You got a call from a company? Asked for an interview? You feel like loosing? Come.. I will show you the path..

You got a call from a company? Asked for an interview? You feel like loosing?
Come.. I will show you the path..

Facing an interview is not just something which we can do like delivering a speech. We cannot just go and come out answering the questions they ask. There are many things that we should consider before attending to an interview.

1. Do a little research about the company.
We should knpw about their mission and what they do. On going projects, which countries they deals with, company history etc. It makes the interviewers to think that you have given attention for their company. Make them impressed with such details.

2. It is a benefit if we can know some etails bout the interviewers. It is a kind of difficult task to find who are the interviewers but if we can find their names we can use linked and other proffessional accouts to find about their details like their job poition, common things we have, specialized fields, their favours etc. Do not want to much focuss about the personal things but some details.

3. All the interviewers ask three or four common uestions other than technical questions like our streangth weaknesses etc. We are the once that know ourselves veey well. So be confident about your streangth and tell them little about it. It is good and worth if we can choose streangths that are more related to this job position.

4. It make a good expression about you if you can ask two questions. It shows your interest on the job.  You can ask about the job details, about work etc. But never ask about the salary.

5. We all are humans. It is somewhat difficult for us to do something for the first time. So to face an interview with the confidence you can practice it with a friend. Shaking hand shows confidence and personality of you. Don’t just touch the hand but hold it tight and shake. You can tell your friend to ask some questions also. Imagine that you are in the interview room and behave like that. Practice each and every step until it feel as a usual thing.

6. Before going to an interview take time to think about yourself and about the job you are applying. Think why you are applying. Reasons for you to think that why you fix for this job position. Try to match your skills with the job position and company work. For an example in some job positions you should have the skills to work with a team, high patience, communication ability.

7. Prepare everything before you go. Make your folder in order.  It should be neat. Keep important things like your CV in the front. Order certificates according to the years. Don’t take much time to find documents when the interviewers asked. It shows your unpreparedness.

8. Be punctual. Don’t be too early or too late. Be there before 10 minutes. If it happened to go there much early, then don’t stay in the vicinity. Just stay somewhere else away from the interview room and come at the correct time. If you sweat a much keep tissues with you.

9. Always keep a smile in your face. Dress properly and professionally. It plays a major role in first expression about you.  Walk with confidence. Keep eye contact. Don’t show or tell much personal things or bad mouth during an interview. .Finally don’t just stand and leave, thank the interviewers with a smile and keep the chair back.

Story writing- Back to the board

Story writing- Back to the board

We were divided into 3 groups and asked to sit facing back to the white board. In each group one of the team members was given a white board marker. Our task was to write a story with a good ending. Each student can write one word at a time. There were four rounds and we were not allowed to talk with the team members. And had to make it quick. So each one had to run to the white board and write a word. We ran to the white board, just read the story and suddenly wrote what we got to our mind.

It was so difficult to predict what the other wanted to say. Even miss Sarasi changed the order of the team members in the last round. At last we got very complicated unbalanced stories which they were funny to read. But no any organization.

 What I realized was it is easy when we develop small sentences. So that we can make a meaningful story. It is really hard to do a group activity without discussing to each other. Different people think in different ways. So it is not easy to work on another one’s plan without discussing or without knowing about the plan. Communication is something very important when we live in the society and work with lots of people.Sometimes we may get half done projects to finish or else we may have to leave with a half done project to another's hand. So what shall we do to make it convenient for others? We should communicate. As software engineers we can leave comments in our codes so that anyone can carryout the work. There should be a method or a common way we declare variables in a project. We have to listen to other’s ideas and choose the best one. Team work is efficient and joyful when we have mutual understanding. 

Back to childhood with paper planes

Back to childhood with paper planes

Hi guys, after a long time. Missed my articles? Ha ha ha. Any way I am back with some wonderful experiences to share with you.

What we did in our childhood when we got a piece of paper? Specially in school? If it is a rainy day probably you would make a paper boat sail it in water like a captain. But if it is not, I am sure you made a plane, became the best pilot and make it fly around the class room. Sometimes you may have written messages on it to your friends. Isn’t it amazing guys? Our childhood with those lovely memories. I missed those days. But in last PPD lesson we went back to our childhood.

Miss Sarasi divided us in to two groups and gave 6 Colored A4 sheets for each group. Our team go the color blue while the other group got yellow. Our target was to make maximum number of planes within the given time and fly them over a boundary line. It may seem as a very easy task. Even we had 8 members in the team. Yes, we also thought this as an easy task.  But was not easy as we all thought. She gave us 10 minutes to think about any strategy or something which will help us to fly all the airplanes. Then our group made 36 planes while the other group made 29. Then miss Sarasi marked two boundaries which was about 4 feet. Two members from each group came and had to make maximum number of planes to fly over the boundary line. At last 19 air crafts from yellow groups and 24 planes from our group (blue team) landed safely over the boundary

First I thought we will be able to make all the planes fly over the boundary. It is very important to think about a strategy before doing something. As a team we have to take each one’s idea and select the best option. I think our team wisely used the time that was given to talk and come up with a good idea. We took some other papers and made planes with different sizes. So that we were able to select a good size which matches with the weight. Air plane should have a considerable weight as well as wings also should not be too small. So by taking these in to our consideration we agreed to make 6 planes from each paper. We finished making planes within the time while yellow group had many papers left. They had planes from different sizes and most of them were too small. They tried the trial with the same papers that miss Sarasi gave to make planes. And also miss Sarasi said they were busy with their own works and did not share the work and did.

It is not the winning that we seek from these activities, we learn different things that helps us to improve our soft qualities. Hope you also learn those things and add them to your life.