There are many reasons why such a question is asked at an interview. Your potential employer may be interested to know more about you and how much you know yourself. They may want to get a sense of your personality, goals, passions, interests, and what drives you.
Both first movers and followers have distinct advantages and challenges. Let’s understand this using commercial examples we are most familiar with: Apple vs Samsung.
The second we walk out of the interview door is a feeling of relief, or is it not? Often, we start second-guessing ourselves after a job interview, focusing on what we did wrong, not seeing the many things we did right. So, let’s shift our perspectives to positive ones. Here are some clues indicating that you may have just aced your interview.
Addressing student participants in the final instalment of Scholarship Guide Webinar Series 2021, the advertising veteran acknowledged that clear, convincing communication is indeed an essential life skill. But whilst good language skills help, like sauce on a steak, they are not absolutely necessary. “The meat is the message, and successful writers can prepare and present a persuasive message, even without powderful England.”
Have you ever gotten off at the wrong train stop and been too embarrassed to get back on, even when there is still time—because you are afraid that people will be laughing at you under their breath? Are you losing sleep over the upcoming presentation, worrying that you will mess up and the audience will remember your blunder forever?
Not every applicant gets to the interview process. All your efforts in building your profile to qualify for a scholarship, your detailed application, an impressive essay, and letters of recommendation have gotten you this far. If you are already preparing for your scholarship interview, congratulations—you have gotten one foot in the door!
We all fall prey to procrastination. From school assignments to dental appointments or simply having to clean out the leftovers in your fridge, some tasks are trivial, just cumbersome to execute, mostly no fun at all, and have no dire consequences. However, never quite getting to the things you want to accomplish in life because of avoidance behaviours will be a shame.
“Docendo discimus”, said the Roman philosopher Seneca, meaning that “by teaching, we learn”.
The pandemic has accelerated the use of video conferencing and technologies globally. Familiar names such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Cisco WebEx, and Barco weConnect are video platforms often used by organisations for recruitment, onboarding, training, meetings, medical consultations, and even design sessions.
One may think that this request was just an outlandish demand and excessive behaviour of a prima donna rock-star. It turns out that the “no brown M&M’s” clause was actually a creative quality control measure, an ingenious business strategy.
To help students not worry alone, Mr Felix Cheok, an F&B industry veteran, touched on the topic of stress management in the most recent Scholarship Guide webinar, sharing tips on how to get ahead of anxiety, how to keep your mind and emotions in check when panic strikes, and how best to manage time.
LinkedIn is dubbed to be the place for professionals to find and be found. With over 756 million members worldwide and two million from Singapore alone, 40 million people use LinkedIn to search for jobs each week; three people are hired every minute on the platform.
