August 2009

Fifteen things you can do when your job is lost

August 30, 2009 Career Issues

Check out this guest post on 15 things that you can do when you lose your job that I wrote for AmitBhawani.com. In that blog post, I had articulated 15 things that you could do when you are unemployed, to survive yourself and improve your job prospects. As always, your feedback is appreciated!

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Interview Mantra to be permanently moved to interviewmantra.net

August 29, 2009 Announcements

Dear Reader, We have decided to move Interview Mantra permanently to InterviewMantra.net, the new domain name that we recently bought. The only difference it makes to you is the url displayed on your web browser. From now on, whenever you browse Interview Mantra, interviewmantra.net would get displayed in the address bar of your browser instead [...]

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Answers to Twitter Quiz -1 on C language

August 26, 2009 C

This quiz is a past event on Twitter. Twitter Quiz is an innovative brain child of Interview Mantra. It is a short quiz of 10 questions. This quiz was on C Language. Read more about Interview Mantra Twitter Quiz> The Quiz questions, answers and their explanations have been consolidated as a blog post for your [...]

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C, SQL, UNIX interview for experienced developer @ AMDOCS

August 25, 2009 C

These questions were asked in a job posting at Amdocs. The job was for developers experienced in C language, SQL and UNIX. This interview lasted for 30 minutes. Answers to these questions would be posted soon. If you wish to answer any of these questions, please comment below, the Section Name, Question Number along with [...]

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Interview for experienced PL/SQL programmer @ Mastek

August 21, 2009 Interview Questions

This post is a recorded interview for a job posting that requires experienced PL/SQL Programmers at a Software Firm, Mastek. The interview candidate is a three year experienced PL/SQL, Cognos developer who works for IT division of financial services giant, Merrill Lynch. He was recruited by the company after successfully clearing all three rounds of interview: [...]

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Think your employees suck? Think again, it may be your recruitment

August 20, 2009 Career Issues

The objective of any business is to make profits. This is achieved by formulating a good plan, and then executing it. Both these activities presuppose the availability of a competent workforce which is not merely skilled, but also very adept. Since businesses almost always need to communicate well with their customers, the workforce needs to [...]

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Interview Mantra gets a new Address: interviewmantra.net

August 19, 2009 Announcements

Dear Reader, It takes me great pleasure to announce that Interview Mantra has now got a new address, InterviewMantra.net In an attempt to preserve the growing brand name of Interview Mantra, we bought this new domain name. So, next time when you wish to visit Interview Mantra, just type: interviewmantra.net And remember, it’s .NET As [...]

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Top 6 things to do, a day before a Job Interview

August 18, 2009 Interview Tips

A simple checklist that helps you avoid goof ups at Interviews. Check your Appointment Reading the Interview Invitation email for appointment details, is one thing that we overlook in the excitement of doing an Interview. As a result of which, we get to see some unpleasant surprises such as “The interview was scheduled at 10 [...]

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Java SQL UNIX Interview for 2 year experienced @ AMDOCS

August 16, 2009 Interview Questions

These questions were asked in a job posting at Amdocs, Pune. The job was for developers experienced in Java, SQL, UNIX. The interview lasted for 40 minutes. Answers to these questions would be posted soon. If you wish to answer any of these questions, please comment below, the Section Name, Question Number along with your [...]

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Swine Flu effect on Interviews

August 13, 2009 Interview Stories

This is a real interview appointment letter that my colleague actually got. Dear Candidate, Further to our discussion, we are pleased to inform you that your profile has been short listed and your Technical round of Interview has been scheduled on Wednesday 12th August 09 @ 10.00 AM. Please make yourself available for the same. [...]

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