How to excel in an interview - I?

           Getting through an interview is the biggest nightmare of the intelligent and the dumb alike. You all must have felt nervy before an interview at some point or the other in your career. Must have also wished that you had answered that question differently or negotiated with the situation more tactfully.

Let’s face it.

Interviews are not normal conversations. Why? Because you are there in the hot seat and the interviewer is the authority figure that has all the power to select or reject you. This is scary, isn’t it? Panic creeps in with the fear of failure. The biggest mistake that the interviewees commit is that they over prepare for an interview and that to in the manner they prepare for their written tests and exams. All this preparation seems futile after coming out of that ordeal. It’s also difficult to actually assess as what went wrong because you either never get or wrongly get a feedback on how have you performed in an interview.

How to increase resume visibility on Job Portals? - III

Keyword Optimization

I apologize for not including the Keyword Optimization methodologies and techniques in the last post. I did that on purpose. First the post would have become lengthy and I wanted to discuss this at length covering all the aspects where the Keyword Optimization works.

Consider it in the same way as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). For those who are not aware of the term, it is the methodology by which one ensures that his/her website ranks higher on the various search engines, i.e. SEO increases the visibility of your Website on Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, Bing etc.

How to increase resume visibility on Job Portals? - II

In the last post we have realized how important a role our resume visibility on Job Portal plays in our chances of landing into our dream job and giving a direction to our career growth. Hence, without wasting much text I will start discussing about the various factors that actually influence our resume visibility or ranking on the Job Portals how to use these factors in our favor. 

Common Mistakes we make while posting our profile on Job Portals:-

How to increase resume visibility on Job Portals? - I

How to increase my resume visibility on Job Portals?

How to get relevant interview calls?

How to grab maximum interview calls?

Such questions arise in your mind often when your resume is lying on all the major Job Portals and even then your mobile ain't disturbing you by calls from recruiters or maybe if there are calls, they are for irrelevant job openings. 

FAQ on Labour Rights - II

    1.       What to do if I am working on direct contract with a PSU without any increment for three years?

Ans: According to the section 25B of Industrial Disputes Act 1947, if an employee is in continuous service for a period if he is, for that period, in uninterrupted service, including service which may be interrupted on account of sickness or authorised leave or an accident or a strike which is not illegal, or a lock- out or a cessation of work which is not due to any fault on the part of the workman; he shall be deemed to be in continuous service under an employer, for a period of one year, if the workman, during a period of twelve calendar months preceding the date with reference to which calculation is to be made, has actually worked under the employer for not less than two hundred and forty days (240 days).

FAQ on Labour Rights - I

    




  
1.     What are the Laws & Acts under which the rights of employees are commissioned?


Ans:
1.1               The Factories Act, 1948
1.2               The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
1.3               Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986
1.4               Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976
1.5               The Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959
1.6               Apprentices Act, 1961
1.7               Employees Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952
1.8               The Employees State Insurance Act (ESI Act), 1948
1.9               Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972
1.10            Payment of Bonus Act, 1965
1.11            Payment of Wages Act, 1936

2.       Are employment bonds at the time of joining, legal?

FDI in Retail Sector

I think there are two categories of citizens in India - Politicians and Non-politicians. Whenever, some special qualities like telling blunt lies without hesitation and repentance, mending ways by hook or by crook, sycophancy, being manipulative etc. starts to show in a child, family members proudly say – he/she will become a politician one day. What more to say about this category. Words may look for cover with shame. They are such people who give a new meaning to the word “confidence”. With crisp currency notes popping out of their pockets, they can be heard saying, “If I have taken even a penny, hang me.” Sometimes I feel that it’s our eyes that are seeing things.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on Resume Writing

Here are some common Frequently Asked Questions regarding Resume Writing and responses from the point of view of the Recruiters and Interviewers.

1      What is Resume for you? What is a recruiter’s definition of a resume

Ans : Resumes are the eyes of the recruiters through which they look at the world (corporate world), feel and judge.  An irrelevant and loosely prepared resume can be a big turn off for a recruiter and a perfectly matching, appropriately informative resume is the bread and butter for a recruiter. It is a multipurpose tool of a recruiter. They not only look at candidates profile in a resume but they judge and follow the market and industry trend, even the technology enhancement and up gradation. Now you can very well understand the significance of a resume for a recruiter. You may be amazed, how precisely a real recruiter can judge a person by his resume.

Know about your Resume?

“Hey Ravi! Come over! See this.” Bikash’s head could be seen popped up above his cubicle.

Ravi immediately pressed ctrl+alt+del on his keyboard and rushed to his side. He knew by Bikash’s sarcastic smile that he must have encountered something funny. It was common among them and actually a refuge for them from the arduous work of selecting relevant Resumes from the heap. Ravi could see the most common site of his life i.e. a resume on Bikash’s screen.  His eyes immediately started searching for that funny thing but everything seemed normal.

“Read through the resume?” Bikash asked looking up at Ravi’s curious face.

The increasing menace of Unemployable Graduates - III (Parenting)

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This is a story that I think everybody would be aware of and might have read or heard during their childhood. However, let me refresh your memory.

There was a man who lived in a small town with his small family of three - he, his wife and their only son. They were leading a fairly simple life. The boy was a brilliant student who was doing quite well in his academics but his father never seemed to be happy with his efforts and result. The boy loved his parents a lot and wanted to see them happy but his father’s discontent with his academic result always bothered him.