Tag: interview skills
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Praise at a Job Interview
Moderate Praise at a Job Interview! Outright flattery may put the Interviewer off, but genuine and measured praise could work in your favour. Everyone enjoys and appreciates a well meant compliment. Appreciating a marketing campaign, or a social initiative of the Company etc. Tailor the compliment to the interviewer and the role you are applying…
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Career Journaling – a tool to Career Development?
Career Journal – a tool to Career Development? Journaling is a voyage to the interior – like talking to oneself & listening at the same time. “Keeping a journal of what’s going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what’s important and what’s not.” Martina Navratilova How about a journal…
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When does the Interview End?
When does the interview end? Most people think the interview ends when you walk out of the room. Nothing could be further than the truth. Often your engagement with the Company has just become. Several steps you need to take after the interview. 1. A Thank You note to thank them for their time, immediately…
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How to overcome Interview anxiety?
✅It’s said an Interview is the third thing people fear the most, after death and public speaking. ✅ Most of us, can be confident, most of the time.. ✅Until we enter that Interview room. ✅ No matter how much you’ve prepared, how much experience you have, it’s only natural to feel nervous. ✅ The other…
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Do Manners Matter?
❓Do manners matter? ➡️Manners don’t cost anything, or so I thought. ➡️But Not having Manners, can certainly Cost. ➡️I came across a funny story recently. ➡️It was a price list at a coffee shop with the following prices: Coffee : 5.00 USD A cup of coffee: 3.00 USD Good Morning! One cup of coffee, please…
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How to Survive and Thrive after a Job Loss
How to Survive & Thrive after Job Loss? Imagine you join a Zoom link & hear the dreaded words:“We regret to inform you that we’re terminating your employment with immediate effect.” This seeming fantasy has become current reality in some rare cases. Job loss equates to the loss of loved one, especially to those whose…
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Mehrabian Model – Fact or Myth?
➡️ Busting Common Myths (1) ✅How many times, have we not heard, the much touted Mehrabian Framework of Communication? ✅Alfred Mehrabian, Prof of Psychology, University of California, developed a #communication frame work in 1967, which is often quoted to this day. ✅According to this framework, 93% of Communication is Nonverbal. ✅55% Appearance or Image,Body #language …
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Happiness versus Success
Reassess your Happiness versus your Success(LinkedIn Top News) We spend months or even years working on a goal and finally achieve it. Only to find it doesn’t bring us Happiness. We can easily fall into the trap of ‘I will be happy when’. If we focus on benchmarking our Happiness to goals we set for…
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Personal Development and Career Development go hand in hand?
❓Personal Development & Career Development – two sides of the same coin? Maya Angelou says “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” A whole life is to find time to invest in oneself as well as in others. To extrapolate this…
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Employee Loyalty under threat?
❓Employee Loyalty under threat?The ‘1 Job, 1Company’ concept is no longer relevant. ‘Job’ has embraced many meanings. Gig workers, On line workers, offline workers, project workers, full time employees – who work for partof the year, Professionals who work as consultants etc. Given this scenario, creating a culture of loyalty to the Company can pose…
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