...An important part of preparing for summer placements is being able to answer personal questions about yourself and your beliefs. In fact, this could be said to be the most critical part of your preparations, as all interviews, be it in Finance, Consulting, Marketing or any other field, always begin with a round of ‘fit’ questions. Such ‘fit’ questions can be used by you, if well prepared, to draw the interview into areas of your strengths, shaping your answers such as to showcase your best achievements. A well thought out ‘story’ gives you the confidence to answer these questions, and set a great platform for you to then show off your capabilities for the internship on offer. Some important Do’s and Don’ts that should be followed are: * Always have a ‘story’ in mind. Especially when answering general questions like “introduce yourself” or “walk me through your resume”. By ‘story’ here we mean that your points should be interlinked in some way, either progressively leading to something or highlighting different scenarios where you showcased a particular set of traits. * It helps to know what the required traits are in the roles that you are being offered, and then show off instances in the past where those traits have emerged. * When talking about goals and future plans, always make sure you sound plausible. Also, your destination (say where you see yourself in five years) should be backed up by a) skills/traits that you already have b) Skills that you will acquire...
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...about yourself 2. Why did you decide to go back for a MBA? Why Tepper? 3. Why do you feel you will be successful in this position? 4. Tell me about a time when you had to pick up someone else’s slack. 5. How do you influence others to accept your ideas? 6. What do you consider to be your greatest accomplishment? 7. What do you like to do outside of work? 8. Walk me through your resume 9. Tell me about a time you made an improvement to an existing organization or process 10. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 11. What motivates you to do a good job? 12. Are you comfortable working in a collaborative team environment? 13. How would a previous co-worker describe you? Leadership Questions 1. What is your definition of leadership? 2. Give me an example when you demonstrated leadership 3. Give me an example of your ability to build motivation in your co-workers, classmates, or a voluntary committee. 4. What leadership roles have you played prior to applying for a position with our company 5. Have you ever had an idea or a goal to achieve something that required action by other people? How did you implement this idea? 6. Describe a situation in which you lead a group to complete a complex assignment and motivated others to get the work done on time. 7. How would you build a team from independent individuals? 8. How do you motivate people? 9. How you help ensure that your team meets project deadlines...
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...Informational Interview 1. What is your job like? -What do you do? What are the duties/functions/responsibilities of your job? -What kind of decisions do you make? -What percentage of your time is spent doing what? -How does this type of work interest you and how did you get started? 2. Can you suggest some ways a student, like me, could obtain this necessary experience? 3. What are the most important personal satisfactions and dissatisfactions connected with your occupation? What part do you personally find most satisfying? Most challenging? What do you like and not like about working in this industry? 4. What things did you do before you entered this occupation/business? -Which one those have been most helpful? 5. Are you optimistic about the company’s future? 6. How does the company make use of technology for internal communication and outside marketing? (Use of email, internet, social networking, etc.) 7. If you could do things all over again, would you choose the same path for yourself? Why? What would you change? 8. What abilities or personal qualities do you believe contribute most to success in this business? 9. Does your work relate to any experiences or studies you had in college? 10. From your perspective, what are the problems you see working in this field? 11. What interests you least about the job or creates the most stress? 12. What kinds of experience, paid or unpaid, would you encourage...
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...My first never – gettable love It was 2002. And I had just shifted to a new school. It was hard getting through the entrance as it was an ARMY SCHOOL and it one of the many average students with high hopes and get nothing. It was the first time I knew what girls really are. But that wasn’t so. I was just an dumbass who knew how to take advantage of an extra bulky figure. It was a time when girls used to pull down their socks to flaunt their legs and guys were into all sorts of fights, love and all crap. It was a very hot sunny day in Jammu and I saw a girl with skirt ending above the knee and smooth legs. Ohh.. I love those a lot. I was into watching porn and had started imagining her having sex with me. I had just fallen in love …. That is what all my friends said when they saw a hot girl. Her name was Shikha, daughter of an army personnel. She was great to talk to. But I was into something dangerous. That was the first time I went to a café to search how to propose a girl. YouTube had all such things. I was so dumb that couldn’t even tell her how I felt. Days, Weeks, Months and Years passed by and then came the time I heard that she was leaving the school because her dad was transferred to some other place. I was in eighth and didn’t had guts to even say her BYE. Because I never had a conversation with a girl before. Forget conversation not even a HI. She left and then started my downfall...
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...Behavioural/Competency-based Interviews Behavioural interviews are based on the idea that past behaviour is the best predictor of future behaviour. The interviewer will want specific examples of when and how you demonstrated particular behaviours. Prior to interview each position is assessed for the skills/competencies and characteristics that relate to job success. Interview questions are then developed to probe into these areas. All candidates are asked the same questions and notes are taken in order to evaluate candidates. The word competency is widely used in business and personnel psychology and refers to the behaviours that are necessary to achieve the objectives of an organisation. A competency is also something you can measure and lists of competencies form a common language for describing how people perform in different situations. Every job can be described in terms of key competencies. This means that they can be used for all forms of assessment, including appraisals, training needs analysis and of course, selection. • Individual competencies – your personal attributes: Flexibility, decisiveness, tenacity, independence, risk taking, personal integrity • Managerial competencies – taking charge of other people: Leadership, empowerment, strategic planning, corporate sensitivity, project management, management control • Analytical competencies – the elements of decision making: Innovation, analytical skills, numerical problem solving, problem solving, practical learning...
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...-Janice is thinking about passing off John’s program as her own. 2. Who are the primary stakeholders(people that might be affected by this situation)? Name atleast 3. -One primary stakeholder would be Janice, the top executive -A second primary stakeholder would be John, the underpaid assistant and his family -A third primary stakeholder would be Janice’s boss -The company itself may also be affected by this situation 3. What are the possible alternatives for Janice? Provide atleast 2. -One alternative for Janice would be to talk to John about presenting the software package program to Janice s boss together so that John gets most of the credit and some recognition from Janice’s boss -A second alternative would be for Janice and John to get together and look at the software package and maybe have Janice put in her input as well, possibly making the package better, since she is highly educated and in a top position. No matter what, they should both present it together. If you are Janice what would you do? Would anyone be harmed? If so, how? Would you be comfortable with this decision? Will it work? Is it fair? If I were Janice I would first of all, definitely give John a raise. He apparently is a hard worker and dedicated to the...
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...shouldn't pay for a liberal arts education. By Brian Dumaine, senior editor-at-large Fred Smith sees fast growth ahead in the developing world. Fred Smith sees fast growth ahead in the developing world. FORTUNE -- When Fred Smith founded FedEx in 1971, he had just returned from the Vietnam War, where he had served as a Marine platoon leader and then a pilot, and he was casting around for something to do. As legend has it, a paper he had written at Yale -- he doesn't remember the grade but is pretty sure it wasn't a good one -- laid out the idea for a hub-and-spoke system for delivering time-sensitive items like computer parts. He borrowed money from his sisters, leased some jets, and started his service. Today FedEx (No. 70 on the Fortune 500), with headquarters in Memphis, has 255,000 employees, 688 planes, and more than 90,000 vehicles that operate in some 220 countries and regions. Here's the world according to Fred Smith. Edited excerpts: Q: In 2000 you started morphing from your traditional air express delivery business into ground and into freight. What was the thinking behind that strategy shift? A: Well, in 2000 we were probably competing in a $50 billion annual [sales] market space. Today we're directly competing in about a $350 billion to $400 billion marketplace. Going into ground and freight opened up a market for us with the greatest growth potential over a sustained period of time: the developing world. Middle classes are emerging in various countries...
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...“I WANT YOU FOR THE U.S. ARMY!” Now, what would you do if someone were to ask you this? Or if you seen it out in town on a poster? Would you pay any attention to it or just walk on by? Most people would honestly just walk on by, unless, there was something in that particular poster that had caught their attention. Recruiting ads have changed over the years, but this one was popular. This particular recruiting advertisement was an effective argument because of their slogan, Uncle Sam, his stare, his point, and the use of America’s colors; red, white, and blue. I would say this particular recruiting image was for men or boys. Back then it were only the men or boys who could actually join the army. So, this poster excluded any women and girls because they were not allowed to join. The main targeted audience for this was for the younger men and boys, and for more than one reason. The younger they are, the more apt they are to be healthier. The army wants them to be younger because they can move more quickly and act upon things faster than someone who is older. They also want the men who don’t already have a family started because then they won’t have that worry while out in battle and can focus better on what they need to do. Where is the place where you see most advertisements for things? Out in town, right? This image was more than likely posted out in town on public buildings as well, that is where most of a town’s population goes for many different reasons. Having it out where...
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...likely being honest when he says he has no intention of doing anything beyond looking, the act of looking can still be a problem, especially if he is replaying it in his mind later. Not only that, but in his situation he is not even trying to be discreet about it when you’re around, and that is cause for concern. If he freely looks when you are with him, how bold is he when you are not present? 1) Whenever we go anywhere, could be a reception, stores, etc ( basicly anywhere there are other people) he looks/stare at girls/women.. I have been married for 8 years and been talking to him about this ever since. I have asked him several times not to do it, that it bothers me. He says he likes to look, that everyone is different. The next time I caught him staring, I told him you can stare all you want when I am not there, just don't do it infront of me, .. I sometime ignore him but not all the time... it really hurts me.. For eg. we were doing grocery shopping the other day when he saw this girl and he looked/stare at her, its like she had a magnet on her body.. He couldn't help looking.. He is looking at the girl then he saw me looking at him, he then turned away, then looked in the direction she went in... I just walked out the store. Please let me know how to handle this, he says all men look.. I said they look but you stare.. ahh! this is making upset 2) It`s really a shame that one of these women he is ogling doesn`t put him in his place. Wouldn`t that be great? I...
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...1) What type of team do you, the new CIO, have? What do you see as the key problem with the team? For a medium-sized technology company I strongly believe the cross-functional team will make a huge different. The cross-functional team allows groups from various areas of the company to share a purpose or objective. The team leader, with input from the members, creates the goals and objectives of the team as the first step. On a cross-functional team, workers complete assignments together using their skills and talents to further the goals of the team. The key problem with this team is lack of cooperation and cohesiveness and the causes of problem with this team is avoidance in accountability, inattention in results, communication breakdown and goal differences. 2) What would you do to help turn this collection of individual regional and department heads into a top-performing team? There are five main developing stage to help this collection of individual regional and department heads into a top-performing team. The following five stages of team development are Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning. The CIO needs to retain the motivation of team members in order to successfully overcome any challenges in forming stage. Following the storming stage the team moves to the norming phase, which is when they start establishing open communications, stable positions, norms and values. During this stage is when they start gaining and building trust, which makes...
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...(Parallel) SSD (Solid State Device) DVD and CD Drive use lasers to write data Optical drive not functioning correctly because SATA may not be plugged in FAT32 (File Allocation Table) 32 GB is the max size I installed a second drive because I wanted to add more space to my hard drive. What must I have to add the extra space? Encrypted partition Unallocated space* (FREE) Compressed partition An operating system Case sensitive = password (means your password must be typed as is) Greyware Shareware Wormware Malware* (viruses) Firewall (Security) Tailgating When activated, a blank (low jack) Antivirus* (keep it up to date) WPA1 WEP WAP Personal (least protected) WPA 2 – AES- 256 bit First step in the troubleshooting process? Identify the problem Bit locker – Uses encryption Process of identifying … is called authentication (anything dealing with your biometrics) Administrators Power users Guests* (has the most limitations) Standard Users Black, Magenta, Yellow, and Cyan are the colors of the toners in a printer Black is always used because it’s a default color/toner for a printer Windows 7 does not utilize security but has the action center to monitor third parties What mode can you boot into to troubleshoot the problems for a computer? Safe Mode (disables unneeded services) Which is a built in security feature? UAC* (User Account Control) HCL NTP CMOS (controls time and date) What’s the main reason to have a password on your...
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... • Discussion is video taped! Confidentiality! • Colleagues are taking notes! • Respondents Introduces him/herself! (Age, Main activity, Family, Hobbies) 2. CSD and Coca-Cola Consumption (5 min) • What kind of CSDs do you drink? Do you drink Coca-Cola? • When, how often and in what kind of situations do you drink Coca-Cola? • Which Coca-Cola advertisements can you recall? What kind of mood do they have? To whom are these ads addressed? • Can you recall any music of Coca-Cola advertisements? Likes/dislikes? Why? • What are the general characteristics of Coca-Cola? What does it provide you with? • Let’s make a list what Coca-Cola brings to you! MODERATOR PUTS ALL ATTRIBUTES MENTIONED ON FLIPCHART. PROBES FOR “very refreshing, energizes me, for people like me, favorite brand, great tasting, the best CSD, part of everyday life”. MARKS THOSE NOT RELEVANT TO BACKCHECK AFTERWARDS WITH STORYBOARDS. 3. Evaluation of storyboards (5x20 min) Executions are demonstrated on boards. Executions are rotated. Now I am going to show you several new advertising ideas for Coca-Cola. They are not ready TV spots but an approximate demonstration of what they are going to be when shot. I will be showing you different visuals and you try to imagine that you are watching a real TV spot with real actors. While you are looking at the pictures, I will read out the story so that you better...
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...to find water.” (Have the pupils predict: What do you think will the crow do?) The crow flew from one place to another looking for water to drink. He finally found a pitcher near a well. But there was only little water in the pitcher. He tried to drink from the pitcher but no matter how much he tried, he could not reach the water. “My beak is too big. The pitcher’s neck is very narrow. How will I get the water?” he thought. (Have the pupils predict: What do you think will the crow do so he could reach the water in the pitcher?) Then an idea came to the crow. He picked up some small stones. He dropped them into the pitcher one by one. (Have the pupils predict: After he had dropped some stones into the pitcher, what do you think will happen?) “One, two, three…” Plop, plip, plop. Little by little, the water rose in the pitcher. “Four, five, six…” Plop, plip, plop. The water rose some more. Soon the crow could reach the water. “Now, I can drink!” said the crow. “Ah! It’s cold and good!” Discussion Questions: 1. At the beginning of the story, what did the thirsty crow do? 2. Where did he find water? 3. Could he drink right away? Why not? 4. How do you think the crow felt when he could not drink? 5. What did the crow do then? 6. If you were the crow, what would you do? 7. What happened when he dropped stones into the pitcher? 8. How did the crow feel in the end? Why? 9. Do you think he is a smart crow? Why? 10. In what way can you be smart like the crow? First...
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...accomplishments, but I can summarize who I am in four words dedicated,honest,hard worker and team player, the quotation i live my life by is “When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.” and i am the right candidate for this position because I wanted to move to an institution like this that priorities good teaching practice and dedicated pastoral care of students. I believe I can offer this because of previous careers at HAN women and children with disability and IOM organization. Q2. what are greatest strengths? Ans2.One of my greatest strengths is my ability to manage my time well. I am able to effectively anticipate the time needed for a project and complete on time or ahead of schedule. In addition to that some others strength of mine are: honesty, dreamer, team player understanding, and knowing I’m not perfect. Q3. what are your greatest weaknesses? Ans3. I am too much of a perfectionist “sometimes i can be a bit too honest when i provide feedback to my co-workers, my personality is naturally very straight forward and to the point and most of my colleagues really value that, but i learned that there are times on the job when more diplomacy is required. Q4. tell me about something you did -or failed to do- that you now feel a little ashamed of.? Ans4. “you know, i really can't think of anything, but i found out that the best way to avoid regrets is to avoid causing them in the first place. Q5. why are you...
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...www.intexblogger.com NOT FOR SALE This PDF File was created for educational, scholarly, and Internet archival use ONLY. With utmost respect and courtesy to the author, NO money or profit will ever be made from this text or its distribution. for more e-books, visit www.intexblogger.com New Moon by Stephenie Meyer Contents PREFACE 1. P A R T Y 2 STITCHES 3. THE E N D OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER JANUARY 4. WAKING U P 5. CHEATER 6. FRIENDS 7. REPETITION 8. ADRENALINE 9. THIRD W H E E L 10. THE MEADOW 11. C U L T 12. INTRUDER 13. KILLER 14. FAMILY 15. PRESSURE 16. P ARI S 17. VISITOR 18. THE FUNERAL 19. H A T E 20. VOLTERRA 21. VERDICT 22. FLIGHT 23. THE T R U T H 24. V O T E EPILOGUE TREATY Text copyright © 2006 by Stephenie Meyer All rights reserved Little, Brown ard Company Hachette Book Group USA 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020 Visit our Web site at www.lbteens com First Edition September 2006 The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author Meyer, Stephenie, 1973–New Moon a novel / b) Stepheme Meyer–1st ed p cm Summary When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a cult and changes in terrible ways ISBN-13 978-0 316-16019-3 ISBN-10 0-316-16019-9...
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