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Interview Tips (Part 1)

2008-12-29T23:37:00.000-08:00

You've passed the administrative selection of your candidate future company.And now they have called you for an interview. Now you must prepare yourself for that important moment. What should you do.

Here are some tips for your interview to be a successful one.

1.Dont be late.
Arriving 15 to 30 minutes earlier will give you a good impression and you have time to adjust with the situation.Have enough sleep before interviewing to be fresh.

2. Dress Neatly.
Concentrate on your interview.If you think your tie isn't straight enough, it will distract you and you loose most important things such as speaking confidently.

3.Answer promptly and full of confidence but don't get over. Keep in mind upon facts accoording to your CV.You are important and he/she is too.Think in balance, don't be inferior.

4.Remember quantitative measurable figures and hard facts about your achievements in your last company.Like sales figures or other KPIs(Key Performance Indicators) etc.

5.Never go negative about anything in your last company. The interviewer will give trapping questions like: Tell me about your recent problem with your supervisor.

6.Know a little lot about the company by browsing the company's website.And prepare for quality questions to ask if chances were given for you to ask such.

7.Remember the interviewer's name, for asking your status later wether you are accepted or not.

8.Don't forget to thank for the interviewer's time.Small thing but important.

9. Always pray to God before an interview to give spritual energy for your success.

Collected from various sources and personal experience as an interviewer and interviewee.

(Tresna)

Next... The Ultimate Questions and passing them..

Knowing your objectives sooner

2008-12-28T23:58:00.000-08:00

Knowing your objectives sooner is a good thing to do.This is a difference between a successfull person and not.

If you were in Florida and you wanted to reach LA you could go straight to LA in on flight or one bus trip from miami to LA.

But you can also go from one city to another,pass a country side.Stay for a while cause it seems nice. You play in the mud there,because it seems fun.But in your mind your still thinking of LA for your final destination.

Same goes in life.You want to become wealthy or be an expert at a certain field.You see your friend who always wanted to be surgeon when you were kids now has already become a one.

He didn't waste his time.He went to Biology major when he was at Senior High and applied Med School after that.

Your other friend started business when he was a student and now has become a successfull recognized businessman.He already had stepping stones and failure at the first years of his business.

The thing is they knew what they wanted to do with their life sooner and took actions to support their goals earlier.And its no wonder they've reached it first too.

The moral of this story, the sooner you know what you want to do, the sooner you will achieve it.So you must focus on your goals in life.Because it is a race.

Tresna

Time Management I

2008-12-23T07:19:00.000-08:00

According to Jhon Adair we could define Time Management as :

"Time Management is about managing your time with a focus on achievement of doing and completing those things which you want to do and which need doing."

Time management is : 1. goal driven 2. result oriented

Success indicators are : Quality of Work and Personal Life.

Easy steps managing time :

I. Identify tasks that take most of your time.

Example :

Peter Drucker says the most frequent task of an executive are :

1.meetings,

2.reading and writing business materials,

3.Telephoning

4. Travelling

II. Quantify the tasks

Caculate the time consumed for each tasks (daily) and analyze where there are 'too much' and 'unnecissary' time consumed.

III. Prioritize them

Clasify these tasks on a daily basis as : Important -- Less Important vs Urgent -- Less Urgent

The idea is : Important tasks must be done by ourselves or needs high supervision. Less important or less urgent tasks

can be delayed or delegated.

IV. Choose the best thing to do out of these four actions : Drop It ! ; Delay It ! ; Delegate It ! or Do It !

V. Make Daily Planning a habit. Plan Your Work. Work Your Plan

How to become famous in One Night..

2008-12-19T20:08:00.000-08:00

You love your favorite star.You raise your hat for your friends or someone you know that has now became famous which in some case comes with fortune,unless he did some unethical thing.

What we mean here is famous in a positive way.So how in the world can we get famous in just one night? With all the fortune that comes with it.

The answer is :... Work hard 20(twenty) years before that night.

Yup.Easy as that huh(???).The moral of this story is that you can't achieve any success without working hard. Americans say this as 'No Pain, No Gain , Man!'

So start planning your success from right now.Remember that to achive something there are no shortcuts. You must have the right motivation and have the right plans.

Tresna
(Inspired from a mentor of mine)

Increasing Economic Durability

2008-12-19T19:49:00.000-08:00

As the economic crisis hits us there are several thing you should and should not do.

If you're employed, you must see your company's microeconomic conditions. You can ask first whether your company is catigorized as a ' significant hit by the crises' type such as manufacturing, financial or export oriented.

Also check the predicted sales and production figures.For example World Market Absorption Rate would decrease 30 percnt which means 30 percnt production capacity would be 'cutted off'.

Correct preemptive actions taken would mean keeping employed or layoffed. These actions could mean starting a smallbiz or moving to a relatively crisis free company.

Education and Health industry are samples of a 'immuned' industries.But we must still be aware.

What we can do is increase our economic durability by getting more into entrepreneurship, creating passive income, and start conducting wealth and money management.

Open your thought to new mindsets which is thinking out of the box.Survive this crisis gracefully.

tresna

Speaking Effectively

2008-12-17T20:25:00.000-08:00

Sometimes we don't realize that we don't speak effectively. Have you ever had an experience where your friend talked to you explaining in many words and somewhat confusing. But at the the end you realized that he only wanted to borrow money from you.

The essance of his effort was a simple thing.But because he brought it here and there, it made it look like he wasn't intelligent enough to address his means.

Smart people talk little but have a clear understanding.And if he adds more sentences,it would only strengthen the meaning.

So think before you talk.Make it effective. Especially when you are in a supervisory or managerial level.This is a tip for the One Minute Manager.

Have a productive and creative day!

Tresna