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Secrets of Success

April 29, 2012 Get Inspired
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Accurate advice on how to get successful in life. This TED video covers all the points that can invite and invoke success. I would advice you guys to take a big print out of this poster and keep at your workplace or living room.

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Hans Rosling, a Swedish Health Expert admits that Indian students were better than him

April 5, 2012 Education

I’m running short of words in praise of this video. See it yourself to experience the feeling of watching a genius speak about Indians and Asians in general.

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The ant and the grasshopper

September 26, 2011 Education

Once there lived a grasshopper in a meadow. Everything was green and the scene was very lovely. The grasshopper was very fond of dancing and singing. He danced and sang at all times. He had nothing to do. He did not think that there was anything else worth doing at all. He never cared to [...]

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Interview with Karthik, an MS Graduate working for INTEL in the USA

September 20, 2011 Education

Srimannarayana Karthik, a 25 year old Indian International student of University of Southern California is a role model for all upcoming engineers. He didn’t compromise his dream of getting a CORE job for anything else in this world. He pursued his love for VLSI (Very-Large-Scale-Integration) designing and recently joined Intel as a Design Engineer. The [...]

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Taking career inspiration from the dead

June 9, 2011 Get Inspired

Let’s start with a quiz. How many of the below shown personalities can you identify? These are the pictures of handful of many great people who had passed away in the last two years. They are known for the extra ordinary contributions they did to their respective fields of career.

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Dos and donts in a job interview for marketing position

January 12, 2010 Interview Stories

Watch below an interesting video recording of an interview for a marketing position. Here are few important dos and donts that can be drawn from this video.  Make a mental note of these points before appearing for a job interview. Dos Convert negative to positive

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Would you hire samuel, a frank guy who speaks his mind at interviews

December 1, 2009 Interview Questions

This interview is my imaginary work, a sample response for 50 commonly asked interview questions, attempting to answer few of the most tricky HR questions ever asked. A fictitious software professional, Samuel Johnson attends an interview with an IT company, Amdocs. Samuel Johnson is confident and is a natural leader. He is too frank at [...]

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“Do you have any questions” – at the end of an interview

September 18, 2009 Interview Stories

If the title of this post implied to you that this post is going to tell you the questions that should be asked by a candidate at the end of an interview, I apologize; this post is not going tell you that. Instead, it’s about a gaffe that I made in an interview. This incident [...]

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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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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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