December 15, 2010
My Experience As An Interviewer
Taking interviews is not new to me. I have started taking interviews 12 years back. From then, may not be regularly, but once in a while I used to take interviews.
But, in my current role, taking interviews became a part of my role as I have to select my own team. I have taken more than 30 interviews in the recent past. I have selected only one whereas I have to select two.
Now the problem is, when I ask for something, the candidate say “I know this theoretically, but in my current job, I have not got any opportunity to work on it”
I asked them whether they have created any example to see how the command works. The answer is ‘NO’.
My question is, are they thinking that, they will learn theoretically and implement practically in the job? How they are expecting their current job to give them opportunity to work on all the commands that are available in a software. There will be hundreds of commands in a software and a currently their job may require only the usage of 10% of the commands. That does not mean that, they should blame the current job for not using the remaining 90% of the commands.
Again, I am not saying that, they should know the 100% of the commands. Depending on the software, we should know at least 30% to 40% of the commands.
When learn something, an example should be created to see how it works. This helps in quicker development in the job when the commands needs to be used.
December 12, 2010
Give me your e-mail
A jobless man applied for the position of “office boy” at Some Company.
The HR manager interviewed him then watched him cleaning the floor as a test.
“You are employed.”
He said.” Give me your e-mail address and I’ll send you the application to fill in, as well as date when you may start.”
The man replied “But I don’t have a computer, neither an email.”
I’m sorry”, said the HR manager, “If you don’t have an email, that means you do not exist. And who doesn’t exist, cannot have the job.”
The man left with no hope at all. He didn’t know what to do, with only $10 in his pocket. He then decided to go to the supermarket and buy a 10Kg tomato crate.
He then sold the tomatoes in a door to door round. In less than two hours, he succeeded to double his capital. He repeated the Operation three times, and returned home with $60.
The man realized that he can survive by this Way, and started to go everyday earlier, and return late Thus, his money doubled or tripled every day. Shortly, he bought a cart, then a truck, then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles.
5 years later , the man is one of the biggest food retailers in the US.
He started to plan his family’s future, and decided to have a life insurance.
He called an insurance broker, and chose a protection plan. When the conversation was concluded, the broker asked him his email. The man replied, “I don’t have an email”.
The broker answered curiously, “You don’t have an email, and yet have succeeded to build an empire. Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an email?!!”
The man thought for a while and replied, “Yes, I’d be an office boy at Some Company!”
December 7, 2010
WikiLeaks founder Assange arrested
WikiLeaks, now most of the people knows about this.
Its one of the web sites which angered the U.S. and many other countries across the world by releasing the secretes
Julian Assange, the founder of the web site was arrested by the British police on Tuesday. He was charge with the allegation of sexual crimes by the Swedish govt. Assange handed himself to the British police
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