Benefit from Effective Time Management Techniques

Effective time management skills show you how to utilize your time and get a list of things done in a scheduled time frame. People who are able to accomplish all tasks on a list in the given time, they are known to have good time management techniques. So, how to develop good time management skills so that your hours are not wasted and you are ahead of the feeling of failure!  

Weaker time management means more worry and more tasks on your back. You can see the problems it would cause if you lack those skills. It could impact your job if you fail to realize goals. There are emotional impacts when we have the feeling of failure, and that we have wasted away a day when we could have been doing something else.

Good time management skills start with a planner. It keeps heed of your everyday activities. Before you start planning in a day to day planner you have to examine the things you are doing to waste time, and eliminate them. Then only go to the next step. Stick to the golden rules of effective time management - and good old common sense. Don't try to over-plan or achieve something unrealistic. You shouldn't plan over 168 hours of your week. Make sure you eat and sleep well, and have time for other necessary activities.

Realistic goals are easy to achieve – if you know a project is going to take you 20 minutes, don't write 15 minutes down.

Employers value people with better time management skills. A squanderer of time is profitable to the workplace, and the boss is not likely to be happy with that outcome. People with poor time management skills are usually deemed lazy and unproductive. It's hard to hold fast to a job with those qualities on your resume.

Don't you long for a better life, productive and more rewarding! Consider adopting good time management techniques to reap more time and downsize clutter. Make sure you first start with a goal in your mind and then set off materializing them. Stick to your game plan you have designed for each day. Developing effective time management skills takes some time. That's why you will need to organize your habits to discard the unproductive ones. When you use your time effectively, you will find yourself feeling less stress, and having more time to enjoy your life, your work, your dreams and desires.

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Infosys Campus Placement Experience

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Infosys Interviewer:  Where are you from?
Myself: Sir, I am from Yamuna Nagar. It has the biggest sugar mill in Asia.

Infosys Interviewer:  How far is your place from your college and how do you come to your college daily?
Myself: It is about 45minutes from my place and I come by the college bus daily.

Infosys Interviewer:  How did you get admission in this college? What was the procedure?
Myself: Sir, after completing my secondary education, i.e. my 12th class, I gave an entrance exam, i.e. AIEEE exam n I was ranked 50,000 all over India.
Infosys Interviewer immediately looked at me and said which very low rank is.
I smiled and in no time I replied “Which is very low rank to opt for very high/good colleges”
Infosys Interviewer smiled with a blush on his face and said “nice answer”.

Infosys Interviewer:  Where did you have your training from? What did you do there?
Myself: Sir, I had my six weeks training from an Alpha-IT institute, Chandigarh which is a company cum an institute. I had my training in java core and have worked on a project, i.e. Pro-Recruiter.

Infosys Interviewer:  How did you like that institute?
Myself: Sir, all institutes are good and so was this one. Faculty was great here. I had got Mr. Venugopal sir as my mentor. He is a good teacher, guide and a very nice person. He made me understand each and every thing with ease and without too much fuss.

Infosys Interviewer:  What would you prefer your juniors to do—go with the same institute for their training or go for any other better institute?
Myself: Sir, so far I have known this is the best institute for core java. Here, the faculty is very cooperative and the infrastructure of this institute is also good. So, I would suggest my juniors to go for this institute only for core java training.

Infosys Interviewer:  Are you a hostler or a day scholar?
Myself: Sir, as I have already told you that I am from Yamuna Nagar and which is about 45minutes from here and I come by the college bus, so I am a day scholar.

Infosys Interviewer:  Ok. Did you stay at a boy’s hostel or in a PG in Chandigarh?
Myself: Sir, I stayed in a pg in Chandigarh as boys hostel are not available for just six weeks.

Infosys Interviewer:  What would you advice your juniors—to opt for a hostel or a flat/room? And why?
Myself: Sir, I would like my juniors to go for a college hostel rather than a pg due to the following reasons:
1. In the hostel, we are under a check of a hostel warden who can report to our parents if he thinks we are going in the wrong directions.
2. We get a proper studying environment in the hostel. As, in the exam days or in the PL’s [Preparatory Leave] everybody is studying with their hearts to score well and get good passing marks. So, a spirit develops among the hostlers that they have to study n study well. And moreover, they can take help from anybody in the hostel, whether from the students of their class or from their seniors as well.

Infosys Interviewer:  What you want do in your life? What you want become?
Myself: Sir, I want become a successful computer engineer. I want to take computers to a new height. I am very much interested in the computer technology.
Sir, I have given seminars on Microsoft surface and surface computing. I want to do something with these computers so that they just don’t look amazing and exciting but feel also the same.

Infosys Interviewer:  Don’t you think you are saying something big? I mean, are you not being overambitious? Or thinking too much?
Myself: Absolutely not Sir. I am just telling you what I think and feel. Moreover, every real thing was once a thinking of one man or the other. If Sir Newton wouldn’t have thought how the apple fell from the tree, he wouldn’t have found the concept of gravity!! 
Thinking knows no limits, no boundaries, no money, nothing. It’s all up to us as to which level and in which way we think and then respond.

Career Infoline Word of Advice: The interviewer sees that you may become dissatisfied and may leave the job after some time. Be careful. Don’t treat this as a negative thing. Instead treat this as an opportunity to show interviewer a brighter side to this.

Infosys Interviewer:  You have mentioned in your CV in your hobbies that you love to play cricket, whereas you have got a volleyball certificate and that 2 at the state level?? How is it so??
Myself: Sir, basically, I am a sportsperson. I love to play cricket, football, volleyball and badminton.
Sir, in our school cricket was not given much importance as we had volleyball in our syllabus and a well maintained volleyball court in our school. My physical education sir, Mr. Bharat Chopra insisted me to start playing volleyball as he was impressed by my physique and height and asked me to become a blocker in the game of volleyball.
I appreciated him and started playing volleyball in our sports period and kept on improving my game. When I was in 12th standard, a volleyball tournament was held and my teacher asked me that would I like to participate in that tournament? And well sir, who would like to miss these types of opportunities? I immediately said yes and he put my name in the playing six members of our team. This is how I got in to the game of volleyball and hence became a good volleyball player, too.

Infosys Interviewer:  So, basically you are an outdoor person, right? Then how would you be able to cop up with us? You would have to stay inside most of your time on your pc with your project?
Myself: Sir, I like to play games, but I love my work even more. I have passion for computers so how can I get bored with it!! I would definitely enjoy my work.

Career Infoline Word of Advice: This is a very tricky question. Basically the question is intended to ask you, why should the interviewer hire you. The best answer would be to frame the answer that captures all the needs of the employer. This is important because the interviewer has to answer this question in his mind before he hires you.

Infosys Interviewer:  Keshav, tell me one thing, you said that in Yamuna Nagar you have a sugar mill. Right? So, there also must be a job for a computer engineer, why you not going over there?
Myself: Sir, as I have already told you that I would love to do very much with these computers and their technologies. And moreover, in sugar mill, my work will be to maintain the database of the employees and executives. I won’t be able to work on the computers. I won’t be able to go in the technicality of my trade. So, I need to work in a company where I would be able to enhance my skills and be more innovative.

Infosys Interviewer:  Thank you Keshav. Would you like to ask anything from me?
Myself: Though I wanted to ask a question, but I didn’t. [I wanted to ask that on what live projects would I be working on...]. I said “No Sir”.

Infosys Interviewer: It was very nice talking to you master Keshav... Have a nice day.
Myself: Thank you sir, it was a pleasure talking to you too.


I stood up straight, said thank you sir [again] and was about to leave, but he called me by my name and said “Keshav,[I turned towards him] ALL THE BEST” and he smiled.
I said “thank you sir” and then came out of that room.

TechBlitz (Aug-Oct, 2010)

“You bring out the best in me.”—Yes, that’s the line I was looking for. Just to clarify, this is not for my girl. But for TECHNOBRATS who are always waiting for competitions to showcase their Innovations and Talents. Students, who are always looking to compete among the best and show the world their true potential.

WWW.CAREERINFOLINE.COM has come up with TECHBLITZ a National level software project competition for technology lovers to compete, not just among their friends or college or region but among the best brains in India. 

TechBlitz is an open platform All India software project competition. Students from any stream of graduation/P.G. can submit their software projects. Technology or language used for development can be any, project can solve any problem. It is all open, thus it would be more fun and more challenging.  These projects will be judged by an industry panel. Teams winning the zonal championships will see their project abstracts being published at www.CareerInfoline.com and will be open for an All India audience. The projects will be judged based on certain industrial parameters used to develop projects in industry. This would mean the winner’s project is not just the best, but also most close to the professional development process of a project. 

TechBlitz is divided into 3 phases, go through the below links to access the detailed information of the event.

Important Dates

Phase 1 – Registration & Abstract Submission

Start of Registration: 1st August 2010

End of Registration: 15th September 2010

Last date for Project Abstract Submission: 15th September 2010

Declaration of Phase 1 Results: 25th September 2010

Phase 2 – Zonal Championship

Last date for Project presentation submission: 5th October 2010

Zonal Championship: 9-10 October 2010

Phase 3 – National Championship

Last date for Project presentation submission: 20th October 2010

National Championship: 23-24 October 2010

This will conclude TechBlitz-2010.

So apart from the cash prize for top 3 National winners, the National winner and Zonal champions take away a lot of goodies in the form of fame, accolades, medals/certificates and association with All India Technical Club of CAREERINFOLINE. This club is formed by CAREERINFOLINE across India with an objective to help students and bridge the gap between education and industry.

CareerInfoline provides a platform for students to interact with industry people, anytime through its forum, and get their assistance and guidance.

Calling all Tech brains of the country to compete for the most the biggest title

“Best Software Project in India”

To Register your team click the link below
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To set up a little credentials so that U all do read, and if read do try to think on whatever I say:
My Education details:
Schooling - Don Bosco School
Graduate - BBS from S.S College of Business Studies, Delhi University (rated No. 1 in Asia)
Post Graduation - MBA from IIM Indore (In my very first attempt)

I know, I know... U must be getting this gyan from many in the market, given the fact that they want to make the most (read: money) from the fact that u wish to make a corporate carrier.
However, I will not be earning much (may be I earn a little from the Ads -if any), and probably u can well presume that I am not here for money.


Hope that adds some credentials to whatever I say:

Firstly, guys do not make the mistake of thinking that IIM is a key to the RBI safe vault. It is sure a ladder to success but not to gold. Think of your future career in terms of your desire rather than just pay package (though I wont disagree that the major motivating factor for me was the pay package EXPECTED). Its only few (read 5% people out of all the top B school students) get a handsome salary which is hyped in such a way that it seems that this is the minimum one can expect (All thanks to our MEDIA).
If you really wish to go for an MBA, then do make sure to be true to yourself and work hard towards it. It is no ways a cake walk but not even impossible. Most of us get bogged down by the fact that there are around 2,25,000 students appearing for CAT. But, if we apply some analytical skills to this numbers we see:
Around 1,80,000 appear for the entrance
Out of this, only 30% of the people are the one who have worked hard for CAT.
That leaves to 54,000 only. Out of this 54000, its only around 50% people who have the skill set to crack CAT. That then leaves me with only 27000 aspirants.
Approx 2700 seats in IIMs for 27000 aspirants - that is whooping 10% success rate. I think that a very decent success rate in today's market.
So DON'T DON'T go just by the numbers of aspirants. Go by the actual number of competitors u have for the IIMs seat.
Once, u have that self confidence and determination, be sure 50% of the work is done.
Attribute 30% to your skill sets and 20% to luck (yes, yes, yes... LUCK plays a decent role... I feel myself, that I was indeed one of the lucky ones in the year 2006).

Will write more into it as time permits from my job.... ;)