Tuesday 3 December 2013

[www.keralites.net] 13 Ways to Overcome Interview Nervousness

 

Our recruiters will tell you that controlling your nervousness during an interview is one of the most important things that one can to increase your performance.  Though, this is something easier said than done.  To ensure that you are more confident and produce better results, here are 13 ways to overcome nervousness during an interview:
 
1. Controlling Your Actions and Not Worrying About the People Around You – If you're sitting in a room with other candidates, don't pay a bit of attention to them. Focus on reading a book on your iPhone, focus on anything else but the other people.
 
Sometimes, our recruiters have seen that younger job applicants get very competitive and will try to intimidate you, but rise above it. That's their issue and they are probably more nervous than you are trying to compensate for their insecurities by attempting to throw you off your game.
 
2. Don't worry about anything else, but the interview. Leave everything that doesn't have to do with the interview outside of the room and do nothing other than focus 100%.
 
3. Instead worrying about not getting the job, be happy thinking about how it will feel once you do get the job offer. Have faith in yourself. Your greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.
 
4. In your head, start reinforcing all the good traits you have. This may take repetition after repetition, but don't let your mind focus on what you perceive to be shortcomings. Focusing on what you don't have is highly counterproductive, it wastes energy and, usually your thought process is not based in reality.
 
5. Have faith that the interviewer will make an intelligent decision by hiring you. Just because an interviewer rejects you doesn't mean that he made a smart move. There are plenty of unintelligent people out there and you just have to have faith that this person is going to make the right decision.
 
6. Focus on your chief aim in life. If we focus on outside goals rather than internal shortcomings we are going to be more energized and engaged in the interview. Our headhunters suggest that you ask yourself as to what is your goal? Is it to get a PR job at a major firm? Focus on that.
 
7. Don't base your self-worth on whether you get this job. Your value as a person and your job are entirely mutually exclusive and if you spend your life letting money and your job title dictate your happiness and confidence, you're going to be perpetually unhappy.
 
8. Take a deep breath and relax your muscles. You're not going into a life and death situation. Do your best to relax. Take a few minutes to clear your mind while waiting.
 
9. Be 100% focused on what the interviewer has to say. When we are 100% engaged in a conversation, psychologically we can't be nervous. So, if you find yourself getting nervous just focus more.
 
10. Realize that your competition is not as strong as you fear and they are just as scared of you as you are of them.
 
11. Don't phrase your answers based on what you think the interviewer wants to hear. Mind-reading is often misleading and people who do it come across as not authentic. Tell the truth. When you speak from a place of honesty, you are taking the right chance and, thus should not be nervous by telling it the way it is.
 
12. Don't worry if other applicants have a better education than you. Thomas Edison had only 3 months of schooling in his entire life, Henry Ford had less than a 6th grade education.
 
13. Don't think about the times you didn't get a job offer. Those times have absolutely nothing to do with this interview. You'll get it right, eventually. Thomas Edison "failed" ten thousand times before he perfected the incandescent light bulb.
 

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[www.keralites.net] 4 Basic Qualities of Effective Managers

 

You do not lead by hitting people over the head – that's assault, not leadership. How apt these words by Dwight D Eisenhower are, leadership is not about bullying people, it is about getting people to respect you with your leadership skills and qualities. People should want to be lead by the project manager. So what are the leadership qualities that a project manager should have? Should he be skilled or compassionate? Or maybe he needs to be a good communicator or a visionary? There is not right answer and there is no wrong answer. Even as I make this statement, here is a list of some leadership qualities for a project manager.
Vision

 
Every project manager should have a vision, a vision of what he wants the project to be like, a vision of how to get things done and a vision of the near future of the project. And he needs to be able to convey this vision to his team members. Only when there is vision is there going to be real involvement on the part of the project manager and thus involvement on part of the team members. This is when the team members and project manager start feeling like a part of the organization and not just the project.
Communication skill
Most would say communication is the most important skill of a project manager and some would beg to differ. But communication is an integral part of the leadership qualities. Without communication the project manager cannot lead. Communication not only allows for great leadership but also for openness and relativity. Persuasion and negotiation are all a part of communication and the project manager's qualities.
Honesty
Call it honesty, integrity or loyalty, the project manager needs to have it all. The actions of the project manager set an example for the rest of the team members. The project manager is ultimately responsible for setting standards, ethically and otherwise for the rest of the team. The project manager needs to practice before preaching and to lead by example.
Passion
A project manager without passion is one that is simple put, lacking dedication. The project manager has to be passionate about the project; he should have enthusiasm and the right attitude. Only then will people follow him and respect his decisions, because they need to feel he is doing it for the project. There needs to be commitment and optimism involved.

 

 


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[www.keralites.net] Who talk the most Men or Women - research done - result you will be surprised ?

 
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[www.keralites.net] If Professor Dharmarajan?s research lives up to it s potential, the diagnosis of glioblastoma multiforme ? an d other cancers ? may not be a death sentence at all

 

If Professor Dharmarajan's research lives up to its potential, the diagnosis of glioblastoma multiforme – and other cancers – may not be a death sentence at all. -

Professor Dharmarajan is professor emeritus at the University of Western Australia (UWA) School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, and a professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. Seventeen years ago, while researching programmed cell death – an everyday occurrence in plants and animals – at UWA, he discovered a protein, secreted frizzled-related protein 4 (sFRP4), which turned out to have several cancer-fighting qualities.

 

"I knew this protein had a role in cell death and that was definitely important for cancer treatment," he says. "Then we found out it can also block cell proliferation.

 Professor Arunasalam Dharmarajan

Professor Arunasalam Dharmarajan


 

"Then about seven years back we found out that it blocks blood supply. So we've got the three most important properties for the treatment of cancer: it can kill cells, it can prevent cells from multiplying and it can also cut off the blood supply to the tumour."

 

For the past year, in collaboration with Dr Sudha Warrier, of Manipal University in Bangalore, India, Professor Dharmarajan has been using the protein to attack glioblastoma multiforme stem cells. These stem cells, like other cancer stem cells, initiate tumours and are not only immune to chemotherapy, but thrive on it.

 

"Stem cells are impervious to radio and chemotherapy by virtue of their hyperactive repair activities and drug effluxing properties," Professor Dharmarajan says. "These stem cells become even more enriched, more tough, more stable and keep multiplying in response to chemotherapeutic agents."

 

Drug therapy can shrink a tumour, but the stem cells cause it to reappear. Targeting them is thought to be crucial in the fight to tackle cancer, but it is not an easy task. "One cancer stem cell can be equal to 10 million tumour cells," Professor Dharmarajan says. "It's very difficult to specifically target them."

 

Dr Warrier, an assistant professor at the Manipal Institute of Regenerative Medicine, is one of the few people with the skills to isolate cancer stem cells. She and Professor Dharmarajan met at a conference two years ago.

 

Dr Warrier says it was clear from their first meeting that by working together they could achieve something important.

 

Part of the article posted here for full article click on the link below

http://www.australiaunlimited.com/science/targeting-brain-cancer

 


 

Ravi
 


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