Questions begin the minute the interview does, and you’ll need to demonstrate that you are a perfect candidate. You must to be prepared to answer not only the typical questions, but also the unexpected, difficult questions. You can wait for questions regarding your experience, your academic preparation, career interests, qualifications, and ones that assess your personality.

Review these typical interview questions and think about how you would answer them:

1. Tell me about yourself
The most frequently asked question in interviews. You need to have a short speech prepared in your mind. Be careful that it does not sound rehearsed. Limit it to work-related items unless instructed otherwise. Talk about things you have done and jobs you have held that relate to the position you are interviewing for. Start with the item farthest back and work up to the present.

2. Why did you leave your last job?
You should always address an interview question with honesty. However, you should also always try to frame your honest answer in the most positive way possible.
Never refer to a major problem with management and never speak ill of supervisors, co-workers or the organization. Keep smiling and talk about leaving for a positive reason such as an opportunity, a chance to do something special or other forward-looking reasons. Read more

 Foreign Policy and Britain’s Prospect magazine selected their top 100 Public Intellectuals, and invited readers to vote for their top 100.The majority of the names that I recognized in their top 100 list are lefties. However there is a criterion for writing in a candidate. The criteria are: “Although the men and women on this list are some of the world’s most sophisticated thinkers, the criteria to make the list could not be simpler. Candidates must be living and still active in public life. They must have shown distinction in their particular field as well as an ability to influence wider debate, often far beyond the borders of their own country.” This list is about public influence, not intrinsic achievement. And that is where things get really tricky. Judging influence is hard enough inside one’s own culture, but when you are peering across cultures and languages, the problem becomes far harder. Obviously our list of 100 has been influenced by where most of us sit, in the English-speaking West.
“Prospect and Foreign Policy”  www.foreignpolicy.com

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“Research suggests that as many as 8 out of 10 employed adults are in the wrong job or career!”

Career goal setting is an excellent way to motivate yourself and achieving your career dreams. They keep you motivated to live life to the fullest and to get what you want out of it.

Here are 7 successful - strategies to help you set career goals:

1. Start with a positive attitude.  Hope, optimism and enthusiasm have a magical effect on goal setting and the way you think.

2. Set realistic goals.  Try to achieve them with the help of a real career plan that will meet all your needs. Be explicit about what you want and have it thoroughly reviewed to ensure achievability factors. To manage your expectations, set reasonable goals that can be worked on and achieved.

3. Analyse and evaluate professional skills.       If you are employed, unemployed, considering a career change, re-entering the job market or recently graduated, the first step to identifying your career potential needs an objective analysis and evaluation of your capabilities.

4. Sell yourself. Learn the fine art of self-promotion. You need to implement an effective marketing strategy to increase your visibility and gain a competitive edge. If you have had major accomplishments or created successful programs, make sure people know about it — especially those in influential positions who could help you advance professionally. Let it be known that you are seeking a promotion or the next step up in your career. Read more

Studies have shown people’s IQ levels fluctuate during the day depending on their habits and lifestyles. The brain activity of a person is determined by his habits. Good habits make person calm, genial and more productive. You can boost your intelligence and IQ with little effort, and benefit from doing it.

Here are a few smart habits to improve brain use and IQ test scores:

1. Writing - is a good way to boost the brain power; it is a way to exercise your creativity and analytical ability, as well as help memories stay in your brain in the future, which obviously will lead to an IQ improvement.

2. Read quality books. Many people like to read popular suspense fiction, but generally these books aren’t mentally stimulating. If you want to improve your thinking and writing ability you should read books that make you focus. Reading a classic novel can change your view of the world and will make you think in more precise, elegant English. Don’t be afraid to look up a word if you don’t know it, and don’t be afraid of dense passages. Make sure the books are interesting to you. Reading is very fun and useful.

3. Learn a foreign language. Learning a second language “boosts” brain-power, scientists believe. Researchers from University College London studied the brains of 105 people - 80 of whom were bilingual.
They found learning other languages changed grey matter - the area of the brain which processes information - in the same way exercise builds muscles. There are many other reasons to learn a foreign language, from working in another country to discovering your roots, through intellectual curiosity, romance, travel, and secret communication. Read more

Handwriting analysis is a technique (similar to body language) used to interpret human behavior in areas such as achievement/work habits, thinking styles and even social skills. The study and analyses of handwriting is called Graphology. A Graphologer may use several characteristics of your handwriting such as the size and shape of letters, the slant, spacing between letters, the margins, words and lines, rhythm, evenness, connective forms, beginning and end strokes and your regular signature to decode your personality. 

Learn a few tricks about how to interpret your own handwriting here:

- Organized-Confuzed. If your handwriting looks organized, into neat paragraphs and lines that are parallel to each other, then you are organized. If your handwriting looks confused, then you are confused.

- Size of handwriting. Small handwriting means research-oriented, good concentration, methodical, not always social. Large handwriting- people oriented, outgoing, outspoken, love to entertain and interlock

- Spacing. Good deal of space- you need your freedom, to do things in your own time, don’t like to be overwhelmed or crowed. Very little space- it shows a tremendous about of irritability and constant pressure on yourself. Read more

Boosting your mental faculties doesn’t have to mean studying hard or becoming a reclusive book worm. There are lots of tips, techniques and habits, as well as changes to your lifestyle, diet and behavior that can help you flex your grey matter.

Here are 7 ways that will help you become a smarter person:

1. Brain exercises. Exercise of the brain is as important as exercise of the muscles. The human brain is able to continually adapt and rewire itself, even at an old age, it can grow new neurons. Severe mental decline is usually caused by diseases, whereas most age-related losses in memory or motor skills simply result from inactivity and a lack of mental exercise and stimulation. In other words, use it or lose it. And this is your chance to use it, in this brain exercise.

2. Good Brain Foods. The brain is an organ metabolically active, making it a very hungry, and precisely at this eater. It’s becoming pretty clear in research labs around the country that the right food, or the natural neurochemicals that they contain, can enhance mental capabilities—help you concentrate, tune sensor motor skills, keep you motivated, magnify memory, speed reaction times, defuse stress, perhaps even prevent brain aging.

3. Always learn something new. Make a conscious effort to keep your brain active and functioning at optimum levels. Learn a new vocabulary word or a new piece of information as often as you can. It will keep you sharp and alert. Read more