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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008
What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses?
This is another common interview question that you are likely to face in every HR interview. Answering this question in an impressive way can take you very closer to your dream job.
Before providing you with how to answer this question in a politically correct manner, I would first like to define the terms strengths and weaknesses.
Before providing you with how to answer this question in a politically correct manner, I would first like to define the terms strengths and weaknesses.
Strengths:
Internal positive aspects that are under your control and upon which you may capitalize.
Internal positive aspects that are under your control and upon which you may capitalize.
Weaknesses:
Internal negative aspects that are under your control and that you may plan to improve.
Now here is how you should answer this question:
Internal negative aspects that are under your control and that you may plan to improve.
Now here is how you should answer this question:
Assessing Your Strengths
Assess your skills, and you will identify your strengths. This is an exercise worth doing before any interview. Make a list of your skills, dividing them into three categories:
1. Knowledge-based skills: Acquired from education and experience (e.g., computer skills, languages, degrees, training and technical ability).
2. Transferable skills: Your portable skills that you take from job to job (e.g., communication and people skills, analytical problem solving and planning skills).
3. Personal traits: Your unique qualities (e.g., dependable, flexible, friendly, hard working, expressive, formal, punctual and being a team player).
When you complete this list, choose three to five of those strengths that match what the employer is seeking in the job posting. Make sure you can give specific examples to demonstrate why you say that is your strength if probed further.
Assess your skills, and you will identify your strengths. This is an exercise worth doing before any interview. Make a list of your skills, dividing them into three categories:
1. Knowledge-based skills: Acquired from education and experience (e.g., computer skills, languages, degrees, training and technical ability).
2. Transferable skills: Your portable skills that you take from job to job (e.g., communication and people skills, analytical problem solving and planning skills).
3. Personal traits: Your unique qualities (e.g., dependable, flexible, friendly, hard working, expressive, formal, punctual and being a team player).
When you complete this list, choose three to five of those strengths that match what the employer is seeking in the job posting. Make sure you can give specific examples to demonstrate why you say that is your strength if probed further.
Assessing Your Weaknesses
This is probably the most dreaded part of the question. Everyone has weaknesses, but who wants to admit to them, especially in an interview?
The best way to handle this question is to minimize the trait and emphasize the positive. Select a trait and come up with a solution to overcome your weakness. Stay away from personal qualities and concentrate more on professional traits. For example:
"I pride myself on being a 'big picture' guy. I have to admit I sometimes miss small details, but I always make sure I have someone who is detail-oriented on my team."
Here is another example:
“I am a natural pessimist. This isn’t by choice and I’m not sure where it comes from, but it’s there. I can get very excited by new technologies and very passionate about things I’m interested in, but I’ve noticed my first reaction to most new ideas is pessimism.”
This is probably the most dreaded part of the question. Everyone has weaknesses, but who wants to admit to them, especially in an interview?
The best way to handle this question is to minimize the trait and emphasize the positive. Select a trait and come up with a solution to overcome your weakness. Stay away from personal qualities and concentrate more on professional traits. For example:
"I pride myself on being a 'big picture' guy. I have to admit I sometimes miss small details, but I always make sure I have someone who is detail-oriented on my team."
Here is another example:
“I am a natural pessimist. This isn’t by choice and I’m not sure where it comes from, but it’s there. I can get very excited by new technologies and very passionate about things I’m interested in, but I’ve noticed my first reaction to most new ideas is pessimism.”
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Persistent Campus Placement Experience
One of my very good friends Rajan manage to got placed with Persistent Systems Ltd. last year.
This was his experience:
Statistics:
Place: DKTE Ichalkarangi.
Appeared for Aptitude : 600+
Shortlisted from apti : 138
Final selected : 13
Persistent Apptitude Test:
1. 40 marks test
three sections : Logical, Quantitative, Technical
2.Two technical interviews followed by HR interview.
3.Options were given to choose either development or testing.
If you choose development then there is another programming test (on paper only).
Persistent Interview Questions:
First Technical Round
Q. Tell me about yourself?
Q. He said there are coins are arranged in pattern shown in diagrams. You have to make any one diagram looks like other by changing only three coins position?
Q. Puzzle There is cage which contents rabbits and chickens the total legs counted in cage are 170 and total animals in cage are 50.Find out number of rabbits and chickens in the cage.
Q. Puzzle In a lake ther are two types of fishes gubbi's and non-gubbi's,gubbi's are 1% and non-gubbi's are 99%,total fishes in lake are 200.So by removing how many non-gubbi's you can make non-gubbi's 98%.
Q. What is difference between array and linked list?
Q. Write a program to insert node at the end of singly linked list?
Q. Write a program to insert node in between linked list?
Q. Write a program which will convert given decimal number into binary?
Q. Write above program using recursion?
Q. What are storage classes?
Q. Explain static ,auto storage classes?
Q. Expain project you have done?
Q. Tell me range of int,float,char,short int,long int,usinged char,singed char?
Q. What is malloc and how it is work?
Q. Allocate memory for link list node dynamically?
Q. Why we required type casting after allocating memoy using malloc?
Q. What is TCP/IP explain?
Q. Differentiate UDP and TCP/IP?
Q. Explain second program you have witten during development test? (The program is about calculating connectivity of given path matrix and display highest and least conectiviy nodes.) Second Technical round
Q. Write code for allocating memory to object using new and malloc?
Q. What is difference between memory allocation of new and malloc?
Q. What is polymorphism?what are it's different types?explain with example?write code for them?
Q. Consider following code
class obj{ int num; float fraction;};
if we create object of class obj then how much memory it required?if we add some member functions to the class then what will be memory required to object? if class do not have any data members and any member functions then how much memory requiresto the object of such class.
Q. How we access database from java?
Q. Explain life cycle of software?
Q. What is process model?list process models?
Q. Explain waterfall model , Iterative enhancement model and prototyping model?
HR Round
Q. How aptitude test was?
Q. Tell me about yourself?
Q. What are your strong points?
Q. What are your weak points?
Q. Which are your favorate subjects?
Q. Why they are so favorate to you?
Q. Why you choose this field?
Q. Do you know anyone who working in Persistent?
Q. Why team work is important?
Q. What do you think about Persistent?
This was his experience:
Statistics:
Place: DKTE Ichalkarangi.
Appeared for Aptitude : 600+
Shortlisted from apti : 138
Final selected : 13
Persistent Apptitude Test:
1. 40 marks test
three sections : Logical, Quantitative, Technical
2.Two technical interviews followed by HR interview.
3.Options were given to choose either development or testing.
If you choose development then there is another programming test (on paper only).
Persistent Interview Questions:
First Technical Round
Q. Tell me about yourself?
Q. He said there are coins are arranged in pattern shown in diagrams. You have to make any one diagram looks like other by changing only three coins position?
Q. Puzzle There is cage which contents rabbits and chickens the total legs counted in cage are 170 and total animals in cage are 50.Find out number of rabbits and chickens in the cage.
Q. Puzzle In a lake ther are two types of fishes gubbi's and non-gubbi's,gubbi's are 1% and non-gubbi's are 99%,total fishes in lake are 200.So by removing how many non-gubbi's you can make non-gubbi's 98%.
Q. What is difference between array and linked list?
Q. Write a program to insert node at the end of singly linked list?
Q. Write a program to insert node in between linked list?
Q. Write a program which will convert given decimal number into binary?
Q. Write above program using recursion?
Q. What are storage classes?
Q. Explain static ,auto storage classes?
Q. Expain project you have done?
Q. Tell me range of int,float,char,short int,long int,usinged char,singed char?
Q. What is malloc and how it is work?
Q. Allocate memory for link list node dynamically?
Q. Why we required type casting after allocating memoy using malloc?
Q. What is TCP/IP explain?
Q. Differentiate UDP and TCP/IP?
Q. Explain second program you have witten during development test? (The program is about calculating connectivity of given path matrix and display highest and least conectiviy nodes.) Second Technical round
Q. Write code for allocating memory to object using new and malloc?
Q. What is difference between memory allocation of new and malloc?
Q. What is polymorphism?what are it's different types?explain with example?write code for them?
Q. Consider following code
class obj{ int num; float fraction;};
if we create object of class obj then how much memory it required?if we add some member functions to the class then what will be memory required to object? if class do not have any data members and any member functions then how much memory requiresto the object of such class.
Q. How we access database from java?
Q. Explain life cycle of software?
Q. What is process model?list process models?
Q. Explain waterfall model , Iterative enhancement model and prototyping model?
HR Round
Q. How aptitude test was?
Q. Tell me about yourself?
Q. What are your strong points?
Q. What are your weak points?
Q. Which are your favorate subjects?
Q. Why they are so favorate to you?
Q. Why you choose this field?
Q. Do you know anyone who working in Persistent?
Q. Why team work is important?
Q. What do you think about Persistent?
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Reasons Applicants Are Rejected During An Interview
1. Poor personal appearance.2. Inability to express him/herself clearly. Poor voice, diction, grammar.
3. Lack of planning for a career; no purpose or goals.
4. Lack of confidence and poise; nervous, ill-at-ease.
5. Overemphasis on salary.
6. Unwilling to start at bottom; expects too much too soon.
7. Makes excuses; evasive; hedges on unfavorable factors in records.
8. Lack of tact. Lack of courtesy; ill-mannered.
9. Condemnation of past employers.
10. Fails to look interviewer in the eye.
11. Indecision. Merely shopping around.
12. Sloppy application.
13. Over-elaboration of details of experience.
14. Wants job only for a short time.
15. Little sense of humor. Cynical.
16. Lack of knowledge of field of specialization.
17. No interest in agency.
18. Emphasis on whom he she knows.
19. Unwillingness to go where the agency sends him/her.
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