Tips for You

Get ready to start your careers with us?  Have a good understanding on our company background and the job you apply for are of course the very first steps.  Apart from that, you will need to polish your interview skills and even plan on your own career and manage it.  These are all very essential techniques but how to get start?  Here are some tips for you:

*	10 Interview tips
*	10 Tips on managing your career

10 Interview Tips

Great interview arise from careful groundwork.  You can ace your interview if you:

1.	Enter into a state of relaxed concentration.  You'll need to quiet the negative self
	chatter in your head through meditation or visualization prior to sitting down in the meeting.
2.	Act spontaneous, but be well prepared. Be your authentic self, professional yet real.
	Conduct several trial runs with another person simulating the interview before it actually occurs.
3.	Set goals for the interview. It is your job to leave the meeting feeling secure that the
	interviewer knows as much as he or she possibly can about your skills, abilities, experience and achievements.
4.	Know the question behind the question. Ultimately, every question boils down to,
	"Why should we hire you?" Be sure you answer that completely.
5.	Follow up with an effective "thank you" letter. Don't write this letter lightly. It is
	another opportunity to market yourself.
6.	Consider the interviewer's agenda. Much is on the shoulders of the interviewer. He or
	she has the responsibility of hiring the right candidate.
7.	Expect to answer the question, "Tell me about yourself." This is a pet question of
	prepared and even unprepared interviewers.
8.	Watch those nonverbal clues. Experts estimate that words express only 30% to 35%
	of what people actually communicate; facial expressions and body movements and actions convey the rest.
9.	Be smart about money questions. Don't fall into the trap of telling the interviewer
	your financial expectations.
10.	Don't hang out your dirty laundry. Be careful not to bare your soul and tell tales that
	are inappropriate or beyond the scope of the interview.

(Excerpt taken from www.JobsPower.com)

10 Tips on Managing Your Career

If you are bored with your job, fed up with your boss, lost your motivation or feel you are not valued in your present work, the ideas listed here may help you get back in the game and regain the passion you once had for your career.

1.	Starting today I will stop and seriously reassess my career.  I will take a mental break
	and create my plan.
2.	I need to find out now if my career is heading for a dead-end. I will list three action
	steps to improve my situation and ask at least on other person to hold me to my plan.
3.	I refuse to become a victim or allow others to make decisions for me.  I will take
	control of my career and my life.
4.	I will learn to reinvent myself and be prepared for change. I will master those skills my
	company values.
5.	Must I adapt to my company's culture and if so how much?
6.	To cope with corporate politics I will develop a support group of peers and superiors
	and identify and cultivate company stars.
7.	I will learn to manage my boss by assessing his or her strengths and weaknesses
	and determining his or her aspirations and expectations.  I’ll help him/her achieve his/her career goals.
8.	I will study my company's criteria for competitive success then measure myself against
	that model.  However, if the competition becomes destructive, I will not cross that line.
9.	I will be aware of my company's code of conduct and understand that my behavior
	must always be professional.
10.	Career change demands planning. I will self-assess, define my opportunities, prepare
	a safety net, use my network and then execute.

(Excerpt taken from Driving The Career Highway – by Janice Reals Eillig and William J. Morin – Thomas Nelson – 2007)