#advice #CV creating (video)

📝 crazy stuff #writing 🎅

#jobinterview

Top 10 Interview Questions

1. Tell me about yourself.

2. Why should we hire you?

3. What is your greatest strength?

4. What is your greatest weakness?

5. Why do you want to leave (or have left) your current job?

6. What are your salary expectations?

7. Why do you want this job?

8. How do you handle stress and pressure?

9. Describe a difficult work situation or project and how you overcame it.

10. What are your goals for the future?

ANSWERS

Sophisticated gift giving (video)

Shiho Masuda worked as a gift wrapping designer for over a decade in New York.

SMART goals (with subtitles)

Setting goals can increase your productivity by 11 to 25% 📈

Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Relevant
Time Based

Job Description of Product Manager Responsibilities:

1️⃣ Has responsibilities to manage from concept, to design, sample production, testing, forecast, cost, mass production, promotion, support, and finally product end of life.
2️⃣ Delivers the operating plan: the achievement of growth objectives including market share, revenue, profit and return on investment for all the channels/categories of business and/or key customers.
3️⃣ Responsible for managing and implementing marketing activities through research, strategic planning and implementation. Translate

Can you describe your current job responsibilities ❓

#presentation skills

How to give a good presentation 💯

1 Start strongly. Try a story or an attention-grabbing image on a slide

2 No more than 6 words on a slide

3 A good presentation should have no more than 10 slides

4 Be enthusiastic and honest

5 Smile and make eye contact with your audience

6 Focus on your audience’s needs

7 Don’t be afraid to make mistakes

#interview

JOB INTERVIEW TIPS❗️

1 Provide informative answers
Always highlight your experience and skills in your answers.

2 Sell yourself
Mention your strengths and good attributes whenever possible.

3 Turn negative into positive
Use the interviewer's questions aimed at identifying your weaknesses to show your strengths.

4 Keep calm
Do not react to critisism in an emotional way; focus on the job and maintain a professional approach.

POSSIBLE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

1 What interests you most about this job?
2 What are you looking for in your next job?
3 What are your biggest accomplishments?
4 How long have you been looking for another position?
5 Why were you made redundant?
6 How do you handle criticism of your work?
7 Why have you changed jobs so frequently?
8 What can you do for us that someone else cannot do?
9 What would you like to change in your current job?
10 Why do you want to leave your current job?

WHAT TO ASK❓

About the job
▫️why the job has become vacant
▫️the key tasks and responsibilities
▫️challenging or routine aspects
▫️extra expectations of the firm(e.g. travel)
▫️training and development opportunities
▫️details of any bonus schemes

About the company
▫️structure of the organisation
▫️success of the organisation
▫️the company's long-term strategy
▫️scope for promotion

#communication skills
Personal Thesaurus Technique

Look up some common words you use every day (smart, nice, pretty, good etc.) in the thesaurus. Then try a few new words to see how they sound for you. If you like them, start making permanent replacements.

smart → ingenious
wonderful → magnificient
good → marvelous

❇️ The world perceives people with rich vocabularies to be more creative, more intelligent. People with larger vocabularies get hired quicker, promoted faster, and listened to a whole lot more.

Describing trends 📉

1️⃣
Sales, Profits, The marketing budget, Inflation, Interest rates, House prices
2️⃣
went up/went down, increased/decreased, rose/fell, improved/got worse
3️⃣
slowly/gradually/rapidly, a little/a lot, from . . . to . . , by. .%
4️⃣
last year/this year, in the first quarter
5️⃣
because...

➡️ Sales increased a lot last year because...

#expressions for line charts and presentations📈

Effective email writing 📤

1. Use a short, clear subject line.
2. Use short, simple sentences.
3. Include just one main subject per email – the other person can reply and delete it.
4. Do not use jokes, personal comments, etc, in business emails.
5. Consider using numbered points instead of continuous text.
6. End with an action point.
7. Don’t ignore capital letters, spelling and basic grammar – when writing to people outside the company a careless email creates a bad impression.
8. Tailor your email to the reader: level of formality, buzzwords, etc.

CV

#email 📧
The right ways to end an email.

#communication skills
The Flooding Smile Technique

Don’t flash an immediate smile when you greet someone, as though they lent you money. Instead, look at the other person’s face for a second. Pause. Soak in their persona. Then let a big, warm, responsive smile flood over your face and overflow into your eyes. It will engulf the recipient like a warm wave. The split-second delay convinces people your flooding smile is genuine and only for them.

🧾 Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is the computer-to-computer exchange of business documents in a standard electronic format between business partners.

Customer–supplier documents

Sent by customer:
inquiry, order, payment

Sent by supplier:
invoice, quotation, reminder, receipt, shipping confirmation

A typical sequence of documents:
inquiry, quotation, order, shipping confirmation, invoice, reminder, payment, receipt

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Five critical tips for you to be as effective as possible when working from home. 🧑‍💻

• Establish Personal Norms

• Be Present with your Presence

• Wear Shoes

• Walk Around

• Spaced Out

#Assessment Center. Verbal Critical Reasoning Questions

Read the passage and determine the correct answer:

🅰️ Companies wishing to increase their growing pace occasionally use the method of franchising which
provides a new owner with the permit to use their business identity and in return to purchase products exclusively from the company. However most companies will aim to minimise the use of this method and often prefer the expansion of the companies' own branches. Companies who have previously used franchising learnt the essential need to monitor the business operation of the franchised branch.
Difficulties arise from franchisees and companies disagreeing on business policies such as customer care, service delivery efficiency and quality of human interaction. Inadequate attention to the monitoring of franchisees on the part of the companies is typically the cause of subsequent problems.

Explanation

The text explains that service delivery efficiency is a cause for disagreement between franchisees and companies, but it doesn’t mention whether this is why companies are reluctant to franchise. The answer is Cannot Say.