Why should I hire you? — Frequently asked interview question

August 26, 2011 HR

Here is a tricky Interview question that is asked in almost every interview: “Why should I hire you?” The trouble with this question is that this is a trap. The interviewer evaluates your attitude and self confidence while simultaneously evaluating your honesty and spontaneity. If you are not prepared with this question prior to the [...]

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Passport — I’m still a student, Why do I need one?

August 25, 2011 Education

Do you dream of studying at MIT or joining an ivy league institute for your post-graduate studies? Do you aim to hobnob with the best brains from around the world? If yes, then you already would have thought of appearing for GRE/TOEFL/IELTS etc., by the final year of your college and also developing a vision. [...]

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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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Measure your chances of getting an interview call in percentage

June 2, 2011 Job Search Tips

Chances of you getting an interview call Take this quiz to know the probability of you getting a Job call from an IT company in next one month. Click on Start Quiz link below. Take Our Quiz! polldaddy.add( { type: ‘button’, title: ‘Start Quiz!’, style: ‘inline’, text_color: ‘CA0002′, domain: ‘sriavr.polldaddy.com/s/’, id: ‘DDCFBC5D6D6BF1CC’ } ); Share [...]

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What should you do if you can’t do what you love?

February 17, 2011 Career Issues

For guaranteed success and peace of mind in your life, you have only two options: 1) Do what you love or 2) Love what you do Whenever 1) is possible, go for it. No matter what your friends say, your relatives say, or the god himself says, listen to your heart. Do what you love. [...]

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How to write “career objective” for your resume

February 14, 2011 HR

Interviewers use the Career Objective section as a an ice breaker to start conversation with the candidate. It is the first thing that an interviewer notices when he scans your resume. As a first question in the interview, you are likely to be asked to explain your career objective. You are expected to give an [...]

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What to expect from Interview Mantra

January 24, 2011 Announcements

Welcome to Interview Mantra, a career advice blog that helps you achieve your best at work life. Let me clarify something to you. To your career related questions, you may not get “convincing” answers here. Yes you heard it right, we don’t write theoretical answers in our blog. What we give you, are practical solutions to [...]

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Lessons to learn from USA

November 15, 2010 Career Issues

Americans are smart at work, they plan their tasks meticulously before execution. I’m not referring to the uneducated people and hippies but the highly educated and focused people who relentlessly work for the progress of America. Every single task is recorded in their schedule; nothing is haphazard and unplanned. They use the technology in every [...]

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Using principles of Karma Yoga to get a Job

November 13, 2010 Career Issues

This article has been written to inspire Engineers who passed out of college this Summer and are still looking for a job. Warning: Please stop reading this article if you are a non-believer of universality of God or if you hold negative feelings against Hinduism. I know this is very strange – an article that claims [...]

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An Engineer is one who can memorize a lot of theory and draw beautiful block diagrams

October 11, 2010 Others

If you are reading this, I’m assuming that you are an engineer. But, are you a true engineer by spirit? Read on to find out. An Engineer is one who uses a plethora of techie words to obfuscate his/her speech and sound knowledgeable to a layman. An Engineer is one who subscribes to at least one [...]

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