TACT 10 Boxes theory — for IT Career
Are you a 9.x CGPA student and confused how come other low-grade students survived in the industry?
We hear you! We will help you to understand how the IT industry and career upgrading system work! It might help you to broaden your thinking instead of focusing on marks alone.
Based on our research on the developer survival guide, we came up with 10 factors (we call them boxes) which might impact your career opportunities.
10 boxes:
Marks
Projects
Articles
Network
Relatives in the industry
Knowledge of trendy topics
Research work
Personality mirroring (either founder or company culture)
Luck
Demand and Supply factor
Sample scores:
For example, let’s take Katie in the first case.
She got 9.x CGPA in her exams so far. We will give 9/10 for her. Like marks, we will give 1–10 in every box.
Katie:
Marks — 9
Projects — 5
Articles — 2
Network — 1
Relatives in the industry — 4
Knowledge of trendy topics — 8
Research work — 2
Personality mirroring (either founder or company culture) — 1
Luck — 2
Demand and Supply factor — 1
Katie’s total: 35/100
We put 60/100 as a passing grade to get a job and career upgrading possibilities. Based on our validation system, Katie might struggle to get a job or hard time to upgrade her career.
Let’s go to the second case — Liz. Liz has got only 6/10 in her education, however, she has got high marks in other factors. Let’s see!
Liz:
Marks — 6
Projects — 7
Articles — 5
Network — 6
Relatives in the industry — 7
Knowledge of trendy topics — 7
Research work — 7
Personality mirroring (either founder or company culture) — 8
Luck — 2
Demand and Supply factor — 8
Liz’s total: 61/100
Based on our grade system, Liz will get a job easily and will not have any problems upgrading her career.
We collected insights/factors after doing research on how developers upgrading their career and the Developer survival guide.
You can use this technique to identify your career possibilities in IT!
One more thing, don’t take it as a final! Always take it with a grain of salt!
