CAREER ADOPTION POST PANDEMIC with Bozidar Spirovski

Bozidar is an engineer by trade, specializing in Information Security. He has worked for large enterprises - Telco, Banking, and Energy before shifting to the startup world and SaaS-based services.
In the past two years, he has started a mentoring initiative called BeyondMachines. It's focused on young people who need guidance in speeding up their careers via guidance and interaction with more senior people in a real-life situation (sales pitch, presentation, coordination, etc). So far the mentoring effort is in its third iteration, it got somewhat sidelined in the pandemic.

Show Notes

These days the attention span of a goldfish is somehow standard. And that's not just for people, that's also for organizations, everybody wants something immediately. So in that context, we should be able to help young people accelerate or short circuit, the skills, the communication skills, and the interaction skills that they're expected to have in a professional setting.
In the fall of 2019, I started an initiative program of mentoring young engineers, which was aimed to help develop soft skills with young engineers who are still in school or just coming out of school. The goal of that program was to develop just as engineers can easily prepare, they easily get the skills, the technical skills that they need to thrive and develop in their profession, from courses from programs for from online systems and learning to somehow accelerate the part of their experience and their expertise that can't be learned from such courses. And that is communication and soft skills.
And then the pandemic hit and, from an interaction perspective, things were difficult, because of all these little meetings that we never even consider all these hellos in the hallway, all these little chats by the water cooler in the kitchen, on the balcony in front of the building, talking about little things that happened throughout the day, or challenges or stresses or fears. They're not here anymore, because people can't meet with you personally, saying these things need to be scheduled. And suddenly the closer connection with the colleagues is starting to reduce people feel more stressed. People fear the unknown. And they suddenly are not aware of everything that is happening in the company as they were before. which can lead to fear which can lead to uncertainty.

This is how you can contact Bozidar: Spirovski.b@gmail.com + https://www.beyondmachines.net

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