Dear Ladies – Use Your Brains While Getting Interviewed For A Job

 It is a known fact that an interviewer decides whether to hire a candidate or not within 10 minutes. I am sure it’s pretty amazing as well as scary for most of the readers. One should be extra cautious while getting interviewed. After all, it’s about casting a spell. Isn’t it?

“Casting a spell” is mostly understood in a wrong way, especially by many women across the globe. It is important to understand that what should be embraced during an interview and what should be detached away. Following are some pointers which will help women bagging jobs rights away!

Dream Job – Does It Actually Exist? 

It has been noticed that majority of women usually try to impress their interviewers by bragging statements like “Wow! This is an ideal job for me.” Or “I always dreamed about this kind of job.” To be honest, no job can be a dream or ideal job because of the fact that there are many unpleasant things that a person has to perform for a job. 69% of the interviewers don’t appreciate this kind of replies.

 

Never Smack-off Your Ex-Boss:

Defaming your ex-company or superiors won’t help. In fact, it will definitely harm your personality and you won’t be able to impress your interviewer. 

You Know You Are Hot – Don’t Flaunt It, Where it’s not needed

It is a myth that women with out-going approach and bold behavior are appreciated in professional world, in third world countries. One should know that dressing up for going on a date is totally different from going to an interview. Genuine interviewer is more concerned about your skills and talent rather than your looks and oozing hotness.

Salary Is Not Everything – That Should Be In Your Mind

 

Discussing salary is not a good idea. Interviewers don’t appreciate the question related to salary at first place. Only 15% of the interviewers have agreed to the fact that it’s better to discuss remuneration in first meeting. Rest of them simply doesn’t want to discuss anything like that. So, if you are not asked about the salary, don’t initiate it from our end. 

Keep It Cool

Everyone has emotions but every time is not the right time to express emotions. This is key statement to understand that when you are attending an interview it is not advised to show your emotional side. It’s all about controlling, relaxing and coming up with a calculated idea or response.

Jeans! Are You Serious?

All those girls, who like to be casual and on them jeans look really cool and sexy, they should know the fact that “dress code” is very important. When going for an interview it is advised to wear something decent, formal and smart as well. No one wants to hire a casual candidate. It’s a serious job at which you applied right?

Getting Connected Is Important But Getting A Chance Is Vital:

We all know cell phones are status symbol nowadays, plus replying to every call and text message is what we usually love to do but when on interview, it’s not a right time to either answer any call or reply to any SMS. It is advised that you should switch of or at-least put your cell phone on silent. Even putting a phone on vibration is not a good idea as its humming sound can also cause distraction.

You Can Make Your Boyfriend Wait For You For A Lifetime But Not Your Boss

Arriving late for interviews is not good. This is the reason why every HR employee is of the view that a candidate should reach 10 – 15 minutes earlier. It gives a positive impression. It makes a candidate show his seriousness and punctuality, which count in professional environment. Always remember “time is money – don’t waste it” whether this time is yours or your boss’s.

 
I hope, if these points will be taken into consideration, your chances of getting hired will improve. Share your opinions as well.

Visit To IBA Career Fair 2013 - Held At Karachi University

 On 16^th February, 2013 I visited IBA Career Fair at Karachi University. It was a nice experience for me because of multiple reasons. Things which I noticed in the Career Fair were quite interesting and impressive. As it was held in Karachi University, there were numerous students who attended the job fair. Students from different departments attended the Career Fair, with different dreams. Most of the dreams were job-centric. After all, what else would they have thought about other than their jobs, keeping Pakistan’s economic conditions in mind? From 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM, roughly 1,000 plus students attended the Career Fair.

As far as the organizations are concerned, all reputed companies were present at IBA’s Career Fair 2013. Organizations including Nestle, Engro, Loreal, Habib Bank Limited, Meezan Bank, Burj Bank, Warid, Zong, TRG and Linkagoal etc. were offered “Booths” to communicate with students and collect their CVs. Moreover, companies were also offered “Interview Lounges”, to conduct interviews of the candidates. Last but definitely not the least “Presentation Rooms” were also allotted to the companies to demonstrate their presentations in order to enrich the knowledge of students. Students had a great time at the Career Fair because they got an amazing opportunity to apply in different companies and in different sectors. These kinds of Career Fairs are much needed all over Pakistan to hire the right resource for the right job.

This particular Career Fair introduced students to not only national organizations (HBL, Hilal and Sanofi etc.) but also to international organizations like Linkagoal, Loreal and Nestle etc. With the help of such Career Fairs, horizon of students broadens and they learn multiple things not only about the companies but also about the success factors of the companies. For those who have strong entrepreneurship skills, such career fairs are very helpful in understanding the practices of the renowned companies.

More than 60 organizations participated in the Career Fair 2013; IBA did a fantastic job in bridging the gap between useful resource and companies. These kinds of events should be organized by other universities, as well, all over Pakistan, so that we can collectively fight against the joblessness and help in developing the economic condition of our beloved homeland.

IBA also provided representatives of the companies with tasty lunches. Hope to see more of such events in future.

This Article Has Also Been Published At Dunya TV's Blog

For Images: Thanks To Parwarsha Arshad Mirza

3 SIMPLE STEPS TO GROW TALLER NATURALLY

For every person, looking good and nice is very important. Personality of a person depends upon the height he has. There are many people who want to know how to grow taller naturally but they don’t get their answers that easily. It is unfortunate that most of the people who don’t have good heights, can never appeal opposite genders. To attract opposite gender, individuals try different techniques and tips in order to increase their heights. This is one of the core reasons why they easily believe on the bluffs of the marketers, when they are informed about any product that can help in increasing their heights to “x” centimeters or inches.

 1 - Balanced Diet

For all those individuals who are suffering from the trauma of having shorter heights, they can now get their answers of how to grow taller naturally because growing one’s height naturally is not something that can never be achieved. There are a few simple tactics and tips with which a person can grow his or her height. The most important element that is required to grow one’s height is proper diet. One should not eat junk food but consume healthy food that is free from cholesterol and fats. It is advised to avoid eating anything between two meals. With three meals a day, intake of 2 – 3 glasses of milk can definitely give good results. With the passage of time it is advised to increase the intake of milk as well.

2 - Enjoy Proper Sleep

Sleeping is very important for every person and if a person wants to know how to grow taller naturally then he must sleep for 7 – 8 hours every day. This has helped countless people in increasing their heights naturally. Uninterrupted sleep is good for both physical and mental fitness of any individual. 

3 - Exercise

On the contrary, there is another option which can answer the question of how to grow taller naturally and that is daily exercising. With the help of exercising on daily basis the metabolism of a body becomes good and it starts to function much better. This also results in keeping a person fit and healthy. This is the reason why most of the sports-persons and people who exercise religiously have good heights. 

If a person can just follow the above mentioned tips and steps seriously then he or she can positively grow taller naturally. These steps are tried and tested by many people and they are satisfied with the results.

And The Market Has Changed To 360 Degrees

I am sure if I talk about the marketing practices carried out in older days; today’s generation will find it amusing as well as, to certain extent, hard to digest. Things have changed tremendously. Even in under-developed and developing countries, marketing and business approaches have changed. This means that now people are internet friendly. Let us all accept the fact that today internet is no more a luxury but a necessity and so is social networking. Remember the times of Hi5, Orkut and My Space? Back then not many were infected by the disease named “Social Networkaholic”. People used to join these mentioned social-networks to stay in touch with their long lost friends and long distant family members so that they could interact with them once in a blue moon.

Courtesy: http://modernmarketingstrategies.com/

With the emergence of Facebook, everything changed to huge extent. Not only individuals but businesses also found their ways of indulgences. As a result, businesses created their pages and communities primarily on Facebook and then on other social-networks as well. Why? Mainly, to attract more and more customers, in order to turn them into consumers of their products and services. Now, every individual and business can be searched through Facebook, after Google. Kudos to Mark Zuckerberg! for changing the world and its norms. There are some amazing online marketing strategies which have been developed over the past few years. Many social networks have also appeared and managed to have their chunk of share in the market.

Another social network that is gaining a lot of popularity is “Sulia”. This is a content based platform and every individual and company can reach to it. It has managed to surprise New York media and still exploring the possibilities. Sulia is famous in circles where people are interested in knowing different things around the world, from entertainment to news and from sports to religion. Users with common interests can see what’s happening around the world and even explore about other users, unlike Facebook and Twitter.

Last but definitely not the least, there is another breeze of newness and sensibility in terms of social networking sites named “Linkagoal”. Linkagoal, on some definite grounds is different from Facebook, Twitter and Sulia. Linkagoal is a goal based social networking site that focuses not only on entertainment, fun but also some seriousness, i.e. goal creation and goal accomplishment. People had also compared Linkagoal with LinkedIn but in totality there is a huge difference in both. Linkagoal helps users to connect with other users and share content, mostly goals. The beta version of Linkagoal has managed to gain a lot of users and it is expected that soon, let’s say within a month or two, much advanced website of Linkagoal will be launched with more than 10,000 goals. All this in a span of just 1 year this looks quite promising.

With the help of all the above mentioned online platforms aka social networking websites, businesses have gained an extended market share from what they used to enjoy. Without setting up any physical office or outlet businesses are managing to enjoy international presence. This makes it easier to believe that once the person who came up with the idea of “global village” can now name it as “global neighborhood” and soon, it will be a “global room” for businesses operating around the world.

Text Messaging - SMSes (The New Mantra) Part II

As promised, I am back with the second part of the “Text Messaging - SMSes (The New Mantra) Part I”. I have received messaged and comments on the post, so thank you all for making me write one real soon for you. Without much of delay, I would like to come straight to the point and present you with more justifiable full forms of the acronym “SMS”.

Sufi Must Sigh

Religion is something that, in today’s life, we don’t follow at all but we love to preach. Similarly, there is a new Sufi weapon that is accelerating in youth and even elders i.e. sending religious text messages to friends and family members. Not only that, at the end of the messages they (the senders) want you to forward the message to a particular number of people else you will be thrown out of your religion. Why, just because you haven’t shared the “Good message” with your friends and family? Strange! yet practiced.

Sleep Massacre Syndrome

Can you recall the times when you have had a longest day of your life and all you yearn is a sound sleep with your office suit and shoes on? Beep Beep, and again a beep… that’s a forward SMS distracting you from your soundest sleep. You check the message and notice that it’s nothing important. Within a few minutes you receive another message and you check it thinking it must be your boss wanting to discuss something about next day’s meeting but all you find is a forwarded text message. This keeps on playing with you and finally you can’t get what you desired when you lounged on that bed of yours. A perfect night ruined by forwarded text messages. Sigh!

Sweet Messages Showered

It’s not been too late that I can’t exactly recall those sweet and soft messages of my cappuccino sending me texts full of emotions and “lovey dovey” emoticons.  But definitely receiving such messages every time is not appreciated as a person has to study, work in office, drive car or attend a meeting etc. In such conditions these sweet messages are kind of a nagging experience.

Do share your comments and experiences, if you also have some interesting full forms for the same acronym.

Keep reading. Thanks!

Generation – We Belong To

With the passage of time mankind has faced a lot of changes and this is the reason why we say that the only thing constant in life is “change”. Mankind has been divided into generations by philosophers. They named it Greatest Generation (those who were born before 1946) because no one wants to call themselves inferior – no matter what.

Those who were born from 1946 to 1964 are known as The Baby Boomers. Have you ever considered why? They used to boom and bang everything that used to come their way. Babies love to bang and that was the reason which made them bombastic.

There was another generation which was into “X” activities by default, may be because of the outburst of multi-faucet genes which they had. Obviously no other name could suit them other than Generation X (those who were born from 1965 to 1979). That was the same generation which gifted the concept of hippies – living like weirdos, eating like animals, drinking like as if there is not formation of urine and staying dirty like pipe holes. They used to have kids which never liked to call them dads / moms but bonkers.

This generation from 1980 – 2010 is known as “Generation Y”. God knows what would be the reason behind calling my generation “WHY”. May be its because of the fact that after experiencing with 3 generations and not getting it “WHY there is no improvement in mankind” they might have named it “Generation Y”.

There are some other grounds on which I can conclude that why this Generation is known as “Y”. Following are the observations:

This generation keeps on asking questions like:

1. Why (Y) should I study?
2. Why (Y) should I work, if my dad is already earning like anything and minting money by adopting corruption?
3. Why (Y) should I get out of bed when I can have everything available on my bed, be it breakfast, play station, video game, cell phone, food, drinks and even a girl to get nasty with? Last but not least a bedpan too.
4. Why (Y) should I buy food for myself when my parents are there to bear all my responsibilities?
5. Why (Y) should I get married when I can date women and have whatever I desire?

Last but not the least, following is the perfect example to describe the concept behind calling this generation “Generation Y”

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