Grabbing seat

Often interviewee is extremely nervous while seeing the interviewer for the first time and forgets basic manners by grabbing a seat without recruiter’s permission. You may not notice it, but your interviewer will and find it extremely ill-mannered. Wait for the interviewer to sit and then take your seat with his or her permission. Sit only after you greet the interviewer.

Wandering eyes

Wandering eyes right from interviewer’s tie to shoes, from ceiling to the window is extremely disturbing for the interviewer. It not only reflects candidate’s lack of attention, but also lack of confidence. Look straight into interviewer’s eyes and don’t let your eyes wander here and there. It’s extremely annoying. Look straight into interviewer’s eyes and don’t let your eyes wander here and there. The interviewer may try to find out what are you observing here and there. Make maximum eye contact, but don’t gaze at the interviewer either.

Too much personal talks

No interviewer appreciates personal talk. So avoid it. Even when asked to describe yourself, don’t include too much of personal details like where you were born, where you went for last holiday, what you do in your free time, your relationship status and the like. Even you can avoid too much of personal queries, simply by saying you don’t feel your personal life has anything to do with your professional field. Honesty will impress the right interviewer and he or she won’t intervene into your personal life either.

Fidgeting

Often in nervousness we start fidgeting objects and unknowingly it draws attention of the recruiter. Avoid this habit.

Dumb queries

Just for the sake of asking questions don’t shoot your questions to the interviewer. Ask only smart, interesting and valid questions. Don’t ask stupid questions like ‘Will I get this job?’ or ‘What’s your budget?’ It shows immaturity.

An elementary cooking book

If you are thinking of specializing in an area of culinary like – Chinese, Mexican, Japanese recipes; start from the beginning. Buy a cooking book of the same. Don’t buy too advanced book, it will confuse you and you will not be able to follow many instructions. Buy an elementary book, meant for the beginners. It will be detailed and will also help you to learn cooking easily. Do research about cooking books before buying them, you may also ask a chef. Slowly once you master an area, choose another area of specialization.

Get inspired from someone in person

Quite often it’s seen that cooking aspirants are inspired and motivated by renowned chefs. But such chefs are mostly out of your reach, try to find someone in your surrounding whom you are close to and have access to his or her personal life. You will learn more this way. Find someone whose culinary skill you just die for. Make sure you turn friends and visit him or her often and take some culinary tips and secret recipes. Seeing with own eyes will make you learn faster.

Follow cookery shows on television

Always reading may not help you, seeing live demo will help you to learn faster. Why not learn from the masters of cooking? Watch cookery shows coming on television. Follow them regularly, you will learn really fast. Follow their methodology blindly in the beginning; slowly you may customize the recipes.

Trial and error method

Self-help is the best help. Don’t worry about the outcome, cook whatever you wish to. Mix and match ingredients, put spices and ingredients which you think will go well together. It may excel or turn out to be a disaster. But this is how you will learn and also come up with own recipes. Make in small quantities whenever you are experimenting.

What are you waiting for? Step into kitchen and get going.

Guide to a perfect speech generation:

Map the audience

Find out whom you are going to deliver your speech to, how old they are, and which part of the country they are from. The better you analyze your audience, the easier it will be for you to prepare the speech. It will help you to develop the perfect style, set the mood, and connect with the audience by including relevant jargons. Most importantly, it will help you to pick up the apt topic, as per the interest of the audience. It must add value to their lives whether by solving a problem or setting new goals and vision. Develop an emotional connect with the audience.

Pick a relevant topic

Topic should relate to the audience. Don’t pick up a topic you are not comfortable with. You can turn spontaneous only when you have some command on the topic. Pick up a topic of interest. It can be an outcome of your personal life, general topic, current topic, or a browsed topic from Internet, magazines and newspapers. Unless you are passionate about the topic, don’t pick it up.

Set the objective and time frame

Every communication has a set objective. Speech is not an exception either. Set specific objective like what you want to achieve or want the audience to do. It will help you develop the structure of the speech, limit the content, streamline your thoughts, and march towards a desired outcome. Make important points and elaborate them, but don’t stretch too far. Too much elaboration bore the audience.

Use your imagination and build story

Hues of imagination instill life into a speech. Stretch your imagination and let it fly high. Grab attention of the audience right from the beginning. Use vivid examples while explaining the points you put across. Talk about personal experiences. Make it dramatic and personalized.

Relax and speak

Don’t appear as if you are rushing. Relax while you speak. Don’t talk in too high pitch. Don’t get too nervous, little bit of fear is okay. If initially you are to scared start practicing in front of family, friends, and mirror.

Last but not the least, enjoy!

Confidence oozes when you enjoy the session. It shouldn’t seem like a burden but an enjoyable activity. Make eye contact to appear confident and bold. Be yourself. Don’t get tempted to be like someone else.

And soon you’ll find you are the master of speech delivery.

Well personality can be in terms of charm of talking, sense of humor, grace of manner, intelligence, depth of knowledge, warm attitude. No one can have it all. So why not bring out the best in you and sharpen the blunt side. Even if you are not born with it, you can surely groom yourself and develop a good persona.

First of all, develop a positive attitude towards life, in every meaning. Be optimistic, hopeful and energetic. If you are affected by pessimists it’s time to change your company. Develop a goal, an idol in your mind. Decide what you wish to be like. And start working towards it with dedication and sincerity. Try to face strangers and people whom you always wanted to avoid. The more adversities you face, the stronger you turn into. See, if your words could charm them. See if you could make them your well wisher. It will help you in both professional and personal life.

Develop the attitude to lead, rather than following always. You may have all qualities – good knowledge, good command on the language, right attitude but just the lack of guts to come forward or take proactive step could actually make you stand behind your competitor who is less deserving. Develop confidence, believe in yourself and take the initiative. Boost your leadership skill. Be punctual, disciplined, take initiatives, manage people, meet the deadlines. Soon your boss will count you in every serious decision. To prove yourself extend your hand. Responsibilities and duties will make you a stronger player.

Don’t worry upon the consequence before working towards it. Even if you are novice, don’t restrict yourself. Rather plunge into it, show your interest in the work at hand, learn, and follow others. Learning is a continuous process. Don’t limit yourself. It will overcome your personal shortcomings, boost your confidence and definitely sharpen your skills. And soon you will be master of the task. It’s applied everywhere in life – personal and professional sphere.

Don’t throw stones in the dark. A good personality reflects confidence and confidence stems from knowledge. Sharpen your knowledge. Knowledge automatically chisels body language, communication and mannerism. Knowledge of language, knowledge of human psychology, good communication can actually make you appear confident and well groomed.

Follow the leaders you idolize. Watch their actions, words, thoughts, deeds. Interpret them. Perhaps it could fetch some great ideas in your mind too. Inspiration is important for one to move on.

What are you waiting for? Start it right away!

The person who hired you can fire you too. Just working hard won’t make your name in his favorite’s list. It’s necessary for you to prove that you don’t work merely for money or position; but you are there to pursue your dream. But nothing will turn real unless you can impress your boss, as fortunately or unfortunately he is the ladder to your success. Learn some tips and tricks here, to impress your boss.

• First important thing is competency. Nothing can substitute it. You must be competent in the area of your specialization. Improve yourself every day. Set a defined goal and march towards it. Prove you are simply best in your domain. Nothing can impress your boss more than your knowledge, performance and perfection at work. Bosses always assign duties and responsibilities to skilled and competent employees. Keep abreast of industry and company trends by reading related journals and attending professional association events. Stay updated with technological, legal and knowledge advancements. Upgrade your skills and learn new things.
• Be confident in whatever you do. It will reflect in your performance, body language. A confident person easily attains goals in life.
• Develop self-control. It’s a key to success. Control over emotions and instincts will make you win his heart. You will soon turn into a leader. Don’t let your personal emotions and motives intrude into your professional arena. Don’t discuss personal life with colleagues, drawing their sympathy and pity.
• Accept job challenges. Courage to accept challenge makes you half winner of the race. And fulfilling such challenges will make you great in his eye. Always set high benchmarks for yourself and your team. It will reflect your confidence, competence and ambitious self.
• Always be honest. Even if you commit mistake, own your fault. It will develop his faith and confidence in you.
• Don’t take any shortcut to success. Don’t rush for immediate success. Don’t manipulate things. Never turn jealous of others success. Always stay away from people who are into office gossips, spreading rumors and negativity.
• Enjoy your work. Show your interest in the task provided. Remain enthusiast about each project. Work hard and still have fun. Don’t let the pressure get on you. Display a positive attitude throughout.
• Work in team. Don’t sit back alone and try to crack things; rather communicate with your team and indulge into team work. Boss appreciates it more when you show that you are a good team player. Always acknowledge others help and appreciate it before all. Own team’s mistake and share success with all. Such humbleness will definitely make you a winner.

When your purpose is genuine, when you are dedicated towards your work and your performance is great what you need to worry for? Just follow these small tips to impress your boss and set wings of your dream spread high.

Something that people are usually able to write about at any time, is an issue that bothers them.  Whether a story in the news, or in your personal life, write about something you dislike.  This can be a useful exercise, as it’s easy to let yourself rant.  Once the words start flowing about something, they’ll start flowing about everything.

If you have a personal blog, which all writers should have, try writing about something different.  If you mostly focus on your current daily life, try writing about your past.  Think about the way things were before you are now.  Confront some hardships, or an aspect of your life that you miss.  Anything that moves you, to get those creative parts of your brain moving and working.

Try to challenge yourself.  Write outside of your comfort zone.  Anything that forces you to think outside of your normal box.  That’s a useful activity to help you constantly see scenarios in different ways, so that you’ll always have new ideas.

The more you can force yourself to write about different things, the  more you’ll be able to write.  Part of writing is letting yourself write content that you aren’t confident about.  You don’t always have to submit that work for someone else’s approval, but progress is progress.  At least getting something out will make you feel better, and less stressed for the next time.

-Firstly, organize everything.  Don’t just make sure that your work environment is well organized and neat, but make sure that your day follows suit.  Set aside time for phone calls and checking your email so that you don’t get bogged down trying to keep up with both, as either could end up dominating your day and interfering with how much actual work you are able to get done for that day.

-Secondly, don’t fall into the work distraction pitfalls.  These include mostly bringing in aspects of your personal life to work.  Such as browsing the internet, making personal calls, having a non-work related conversation with coworkers.  All of these are huge time wasters and will significantly cut into how much work you are able to complete each day.

-Thirdly, try using one single planner for all of your daily goals and activities.  This way you’re never confused or having to check more than one place to keep yourself organized.

-Fourthly, figure out your work strengths and weaknesses, and be completely honest in your self assessment.  This way you can focus on your strengths in a clinch to get work done and done well, and also be aware of your weaknesses so that they do not dominate your performances.  By pointing out your weaknesses you can become a more complete and better worker.

-Finally, know when to take a break.  It’s unhealthy for your body to sit down for long periods of time, as it constricts blood flow to different parts of the body.  Every 60-90 minutes you should be taking a quick 5-10 minute break where you stand up and take a few steps, either to walk away from your desk for a moment or to just walk around your office.  Your mind and body will feel much better, and in the end you’ll get more work done because of that.

Such as leaving your iPhone on all the time.  Take advantage of the sleep mode, and don’t turn your iPhone off when not in use, as it takes more extra juice to turn the unit on and off than if you had just left your iPhone on in the first place.  Also try to consolidate your personal and business emails into as few email addresses as possible.  This way there are fewer email addresses to check, meaning your iPhone won’t have to burn energy tapping into the network to keep up with them.

Edit your brightness settings so that your auto brightness is turned off, this way you won’t burn power by keeping your device monitoring your surroundings and automatically changing the screen brightness accordingly.  You also want to keep your screen brightness as dim as possible, but so that you can still see everything just fine.  This way you aren’t consuming any extra power by lighting the screen more than is necessary.

And finally, if you rely on Wi-Fi often for many of your iPhone tasks, make sure that you use it sparingly, and remember to turn Wi-Fi off after use.  Keeping an internet connection like that is a huge power drain on your little iPhone, and you’ll find the battery dying very quickly should you leave Wi-Fi on for long periods of time.  But make us of it sparingly and you’ll be fine.

Beyond that you just want to ensure that at least once a week you’re using up almost all the battery power in your iPhone’s battery to just about the point it runs out of juice.  Then you want to charge the unit until it’s back at 100% power, that way you’ll extend your battery’s long term life, and will consistently reset the device so that your battery won’t lose it’s charge as quickly as it would otherwise.