There are many interview tests that are conducted for job
applicants by human resources personnel after the job
applicants have passed the first stage of the interview.
In the second stage of the interview, the human resources
personnel and top management official of the company may be
present and it is at this stage that most job applicants
either make or mar their chances of being employed.
The company interviewer will be interested in testing the job
applicants in the following areas.
1) Dressing:
Dressing is an important aspect of the interview
process. Your dressing will create the first impression
anybody will have of you. When going for an interview it is
advisable to dress properly and this will show a pleasant
personality. You will be addressed according to the way you
dress.There are certain colour combinations that are
appropriate for interview. There are certain colours that you
should avoid. Colours such as red, green, yellow should not
be used to make your suit. Any of these colours will fit for
any interview: ash, black, brown, navy blue. Job applicants
must dress professionally when appearing before any interview
panel. The following should be observed by men:Putting on of
solid colour conservative suit.Long sleeve shirt that matches
the colour of the suit.Good conservative tie should be put
on. Limited use of jewellery Put on dark socks and
well polished shoes.
2) Appearance:
You send out different messages about yourself to the
interviewer in the interview room or office. Ensure good
personal conduct at this stage. Your interviewer will know if
you are afraid, ashamed, nervous, careless e.t.c from the way
you comport yourself.Avoid looking down or up when walking.
Walk and look straight. Look into the eyes of your
interviewer and if you can not look into his/her forehead.
3) Sitting Posture:
When you approach the interview panel and
you noticed an empty seat, don’t keep standing for long if
nobody offers you a seat to sit down. Don’t just sit down.
Ask this question: may I sit down? Sit properly and face the
interviewers. Don’t sit crossing your legs and looking down.
4) Entering the interview hall/office:
It is a good behaviour or conduct to knock before entering
any office whether for the purpose of interview or not. The
knock should be moderate and must not be hard and should be
done not more than three times. Some job applicants move into
interview office without knocking or knocking so hard.
Knocking must not be mild also as this depicts sign of
nervousness or fear. Moderate knocking is good and it must be
at intervals and periodically. After knocking and there is no
response, enter the office and if asked, who permitted you
in, just say politely, I knocked but there was no response
and since people are inside, I used my initiative to come in.
This is part of the interview and they want to know if you
can apply your initiative and defend yourself.
5) Handshake:
Shaking with both hands, hitting hard on the other person’s
hand should be avoided. If the interviewer offers to shake
you, respond the way he/she shakes you. If firmly, responds
firmly and if mildly, responds likewise. When he says, please
to meet you, say please to meet you.
6) Answering Questions During the interview:
Endeavour to answer questions clear and precisely. When
asked questions, answer objectively and avoid trying to
impress the interviewer with unnecessary grammar. Be honest
with the answer you are giving at every point of the
interview.
7) Body movement/language:
Sitting with both arms and legs crossed and head down depicts
lack of proper conduct and should be avoided. Not looking at
the interviewer eye to eye portrays one that is afraid.
Sitting restlessly on the chair that you are giving to sit on
suggests that one is lazy.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
5 Career and Motivational Tips
1) First thing to remember when you’re starting a professional speaking business is
fill your bank account instead of filling your ego. You need to have the mindset to
go after jobs that will put money in your pocket instead of focusing on fame and
stardom. Fame and stardom is inevitable in your motivational speaking career if
you do enough seminars and speaking engagements, believe me.
2) Teach people how to give you money. Conference planners and hosts don’t always
know what you want or need. Their whole goal is to put on an amazing conference
or seminar and I can guarantee you that they aren’t focused on putting money in
your pocket. For that very reason, teach people how to give you money. Pre-sell
your book and show the conference planner how they can give the book for free by
including the price of it in the registration fee. Learn to offer pre-sell merchandise
and back of the room merchandise. Never be afraid to go after the big money.
3) One idea can make all the difference. If you’re wondering how to make money with
motivational speaking, know that one idea is all you really need to get started. Do
different things to help you generate the ideas you need and then be prepared to
take action on them.
4) You should never stop learning. Learn multiple proven, contested formulas that
will attract unlimited and continuous wealth so that you can live stress free and live
exactly how you want to live each and every day. Instead of just working right, you
need to work smart. Learn to use strategies that work instead of trying to work with
get-rich-quick schemes that end up disastrously.
5) Market. Market. Market. If no one knows you, they can’t give you a motivational
speaking job. As simplistic as this concept sounds, I often find people who claim to
never advertise or dip into vain self-promotion. I don’t think self-promotion is
vain. In fact, I think not marketing yourself is the equivalent of shooting yourself
in the foot.
Applying these tips to your public speaking career will ensure your business reaches
the public speaking success you always wanted. So start using these tips today.
fill your bank account instead of filling your ego. You need to have the mindset to
go after jobs that will put money in your pocket instead of focusing on fame and
stardom. Fame and stardom is inevitable in your motivational speaking career if
you do enough seminars and speaking engagements, believe me.
2) Teach people how to give you money. Conference planners and hosts don’t always
know what you want or need. Their whole goal is to put on an amazing conference
or seminar and I can guarantee you that they aren’t focused on putting money in
your pocket. For that very reason, teach people how to give you money. Pre-sell
your book and show the conference planner how they can give the book for free by
including the price of it in the registration fee. Learn to offer pre-sell merchandise
and back of the room merchandise. Never be afraid to go after the big money.
3) One idea can make all the difference. If you’re wondering how to make money with
motivational speaking, know that one idea is all you really need to get started. Do
different things to help you generate the ideas you need and then be prepared to
take action on them.
4) You should never stop learning. Learn multiple proven, contested formulas that
will attract unlimited and continuous wealth so that you can live stress free and live
exactly how you want to live each and every day. Instead of just working right, you
need to work smart. Learn to use strategies that work instead of trying to work with
get-rich-quick schemes that end up disastrously.
5) Market. Market. Market. If no one knows you, they can’t give you a motivational
speaking job. As simplistic as this concept sounds, I often find people who claim to
never advertise or dip into vain self-promotion. I don’t think self-promotion is
vain. In fact, I think not marketing yourself is the equivalent of shooting yourself
in the foot.
Applying these tips to your public speaking career will ensure your business reaches
the public speaking success you always wanted. So start using these tips today.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
KNOWING YOUR INVESTMENT OBJECTIVES
One of the reasons why people lose money on the stock market is that they do not set investment objectives. Myles Munroe once said:"If the purpose of a thing is not known, abuse is inevitable". This is the same way with investing on the stock market. If you have not set an objective for investing then you are likely going to fall into error.
One of the questions you must ask yourself before you buy any stock is : why am I buying this stock? This is because your objective of investing will determine the kind of stocks you buy and the time you buy it.
Here are some investment objectives you can set for yourself before delving into the stock market.
Regular income (Dividend) - If your reason for investing in the capital market is to get dividend and regular income then you should consider stocks of companies that pay dividends regularly to their shareholders . It is advisable to buy these stocks when they are selling at their all time lowest or when you feel the EPS (Earnings Per share) of the company has increased considerably and the price of the company is still low. Another tip for picking stock for regular income is to buy stocks during bearish period i.e when the price of the stock is under priced.
Bonus issues - If your objective of investing is to get bonus issues then you should buy stocks of companies that give out bonus issues regularly. You should however, note that procreation of shares or additions to shares reduces the ability of the company to pay higher dividends except the company is able to increase the profit of the company significantly.
Capital Appreciation - An investor who has capital appreciation as his objective for investing will do well by investing in under priced stocks or in stocks that have growth prospects. The investor will also do well by investing during bearish period and wait for the market to pick up. The EPS and the P/E ratio is very important here . If you know that the EPS of a company is higher than the intrinsic value of the stock, then it might be advisable to buy the stock.
Directorship/Control - Sometimes you find out that the price of a stock is very high and people are still buying into the company. The large volumes and demand might be as a result of the quest of some people to clinch a directorship seat on the board of the company or those whowant to take control of the company. These people are usually ready to buy the stock at a premium because of the prospects or the intrinsic benefits of control.
So in which category do you fall into? The watchword in the market is 'LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP (BUY/SELL).
One of the questions you must ask yourself before you buy any stock is : why am I buying this stock? This is because your objective of investing will determine the kind of stocks you buy and the time you buy it.
Here are some investment objectives you can set for yourself before delving into the stock market.
Regular income (Dividend) - If your reason for investing in the capital market is to get dividend and regular income then you should consider stocks of companies that pay dividends regularly to their shareholders . It is advisable to buy these stocks when they are selling at their all time lowest or when you feel the EPS (Earnings Per share) of the company has increased considerably and the price of the company is still low. Another tip for picking stock for regular income is to buy stocks during bearish period i.e when the price of the stock is under priced.
Bonus issues - If your objective of investing is to get bonus issues then you should buy stocks of companies that give out bonus issues regularly. You should however, note that procreation of shares or additions to shares reduces the ability of the company to pay higher dividends except the company is able to increase the profit of the company significantly.
Capital Appreciation - An investor who has capital appreciation as his objective for investing will do well by investing in under priced stocks or in stocks that have growth prospects. The investor will also do well by investing during bearish period and wait for the market to pick up. The EPS and the P/E ratio is very important here . If you know that the EPS of a company is higher than the intrinsic value of the stock, then it might be advisable to buy the stock.
Directorship/Control - Sometimes you find out that the price of a stock is very high and people are still buying into the company. The large volumes and demand might be as a result of the quest of some people to clinch a directorship seat on the board of the company or those whowant to take control of the company. These people are usually ready to buy the stock at a premium because of the prospects or the intrinsic benefits of control.
So in which category do you fall into? The watchword in the market is 'LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP (BUY/SELL).
Basic Steps to Financial Freedom
Life is not as hard as most of us see it. Two major obstacles to achieving financial
target is lack of information an inaction.If you master the art of seiving out information and taking action, nothing will stop you.
If you don't have any source of income or you lack money to start any business you
can easily overcome this inadequacy. One of the ways to overcome lack of source of
income is to embrace service. Offering your service for cash or trading your skill or
talent for cash. But the problem is that a lot of people are so lazy while others are
ashmed. Before you can succeed in life, you have to banish shame and what people
will say. The point is that, the person you are looking forward to working in his
company, do you know that he did many odd jobs to raise money to build the
company?
We Are all interested in celebrating rich and successful men but we don't care to look
into their history to see where they are coming from.The fact is that once you banish
shame and librate yourself from financial slavery, those you are ashamed of what
they will say will forget about the odd job you did. The easiest way to remain on the
same spot or position for life is to be a paid employer for life!
Having started something you want to be doing or if u are doing something, quickly open an Investment Seed Account with any bank where you will be saving little amout of money on monthly basis no matter how small. This is the money you will use for investment. Once it gets to an appreciable level, withdraw it and invest. Successful people are aggressive investors. Nothing will ever make you to touch the money saved for investment.Cut down on unnecessary expenses. There are money we spend that are unnecessary. It is not how much you are making that matters but how much you keep.
You will be surprised that someone that makes 10,000 per month will be rich faster than someone who makes 100,000 per month due to the difference in financial discipline. Many people cannot delay gratification, therefore all the money the make goes into satisfying their insatiable desires. There are many ways you throw away money without knowing it. Some people eat excessively, it is not everything you eat that your body needs! Many people are addicted to making long calls, and when the phone bills come in you scream. If you calculate the amout of money that passes through your hand in a month, you will see that you are rich. But, where is the money? unnecessary expenses eats 70% of it! And you don't even know.
target is lack of information an inaction.If you master the art of seiving out information and taking action, nothing will stop you.
If you don't have any source of income or you lack money to start any business you
can easily overcome this inadequacy. One of the ways to overcome lack of source of
income is to embrace service. Offering your service for cash or trading your skill or
talent for cash. But the problem is that a lot of people are so lazy while others are
ashmed. Before you can succeed in life, you have to banish shame and what people
will say. The point is that, the person you are looking forward to working in his
company, do you know that he did many odd jobs to raise money to build the
company?
We Are all interested in celebrating rich and successful men but we don't care to look
into their history to see where they are coming from.The fact is that once you banish
shame and librate yourself from financial slavery, those you are ashamed of what
they will say will forget about the odd job you did. The easiest way to remain on the
same spot or position for life is to be a paid employer for life!
Having started something you want to be doing or if u are doing something, quickly open an Investment Seed Account with any bank where you will be saving little amout of money on monthly basis no matter how small. This is the money you will use for investment. Once it gets to an appreciable level, withdraw it and invest. Successful people are aggressive investors. Nothing will ever make you to touch the money saved for investment.Cut down on unnecessary expenses. There are money we spend that are unnecessary. It is not how much you are making that matters but how much you keep.
You will be surprised that someone that makes 10,000 per month will be rich faster than someone who makes 100,000 per month due to the difference in financial discipline. Many people cannot delay gratification, therefore all the money the make goes into satisfying their insatiable desires. There are many ways you throw away money without knowing it. Some people eat excessively, it is not everything you eat that your body needs! Many people are addicted to making long calls, and when the phone bills come in you scream. If you calculate the amout of money that passes through your hand in a month, you will see that you are rich. But, where is the money? unnecessary expenses eats 70% of it! And you don't even know.
The time to start planning for the future is now!
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