Oracle Alumni Network (OAN)

Good morning team. As shared earlier the OAN (Oracle Alumni Network) is coming together to help their Oracle Colleagues. We need to know who is looking for what kind of role, so please fill the google docs so that the OAN team can help. As informed earlier we have formed 2 core team, one is the DEMAND team which is liaisoning with partners and customers to consolidate the demand and what skills they are hiring for and this is the SUPPLY team which is people who are looking for the break. We will have a 3rd team called Training and Support who will enable and support the Supply team if they are short of any skills or need help. Please comment and repost. Oracle colleagues in other part of the world are also free to join and would urge to form their local similar connects to help each other. Supply Team Link https://tinyurl.com/OANSupply

  Good Morning. As promised, yesterday i.e Saturday some 15 of us got together to brain storm on what and how we should take this forward and help the Ex-Oracle Alumni. We brainstormed different aspects, strengths to leverage, opportunities that exists and what can be done. The thought process was what if every ex employee continues to do what they have been doing and how we can guide and support them. The enclosed carousal has details but let me explain the thought process. We want OAN to be operated like a TED or Rotary where there is only guiding principles. People are free to operate the way they wish and there is NO HIERARCHY (Keep Oracle Designation out) and encourage freedom, entrepreneurship, collaborations keeping end Customer in mind. So these are the broad verticals we have thought of. HUMANS : This is the core and heart of OAN which is its people, we are calling it Humans and will maintain the skills, expertise, experience, network etc of the Oracle Ex-Employees. They a...

  Continuation of my earlier post addressed to all my Oracle friends, colleagues who are impacted by the job cuts. My earlier post was that you should not think like a cost that was cut but instead tune your mind that you are a 8 BN worth value force that can do wonders. There is no better example than Steve Jobs who got fired from his own company. I had shared my own experience as well long back but let me share again with some suggestions. The intention is that you all have to think like CEO of your life. If even 1% of the 30000 workforce operate like a CEO, thats 300 Steve Jobs out there. As I had shared in past in 1997-98 I had lost my job due to the South Asian crisis and my only skills was the Finance expertise. Tech had just started and many advised me do some course and thats how I ended up learning Oracle and had a dream career. Not just career but have had my share of setback in life be it loosing both my parents in span of 3 weeks or my son detected with cancer and parti...

Am Pasting LinkedIn post and other updates so easier to search by history and scroll. A Mid week post due to the urgency of the matter. The headline is you are a 30000 strong skilled force, valued at 8 billion USD and can easily be the NEW BIG 4. Let me explain how and why. I was dreading this news as had anticipated this. As someone who has spent nearly 25 years with Oracle the writing was on the wall. I had put a post 2 years back when I consciously moved out of India Head role that with advent of AI, the demand will be for hands on, customer facing skills. Anyone who adds to the Top Line or improves bottom line will be valued. For a moment I want all you who are impacted by the job loss to think that you have joined an existing Big 4 and are a strong 30000 workforce with expertise across Oracle applications and technologies tasked to deliver maximum value for Oracle customers. You are a team which cuts across product lines, across functions from A&C, from product development to ...