An Interviewer said "I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one really difficult question. Think well before you make up your mind!"
A boy thought for a while and said, "my choice is one really difficult question."
"Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! Now tell me this. "What comes first, Day or Night?"
The boy was jolted into reality as his admission depends on the correctness of his answer, but he thought for a while and said, "It's the DAY sir!"
"How" the interviewer asked.
"Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND difficult question!"
He was selected for IIM!
"Technical Skill is the mastery of complexity, while Creativity is the master of simplicity....."
Thursday, July 29
12 Tips for Writing a Successful Resume
1. Position title and job description.Provide your title, plus a detailed explanation of your daily activities and measurable results. Since job titles are often misleading or their function may vary from one company to another, your resume should tell the reader exactly what you’ve done.
2. Clarity dates and places.Document your work history accurately. Don’t leave the reader guessing where you were employed, or for how long. If you’ve had overlapping jobs, find a way to pull them apart on paper, or eliminate mentioning one to avoid confusion.
3. Details.Specify some of the more technical, or involved aspects of your past work or education. Have you performed tasks of any complexity, or significance? If so, don’t be shy, give one or two-sentence description.
4. Proportion.Give appropriate attention to jobs or educational credentials according to their length, or importance to the reader. For example, if you wish to be considered for a position at a bank, don’t write one paragraph describing your current job as a loan officer, followed by three paragraphs about your high school summer job as a lifeguard!
5. Relevancy.Confine your resume to that which is job-related or clearly demonstrates a pattern of success. For example, nobody really cares that your hobby is spear fishing, or that you weigh 98 kilograms, or that you belong to an activist youth group. Concentrate on the subject matter that addresses the needs of the employer.
6. Explicitness.Leave nothing to imagination. Don’t assume the resume reader knows, for example, that Hamdard University is in Karachi, or that "C.S." stands for computer science, etc.
7. Length.You should only fill up a page or two. If you write more than two pages, it becomes evident to the reader that you are unable to organize your thoughts, and that you are trying too hard to make a good impression. If the content of your resume is strong then there is no need for more than two pages.
8. Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation.Create an error free document that represents the educated person you are (or are striving to be). Always use a spell check program or better yet, consult a professional writer.
9. Readability.Organize your thoughts in a clear, concise manner. Avoid writing in a style that is fragmented or long winded.
10. Appearance and Presentation.Don’t deviate too much from the standard resume format in order to avoid being trashed due to difficulty in reading.
11. Portray yourself as someone who is active and gets things done. Do this by beginning sentences with action verbs.
12. Use headlines.They really work. Headlines permit the reader to skim through your resume and reach the areas that they are interested in quickly.
2. Clarity dates and places.Document your work history accurately. Don’t leave the reader guessing where you were employed, or for how long. If you’ve had overlapping jobs, find a way to pull them apart on paper, or eliminate mentioning one to avoid confusion.
3. Details.Specify some of the more technical, or involved aspects of your past work or education. Have you performed tasks of any complexity, or significance? If so, don’t be shy, give one or two-sentence description.
4. Proportion.Give appropriate attention to jobs or educational credentials according to their length, or importance to the reader. For example, if you wish to be considered for a position at a bank, don’t write one paragraph describing your current job as a loan officer, followed by three paragraphs about your high school summer job as a lifeguard!
5. Relevancy.Confine your resume to that which is job-related or clearly demonstrates a pattern of success. For example, nobody really cares that your hobby is spear fishing, or that you weigh 98 kilograms, or that you belong to an activist youth group. Concentrate on the subject matter that addresses the needs of the employer.
6. Explicitness.Leave nothing to imagination. Don’t assume the resume reader knows, for example, that Hamdard University is in Karachi, or that "C.S." stands for computer science, etc.
7. Length.You should only fill up a page or two. If you write more than two pages, it becomes evident to the reader that you are unable to organize your thoughts, and that you are trying too hard to make a good impression. If the content of your resume is strong then there is no need for more than two pages.
8. Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation.Create an error free document that represents the educated person you are (or are striving to be). Always use a spell check program or better yet, consult a professional writer.
9. Readability.Organize your thoughts in a clear, concise manner. Avoid writing in a style that is fragmented or long winded.
10. Appearance and Presentation.Don’t deviate too much from the standard resume format in order to avoid being trashed due to difficulty in reading.
11. Portray yourself as someone who is active and gets things done. Do this by beginning sentences with action verbs.
12. Use headlines.They really work. Headlines permit the reader to skim through your resume and reach the areas that they are interested in quickly.
Monday, July 26
There is always a better way...
A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: " I am blind, please help"
A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by will see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. Lot more people were giving money to the blind boy.
That after noon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were.
The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, "Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?"
The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way."
What he had written was: "Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it."
Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?
But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.
Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?
There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story.
The first is, "Be thankful for what you have. Someone else has less. Help where you can."
The second is, "Be creative, Be innovative, Think differently THERE IS ALWAYS A BETTER WAY!"
A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by will see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. Lot more people were giving money to the blind boy.
That after noon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were.
The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, "Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?"
The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way."
What he had written was: "Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it."
Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?
But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.
Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?
There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story.
The first is, "Be thankful for what you have. Someone else has less. Help where you can."
The second is, "Be creative, Be innovative, Think differently THERE IS ALWAYS A BETTER WAY!"
Quite True...
Jone's Motto:
Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Terman's Law of Innovation:
If you want a team to win the high jump, you find one person who can jump seven feet, not seven people who can jump one foot each.
* O'brien's Variation:
If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.
* Conway's Law:
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired.
* The Peter Principle:
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Work is accomplished by those employees who have not reached their level of incompetence.
* H.L.Mencken's Law:
Those who can, do. Those who cannot teach
* Martin's Extension:
Those who can't teach, administer
* Belani's Extrapolation:
Those who cannot even administer, become consultants.
* Lieberman's Law:
Everybody lies; but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.
* Kovac's Conundrum:
When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged one.
* Van Herpen's Law:
The solving of the problem lies in finding the solvers.
* Ruby's Principle of Close Encounters:
The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.
* Young's Law:
Great discoveries are made by mistake.
* Kin Hubbard
A good listener is usually thinking about something else
* One Anonymous Great Seer's Law :
Money can't buy love, but it sure gets you a great bargaining position.
Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Terman's Law of Innovation:
If you want a team to win the high jump, you find one person who can jump seven feet, not seven people who can jump one foot each.
* O'brien's Variation:
If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.
* Conway's Law:
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired.
* The Peter Principle:
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Work is accomplished by those employees who have not reached their level of incompetence.
* H.L.Mencken's Law:
Those who can, do. Those who cannot teach
* Martin's Extension:
Those who can't teach, administer
* Belani's Extrapolation:
Those who cannot even administer, become consultants.
* Lieberman's Law:
Everybody lies; but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.
* Kovac's Conundrum:
When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged one.
* Van Herpen's Law:
The solving of the problem lies in finding the solvers.
* Ruby's Principle of Close Encounters:
The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.
* Young's Law:
Great discoveries are made by mistake.
* Kin Hubbard
A good listener is usually thinking about something else
* One Anonymous Great Seer's Law :
Money can't buy love, but it sure gets you a great bargaining position.
Sunday, July 25
Love and .....
A long time ago, before the world was created and humans set foot on it, God had put all the human "qualities" in a separate room.
Since all the qualities were bored they decided to play hide & seek.
"Madness" was one of the qualities and he shouted: "I want to count, I want to count!"
And since nobody was crazy enough to want to seek "Madness", all theother qualities agreed. So "Madness" leaned against a tree and started to count: "One, two,three..."
As "Madness" counted, the qualities went hiding.
"Treason" hid in a pile of garbage.. "Lie" said that it would hide under a stone, but hid at the bottomof the lake.
And Madness continued to count "... seventy nine, eighty, eighty one..."
By this time, all the qualities were already hidden except "Love ".For stupid as "Love" is, he could not decide where to hide. And this should not surprise us, because we all know how difficult it is to hide "Love".
"Madness": "...ninety five, ninety six, ninety seven..." Just when "Madness" got to one hundred........."Love" jumped into a rose bush where he hid.
And Madness turned around and shouted: "I'm coming, I'm coming!"
As Madness turned around, "Laziness" was the first to be found, because "Laziness" was too lazy to hide. "Madness" searched madly and found "Lie" at the bottom of the lake. One by one, Madness found them all except Love. Madness was getting desperate, unable to find Love.
Envious of Love, "Envy" whispered to "Madness" "You only need to find Love, and Love is hiding in the rose bush."
"Madness" Jumped on the rose bush and he heard loud cry. The thorns in the bush had pierced "Loves" eyes.
Hearing the commotion God came into the room and saw what had happened. He got very angry and cursed "Madness" and said since "Love" has become blind because of u ...u shall always be with him"
And so it came about that from that day on, "Love is blind and is always accompanied by Madness!"
Since all the qualities were bored they decided to play hide & seek.
"Madness" was one of the qualities and he shouted: "I want to count, I want to count!"
And since nobody was crazy enough to want to seek "Madness", all theother qualities agreed. So "Madness" leaned against a tree and started to count: "One, two,three..."
As "Madness" counted, the qualities went hiding.
"Treason" hid in a pile of garbage.. "Lie" said that it would hide under a stone, but hid at the bottomof the lake.
And Madness continued to count "... seventy nine, eighty, eighty one..."
By this time, all the qualities were already hidden except "Love ".For stupid as "Love" is, he could not decide where to hide. And this should not surprise us, because we all know how difficult it is to hide "Love".
"Madness": "...ninety five, ninety six, ninety seven..." Just when "Madness" got to one hundred........."Love" jumped into a rose bush where he hid.
And Madness turned around and shouted: "I'm coming, I'm coming!"
As Madness turned around, "Laziness" was the first to be found, because "Laziness" was too lazy to hide. "Madness" searched madly and found "Lie" at the bottom of the lake. One by one, Madness found them all except Love. Madness was getting desperate, unable to find Love.
Envious of Love, "Envy" whispered to "Madness" "You only need to find Love, and Love is hiding in the rose bush."
"Madness" Jumped on the rose bush and he heard loud cry. The thorns in the bush had pierced "Loves" eyes.
Hearing the commotion God came into the room and saw what had happened. He got very angry and cursed "Madness" and said since "Love" has become blind because of u ...u shall always be with him"
And so it came about that from that day on, "Love is blind and is always accompanied by Madness!"
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