Don’t flinch even if the interviewer asks you the most bizarre questions Forty-three per cent of jobseekers surveyed by a job site said that they were annoyed at being asked questions unrelated to job skills. Thirty-eight per cent said they did not like being asked personal questions. Sample these questions:- “Who is your favorite Beatle?” [...]

Follow these tips and you will sail through the interview : ………….. It’s the day you have been waiting for — the day you quit the job you really hate. If you loathe your boss, or the work, you may be tempted to put into play that resignation fantasy you have been perfecting during your [...]

SKILL GAP ● To be a good engineer, you also need to know how to conduct yourself, says Prasun Chaudhuri ………… Why are manhole covers round? Why are your fourth semester marks so low? What causes you to lose your temper? What do these questions have to do with your new job as an engineer? [...]

There is nothing better than a heartwarming thank-you note :- …….. Writing powerful thank-you letters is not just a formality. Thank-you letters are marketing tools that can have tremendous value in moving your candidacy forward and positioning you above the competition. Although much of what you include in your thank-you letter may have already been [...]

Follow these steps to sail through an interview :- In simpler times the interview process for jobseekers was, well… simpler. Answer an ad, get called in for a meeting with the employer, receive the job offer and start work soon after. These days the basic stages described above are the same. Only now there may [...]

Weigh the pros and cons before switching careers …… Today’s red-hot industry can easily be tomorrow’s deserted career wasteland. Ask any of the thousands of Americans who switched to the information technology field in the Nineties, solely because it was the booming industry of the moment. “Have we learned nothing from the dotcom hallucination?” asks [...]

Do you get all worked up before an interview? Follow these tips to calm your nerves Sure, interviews are difficult for everyone. Sure, they can make you act in strange ways. But do people really need to be told that if they don’t have a clean pair of socks to match their shoes, they shouldn’t [...]

If you can answer these common questions convincingly, you may crack any interview:- Getting interviewed for your first job is certainly one of the most uncomfortable events in one’s life. One must prepare for it with the same tenacity and quickness of mind as one does for a fencing tournament or chess match. Even a [...]

The focus of a lunch interview is not the food. You have to show you are intelligent, pleasant and graceful : ……….. Dilip Sen, a Mumbai-based headhunter, remembers interviewing a mid-level executive over lunch. Sen invited him to his favourite restaurant, a short hop away from his office. The headhunter was, of course, a regular [...]

It takes an interviewer only a few seconds to form an opinion about a candidate ………………. According to a study, people evaluate one another using the three Vs: visual (appearance), vocal (voice) and verbal (what you say). About 93 per cent of a person’s communication effectiveness is determined by non-verbal communication. Another study, conducted by [...]