Archive for July, 2008

Job interview advice

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Stepping in to the new career or a new job is not much easier as of now. That too in this competitive world it is in vain. So, it is better to follow the foot prints of our elders and to get their valuable advice in choosing one’s career and facing the interview. Here are some of the key points on how to face the Interview:
Before stepping in for an interview find out what is the company all about. Do a brief approximate calculation on the questions they ask in the interview and search for the answers. Practice answering interview questions.
Take a good portfolio with resume copies. Be polite to all employees of the company.
Have a good firm handshake with the interviewer and be enthusiastic. Speak out slowly and deliberately.

If you are in a bottle neck situation for the question asked by the interviewer please make use of the custom built exhibition stands through which you will be judged that you can handle any exotic situation and you are the right person for the company.

Dress smartly and reach the venue fifteen to twenty minutes earlier before the Interview begins. Be positive about you and your abilities. Always have a smiling face.
Body language plays the major role, through which a person coming for the job interview is judged. Stay calm and maintain eye contact with the interviewer. Take more care on how you are sitting, moving and your general impressions
Wait until you are provided a chair to sit down. Do not get embarrassed if you don’t know the answer for any of the questions and always have a positive thought within you. Avoid raising salary discussions on your first interview. Give short and sweet answers for the questions.

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I want to be on the exhibition stands!

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

It’s exhibition season (apparently) and I need to vent my frustration at the unfairness of it.

So I work hard in the office, I pull my weight and I am more than profitable to the company. If, to choose a random example, I were to compare how valuable I am to the office in comparison to the office work experience girl, I am of course far more useful. However, it seems that my efficiency is my undoing in this case!

There is a big trade exhibition coming up in a couple of months. Things are well underway in the run up to make sure that everything is organised and that all boxes are ticketed. The exhibition is really important for us as a company. We only attend the main one that runs every four years, and so far we have always managed to score some really big clients every time, some of which have made this company what it is today. So there is quite a big budget to make it all happen.

The scale of the preparations are quite big. Guests are invited by us as a company, flights are booked, hotels for guests and workers alike. In terms of the actual exhibition preparation itself, exhibition graphics need to be sorted out right from scratch. This involved some people actually going up to Manchester to a brainstorming centre where they could work out exactly which pop up display stands they wanted, and whether or not they wanted to super size the whole set up.

I, of course didn’t get to go on this trip. That was acceptable, it made sense to me. However, I was really looking forward to a few days out the office at the exhibition… (you know what’s coming now)

I don’t get to go! Why? Because I’m too valuable in the office apparently, I’m ‘needed’ here. Who does get to go though? You guessed it, the work experience girl! I mean yes, she is cheap, but the cost of actually taking her up there and putting her up in a hotel etc is not cheap at all! It just really sucks. I feel like getting one of those gigantic building wraps you can buy, wrapping around the building opposite the hotel they are staying in with the words “you suck” on it. I’ve been a valuable employee here for years, I work hard, and I get penalised for it. I mean, great way to not motivate your staff.

The worst thing is, normally I get anything I need to out of my system whilst over at the coffee machine with my mates, but in this case I really can’t. See the work experience girl is really nice, and it’s not her fault at all, I just think that I would come across as a real… well as not very nice I talked about it. I just feel like I’m 12 years old again – it’s not fair!!!

AArrgghh!!!!