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Hello Folks, I hope you found my earlier post  on common interview questions and suggested answers  informative. Here, I continue with some more questions. Question 5 è   “Why should we select you for this position?” Why indeed! Don’t they know that better? Why ask you to brag about yourself? This question is generally the clincher in the interview.  The intention is to see whether you can market your skills and abilities effectively, and position your candidature to fit the role. The role-fit and culture-fit is being assessed here. Image: https://pixabay.com What you can say: Do your homework for preparing this answer.  List your job-related competencies and relate these to the position you have applied for.  Pitch your unique abilities as key to doing the job successfully. Emphasize your domain knowledge, skills and managerial abilities without sounding boastful. Give examples from your professional life, about instances whe...

Common Interview Questions è   “ Tell me something about yourself.” è  “Can you describe your strengths? What are your weaknesses?” è  “Where do you see yourself five years from now?” è  “Why should we hire you/What can you contribute to the company?” Seems familiar? Reminds you of the time when you had gone all ready to impress at an interview and had been stumped? When you came out of the interview feeling you could have done better? Given above are some examples of questions interviewers love shooting at candidates. Though interviews cannot be generalized, there are some standard questions that are usually asked to test candidate preparedness and self awareness. Interview questions can be categorized into the following; Ø   Those testing knowledge and skill Ø   Those testing confidence and self image Ø   Those testing candidate willingness and adaptability Ø   Those meant for assessing compatib...

Reading the morning newspaper daily is an old habit of mine. But today I couldnt read through. The front page was splattered with the headline of a teenager ending her life brutally in a posh Kolkata English medium school. Why? She couldn't take the academic pressure any more. Anxious that she wouldn't qualify in entrance exams, she chose to take a gruesome way out. Slit her wrists and stuffed her own face into a polythene packet. My question is how many more sacrifices will be required at the altar of marks and academic performance? When will parents wake up? And stop pressurizing their wards to attain impossible goals? What happened to good old innocent childhood? Do children have to bear the cross of unrealistic expectations throughout their growing years? Just so that parents and schools can gloat over their achievements? What is success and how do we measure it in such narrow terms? Why don't we teach our children to accept failure, to appear vulnerable?...

Hi, welcome to part IV of my series on career options for students with this post.  So many new career options! Why restrict yourself to conventional streams and tread the beaten path? If you are naturally interested in traditional occupations like engineering, medicine or research, by all means take up these options. But if your leaning is elsewhere, here are the emerging and exciting career options for students pursuing Bachelor Degree in Science (BSc) : Educational Background Career options Aptitude Required What to pursue Science (Multimedia and Computer Graphics) Software designer/ Website designer/ Animation artist Creative bent of mind, with an idea of design and visual effects Bachelor Degree in Multimedia and Computer Graphics Science (Information Technology/ Computer Applications) Software coder/ Programmer/ MIS manager/ Software analyst Knowledge of the latest computer software ...

Friends, in my earlier article, we had discussed how new employment vistas and career options are opening up for students of Humanities or Arts streams.  Commerce graduates sit up and take note! You are not stuck with just a few options, as in the past. Given below is a snapshot of some exciting career options available to you. Following are the options available for students pursuing Bachelor Degree in Commerce, Business Administration or Economics : Educational Background Career options Aptitude Required What to pursue Commerce (Business Administration or Economics) Marketing Executive/ Market Research/ Human Resource administration/ Management Training/ Economic Research An aptitude for numbers, and interest in studying socio-economical, marketing and demographic trends Bachelor Degree in Business Administration/ Economics Commerce (Taxation,   Company law and Complianc...