Soft Skills
Soft skills, often called people skills or emotional intelligence, are defined as the ability to interact amicably with others. They are personal attributes that can affect relationships, communication, and interaction with others.
1. Growth Mindset
In any job, no matter what the role, you'll encounter roadblocks, disappointments, and other situations that might frustrate you. A soft skill that's critical to your ability to persevere is having a growth mindset -- a term psychologist Carol Dweck coined to refer to a frame of thinking that reflects viewing your abilities, talents, and intelligence as skills you can grow and improve upon. Someone with a growth mindset might look at a failure to meet a quarterly goal as an opportunity to identify their strengths and weaknesses to tackle the next quarter's goal. A person with a fixed mindset, however, might say to themselves, "I'm not good at blogging"
2. Openness to Feedback
This is part of emotional intelligence, but especially when it comes to the workplace, being open and able to receive development feedback is critical to success at a job, especially a new job. Constructive feedback helps you do the best job you can, and if you take it personally or react defensively, you aren't able to hear the feedback and adapt it to your current strategy.
The key to giving and receiving feedback is to come into the conversation from a place of kindness: You aren't receiving constructive feedback because that person hates you personally, it's because they want you to be the best you can be. You should be chomping at the bit to receive feedback that can help you more effectively hit your goals.
Ask for feedback from more people you work with to get immediate help honing your skill set -- and to help make it easier to take.
3. Adaptability
No matter what your role, and no matter what your industry, the ability to adapt to change and a positive attitude about change, goes a long way toward growing a successful career.
Whether it's a seat shuffle or a huge company pivot, nobody likes a complainer. It's important not only to accept change as a fact of life in the constantly-evolving business world, but as an opportunity to try out new strategies for thriving in environments of change.
If you don't feel comfortable with frequent changes, either on your team or at your company, write down your feelings and reactions, instead.
Pitfalls of Time Management
Researches show that while weak time management can result in many different problems, the underlying reasons for this are always the same. Identifying which reasons are true in your case is the first step towards building an effective time management system.
1. Taking on too much.
This usually happens when you either fail to assess the actual size and priority of your tasks, or find it difficult to say “NO” when asked to do something. This results in biting more than you can chew, failing to spend enough time with each assignment and overall dissatisfaction with your work.
2. Multitasking.
It is a common belief that doing two things at once means completing them twice as fast. Alas, most often things don’t work this way. If you concentrate on one task at a time, your brain goes through a certain “set up” when you start. After that, your brain’s resources are targeted exclusively on this task
3. Not planning.
You might think that a project will not take much time and there’s no need to plan it in. Or that there are not too many tasks at hand and you will be able to intuitively maneuver them somehow. This is the first step in the direction of piling problems up and amassing them into a perilous snowball. That’s why planning is crucial for businesses of any size to succeed. A couple hours spent on building a business strategy now will save you days and weeks of correcting and bug fixing later.
Here are few DONTS for interviews:
Don't make excuses. Take responsibility for your decisions and your actions.
Don't make negative comments about previous employers or professors (or others).
Don't falsify application materials or answers to interview questions.
Don't treat the interview casually, as if you are just shopping around or doing the interview for practice. This is an insult to the interviewer and to the organization.
Don't give the impression that you are only interested in an organization because of its geographic location.
Don't give the impression you are only interested in salary; don't ask about salary and benefits issues until the subject is brought up by the employer.
Don't act as though you would take any job or are desperate for employment.
Don't make the interviewer guess what type of work you are interested in; it is not the interviewer's job to act as a career advisor to you.
Don't be unprepared for typical interview questions. You may not be asked all of them in every interview, but being unprepared will not help you.
A job search can be hard work and involve frustrations; don't exhibit frustrations or a negative attitude in an interview.
Don't go to extremes with your posture; don't slouch, and don't sit rigidly on the edge of your chair.
Fictional character I relate to
My favourite fictional character is from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter. It's not Harry himself– or his best friend Ron Weasley but quick-witted, strong-minded Hogwart’s star pupil, Hermione, that appears at number two. As well as being known as a bookworm and class nerd, Hermione’s character possesses inspirational qualities that are portrayed throughout the novels, including loyalty, strength and determination.
Hermione is not only ruthless and self-righteous, but she is also compassionate and loyal. She is the only person in the entire Wizarding World that advocates the abolishment of the house-elf slavery. The fact that Rowling chose the word "slavery" instead of all the other much more neutral words, she could have chosen, is a red flag that Hermione (once again) is on the right track, although her S.P.E.W. (Society for Promotion of Elfish Welfare) campaigns have been very, very ineffective so far. She is loyal to a degree that borders on self-denial. Despite her deep belief in her own infallibility and knowledge, when Ron and Harry oppose her, Hermione bows to their pressure and falls in line. There are only three instances where Hermione didn't relent and in all three she was believing that she was protecting either Harry's life (the Sirius "kidnapping" and the Firebolt fight) or Crookshanks (the Scabbers Incident). Viewed by many critics as a feminist icon, it’s encouraging that this feisty female-lead in J. K. Rowling’s best-selling books was chosen above her male counterparts
– Go Girl Power !
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