, you should take decisions or give some suggestions to your boss any colleague in technical work or how our company's new product would be affected by current technologies.
We used to discuss many things. Remember we are in our 20's when we are doing this thing. My friend dropped his engineering because his attendance was less. I managed my studies and job. My salary was Rs.6000/- and if do more work I used to be paid more. I was enjoying what I'm doing because daily I used to encounter so many things which can be solved easily but few businesses have no idea about that issue.
Why they face these issues is that they are good at selling their products and attract customers. But when consumers started to shop online these people doesn't how to deal with that scenario. My company used to solve this thing and help businesses to go online.
We also used to do political campaigns and I wasn't into that being C.T.O also. I wouldn't interfere because I wasn't great at them. You should know what to do how to do and how it will affect, without these things you can't be there in that position and you are not giving any value to your coming and among that your rating will decrease, only thing is that you get bad experience and you can't use that experience in your further career.
--I have gained so much experience and these are my takeaways :
- Your boss is your best friend and you should know how to deal with him when you are with your clients and employees.
- Improved my skills. When you are working your skill should be polished if not your not good at that skill.
- My interpersonal skills improved. Now I know how to create contacts and I learnt basics of cracking a deal. Still, I'm not good at cracking deals but I'm not a starter at least.
- How local businesses work. I know some kind of secret strategies and everyone can't survive in these local businesses.
- One thing for sure you know how these startups, CEOs is like. It takes a lot of hard work you can see that. Sometimes we feel "startup" is like the fancy cool trending word but it more stuff than what we think.
- You will know the difference between the materialistic world and the real actual world.
- How you should manage the work of all the employees and how to maintain sync.
- You will know the difference between confident levels.
- It helped me to know more about me like where I stand in this world like we say 'Aukat'.
So finally, if you learn something and if you can't make anything out of it right now. Don't think you wasted your memory, time and intelligence. I learnt so many things for my Youtube channel and my channel didn't go well. But it helped me in getting this job. I quit the job in January 2020 because now the company has grown big. I should be present all the seven days a week else I'm not going to add any value either to my company or to my career.
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