Pro-Tips For Your First Time Interview – Make sure you crack it!

Waiting the lobby for your name to be called while wondering what will be asked and how would you fare while biting nails – Does this scene sound familiar?

Considering all the experience you have had thus far is of a few internships, you are new in the Industry with no major experience to quote, facing your first interview can be quite nervous. The flip side is actual face-to-face interaction with the potential employer is a fab chance to make the best first impression and get hired! Let’s see how you can use it:

1. Know the Company, like really!

The least the potential employer will expect from the candidate is that they do their home work and research about the company. It basically conveys that you are genuinely interested and serious about the role. It is absolutely essential to research well about the company you are applying and really understand their product/service, mission, vision and functions. This information could come handy when you answer a few questions.
This will guarantee a great first impression!

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2. The Introduction

‘Tell me about yourself’ is one of the very first and the most predictable question. Not being pepared for this with a kickass answer plain is lame!
Consider this question is an opportunity for you to set the tone of the interview and to help him see the aspects that’s you’d want him to see. Do not waste this opportunity by reciting your resume. Instead prepare before for a short and enthusiastic response that outlines why you are the best fit for the job!

3. What Can You Offer?

Clearly understand the detailed profile and description of the job you are applying for. You answer to this question should clearly justify why you can shine here, each point you make must be supported by an instance where you used the particular ability before.

4. Act Confident

Confidence is the key for all successful endeavors and same applies to interviews as well. Make sure carry yourself in a way that makes you come across as confident (not too smart, mind you). And really be confident, at the moment, whatever you are, you are. Remember faking is no good and will stand right out! So, Acting is a no-no!

5. Never Lie In Your Resume

Never, Never and Never fake anything in your resume – This is the thumb rule! It can backfire and backfire so badly that it may sometimes be difficult to save your face! Remember that the interviewer is fairly experienced and can easily spot the fake bits very very easily. Never write anything in your resume that’s not true!

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6. Dress Well

This is one thing that’s often neglected. It’s important to dress in a presentable way (Formal). No loud dressing or glittery jazz. Wear simple, light colors, Freshly washed and Ironed clothes! Look good and smell great – It shows the vibes of confidence!

7. Have Your Questions too

Interviews are not one-sided conversations anymore. Once the interviewer finished his turn to ask questions, take your turn. Ask any questions related to the company or the job you are applying for.. Just ensure they don’t sound arrogant or like a stubborn head.

8. Be Honest 

It’s perfectly ok to not know an answer and say it… Faking and stammering is not! If you don’t know the answer for something, simply say so…but do make sure to ask what the answer of that question once the interview is done. This actually talks about your eagerness to learn new things, which is in reality the most admired quality in a potential employee. You’ll bowl them over.

9. Breathe Easy 

Anxiety is the most unnecessary emotion that ruins your performance in most interviews. Just take it easy before walking in to the interview room… You have prepared enough, haven’t you? Breath easy – It surely helps.

10. Thank You Mail

Sending a Thank you mail to the employer irrespective of your selection goes a long way in talking of your attitude of gratitude and politeness. Tell them how thankful you are for the opportunity to interact and to learn.


So, do we see a confident you?  All the best!


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Role of Soft Skills in JOB SEARCH!

Why Soft Skills Matter?

Stand out from the crowd.

To get hired is one thing and to keep/sustain a job is another. To grab a job, technical skills are a must, bit, are they enough?! 

For example, every dermatologist needs to know how to cure skin infections, but which dermatologist would you prefer? The one who is always busy and in a rush or the one who is not only skilled but also listens to you patiently and understands your problem? The latter, right?

From the above example it is quite evident that Soft Skills matter a lot! 

Having technical skills may land you at the job to begin with, but, you know, there are several other levels you must cross to remain there! This is where your technical skills take a back seat perhaps… your soft skills, people skills come to fore front… Your communication skills, emotional quotient, attitude, work ethic along with several other similar attributes constitute soft skills and are very important for a successful career.

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Now, the questions I show do these soft skills help you in the long run… As we know working in an organisation would mean associating with several individuals with varied mindsets. It can be quite challenging to co-exist peacefully and bring about a holistically beneficial ambience.   This requires effective delegation skills, motivational skills, and problem solving skills. These are the skills that will take you far in getting along well with people.  

Most often, the importance of the soft skills is undermined no emphasis is given to training on this front. Organizations somehow expect its potential candidates to intrinsically possess these skills and how to conduct oneself on the job. They presume everyone must understand that it’s important to be on time, be friendly, take initiative, and give out high quality work.

What are the Most Important Soft Skills?

It is difficult to really pick and chose which soft skills are more important than the others… It essentially depends on your role. Any skill that equips you with the attitude required to smoothly perform your activities while co-existing with several others is considered as valuable!

However, we can easily come up with a generalised list:

1. Communication skills: It goes without saying that communication skills top the charts.  People with good communication skills are in an advantageous position since they can take control of situations right from rapport building to a long lasting relationship. Also can navigate through situations swiftly and smartly.  Working on your communication skill is a good investment of your time, effort and money.

2. Decision Making Skills: The ability of making right decisions takes you a long way in your career. And for obvious reasons the employers look for this skill. 

3. Self-motivation skills:  These type of people are the employers favourite simply because they are the self fuelling types. They require minimal supervision and intervention. These type are usually good with interpersonal relationships and spread good vibes around as they usually see the positive side. 

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4. Leadership skills: They can prove to be ultimate assets for the organization. People possessing this skill are so self-driven, you just assign them a task and they drive it all the way to completion. No reminders or ultimatums. Work just gets done! Now, who doesn’t want this quality? 

5. Team-work skills: The ability to work in unison with the team in spite of varied temperaments and ideas is a highly appreciable quality. Team means many individuals and all of them come with different mindsets. To be successful in a career its important to get along well with all of them while enduring the work doesn’t suffer.

6. Creativity and Problem Solving Skills: Creative skills help when we need approach issues with a fresh perspective. For most of them the main limitation can be a mental blockage. So creative thinking can be a major boon in problem solving. 

7. Time management Skills: This is crucial, adhering to deadlines in finishing a task is as important if not more than, as doing the job well. Every effort is wasted if stuff is not done at time. This one is a highly treasured skill! 

The list can be ongoing as there is a huge variety of soft skills that are appropriate for each role. If one doesn’t possess these skills naturally, no worry. These can be developed by grooming oneself with help of relevant training or online materials. But it’s important to ¬note that technical skills alone won’t take you too far! 

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Body Language Do's and Don'ts

Get interviewed with ease! 

A few hints on appreciable body language that can take you right through the interview 

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“What you do is more important than what you say” – This is something we have been hearing all the while! This holds true everywhere and especially when you are attending a job interview. 

Your body language can have a compelling looked at. This calls for you to be guarded about how you present yourself in terms of your body language right from the moment you step in. 

Let us see how you can make sure your body language can leave a good opinion about you. 

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Do: Make eye contact

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How does one know that you are actually paying them attention and participating? This can be best communicated through eye contact. Well, this doesn’t mean you deeply stare into his eyes, what it means is to try and hold eye contact for a few seconds at a time. In case here there is a panel of interviewers (more than one) ensure that you make eye contact with each of them.

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Don’t: Slouch

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You may end up looking a little too relaxed and lazy when you sit hunching forward with hands and legs spread casually. Not that we saying that you have to sit with anxiety, but you should not also present as if you are too casual. 

Ensure that your posture is upright and dignified the moment you enter the office reception. While answering any questions at the reception, ensure that show some curiosity and enthusiasm by leaning forward when you are asked a question.

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Do: Use your hands and gesture

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Do this but of course gently. 

If done right, this shows up a lot of confidence and freeness. Palms facing up are usually regarded as a sign of honesty and uprightness. If you don’t know what to do with them, place them in your lap. Take care not to let anxiety get the better out of you by gestures like clenching your fists and yea, no biting nails.

Don’t: Touch your face

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Touching the face and nose can be considered as a sign of dishonesty and untrustworthiness.. People We also tend to touching our neck and head, out of a certain anxiousness but if can be taken as if your are disinterested or bored of the interaction/conversation. Similarly, sitting or standing with your arms crossed puts the opposite person to believe you are very defensive and unapproachable.

It is quite a hint to remember that each of your personal gesture can be   interpreted in many ways as mentioned above. Now its your turn to remain expressive in the right way. Be smiling, shoulders high and straight and relaxed. 

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Do: Smile

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Now this does not mean you have a silly grin on your face all the time. This in turn can be a turn off! What we mean is to have a pleasant disposition and expression always and keep smiling a little when appropriate. You may also feel easy to laugh a little bit along with the interviewer

It helps keep the conversation polite and friendly. The essence is to keep it even, not too loud and not too soft.

Don’t: tap your fingers or feet

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Moving uncomfortably in the chair, tapping your finger on the arm rest of the chair and moving your legs up and down or tapping – All of this is a NO-NO it can be considered as boredom or impatience. Always keep your posture straight and keep all attention on your interviewer, which in turn will make you seem more focused.

Do: Respect

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The most important thing is to be respectful and ensure you are maintaining the subtle professional distance intact all the time. This one thing can take you a long way. Bear in mind you maintain it at all times and not just in the beginning. Your bye should be as graceful and polite as your hello.

After all, in today’s time it is considered that attitude is more important than skills, as skills can be developed but attitude is a part of the personality…

Follow these things coupled with your skill set and you are almost there!

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Fresher?! Well, this is how you can get hired!

Are you a fresher, a little nervous about facing your interviews? Well, here are a few tips that can get you prepared and get started…

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Here are a few frequently asked HR Questions that you as a fresher can expect…

•  Tell us something about yourself

•  Tell us why we should select you among all others 

•  What are your strengths and weaknesses

•  What do do in spare time? 

•  What inspires you the most and why? 

•  Why would you wish work for our organization?

•  How much do you know about us?

So, how would you like your first job to be? 

Just a small piece of wisdom before we get started; Always bear in mind that, in an interview, there are no wrong and right answers. All that you must however have is the right attitude that affects the way of answering.

An interview is more often a short listing process than a selection process. The objective is to eliminate a few candidates who perform poorly. So it makes sense to worry more about not getting rejected than getting selected. The opening moments of the interview are most important as the interviewer does not anything about you so here is your chance to make that first and best impression that will set the tone for the main process that follows. 

Here are a few things that you must pay attention to:

1) Research about the Company

The first and foremost thing that you should be doing after receiving the interview call is, to read and understand the history, operations and the present position of the company and be doubly sure that you are ready to work with them.  This is important as it will aid in better understanding and thus makes you more confident. 

2) “THE” Resume

A resume pretty much substitutes you in the virtual sense. This is by and large your tool to acquire the job. It may not be a great idea to send in the same standard profile to all the job openings. It makes sense to tweak it a little bit depending on the specific requirements of the position by signifying the strengths that are relevant to the position on. Make sure you are not mentioning anything that is false just to impress the interviewer.

3) Rehearse a little bit

It may sound funny initially, but we cannot undermine the power of rehearsal. You may really try practicing the question answer scenario, catch yourself where you are not good and improve accordingly; specially communication skills. Good communication is half the game won!  

4) Arrive Early

It gives you some time and space to relax and recover from anxiety and travel; also it creates a good first impression about your punctuality. 

5) Dress like you really are serious!

Dress professionally. This is one more thing that will take you very far. Dressing depicts our culture and values and the society we come from. It is best to avoid anything very colorful.

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6) No messages and calls business!

Turn off your phone when in the interview. Period!

7) Be high-spirited

It surely will send out vibes that you are enthusiastic and happy to work for their company. 

8) Maintain Eye Contact

This is an absolute must. If eye contact is not maintained, it may appear as if you are not confident or honest and hence are looking away, which is not a great impression to create.

9) Don’t try to impress - Be Yourself

Do not ever try to copy another person or an adapted way of talking, lingo or an accent. Stay you!

10) Stick to the point

Always ensure you answer all their questions crisply and to the point. Don’t do into little stories to justify your answers, unless asked. Always be polite and confident.

Conclusion:

We all work around the aim of acquiring a good and dignified job. Although it’s not easy to get such jobs, it isn’t impossible either! The above few tips should be able to get you through your interviews in flying colors! 

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TIPS TO GET YOUR RESUME NOTICED IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE

Getting your resume noticed is the first step towards a successful employment, and it may lay down the path for the rest of the recruitment stages. It can be a challenging task to get your resume noticed because recruiters hardly look at a particular resume for  6 to 15 seconds before deciding whether to go through it or not.

Most of the recruiters now prefer Application tracking systems widely known as ATS, to screen the resumes. So, it becomes important to insert or highlight keywords which ATS prefers, to screen applications. These quick and easy-to-do tips mentioned below will help to get your resume past the screening systems and noticed by recruiters. Here are few tips to get your resume noticed:

Ø  Keep it simple: Don’t use visual appeals or graphics or multiple colours, until and unless you are applying for the post that is related to arts, for ex. like graphic designer or web designer. If you think using such colours or visual appeals makes you stand out from others then you are wrong moreover it doesn't create a good impression rather it makes it bizarre. Keep it as simple as possible.

Ø   Use simple fonts and bullets: usage of regular fonts like Times New Roman or Calibre or similar fonts will make the appearance of resume pleasant and appealing.

Ø  Customize your resume: customize resume based on job requirements, don’t apply using same resume to every job posting. If the job posting is related to software development mention details related to that posting like software related tools or frameworks or languages etc.

Ø  Include relevant skills: Mention skills which are relevant to particular job posting, don’t use same skills even if they are irrelevant.

Ø  Add an objective: Mention objective or headline at the top of your resume. Make this objective attractive as the recruiter doesn't have much time to look at your resume, you have to make him to go through your resume with these few lines.

Ø  Mention Accomplishments: Mention what you have accomplished, recruiters want to know what you have done and what you can do for them.

Ø  Use keyword of job postings: Use key word similar to those that mentioned in job posting, to get your resume noticed by ATS.

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