3 Necessary Interview Techniques

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You’ve made it through the initial vetting process. They like your resume and you’ve probably been contacted by phone. Now you’re ready to appear in person. Regardless of the field you’re in, this potential employer needs someone with your skill set and the hiring process is taking up their valuable time. They want to hire you, so your challenge is to not change their minds.

Understand the employer

You need to be prepared to demonstrate that you understand what the organization does and, as importantly, the nature of the company’s internal culture. There’s a good chance you’ll be asked why you want to work for them. If they have an online presence, visit their websites and read carefully; in fact, read everything you can. Do a news search and read current press releases. If you can’t answer why they’re your choice for employment, it will tell the interviewer you don’t care and are not a good fit.

Focus on detailed answers

You need strategy to effectively answer questions. Many of us have a tendency to deliver closed-ended responses, yet being brief often fails to communicate the message.
Let’s say you’re interviewing for a pediatric nursing position and are asked about your skill communicating with family members. You’re answer shouldn’t be, “I’ve worked with a lot of families under stressful circumstances.”
Your answer should reflect your actual experience. Give the interviewer a real-life example of your work with a patient and family under duress. Let them know what the child was being treated for, how you assisted in conveying the patient’s condition to the family and if you were able to provide information and supportive education. If the situation became emotionally complicated, were you able to connect them to other services? The point is this: You have to tell the story, without going off on a tangent, to effectively illustrate your experience.

Demonstrate your value

When applicable during the interview, you should highlight results, not just duties. Let’s say you’re trying hard to get that pharmacy tech position at a large city hospital. Perhaps the interviewer has straight out asked “What can you do for us?” It’s not enough to say, “I’ve got 10 years of experience working as a pharmacy tech. I know a few things.”
It’s very important to demonstrate how you can bring value to the employer. You could start with “During my 10 years as a pharmacy tech, I’ve…” and fill in the blanks with your achievements. Did you seek out useful certifications to meet new challenges, train other pharmacy techs or propose organizational efficiencies that were implemented? If so, be direct about your contributions and what you can bring to the table for this employer.

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Smartphone app helps people share cabs

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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- If you shudder at the thought of a $50 cab fare to get to the airport, remember, there's probably somebody else headed to the airport that can't even find a cab and would love to split the fare with you, if you could just find each other. Luckily, there's now an app for that.

"I've had this idea for years, before smartphones," Taxishare app creator Dan Fedor said.
Fedor's not a programmer; he's a lawyer who's spent a lot of time trying to catch a cab.
"Needing to get to work on a weekday morning about 8, 8:30; needing to take a cab and no open cabs to be found, but cab after cab going by me with one person in it clearly going downtown," Fedor said.
So on the days he was lucky enough to get a cab, he decided to try something.
"I would literally just pull over for people who were waiting or trying to hail a cab, ask them if they wanted to share my cab downtown, and I was never turned down," Fedor said.
Like any self-respecting innovator, Fedor had found a need, and set about creating an app for it.
Taxishare is social networking meets transportation. Already live in Chicago, now launching in San Francisco, you tap where you're headed and it finds people along the way who want to share a ride.
"You can tell by the color coded dot that they're going to your destination, plus the balloon which actually shows their destination," Fedor said.
As you ride, the app lets you use PayPal to split the fare.
Everyone wins, except maybe the driver.
"They may not be totally opposed to it but they may not be all that enthusiastic about it," cab driver and blogger John Han said.
Han says Chicago cab drivers can charge extra for a shared ride. San Francisco drivers can't. He says maybe the city should change that.
Right now, the app is just available for Android" smartphones. Fedor is hoping he can save some venture capitalists so much money on their cab fares they'll have a little left over to fund him for an iPhone version.

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Good Puzzle. Brain Game

 Brain Game

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~A Perfect Mistake~

~A Perfect Mistake~

Mother's father worked as a carpenter. On this particular day, he was building some crates for the clothes his church was sending to some orphanage in China. On his way home, he reached into his shirt pocket to find his glasses, but they were gone. When he mentally replayed his earlier actions, he realized what happened; the glasses had slipped out of his pocket unnoticed and fallen into one of the crates, which he had nailed shut. His brand new glasses were heading for China!

The Great Depression was at its height and Grandpa had six children. He had spent $20 for those glasses that very morning. He was upset by the thought of having to buy another pair. Its not fair, he told God as he drove home in frustration. I've been very faithful in giving of my time and money to your work, and now this.

Several months later, the director of the orphanage was on furlough in the United States. He wanted to visit all the churches that supported him in China, so he came to speak one Sunday at my grandfather's small church in Chicago. The missionary began by thanking the people for their faithfulness in supporting the orphanage. But most of all,he said, I must thank you for the glasses you sent last year. You see, the Communists had just swept through the orphanage, destroying everything, including my glasses. I was desperate. Even if I had the money, there was simply no way of replacing those glasses.
Along with not being able to see well, I experienced headaches every day, so my coworkers and I were much in prayer about this. Then your crates arrived. When my staff removed the covers, they found a pair of glasses lying on top.

The missionary paused long enough to let his words sink in. Then, still gripped with the wonder of it all, he continued, "Folks, when I tried on the glasses, it was as though they had been custom-made just for me! I want to thank you for being a part of that."
The people listened, happy for the miraculous glasses. But the missionary surely must have confused their church with another, they thought. There were no glasses on their list of items to be sent overseas. But sitting quietly in the back, with tears streaming down his face, an ordinary carpenter realized the Master Carpenter had used him in an extraordinary way.

(Cheryl Walterman Stewart from Live)

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