Wednesday, August 21, 2007

Friends,

Today, i will share the secrets of getting a job. I guarantee you that if u follow all the steps, you will get success. Most candidates are scared crazy of interviews. they lose sleep and feel extremely nervous at the mere mention of interviews. In the following lines I shall address these issues so that you never fear interviews.

a: spend time to know yourself. become extremely clear about your strengths, weaknesses, goals, obstacles.

b: fearlesly examine each aspect of your past, your personality, your failures and your decisions. understand the reasons behind them and the lessons learnt.

c: spend one hour alone, in silence, during which, just let your thoughts flow. observe these thoughts detachedly.

d: feel proud of yourself, regardless of your academic performance. be able to speak atleast five strenghts and achievements of your life, along with benefits and reasons.

e: summarize all this in your resume. rather than copying other peoples resume, draft your own resume.

f: dont exceed two pages for your resume. personal details to come on the ending of the second page.

g: show the relationship between your name and your personality.

h: show the relationship between your birthdate and some important global event

i: mention the books that you have read and the websites that you frequent.

j: make a list of around twenty questions that HR might ask you. prepare your answers and rehearse them

k: make a list of atleast five sensible questions that you would ask HR during the interview.

l: visit the website of the prospective organization and study it thoroughly. prepare questions from here to ask HR.

m: visit the nearest office/service station/ outlet of this organization and observe the people and their culture. if possible approach a few people and talk to them about their organization.

n: search for online communities of the organization and silently observe the kind of communication going on.

o: identify atleast three competitors of this company and conduct a comparitive study between the interview company and its competition.

do message me your comments. if you have benefitted, do share this with others also.

part two of this article will be posted tomorrow.

cheers/ gurmeet

Friends,

Media has become such an important component of our life. Most of our decisions are based on the inputs that we get through the various media that exist in our life.

But most times media is also used by motivated parties in order to influence public opinion in their favour. The ignorant public ignorantly swings along accordingly.

Market trends are invariably coming to an end, when the whole media is talking about it. There are famous fund managers who use the media hype as a critical decision tool to decide their entry and exit from counters.

Peter Lynch, in his book, One upon wall street, has spoken about his favour for this method.

Another recent example can be the commodity prices of Copper. Copper prices more than doubled in the last one year. Infact they have been falling since novemeber.

For most part of the year, the popular press ignored this rise, but latched on to the hype when people started stealing copper wires from public utilities. Even the robbers actually started the stealing much after copper had started falling.

Today, while the whole world knows the copper wires are being stolen, and the press feels that it has covered the story well, the traders who got out in november are busy renentering.

Such examples can be seen in many other areas of life.

Media is normally late. It is safe. It rarely has been able to prevent any big crime from taking place. Unfortunately, media also is guided by its customer, the purchasing public.

As people are interested to hear about BIG news. It is rarely interested in small stuff.

Media being forced to oblige its customer and their tastes possibly has no choice.

In manufacturing there is a concept of Preventive Maintainence. This is a Japanese concept and comes under the umbrella of TPM. Preventive Maintainence suggests that the ongoing maintanence of the machine on the shop floor by the shop floor worker reduces the chance of a breakage and hence reduces the chance of a production stoppage.

The technology available today, should inspire media to incorporate a similar thought.

Media ought towork towards preventing crime, rather than just reporting it. Media ought to expand the role that it has set out for itself.

Reporting yesterdays news is no news.

Cheers
Gurmeet

Friends,

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Cheers
Gurmeet

Friends,

As adults we are normally always the ones who keep giving answers. We give answers to our youngers. The questions keep coming and we keep handling them with our answers. Our popularity directly depends on the quality of our responses and answers. The most favourite Mama or Mami is so, becuase of the answers that he/she gives and the way he/she gives it.

I guess, somewhere we begin to realize that we have grown up. But this is the danger. When one begins to think that one has grown up, one keeping answering more than questioning.

Actually, for a person to keep growing, he needs to keep questioning. Those kids at home are growing through their questioning.

So if u want to grow, keep questioning.

Surely there would be many of us who do question, but most times these questions are to others, as we believe that the answers are with others. The same way as we were there for our youngers, we expect that there would be someone for us and our questions.

This is the second biggest flaw in our growing up.

We need to question ourselves. We need to have the faith that we can answer our own questions as well. The answers are inside, even for our own questions.

Here are some standard questions that one can start asking oneself. After this, let the questions flow. Keep a notebook in which you keep documenting the questions that you fired at yourself. If the question arises, the answer will follow.

a: Who am I?

b: What do I have?

c: What do I want to do with my life?

d: What have been the questions that I have asked myself since morning?

e: What have been the questions that I forgot to ask myself?

f: What are the questions that I have to ask others?

g: What are the questions that I want other to ask me?

h: How will I know when

i: Why am I on earth?

j: How can I best utilize my resources?

These were ten questions. If we keep asking ourselves ten different questions on a daily basis, we will improve our consiousness. This is the first step towards reaching complete consiousness.

Do share your views about this. Do also share your questions. I believe this is a vast topic and a lot of learning can come about through sharing of thoughts.

Cheers

Gurmeet

Friends,

For those of you, who miss sleeping under a starry sky, here is a solution. Radium coated stickers in the shape of stars are available in the market. Costing about 50/- per sheet of 20 odd stickers, they stick very well on the ceiling and shine in the darkness of the night.

The stars come in various sizes and are also accompanied with a moon, a saturn, a rocket and a space station to make the ceiling look more realistic.

Yesterday night, I turned my ceiling into the sky and believe me...had great sleep.

I woke up this morning in the dimming light of the stars and greeted them good bye as they vanished in the approaching sunlight.

As I write these words, I look forward to switching off my tube this night and entering the cannopy of stars which have made my nights so much more romantic.

For those of  you who desire some romance in your life, try this out.

Cheers
Gurmeet




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GLOBAL THEMES FOR 2007 ( taken from www.guildinvestment.com)

One can find humor anywhere.

I would like to quote from a piece of research by an analyst from one of the world’s largest financial institutions that I read the other day, “China’s industrial output only recovered marginally from last month’s slump. Real value added of industry rose 14.9% in November from 14.7% in October….Industrial growth may rebound early next year.”

Excuse me? What universe does the writer come from?

Economies only very, very rarely grow at 10%. Industrial output growth at 14.9% is astoundingly high for any economy, in almost any situation, in any part of the world. Maybe it is a slight slow down from China’s growth rate a couple of months ago, but let’s be realistic, if you grow industrial output at 14.9% per year, you have doubled output in only five years thanks to the wonders of compounding. So, while the world’s most populous country is on pace to double their output in five years, India, the world’s second most populous country, along with many other countries are not exactly dawdling along. They are also growing briskly.

The growth we are witnessing today in China, India, Russia, Brazil and other countries does not occur every few years. It occurs once every few hundred years. We are in a new industrial revolution that is gigantic in its scope and most people in the developed countries have yet to realize it.

This brings us to some the themes for 2007.

THEME #1: THE GLOBAL ECONOMY AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH AND CAPITAL WILL INCREASINGLY RESEMBLE THAT OF THE 1500’S

In the 1500’s, the major economies of the world were India, China and Persia (much of whose wealth came from their conquest of India). Europe was relatively poor, and much of the currently developed world was very sparsely inhabited.

The global economic landscape began to change after Europeans began to view education, mathematics, scientific discovery, and commerce as noble pursuits. Technological innovation followed, and a few hundred years later, the Industrial Revolution that we all studied in school gave Europeans the ability to efficiently manufacture goods (including weapons), and to transport people and goods great distances. Europe and the European colonies in North America, Australia, New Zealand, and in some parts of South America, Africa and Asia gained access to new manufacturing technologies. The former leaders, China, India and Persia remained agrarian, although they had a great many cultural and intellectual achievements. Thus, the Europeans and their colonies came to eventually dominate global trade.

Today, much of the world’s economic growth is coming from China, India and other developing countries where capitalism and entrepreneurship are being embraced. These developing nations are shifting from agrarian economies to newly industrialized economies. The developing world’s growth rate is about four to five times faster than the rate of that of the large developed countries. At their current rates of growth, or even at part of their rates of growth, India and China will dominate the world economy by middle of this century. The numbers of people they will bring into the developed economy is large, to say the least.

THEME #2: TODAYS DEVELOPED WORLD MOVES TOWARD THE SWISS ECONOMIC MODEL

What will happen to today’s developed world now that manufacturing and much else is going to lower cost higher efficiency developing countries? What is the comparative advantage of the developed nations? What makes them attractive?

The developed nations are much of Western Europe, Canada, U.S., Japan, Australia, New Zealand and a few nations in Asia. Characteristics of these developed countries that make them attractive are: good system of education, ambitious populace (in some countries), good legal system, accurate and honest accounting, a tradition of laws (one can go to court and get legal redress in a few years), available insurance, and an educated work force. Furthermore, they typically have strong banking and financial services. This allows entrepreneurs to get the capital they need to grow, and gives investors the opportunity to fund growth and innovation. Thus, new products and services are constantly being developed.

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Friends,

You can contact Mr. Vivek Vichare @ 9821585757 or 9892811165/69 for your queries about Wi-Fi. He also handles the installation of Dish TV.

Best Wishes for Wi-Fi. Change the way you experience Internet.

Cheers
Gurmeet

Friends,

I have come to realize that women are excellent conversationalists and also very perceptive.

One gets to learn a lot by being in the company of ladies. I have the greatest respect for ladies and have been interacting with many wonderful divas over the past so many years.

I look forward to some interesting interactions over a period of time. I commit to reciprocate the friendship fully.

Cheers
Gurmeet

To get your home Wi-Fi enabled you need a Netgear Wireless Home Router, preferrably 54MBps from Netgear. It costs 3.5k. What u need is also the Netgear 54 Mbps Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter, which costs around 1.6k. This adapter has to be plugged into the computer.

You need one adapter per machine. The Router can send wireless internet to about 4 machines at a time.

This is a home appliance and can cover an area of about 80ft.

You will also need an ISP who provides you the Internet. I am using Hathway Cable Internet. It provides a 256k feed to my over cable. The modem has to be connected to the Router, which then sends the signals to the adapter, which enables the net connectivity.

A CD is provided to load the software in the sytem.

I use the internet for over 14 hrs daily and I have been having a great experience since the time it has been loaded.

Go ahead Guys!!!! Its the best decision that you could make towards improving the aesthetic beauty coupled with the computing convinience for your life.....

Cheers
Gurmeet