hello ..

iam a new member for this forum and this is my first reply or post too...
Iam basically from India ( Bangalore) presently working in Singapore as a Line Engineering and Quality Technician for a Semiconductor Industry...
iam basically a 3 years Diploma Holder and have 5+ years Experience in Process and QA activites in Manufacturing industries.
6 months back i have taken Online sixsigma Black belt certification course from Aveta Solutions..located in OH. and preparing my project report for certification.

Do i have better career? or need any change to make my career better?
Pls let me knw if any changes that required me to make my career better...

my mail ID : keshi.keshi (at) yahoo (dot) com

hope a quick n very gud reply that makes my career brighter...if so iam glad to U and follower too....

thanks n regards
Keshavamurthy

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Welcome to The Cove! :bigwave:

There are two questions I have that could help me understand you better.

1. You say you have 5 years of experience in Process and QA activites in Manufacturing industries. Has that experience been since earning your degree?

2. When you ask "What would make my career better?" how do you define "better"? That is, do you want technical challenges in process or system design, or do you want to manage a department?

The question of what career moves to make can be relative to available opportunities. Where you are willing to go and what you are willing to do can set you on a development path in some direction, or lead to a comfortable dead end position.

Opportunities for development vary a great deal from one organization to the next. Work, types of challenges and rewards in the same job function can vary enormously too, from one organization to the next--even among different companies doing the same thing, like making semiconductors wafers. Understand that your progress may require a good fit to the organization, even if that means you must start there in a lower than expected capacity.

Be careful what you ask of yourself, and what you identify as success. My sense of satisfaction depends on how much I approve of the progress I've made. I expect yours will too, but I want to caution you to be patient and prepare to take the long range view. As professionals we are never really completed, IMO, as long as we keep growing.

For these reasons I have learned not to make short and long term employment plans. I've found that more opportuntities exist than my imagination recognized for the sake of career development. As I progressed through a series of new and collateral duties, my career has wandered a good deal.

Professionally I look very different than I imagined I would 10 years ago. Is it better than I expected? Yes. Did it go the way I expected? Absolutely not. Did I get anything out of the long road from there to here? Yes, a great deal. I'm able to feel satisfaction with it because I've earned every bit of my success and I recognize I should not compare myself with other professionals lest I feel it should have come faster or more easily. I've been doing Quality in some respect for over 18 years.

So, maybe you want to know what you can do for growth.

Answer: Volunteer for projects that will allow you to practice what drives you, and hopefully also gives the chance to learn something new. Collaborate with others, give them proper credit where it's due, stress what's going well and communicate value of your findings in language your listeners will understand. Be willing to advance yourself: buy your own books, get certifications that show your initiative and thirst for knowledge. Learn to connect the dots between what you have learned in your own field and other fields that could profit from the lessons. Write reports, volunteer to discuss them in groups, and be ready to accept challenges of your findings from others. Learn to understand the connection and divide between professional and personal satisfaction.

There, that was a long winded response, but I hope it helps!

Plug away pardner, plug away.

When you lock yourself into 1 specific field like you seem to be doing all you do is limit your opportunities.

Go beyond your comfort zone and try to become versed in areas other than Quality. Try to get some experience in logistics planning and operations, personnel, and especially in finance/fiscal issues. Get some formal business training/education.

Don't focus on getting all the different certifications and licenses that ultimately lock you into a cubbyhole. One or two are fine, but when you get a half dozen you'll just bore people.

Welcome to The Cove! :bigwave:

There are two questions I have that could help me understand you better.

1. You say you have 5 years of experience in Process and QA activites in Manufacturing industries. Has that experience been since earning your degree?

2. When you ask "What would make my career better?" how do you define "better"? That is, do you want technical challenges in process or system design, or do you want to manage a department?

The question of what career moves to make can be relative to available opportunities. Where you are willing to go and what you are willing to do can set you on a development path in some direction, or lead to a comfortable dead end position.

Opportunities for development vary a great deal from one organization to the next. Work, types of challenges and rewards in the same job function can vary enormously too, from one organization to the next--even among different companies doing the same thing, like making semiconductors wafers. Understand that your progress may require a good fit to the organization, even if that means you must start there in a lower than expected capacity.

Be careful what you ask of yourself, and what you identify as success. My sense of satisfaction depends on how much I approve of the progress I've made. I expect yours will too, but I want to caution you to be patient and prepare to take the long range view. As professionals we are never really completed, IMO, as long as we keep growing.

For these reasons I have learned not to make short and long term employment plans. I've found that more opportuntities exist than my imagination recognized for the sake of career development. As I progressed through a series of new and collateral duties, my career has wandered a good deal.

Professionally I look very different than I imagined I would 10 years ago. Is it better than I expected? Yes. Did it go the way I expected? Absolutely not. Did I get anything out of the long road from there to here? Yes, a great deal. I'm able to feel satisfaction with it because I've earned every bit of my success and I recognize I should not compare myself with other professionals lest I feel it should have come faster or more easily. I've been doing Quality in some respect for over 18 years.

So, maybe you want to know what you can do for growth.

Answer: Volunteer for projects that will allow you to practice what drives you, and hopefully also gives the chance to learn something new. Collaborate with others, give them proper credit where it's due, stress what's going well and communicate value of your findings in language your listeners will understand. Be willing to advance yourself: buy your own books, get certifications that show your initiative and thirst for knowledge. Learn to connect the dots between what you have learned in your own field and other fields that could profit from the lessons. Write reports, volunteer to discuss them in groups, and be ready to accept challenges of your findings from others. Learn to understand the connection and divide between professional and personal satisfaction.

There, that was a long winded response, but I hope it helps!


well thanks for the reply mr.Jennifer Kirley.
1. I have 5+ years of Experience after my Diploma in Electronics n Communication Engg.

2. "better career" : as my point of view do i get any chances to work in Management or Managerial Cadre

Once again thanks a lot for ur response.

Plug away pardner, plug away.

When you lock yourself into 1 specific field like you seem to be doing all you do is limit your opportunities.

Go beyond your comfort zone and try to become versed in areas other than Quality. Try to get some experience in logistics planning and operations, personnel, and especially in finance/fiscal issues. Get some formal business training/education.

Don't focus on getting all the different certifications and licenses that ultimately lock you into a cubbyhole. One or two are fine, but when you get a half dozen you'll just bore people.


thanks for the Response MR. Randy.

yeah i too thinking of that coz iam joining Post Graduate Diploma in Supply chain management as a Distance Learning from symboisis institute PUNE..India..
wt do u say about this Distance Learning? mr. Randy ..since Diploma is not treated as Degrees? will PG helps me to get into Management or Managerial positions?

waiting for ur reply .......

hello ..

iam a new member for this forum and this is my first reply or post too...
Iam basically from India ( Bangalore) presently working in Singapore as a Line Engineering and Quality Technician for a Semiconductor Industry...
iam basically a 3 years Diploma Holder and have 5+ years Experience in Process and QA activites in Manufacturing industries.
6 months back i have taken Online sixsigma Black belt certification course from Aveta Solutions..located in OH. and preparing my project report for certification.

Do i have better career? or need any change to make my career better?
Pls let me knw if any changes that required me to make my career better...

my mail ID : keshi.keshi (at) yahoo (dot) com

hope a quick n very gud reply that makes my career brighter...if so iam glad to U and follower too....

thanks n regards
Keshavamurthy

obtain the job descriptions for the job you would like to achieve. Apply yourself and develop the necessary skills and then show effective compliance.

Input--> Transition--> output

I agree with Randy. Being multi-faceted is much more valuable to an employer than someone with limited forte. If you're in quality assurance now, pick up some safety and OSHA (or whatever there is similar in Singapore), and adding Continuous Improvements (Six-Sigma, Reliability, etc) rounds you out to the needs of every manufacturer.

In the same sense, added product versatility is also added value. American employers have continually moved from specific degreed personnel to those with Arts degrees due to their better ability to adapt to changing needs with a more rounded approach.

I guess the bottom line is.... be versatile. Take some chances, you're more resilient than you believe.

Good luck, Ted :yes:

1. I have 5+ years of Experience after my Diploma in Electronics n Communication Engg.

2. "better career" : as my point of view do i get any chances to work in Management or Managerial CadreBe careful what you wish for.

Management generally requires a base of technical expertise: as Randy said, keep plugging away. Such expertise genrally requires many years because applying and growing our expertise can happen as slowly as one project/opportunity at a time.

To be a successful manager I recommend you learn about project management and leadership. This may have been covered under your 6S training--I hope so. Lastly, learn to identify more than one type of value associated with most any given objective. Learn to understand, measure and communicate both qualitative and quantitative value for the same subject.

Look around you and quietly critique the management of a department, area or project you can see details of.

Distance learning can be helpful, but in order to get recognition for it you should turn around and apply it some how, even if in a research paper, volunteer effort or as a collateral duty to your professional work.

I recommend volunteer work. It can provide many of the same training/experience as paid work, and can sometimes be just as valuable on a resume.