I started using desktop Linux full-time back in 2008 and over the years I've noticed that there are just not that many Debian based distributions that base off of Debian's unstable branch at least not now. A few years back it was there were a couple of distributions that did base off of Debian SID, SID is Debian's unstable branch, there was AptoSID and there was seduction and both of those distributions just kind of died. AptoSID died many years back. I don't think they've had a release in seven or eight years or something. It's been a long time since I've seen anybody mention AptoSID. Seduction had a release right when I started my YouTube channel. My YouTube channel started about three years and three months ago something like that and seduction put out a new release shortly after I began this YouTube channel and I made a video about that release and they never had a release since. Well that was true until last week they put out a new ISO finally. I actually I was shocked because I assumed seduction was essentially a dead project. I don't think anybody thought that seduction was ever going to have another release but they put out a new ISO and because of that I'm pretty excited about this because I am a big fan of Debian and I'm a big fan of trying to make Debian work as a rolling release distribution. Although most people that use Debian use the stable branch because that's really why you use Debian is for that stability. You know I like to live a little bit on the edge so a lot of times I do point the repos to the unstable branch on Debian. And I think seduction is a great way to get into Debian unstable because it does a lot of the heavy lifting for you up front. You don't have to worry about changing apt mirrors or anything like that because it's already this way out of the box right. It's already set up to be Debian unstable. So I went and grabbed this ISO for seduction 21.1.0. I grabbed their KDE Plasma Edition. They offer a few different ISOs. They offer one for GNOME and one for LXDE which is kind of weird. LXDE is no longer under active development but they still did the old LXDE desktop environment but I always check out LXDE because I'm a big fan of OpenBox. OpenBox is the window manager for LXDE. So I wanted to do something a little different. You know something that's not so obvious for me. So I don't often check out KDE Plasma so we're gonna do seduction their Plasma Edition here inside VIRT Manager. And we have the boot menu here and I'm just gonna go ahead and get into the live environment assuming this boots up correctly. And now that we're in the live environment what I want to do before I run through the installation let me see if I can blow up the screen resolution a little bit because the screen resolution isn't taking up the full 1920 by 1080 resolution of my monitor. So I'm gonna run a X-Rander here in the terminal. I'm gonna do X-Rander space dash S for set 1920 by 1080. I'm assuming that 1920 by 1080 is available for us and it is. Now that we have a proper screen resolution I'm gonna go ahead and click install system here and it will fire up the Calamari's installer and just very quickly I'm gonna rush through this installation. The first screen asks for our language. American English is selected by default and that's fine for me. I'm gonna click next. We can read about the release notes. I'll skip that so I'm just gonna click next. Our time zone. I am in the central time zone in the US and that is what has been selected for me. It's selected Chicago in the US for me. That's fine. And then our keyboard English US has been selected. That's fine for me. And then the next thing is our partitions. We can either give seduction the entire 20 gig virtual hard disk that I created in this virtual machine or I can choose manual partitioning and partition the drives myself. I'm just gonna go ahead and do the automatic partition and let seduction have the entire 20 gig virtual hard drive. Do I want to create a swap? I don't like creating swaps in virtual machines because it's just wasted space unless they offer a swap file because I was a swap partitions are just too big again. It's wasted space but they do offer the option to create a swap file. So I will do the swap file and I'm gonna click next. We need to create our username and password. My username is gonna be DT my host name for this computer. I'll say vert DT dash vert for virtual machine or a password. Let's create a strong and complicated password for privacy reasons. So let me create a strong and complicated password and then we need to create a password for the administrator account, the sudo account or what you could do is just toggle that checkbox right there use same password for the administrator account. And that's what I would do. That way you don't have to remember two different accounts. The password for your user in my case DT is the same password for sudo. Then I'm going to click next. We get a summary. We can review our location keyboard partition scheme. Everything looks good. I'm going to click install. And it's going to warn me it's about to format the drive and right to the disk. I'm going to click install now. And away it goes this portion of the installation typically takes about five to 10 minutes on my machine. I'll be back once the installation has completed. And the installation has completed and with the Calamaris installer once the installation has completed what you need to do is make sure this checkbox is ticked that says restart now. Those of you doing this on physical hardware. This is where you unplug the USB stick upon reboot. And what I need to do is I actually needed to attach the ISO from the VM on reboot which I did not do. So it's actually going to try to run through the installation again. So in a VM what you would need to do is well first I'm going to shut down the VM. I'm just going to go ahead and force this to shut down. And here invert manager. I need to go in here and kick off the SATA CD ROM. That's it's booting off the ISO. The ISO is the CD ROM there in that case. And now I'm going to force it to boot off the hard disk. The hard disk of course is where we actually installed seduction. And now restart that get back into full screen. And this is our freshly installed seduction 21 dot one dot zero KDE plasma. And it looks like it's booting up just fine. It actually booted up very quickly. Now let me give my username and our super secure password and let's log in. And it may take a second. And once again I'll probably have to go in here and change the screen resolution. I could do that with X Render again just because I happen to know you know X Render command in the terminal it works on any desktop environment for those that want to do it through the traditional graphical application and KDE plasma. I'm not sure where it's at because I don't use plasma that much but I'll get into the menu here and I'll search for the word display if I can type quickly. So D I S P L A Y there we go. Couldn't type there display configuration sounds right. And let me go in here and change to 1920 by 1080 and hit apply. All right. And that works just as well too. All that is really is just a graphical front end to X Render. So whether you do it in the terminal or whether you get the GUI application up and changing it that way it's really the same either way. Now let me get my head out of the way here so you guys can see the wallpaper the wallpaper is quite nice. We have some branding here seduction which is the community based OS. So it is a community distribution of course. And we also have C dash blues now C blues is the code name for this release of seduction so 21.1.0 the code name C blues. Now one thing I want to do is I'm going to go ahead and fire up the terminal here. This is console with a K KDEs console. Let me zoom in here. And this was released about seven or eight days ago. Normally I wouldn't worry about doing update but because this is based on Debbie and Sid the unstable branch the rolling release branch there are probably some updates because seven or eight days is a long time on a rolling release. So I'm going to do a sudo apt if I can type update and in sudo apt upgrade. And let's give our super secure password DT is not in the sudoers file. So this is one of those distributions that instead of using sudo just switch over to SU. So let's switch over to SU give the root password and now we just need to do a apt update and and apt upgrade. And it's going to go ahead and sync the repositories and then give us a very long list of applications that have an upgrade 183 applications need an upgrade. I'm going to go ahead and take the upgrade before continuing with the video just in case there were any bugs upon release you know this hopefully will fix that problem. And at the end of that upgrade I get this screen here saying that there was a new kernel involved with that update and the new kernel will not be loaded automatically you need to reboot the machine of course to load a new kernel that that should be common sense to most people. I'm not sure why it's asking me about restarting daemons. I'm probably going to restart every daemon though because I'm going to do the suggested sudo reboot. So let me go ahead and I don't need to do sudo because I'm already logged in as SU so I just need to type reboot here and I've rebooted the machine after the update and let's go ahead and take a look at what is pre installed in seductions plasma addition. So if I get into the menu system here we have various subcategories here there's a development category really not much here under the graphics category we have quite a bit installed we have conversing I've not sure what program that is I've not one I've ever come across I don't think let me do the about this is the batch image converter and resizer. OK well that's a nice little image tool you also have Digi cam you have flame shot flame shot is going to be your screenshot utility Digi cam of course is the webcam utility the new image manipulation program gimp of course is our free and open source alternative to proprietary solutions like Adobe Photoshop and it's taking a minute here to launch gimp here in seduction and it's actually taking quite a long time to load up gimp here now this is a VM so that could be the issue but usually gimp starts pretty fast even in these VMs this is gimp 2.10.22 I love gimp I use gimp actually to create all the artwork for the channel the channel header and all my thumbnails on YouTube and library under the graphics category we have Gwynvue I believe Gwynvue is KDE's image viewer let's go to about Gwynvue Gwynvue 20.12.1 and back to the menu system here under graphics a lot of graphics programs image magic which is a command line utility that is used in the back end of most of these programs here inkscape is a another image program kind of like gimp at subgimp issues for raster based graphics and inkscape is used for scalable vector graphics so if I go to about inkscape here this is inkscape 1.0.2 inkscape widely considered one of the best free and open source programs on the planet it's really fantastic also under the graphics category we have color paint library office draw ocular I believe ocular is KDE's PDF viewer go to the about version 20.12.2 here let me close that out and go back into the graphics category and xsane is also here xsane I believe is a scanning utility I don't have a scanner though hooked up to my computer so it's not going to find anything here see if I can close that out okay let's get back into the menu system under internet man what they have a ton of stuff installed by default on seduction I really wasn't expecting to have so many programs installed out of the box under internet we have aggregator aggregator with a K that's one of the KDE programs this is a rss feed reader a really nice rss feed reader because it's already installed I wouldn't swap it out for something else aggregators perfectly fine for a web browser firefox is here and let's see what version of firefox we're on being a rolling release distribution you would expect this to be the absolute latest firefox this is firefox 85.0.1 so yeah the absolute latest firefox also under the internet category we have IRC and that's all it says as IRC it doesn't say anything else I'm not sure what program is going to open it opens conversation with a K that's KDE's IRC client and does it automatically connect us to like the seduction IRC channel I'm just going to wait and see yeah it does it automatically logs you in to hashtag seduction over at IRC dot OFTC net so I guess that's the official seduction support channel there so I love it when distributions do that it just makes getting quick support just very easy especially for new users that maybe don't know how to use IRC also under internet just very quickly KDE connect is here that's to sync mobile devices to your computer KGIT is here that's a download manager K-mail is the email client it's an okay email client I guess but most people if you're already installing firefox and using firefox as your browser you're probably just going to go ahead and use mozilla thunderbird as well this is K-mail 5.15.3 another great free and open source browser it just became fully free and open source is mail spring I talked about mail spring on a video about a week ago and uh that's probably the one I would recommend these days if you're looking for a really great slick modern email client also under the internet category we have ktorrent which is KDE's torrent client they have the sieve editor and some SSH stuff under multimedia we have the dragon player let's open the dragon player and about dragon player dragon player version 20.12.0 and this of course is going to be your video player your multimedia player you can see you have play file play disk play stream or so I don't have any video in this VM to play but if you've seen one video player you've seen them all also under multimedia we have alisa which I believe is a plasma music player never actually used alisa myself it's a kind of a new program I first saw it pop up on the screen like on my radar about a year ago I was starting to see distribution ship with the alisa music player I don't know much about it I've never personally used it also under multimedia we have juke I don't know what juke is this is juk let's see about juke version 20.12 this is a jukebox and music manager by the kde community so I guess this is where you could edit like your audio files as far as the metadata you know track name artist genre things like that that would be a useful program for people that are serious audio files and you have a very large music collection I have a ton of music on my machine I have like 130 gigabytes of music actually stored on my main production machine here I might play around with juke and see what that's about k3b is a fantastic disc burning utility I know most people don't burn cds and dvds anymore but if you do k3b is probably the best one available on linux also under multi media we had caffeine mpv media player which mpv I'm sure it's the back end to dragon players probably also the back end to sm player so three different movie players if you will uh I don't know why they ship so many but you got three of them to choose from voco screen I believe is your webcam program here and I don't have a camera that's going to work inside the VM so nothing to see there we do have an office category under the office category looks like we have the entire LibreOffice suite as well as contact with a k k organizer k mail you know everything you expect to be in an office category just very quickly there's a science and math category there's nothing in it LibreOffice math there's a settings category there's really nothing here other than the system settings which is your control panel basically this is where you get all the kde control settings everything in one screen I'll leave that up because we'll come back to it in a second also under settings we had the synaptic package manager so you have to give your root password this is your graphical way of installing and removing software in debian and most debian based systems the synaptic package manager it's a fantastic little tool me personally I just do everything at the command line and the terminal because it's very easy to apt update apt upgrade apt install name a program apt remove name a program but if you are not sure what you're looking for maybe you want to search for something sometimes it's easier to do that kind of thing in a graphical program like synaptic for example I wanted to search for a new email clients an alternative to kmail but I don't know what's available as far as what the program names are well I'll just do a search for email and it's going to search the names and the descriptions of every program in the debian repository and return them here and I could go here and I could search for an email client you know I could just read the descriptions here and find something that sounds like it it would work for me for example giri and giri is a fantastic little email client I could tick that box right next to it and it's going to ask me to mark for installation I'm going to click mark for installation it's going to show me all the packages it's going to install because giri has some dependencies and then I click mark one more time and then it's ready to install all I got to do is click apply once I click apply and apply there you go and it's installing giri and all its dependencies and it will appear in the menu system once this installation has completed all right let me close that so that's the synaptic package manager it's very easy every debian based distribution should ship it by default some don't but really it should be there if I go back to the internet category now I will find the giri email client here and just let me go ahead and open it so I can show you guys that it actually did install it under the system settings here in kde this is where you could change your theme it looks like by default our theme is called sea blues you have of course your standard breeze and breeze dark which are the standard kde plasma themes I like breeze dark actually so I'm going to apply that of course if I do a dark theme we need to change the wallpaper so I'm going to minimize that I'm going to right click on the desktop and configure desktop and wallpaper let's find a light colored wallpaper let's see what we want when there's some nice little debian artwork here that's a nice wallpaper but still not light enough we really want something really light to contrast against our black theme now that would work there yeah that that works just fine let me open up dolphin which is kde's file manager so you can see the plasma theme the really black plasma theme I like the blue icon set as well against that really nice abstract art wallpaper that's one of the default plasma wallpapers there one thing I do want to do is let's open up a terminal one more time and let me zoom in because I do want to check our kernel version now I just did that fresh update as soon as I install this is about eight days after release and we're currently on kernel 5.10.17 which is the absolute latest kernel but again being a rolling release distribution depending on when you guys install it you're gonna be on even newer kernels the other thing I wanted to do was let's run htop and right now we are using almost no cpu not surprising we're not doing anything but we're using 1.2 gigs of the four gigs I've gave this vm that's very very high that's extremely high for kde plasma so something's going on here and what's going on well just looking at the sys tray down here I've got some things going on aggregator is still running let's kill it we also have is that juke or it's one of the media players and no that was juke let's get rid of that and already we went from 1.25 gigs down to 1.05 gigs so we've got some stuff in the background running this kind of spiking that ram usage a little bit that's a little high I should have checked that on a fresh reboot plasma though typically uses about 400 megs of ram the other thing I want to do is I want to do a apt list to get all the packages that are in the repositories installed I want to see all the packages that are installed on the system so of course that just spits it out in a gigantic list what we want to do is take that apt list dash dash installed and then do the pipe symbol pipe that into this command line program wc for a word count and I want a word count space dash l for a line I really want a line count how many lines is this list that will tell me how many packages are in that list 2,623 so not an an unbloated system right there's a million programs installed on this system 2,623 and that's not shocking because just looking at the menu system I was very surprised I mean that's a ton of graphics programs that's a ton of internet programs some multimedia programs and everything so they definitely installed a very large suite of software on seduction and that's okay I don't mind distributions that do that because there's plenty of minimal distribution so it's good to have some distributions out there that ship everything in the kitchen sink you know already installed especially if you're going to put this on a machine maybe that's not going to be connected to the internet so you're not going to have the ability to install software yourself it's nice that some of these distributions just have everything already on it all in all you know it's just a very nice desktop but KDE Plasma is always attractive and essentially under the hood it's Debian it's Debian's unstable branch Debian sed and it's an easy way to install Debian sed because if you want to do Debian like real Debian and then switch over to the sed branch what you need to do is install Debian stable and then change out all the apt mirrors you know to point to the sed repositories and that's not hard or anything but seduction makes this very easy because you have this nice graphical installer using the Calamari's installer it installed in like five minutes right I didn't have to change any mirrors or anything it already came with the desktop environment I wanted because they offer ISOs let me check this they offer ISOs for Cinnamon Ganon Plasma LXDE LXQT Monte and XFCE so you know like eight different ISOs with your desktop environment of choice I'm really happy that seduction finally had a new release after three years I was really concerned that the project was dead I'm still concerned that the project may be dead the fact that it took three years for this release I mean are the people that worked hard on this release going to continue working on the project there's of course no guarantees but it's one of those things that with Linux distributions there's a million of them out there you know it's like I tell people all the time I'm not married to any of them right I love Arch I love Arco I love Manjaro you know all the arch based distributions but let's say Arch and every arch based distribution on the planet disappeared tomorrow could I run seduction or Debian or Ubuntu or Mint or Fedora or Jintu yes I could right because I'm not married to any of them because at the end of the day under the hood they're all Linux now before I go I need to thank a few special people I need to thank the producers of this episode Absi Dallas Devonfrangabe Lou Corbenian Mitchell Alan Akami Arch 55 30 Chris Chuck David the other David Donnie Dylan Gregory Lewis Paul Pick Vm Scott Wesson Willey they are my high-steered patrons over on Patreon and they are the producers of this quick first look at the recently released seduction 21.1.0 this episode is also brought to you by each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen as well all these names you're seeing on the screen these are all my supporters over on Patreon because the DistroTube channel is sponsored by the community I don't have any corporate sponsors if you'd like to help me out look for DistroTube over on Patreon all right guys peace now we just need a new release from CrutchBang


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Hi everyone, it's day 59 of my 100 Days of Art Challenge. Again, thank you for all the thoughtful, nice comments. It's really cool to see. So I'm going to give a quick update on what's going on. So I'm still working through this book called Healing with the Arts. And I'm testing the question of, what's the question? Paint Every Day for 100 Days is a test to see if there is a mental health healing component or a regular tactile creative art, daily 15 minute maximum. Okay? And this book makes some big claims. For example, it says you can invite a visionary experience to come to you. So I'm making art every day. I'll show you what I'm doing right now. So I had so many pieces on the go. I was doing all this anatomy, you know, and like focused and thinking. And then I just got tired of it. I got so tired of it. So I just, I just said, I put them all away and I took out a bunch of empty canvases in the past, I guess three days have just been like manically putting color on canvas. So I'm not even trying to paint anything. I'm just putting color on canvas. And then just for the experience of painting, right? Just to paint every single day. Some days you feel like painting. Some days you don't. Some days you have an idea. Some days you don't. And so when you don't have an idea, you just paint for the sake of painting. So anyways, I hope that's encouraging to anyone. If you don't feel like painting, just take it out and just paint. It doesn't even have to be anything. And it does help you feel. It does help you feel good when you paint. I hope you guys are making something. This one's coming. So this is one I was just painting and now it's going to turn into, I want this to feel like sunset at a beach. So I'm going to push it in that direction. Okay. Oh, and this one too. So I've just been putting colors on it. This one's turning into something. Just painting the edges gold with this gold enamel I found. But yeah, it's going to be a great backdrop for something. Okay. Thanks for watching. Bye.


Welcome back students. I hope you are now geared for the second round which would be the interview skills but before we really move on to the interview skills there were certain things which I wanted to talk about or rather continue in the group discussion. So we would talk about we would just summarize things out there because post the group discussion comes the interview skills in a selection process. Normally you have a group discussion and then you have a selection interview for the selection process. So what one of the centers had raised the issue? How should we bring the participants who do not talk into the group discussion? And Professor Fatuk had given us a wonderful solution for it that you need to prepare beforehand for that particular situation. However if it is a group which is not known wherein you need to bring others. Now what happens? If there aren't very many participants your point get exhausted. That is why also it is important to bring other participants into the discussion. Over there what you could do is you could maybe they are very timid but you cannot take their names because they may not be well prepared for it. I have mentioned these in my videos and if you have gone through the videos you would know how to bring students who are reticent or shy back into the group discussion. You could raise a question when you're finishing your point you could look into their eye rest your gaze upon them so that they know that this is their chance to talk. So this is something which you can do otherwise it has to be an internal decision whether you wish to talk or you don't wish to talk. However the preparation for group discussion and interview skills begins much earlier. Students the soft skills course has been initiated in order to set in a practice. We want you to perform well in your GDs. We want you to do well in your interviews but for that you need to work on your communication skills. I did say that when it is the content you think that you are in the know of the topic but it is the language which is inhibiting you. You must still go ahead requesting the permission but honestly speaking most of the corporate most of the organizations have English as their medium of work and that is why it becomes very important for you all to improve upon that language and it is not just that it is the need of the day. Think it as you are gaining knowledge of another language it is always good to know several languages. So it should not start talking chit chatting in the language in which you would be giving your group discussion or your interview. When we talk of group discussions there was one point raised how does a leader emerge in a group anywhere. You know there is another concept which is known as the apple concept A P P L E. So in a group discussion the leader would perhaps perform the role of asking then he would participate he would probe choose the participant then he would listen to the participant another participant and then he would explore the idea. So what he is doing is he is exploring it from all sides he is tying things up and the person who ties things up is actually or rather emerges as the leader. Group discussion is not a debate you are generally marked on your knowledge content on your communication skills your leadership skills. So please go back to the videos that have been recorded just for you all and try to assimilate as much knowledge as you can from there we are there for you. So if there is any query we would definitely handle them. Now we move on to the interview skills and when we talk about the interview skills what comes to your mind. Let's go to some center. Hi Bansal Institute of Lucknow. How was the tea? Good morning ma'am. My name is Akansha. Ma'am actually I am the director of this course and firstly I would like to thank you for conducting such course which is going to be beneficial for the students and help them to build confidence in them and now I would like to hand over the mic to my students. They have certain points to say on this topic. Thank you very much. Pleasure it's an honor. Good morning ma'am. Good morning. My question is that if we are in a stress interview and we don't know how to keep our mind calm. Okay thank you I got it. So the question raised by one of our centers in Lucknow is in a stress interview how should we keep our calm. First and foremost congratulations if you are in a stress interview. They normally give you a stress interview when they see the potential in you. So if you handle it properly and if you have maintained your calm and answered the questions right you are definitely selected. Now coming back to your question how to be calm. Now there could be that the questions are being fired one after the another. This is one chance. There could be that they deliberately raise their tone in such a way, modulate their tone in such a way that you feel offended, that you feel whether you should be answering. You feel that they are making a mock career out of you. It is not that they have not seen you before they have not met you before. So why would they make a mockery of you? Why would they want to see put you under stress? They want to put you under stress simply to know how you would act. So let us suppose after answering one question after another your patience level or maybe your all kids. So even the maturity level you feel that it is failing you. You would have gone through my slides and I have mentioned very clearly out there. It is not whether you know the answer or not always. It is how you approach a particular question which matters over there. Many a times you know what happens they would be asking questions and they would be going a notch higher. Okay so if you do not know if you have answered three questions in the same segment pretty well or if they have seen you approaching that problem in the right direction they would perhaps move on to some other question because they have assessed that you are going in the right direction. So it is how you approach a problem there could be that you are going in a diametrically opposite way but over there there would be questions that they are not expected you to answer but the way you logically progress beat on a notepad or beat through your answers they would assess that you have a logical bent of mind. So that is more important in that interview. We are not supposed to know everything Abhi but yes of course on the content side the causes that you have done if it is mentioned you ought to know what you have done. Any other question? Yes ma'am I have a question. Good morning ma'am. Good morning. My name is Pratheer Misra. Yes suppose that a question has been asked with the interviewer and I am not compatible with that answer so what I should do? Well a question has been raised by the remote center that the interviewer has asked a question and the interviewee is not comfortable with the answer. I am going to ask the interviewee what he means by not comfortable. Is it that you do not know the answer or is it that you have forgotten the answer it's not coming to you then it is different the two things are different. Let us suppose that I didn't know the answer exactly the question has been asked by the interviewer. Now what that condition what I said. Now what happens in this condition when you do not know the question exactly in that condition you could just tell him that you have done that it's not coming to you in the mind. So what the examiner will do then is they normally try to give you a clue. They help you out with the answer if you do not know it at all and yet just to show you say that well it's not coming to my mind right now and even after the examiner is prodding you do not show any logical progression on the question then there is a problem. If you do not know the answer completely you have not heard about it let the examiner know that you have no clue it is wasting time because the next question which comes to you might give you a chance to explain things better. So that is why I say do not beat around the bush but if you know something you have forgotten you may have done it in the first semester this is a fourth semester and you have not you don't remember it perhaps at the prodding you would remember something. So don't fake it okay. Thank you very much Lucknow let's move on to some different center. Hi Colom how are you? Good afternoon ma'am. Good afternoon. Yeah I will give the mic to the students. Students before you really raise a question tell me the three most dreaded questions from your side. The group discussion I didn't have enough time to prepare a question for interviews but for group discussion I had a question it was when we're in a group discussion should we be selfish and just think about ourselves first and take a much time as we need or should we also think about the rest and think about rationalize and give time to everyone to speak. You know when we talk about well we have already handled that question previously because group discussion means the idea must be explored by the entire group okay. So we should not be doing the talking all the time right. So we should see that we get the fair share of talking and at the same time the rest of the group also comes up with points and based on it. Fine dear. So now tell me now tell me since you do not have any question or interview skills tell me two questions that the students dread in an interview. Okay you may take the help of your friends. Good afternoon ma'am I would assume the questions that you're expecting one of them would be what are your faults or demerits in your life or in your character. Okay probably the other one would be to describe yourself in ascendance or in two words. Not in two words. I would say tell me something about yourself which happens to be the very first question. Thank you so much for reading my mind. Are you a mind reader? Not currently. Not what you used to be. Oh well I should meet you sometime face to face. Okay think you have given a direction to the interview skills. So the very first question most of the students dread is tell me something about yourself. So what happens is when you are asked despite the fact that you know that this will be the first question when you are there you tend to rattle. You tend to forget what you wish to say. You do not know whether you should be talking about your background. How much you should be talking about your background. Do not give more than two minutes to that particular question because students remember acing an interview is an art. When you go for that interview whatever you have put on your resume might frame a question. Whatever you say as an answer whichever word you use in an answer might frame a question. So just be very careful how you introduce yourself. If in your introduction you happen to say that you have been, you loved lawn tennis or you loved swimming. So the question would be who was the national champion. Not that you should not be saying but you should be saying it in such a way that even if a question is raised and you do not know the answer who the national champion is or who the international Olympic champion is it wouldn't have much impact on the interview. If it is tell me something about yourself at your level I was just wondering how to make it easy for you. So what came to my mind is and my experience with the students have yielded the result as no matter what we say you would go back to the background you would say where you were born where you were brought up. So it is and most of you have this understanding that if you have nailed the first question you are confident enough. So you feel that if you are bailed out of that first question you are confident enough to tackle other questions. So remember students for the question tell me something about yourself go by this module it is just BALE it could be BAIL it should be. So you could find an acronym for these things. Now what you could do is you could begin with where you were born and brought up and then move on to your academics. I was born and brought up here I did my engineering from here these are the things I love this is my inspiration and these are the things I love. So this would suffice for the introduction. So now if you ask me tell me something about yourself suddenly and if I'm unprepared I would say well I'm Dr. Leena Jha I did my undergrads from here and I did my post grad from here and I did my PhD from here and well I love teaching I love to swim I love interacting with people and my passion is to write poetry. So I could just talk about this way. Now if I have come prepared perhaps I would come I would talk about my introduction in this manner students I want your focus now I have given you one pitch of introduction I'm going to give you another pitch of introduction see how concisely by preparing it we can really ace the first question tell me something about yourself a master's in English from JNU and a PhD from Bihar University introduced me to the polarities in the academic environment and sensitized me to the discrepancies in the social form I meant my interaction with corporate houses and technical institutes has sensitized me and helped me analyze the areas of prime concern since I know the areas of prime concern I work around those areas and these provide a healthy dimension to my sessions my career is devoted to encouraging enthusiastic learning and I stay in Mumbai so this would be a more concise form of introduction what I did was I talked about my academic qualification and how it has helped me in my field so prepare your answer do not mug it up but rehearse when you prepare you draft you redraft you recast and then comes a solid introduction so do that another question that was mentioned here was what are your strength and weaknesses when we talk about our strength and weaknesses there has been a trend that you present one of your strengths as a weakness and then come back saying that well this is what I am doing normally you know this question is going to come so do a SWOT analysis of yourself what is SWOT analysis normally the term used in corporate houses and industries in order to find out what is the strength the weakness the opportunities and the threats so you could actually before getting into an interview you should start the preparation with a SWOT analysis of yourself what are your strengths what are your weaknesses what are the opportunities you are looking for and what acts as a threat and acing the branch you are targeting so when you will work around that okay you would know what your weaknesses what is threatening you so you can come up with your weakness and then you could talk about how you are trying to combat it how successful you have been has there been any result what you could also do is you could just present a past experience wherein you suddenly learned that your patient's level is very low so that thing did not work out well for you because it was a patient's level that impacted it so now you are working on that patient's level so now when you come up with this particular story this particular experience you share this experience the panel feel takes you as a person who is honest has integrity so this is how you should answer tell us something about yourself and your strength and weaknesses and now let me go to some center and let's take that question now or we are JC College Andhra Pradesh welcome back may I have your question please my name is Ravi Teja ma'am okay Ravi Teja coming to my question how to create the positive psychological impact on the members of the panel how to become a leader in the discussion my very dear friend Ravi Teja we've just answered the second part of your question we said the Apple technique wherein you ask you probe you choose a participant participant then you listen and then you explore makes you helps you emerge as a leader okay but now we are talking about interview skills and I really loved the question you raise which is how to utilize pause to make an impact on the interview panelists okay so we are moving into the realm of vocalics as well as kindness it's which is body language so now what happens let us suppose why do I say that voice modulation is a very important aspect of any communication now let us suppose the moderator you know he's asked you enough questions on content on what you have studied and he feels that he should ask you more about your hobbies and somewhere in your hobby you have written that you love football so he asked you which club do you follow and you say Manchester United so now when you say Manchester United he would definitely ask questions about Manchester United it could be that he himself is a follower of Manchester United and that is why he asked you this question or he could be in opposition he could be Arsenal fans so now what happens when you ask our questions over here right they are not looking for the right answer they definitely are you cannot you know play with facts and figures but they want to gauge your passion level so perhaps when you are answering the questions you would raise your voice a little bit which shows your engagement and once you have done it and once you have made a fantastic point about the topics you are saying you need to pause when you pause you need to look in the eye into the eye of your panelists maybe you could look into the into the eye of the panelists to address the question and then step back so this is how you would utilize pause to create an impact does that suffice does that satisfy your answer what's the answer yes ma'am what is the difference between co-curricular activities and curricular activities curricular activities curricular comes from the word curriculum so whatever you are doing studying out there whatever is in the course would be the course and extra curricular activities would be whatever extra things that you are doing out there so spots maybe if it is not a part of your regular regime the drama we have drama clubs we are sports club we have quiz clubs we have event management clubs we have so many clubs in the colleges so those would be the extracurricular activities now what happens is normally students put that in the resume now when you put that in the resume you should know that you shouldn't be a passive member of that group if you have put it on your resume that you were the leader or the head of this particular club you need to tell exactly you need to have the facts and figures ready as to what events did you conduct and if you can give them a financial implication this was the money which we handled and this is how we handled so many things these are the personalities we had called for this particular function this would make a better impact rather than saying that I was the head of this particular thing I was a member of this particular group what exactly you did out there is what will make the difference so since we are already at it students let me again get a question for you which is or rather I would wait we'll go to some other institute now we have flurry of questions coming up it's all red I just hope I'm able to answer your queries techno India West Bengal ma'am I just have a question in the interview if someone asks why should I hire you hire you so what would be our answer you know what students you need to be interview is not something where in you get in and you give an interview you need to prepare for an interview so if somebody asks you why should I hire you you should be prepared with that answer what is the difference that you would make you bring to the table for them now here what happens you might just keep on saying I am a very good orator I am very hard-working I'm energetic I'm enthusiastic I love to learn you might just say all these things but there would be other students from your own college who would be saying the same thing so then again they would come back okay the rest of them would say the same thing again tell me why should we hire you so in this question for this question what you could do is you could always tell them about one experience that you may have had something which you may have done that shows that you are a strong personality and you would bring a novelty some creativity to the team so what you could do is you know we call it star technique so this would also this star technique would also work if they ask you what was your job out there what did you do before joining this company right it would hold water for both so in this star technique what you really do is you put the situation out there you develop a situation or you bring a situation from the past and then you tell them what exactly you did out there what action what action was required what task was required to be done what action you took and what were the results so now what you have done you have given them a practical demonstration of your personality there's no hiding behind adjectives so once you have given them a practical side of your action through the star technique I'm going to revisit it star is situation task action result frame your answer for the question why should we hire you or what did you do previously in your previous job frame your question around this module does that suffice best thing all thanks ma'am and one more question hello good afternoon ma'am ma'am like I'm a pressure I have no work experience and if the interviewer asked me that what salary do you expect so what is the best answer that I should give as a pressure you would definitely have tried to find out what the salary is right but as a fresher there is absolutely no need to negotiate or talk about it so what your answer should be your answer should go around the learning process so I'm still a fresher and I'm exploring the avenue I have gone through the vision and the mission of this company and I appreciate what is being done there to be a part of this company in itself it would be a very big thing for me and of course we have everybody loves money and we would have a salary structure in your company also so I'm sure you would give me the best if you want to hire me if you wish to if you think that I'm suitable for this job you would definitely give me the best thank you very much ma'am ma'am but so if you were asked me for a figure then should I directly tell him the actual figure that I'm expecting or should I just cover up the question of what should I do means if he still asks for the figure the amount there is a risk involved okay it could be that your expectation is maybe at 3 lakhs or maybe at 6 lakhs maybe at 10 lakhs once you join the company you realize that somebody is there at a 15 lakh in your position so there are two things if you're anticipating that there would be a question on money matters in that case explore try finding out from the seniors out there what is the salary structure out there you know we have to prepare for certain questions not certain in fact we have to prepare for most of the questions that are being asked in an interview that is one thing and second thing what you could say is so it should be like if you do not wish to name a figure as in your language covering up you could say so it should be such that I stick around for a longer period of time and I don't feel frustrated as it is time of fresh air and you would know best okay yes ma'am can I ask one more question okay please go ahead this would be the last from your center okay if the interviewer asks why have you applied in this particular company why not in some other company or why are you interested in this company only so what should I answer or maybe if the interviewer asked that do you find any negative points in the company so what should be the answer okay lovely so the question which has been raised by one of the sweetest state West Bengal is why you want to join this company so for this particular question you know I'm going to give you again another acronym which I just thought of last night work around it so it would be G O A L so for the question why should you why would you like to work for this company you could just come up and say that because it has a great brand image first and foremost you're trying to pump the company or perhaps your company comes across as a gold-driven company which is what I look forward to G offers opportunity O G O offers opportunity your company offers us immense opportunity A it values the three A it appreciates the three A the aptitude the attitude and it helps us achieve the altitude and L would be it is a logical culmination of my vision it's a logical culmination of what I wish to do in life now if you go and do it in this order if you do it in this you know rote manner it would look as though I have tutored all of you all nineteen thousand twenty thousand who have registered for the cost it should not be it should be your personality reflecting it but then this could be around these lines so derive an acronym for yourself and how you are going to talk about this so if they ask you why this company you could say all of these points there could be several other points as well is that okay thank you so much ma'am very are well or come back any question here good afternoon ma'am good afternoon and got again I'm the force coordinator we are from well over Tamil Nadu one of my students has a doubt to get clarified from you ma'am please go ahead thank you that's right ma'am I attend the one one interview the interviewer asked the question for me the properly interviews properly going on but the interviewer suddenly asked me you are useless below you are not good you're not perfect but at that time how do I react and what happened later why you selected what was the feedback that you received this was a kind of stress interview how did you handle it I would like to know how did you handle it I immediately cried you cried over there okay I'm really sorry and I do apologize you that person may have been because it should not have come it should not have come at all normally when this was a kind of stress interview dear this was a kind of stress interview so normally when people come across there are two things again when I talk about stress interview there are two things rather than crying you should have walked out if it felt so bad okay but at the same time you should have said if if somebody comes like that and talks directly and you feel that it is kind of an abuse there are two alternatives that you could take you could always say sir being useless so ugly and useless they have used in you and ugly must be a definitely it must have some use and that is why it is in the English dictionary or it would have been kicked out you know something to that effect but students I love you all dearly and there is one thing which I would want to point out never cry in an interview they will bring you to the level some of them could bring you to that level they could bring tears to your eyes but it is a kind of stress interview okay and the moment they would say that you are the bring they would again come up with something comfortable it is just that they are trying you may have come across as a very confident person and they are now testing your limits it should not be done in the manner it has been done but however even during adversity even during such things maintain a poker face just smile perhaps you could also say sir it would be much appreciated if we could keep the discussion if you could keep the interview at the professional level so when you say something I am trying to give you words because you know in stress interviews these words come handy so when you talk about this the interviewers know that well he will only take up to this limit post that he's going to react he doesn't care for the job he's not desperate okay so may I know your name please the person who had asked the question you know what you should feel empowered that you were able to sit for that stress interview okay and I don't want to see you crying ever again never again promise me you'll never cry again for an interview and if it hurts if in any interview it hurts so much you should just pick up your folder and walk out with a thank you okay but otherwise my suggestion would be do not get stressed if there is water drink it and then tell them sir I would appreciate if he can stay at professional level okay does that satisfy you does that make you happy that's not my IP I'm satisfied lovely lovely dear we'll move to some other side oh we have a question okay this is Ignesh I have a doubt and a panel interview session okay there are five members asking for hints for a person so whom should I answer first that is again another kind of answer so you know what you could do you should just smile at the panel okay and let us suppose there's one familiar face there is one face whose passion whose whose you know kind of firm you feel you can gel with so perhaps you could look at that face and then say may I take your answer first may I take your question first or this is one method the second could be you could just ask the panelist would you allow me to answer this question first and then we could move in a logical progression third would be so how do I go about answering these questions which one should I take first so they would obviously say oh well anybody so choose a face who you think is relatively calm and supportive answer from there is that okay okay yeah question ma'am tell me go about it is more important than other skills ma'am with my personality you mean the communication skills yes ma'am okay dear so normally in the selection process what I'm the question right now raised towards two personality matter in interviews what happens is when a company walks in they would have taken an assessment test they would have filtered students on the basis of their aptitude a written test on an aptitude then they have a round of group discussion post that when they come for the interview most of the students who have made to the interviews would be at the same level so knowledge wise most of you could be at the same level the way you would answer a question the way you would approach a question logically all these things perhaps may be more or less the same so it is then when communication starts to play a major role I wouldn't say that communication skills is the most important thing in an interview but communication having a good communication still certainly helps in an interview you need to have a good knowledge base your content should be great post that if I'm getting a wonderful personality who can who is able to translate his part into words effectively will definitely be my candidate and therefore polish on your personality set is not a very difficult thing to do and that is why it is a skill it is a life skill it is a communication still we develop personalities another question ma okay this will be the last from the center right now please go ahead during group discussion we don't have a idea about the topic how to manage it we had talked about this why are you there for the first session tell me I need to pull you all up now why are you there for the first session we talked about the special concept and there is enough material on my slide so if there is a question and you do not know much about it try to think about it politically socially economically technically environmentally and legally so from somewhere you would definitely get points I'm not going to dwell upon this particular question right now we are handling interview skills okay thank you ma'am hello good afternoon dear our student has some questions oh yeah sure we'll tackle it happy noon ma'am Gajalakshmi from Akshwashalinga Engineering College yes Rajalakshmi go ahead I have a doubt on GD so if I have more than one point to talk and should I have to once I raise up should I have to talk all the points whatever I know well again we have a question from GD and she wants to know whether we should talk about all the points that we have in one go well if you talk about all the points that you have in one go what would you do for the next of the GD so your most important points maybe if you have eight points make two points three points at the maths if you are a group of eight people and you feel that you cannot you will not get a chance so not more than two to three points in one entry you could come back again and make points as well as built on other person's point okay I'm not going to dwell on this for longer because we have to tackle so many questions on interview skills as well I hope it has been satisfactory the answer to your question Rajalakshmi I have another one question regarding the interview okay what kind of homework should we do or pre-preparation should we do you know before we face a head start should we have to take some like mirror practice or what kind of practice should have to perform you brought in an extremely important point middle practice yes that has to be there you know for the preparation of an interview as I said we have to prepare for GDs and interviews for a longer period of time if you really wish to ace it and get the best company so for interviews get a set of normal questions there are 10 to 12 questions 15 questions get those questions especially the the ones which you know they would ask prepare answers to them do not memorize them but you should know them well and every word in that answer that you are going to talk about every expression will lead to another question so just be careful of what expressions you are putting in your answers so once you have prepared you are not comfortable you're not confident about what kind of body language you are displaying in an interview so what you could do some of you could get into a group and have mock interview not just mock interviews you should record those mock interviews have somebody who would record that mock interviews for you so then your body language and it should not be just chit chat it should be held done conducted in a professional manner in fact you could get suited booted for your interview and then go for those mock interviews so then what happens your body language when you watch them in the video you would realize what you have to do and what you don't have to do what happens here is when you work in groups you develop a team concept when you're working together you want everybody to be selected so that feeling that you would evolve through these group activities both through mock gds and through mock interviews you know will go a long way in getting selected perhaps as a team by the companies so when we get into these interview now there could be a question so that person sitting outside person who was interviewed before you he came as a very good candidate so why should not we hire him why should we hire you so over there you could be tempted to you know play down his activities do not ever do that okay they are just trying to gauge how good a team player you are okay have you answered your question good afternoon ma'am good afternoon dear go ahead with your question I'm Priyanka hi Priyanka go ahead with I'm actually I have a question regarding group discussion it's a very simple question which is the best being an initiator or listening keenly listening to others the points given by others and then adding more valuable points because if I am an initiator then I can easily get into the mind of the coordinator or the one who is conducting the session and also if I'm listening to others and then adding more valuable points that will also be taken into consideration so which is the best how could I easily attract the coordinator well dear an initiator's position is a position of responsibility so if you feel that you have grasped the idea about the topic and you can introduce the topic in such a way that everybody in the group would understand and will be able to analyze the topic that you are setting in a healthy kind of setting stage for a healthy kind of group discussion then initiate then you would definitely get into the eye of the other kind of brownie points you are looking at but if you do not know much about the topic and you decide to just go about it simply because you would get into the eye of the moderator so don't because it is a position of responsibility if you have understood the topic go ahead if you have not listen keenly and then make your entries at either the third level or the fourth level not an issue normally students perception that if I do this I'm going to get this point if I do this I'm going to get this point if I conclude I will be taken as a leader if I initiate I have the chances to be a leader yes of course but then all these activities are not seen in isolation the moderator sees you as a whole human being how you have interacted what is the knowledge quotient what is emotional quotient what is a communication skill how have you interacted with a group member all these things are seen and all these things at a smaller level is there in the interview skills when you are interacting with your panel interviewers is that okay good afternoon ma'am good afternoon I'm Mahesh Singh I have a question on interview well I'm going for the interview we have been taught that be like a professional whether it is important or the dressing sense the way we answer everything my answer they say it must be in a professional way whether it is important or being myself and I am answering it whether it is important in your perspective being yourself is actually important but being yourself in a professional manner is what we are looking for okay we cannot fake things so when you talk about dressing up how would you I mean if I wore if for an Indian wedding I go wearing something really black and messy will that look good no if for this face-to-face interaction if I had worn the wedding finery would that have looked good so every place every condition every situation demands a decorum and that decorum is to bring the rest of the members on the same page it is not an enforcement it is something which helps all the members get on the same page so if we go for an interview it is better that we wear our suits we wear our tie because that is the demand of most of the organization we are dressed in our formal now if you have to attend a media interview perhaps the panelists may also be in their shorts so over there your dress could be something casual but for a corporate interview or for the government bodies we must give an appearance of being formal because with formality we can discard so many things we can calm down and we can think in the direction which we need to okay have have we answered the question properly Gafna ma'am I am Suvalakshmi from Mepkosh Lank engineering college I have a question that during interviews in some of the companies they'll be asking at the end do you have any questions to post to us and what kind of questions can we ask to them ma'am you know at your level what you could do is you know that's a very important segment and if they ask you and if there has been something in your mind please go ahead what you should do is if you are going for a company interview read their vision and the mission statements so that vision and the mission statement could help you frame a question another thing that you could do is you could ask them how would you see me post three years what are the growth prospects in the next three years this is something which you can ask them you could also ask them that does the company encourage people to go for their MBAs how important is an MBA for this particular institution or for this particular company so if so now they would ask you whether you intend to do an MBA so over there you could say learning process over here is such that I don't need to and I and I see my growth prospects here perhaps I might not need to but that is a call which I will have to take after two years with your inputs okay thank you very much dear we'll now move to the other center hello good afternoon please go ahead with your question perhaps queries from this remote center oh lovely please go ahead it's such a fantastic bunch of people thank you ma'am thank you the first query goes on here good afternoon ma'am good afternoon dear go ahead I would like to ask the question that how should someone mentally prepare himself before appearing for the interview the question which has just been asked is how should we mentally prepare ourselves for the interview a very good question thank you so much for for raising this question because you know what before an interview we are normally stressed we want to ace it and we wish to enter the room with the feeling that we have to ace it and in that stress perhaps we get a little nervous always remember that interview is again another step in your life but a major step for which you need to prepare so as I have said first you need to mentally prepare yourself when I talk about mentally preparing yourself it is not that you should be coding yourself I have my interviews on this day I have my interview on this day no in fact on the contrary you should be working around calming yourself okay I have this plan a I'm looking for this company and I'll go prepared with these kind of answers these kind of answers match with my personality and I should be talking about these things so when you have thought about what's there in your resume and you have explored the questions that are usually asked you are mentally relaxed which is very important for an interview you should not go thinking what if I do not ace this interview there is always a second chance students I would like to point out that if you do not ace an interview it is not the end of the road it does not auger bad on you it is not that because you did not perform well most of the time it is not that because you did not perform well that you are not in maybe on that particular occasion the company needed somebody with another set of skills and experience and that is why another person was selected work on your communication skills some of us are not very comfortable with speaking in English so this has to be a long-term preparation we must start preparation on English on our on our language on our communication skills we must get into groups and start working around it because most of us have the desire to go abroad to work in multinational to work at a global platform in order to work at a global platform this is the time to begin with the preparation and for this it has to begin from here mentally you have to steal yourself against all the temptations and say no I have to work toward making towards my personality I have to work towards building a new me or building an improved me so that is something which you must do but if you do not ace it it is not the end of the world there is something better lying for you is my ma'am we have another question can you relate to the answer that has just been given can you and the rest of the people relate to the answer that has just been given yes ma'am the answer is satisfactory oh it is satisfactory it is not good so my dear so do you all promise me to make yourself do you all promise me to strengthen your mental capabilities and gear up for the interview okay all those who promise me please raise your hands thank you so much dear thank you I have a split so do we have any other query from here yes ma'am okay so are the person may raise the question you may sit down please you don't have ma'am I wanted to ask if I'm in an interview and the interviewer suddenly it was the tables and asked me to pose questions what kind of questions should I ask we've just answered remote this remote center has just asked us what kind of questions should we ask from the interview panel if we are asked to do so so I had mentioned that we should go to the interview post reading the vision and the mission of the company because that gives us an opportunity to ask questions second thing could be you could ask about your prospect in that company post two years or three years third thing you could also talk about what is how does the company see the MBA degree how important is the MBA degree for the company and does the company has any tie up with any of the institutes so what would be the prospect post two years okay so these are the kind of you could ask questions relating what is the work atmosphere over there so you could ask questions relating to your career growth in that company like to know what are the common trick questions asked and how should we answer them without creating a negative impact we have handled this question and I said for the first question is normally apart from telling us something about yourself they would say in the tell us something about yourself they might just say talk something which is not there in your resume so perhaps something which may have made an impact on you in your life and gave a dimension to your life you could quote that incident out there fine there could be talk about yourself in five words right what if we do not hire you so these are the trick questions which they might just ask so you just have you know prepare the regular 10 to 15 questions they should match with your personality rehearse them mirror practice them use them in the mock interviews and most of the trick questions would be you know when they ask you trick questions they are not looking for a right answer they are looking for how you are approaching the question always bear that in mind okay so they wish to see the logical bent of mind the creativity out there okay thank you very much it was pleasure interacting with you we'll go to the next center I will take a couple of questions from Roland Institute or a star oh wow Rissa Roland Institute I love the sambal purisari from there good afternoon madam good afternoon please go ahead with the question we have little time now so we'd like to make most of it good afternoon ma'am good afternoon please go ahead my simple question is that I am a civil engineer my simple question is I'm in an IT interview I'm basically in civil engineer they ask me a question why civil in what answer I will give what answer did you give did you give any answer my answer that I am good in a programming language that due to some problem counselor had given me the civil engineering had you been a given that the counselor had given me that civil yes so had you been a mechanical engineer or any any have you followed any other stream the question would have been the same so it is basically why civil engineering because I thought I would interested in it could be that I could not get it could be a very simple thing that it could not get IT and therefore I did civil engineering because civil engineering of course is again it helps in building the infrastructure of the country so now I have an idea about civil engineering and I have a keen interest in the IT sector on both when I bring both on the table I'm sure I'll create something wonderful okay so your answer should be to the tune of this we'll take another center we'll take two more questions hi good afternoon SRM we'll take two quick questions hi ma'am this is jeswan have a curious question please go ahead with your question usually when we go for an interview like the interviewer they observe everything like the way we get inside the way we talk the way we present ourselves so out of all this I just wanted to know that please tell me like maintaining proper eye contact with the interviewer well the question is on eye contact and perhaps we have a question how should we maintain eye contact with the interviewer when you are asking when somebody has asked you a question it is important that you maintain an eye contact with the person however if you keep staring back at the interviewer somehow in some culture it does not go well what you could do is when you are answering the question you look into the eye of the person if the answer gets too long perhaps you could break the eye contact for a second but honestly speaking if you are passionate about it and you're working directly into the answer there is you should keep on maintaining the eye contact out there thank you ma'am thanks for the effort just okay last question Trina Ryan Institute Kerala hello please go directly into the question well participants it has been really very interesting interacting with you all and it would be much appreciated if you would I hope you all have gone through the slides and you have appeared for the quizzes as well please go through the slides please do the quizzes and come back with more questions we at this side are working very hard for you all and we expect the same from you all so if you are really geared into acing group discussion and interview skills you must start the preparation now and we have professor sati may I please invite professor sati to the discussion now because with his energy level he's definitely going to charge you all up hi everybody I've been in the background while you guys have been having discussions and insights into group discussions and interviews etc there are two things that I want to share before we close for the day we got another five minutes so we'll close at one o'clock and then for the lunch break and then two o'clock we begin with the workplace communication module the first question I have is how many of you to answer this question but you know at the level of the center at the level of the coordinators the question I need to deal with is how many of you have already registered into the IIT Bombay X I believe there's almost like 25 30 percent of you who have not registered now if you haven't registered a large part of the resources that are available through IIT Bombay X will not be available to you so it's important that you register and start doing the work okay so for every face-to-face for every week there is a video or some kind of resource material that's available and then there is a quiz so till you don't answer the quizzes say quizzes are simple they're not complicated they're just intended so that it keeps you on track regard to what is the expectation has you be a little familiar so you get to see our faces before you meet with us on face-to-face so do the work I think the real work is not in this face-to-face the real work is happening where you are so when you know professor Fatak this morning you know when he said and you know professor Lina Jha said that you need to be making small groups and working on your own so that the practice can take place without that it will not have be as effective at all so you know if you think that we can listen to a lecture on how to ride a bicycle that'll give you no access to riding a bicycle so you want to be able to get onto the bicycle yourself as soon as you get onto the bicycle you will fall a few times so I don't want you to go to the interview or to a group discussion for the first time and find out how much you are paralyzed because you're afraid get paralyzed ahead of time get afraid ahead of time so that you know how to deal with it don't be taken by surprise with your own body reacting a particular way when you are in an interview so this has to be done ahead of time you've got to practice practice practice and when you've practiced enough a point will come when you don't have to be worried about you know the interview you don't have to be worried about the group discussion who you are there is yourself and you know the person who is familiar with what is expected how to honor other people how to honor yourself and then things begin to you know happen on their own naturally you don't have to kind of practice for a group discussion you don't have to practice for that becomes a part of your you know it's like second nature to you so would you please do the work that's required you know we can only encourage you we can only give you resource materials we can only give you things that we have learned from our experience but you know we are working very hard yeah and I just want you to know that it's very enjoyable to we are loving doing it so there's no issue about the hard work we love it okay so would you please you know I'd like to see so Mahindra how many people at this point in time in this course so about 6,000 students have not registered online so this is my appeal to all the coordinators to please make sure that you know we're not doing this partially full value of the work will not become available if you don't participate fully okay we don't want to overload you every week you already are busy but that one or two hours that are required for it please put it in because you know that will develop the mind that will develop the muscle that will develop your you as a person so that you can actually be you know comfortable in for an interview or for group discussion or for life itself okay and that's it that's all I want to say I want to thank you Professor Lina for the I was in the background listening I was also seeing it on the YouTube so I was a participant myself and you know you look to see Professor Phatak also you know shared some things outside as to what are the things that so he said and this is I just want to share it because it touched me he said if as a group you have succeeded then everybody would have succeeded that for me is a message to take for group discussions and so if you have an eye on making sure that everybody in the group wins everybody gets a chance to contribute everybody gets a chance to participate then you are somebody I would want to hire on my team all right so thank you very much and please enjoy your lunch and we'll see you at about 2 o'clock thank you very much bye-bye


Okay, I forgot to turn the AC off but I turned the AC off so hopefully as long as there isn't another leaf blower We should be fine. All I saw were his eyes Velvet dark the kind of umbra the shadows would envy Hi, I'm Kim, and I'm gonna be doing a spoiler-free review of the Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chakshi Sometimes in the flurry of our visual media culture and Twitter and Instagram and Netflix and chill I forget the power that words possess And Roshani Chakshi Definitely helped me remember This book is Evocative and enthralling it is it is a magic spell interwoven into a work art, and I love it Now From the descriptions floating around booktube and even the synopsis on the inside dust cover. I Honestly thought I had already read this book You can't tell me that some of these descriptions really do sound like The Wrath in the Dawn by Renee Adye Now don't get me wrong. The Wrath in the Dawn is amazing Renee Adye is amazing. You should definitely read those books. The Star-Touched Queen is very different They sound the same at first blush, but as soon as Princess Mayavati's father shows up at her door with a vial of poison You know, it's gonna take a turn Roshani Chakshi interweaves several Indian myths in order to tell a story about a young woman who must journey farther and be more clever than she Has ever before in order to save her husband from a fate worse than death There's a lot more to it than that, but this is a spoiler-free review Okay, okay, but if my love for this book were a pie chart It would be like 30% the writing and like 30% the plot and like the and then 30% for the characters and then with that extra 10% specifically reserved for Kamala the horse So good. First you have Maya our leading lady She is whip smart and honestly relishes the idea of dying an old maid She has this terrible horoscope in a culture that puts away too much credence in horoscopes and so she honestly thinks she has a shot at being a advisor and a scholar and not having to get married like all of her half sisters Her little sister Gaudi is a dreamer with some serious ambition Amar is Steadfast and as honest as he can be but there is a veil of mystery that is not easy to brush aside Gupti is Awkward and loyal and I love him Hell even mother Dina has some redeemable qualities Kamala definitely wins though. She just she just wins and then the writing Okay, but listen to this Light burst through the threads dazzling me with a thousand streams of color so vivid that I could feel it seeping warmly across my fingers Shards of evening sky the cool frost of lonely mornings drenching nectar sticky heat I could feel the color as if it were dimension of time and space heavy and solid full of flavor of life It's snuck under my tongue like a bright candy and voices loud and soft whispers and howls of Passion so grand that tottered on the edge of mythic and sorrow so plangent they trailed in their own shadows I couldn't take it I don't know if I did it justice, but oh yes, okay fans of Hemingway will definitely call this flowery and ornate writing But I'm so impressed and moved by the fact that we're shining chalk She could not only like suck you into her world, but then make it so fragrant and and Delicious it has it has smell it has taste if you if you reach out you think you can feel it on your fingertips and I just love it as for the plot I think everything was perfectly paced except for the middle bit of the second half which went way too fast and I accept that supposed to be reminiscent of That folklore and and oral culture of Indian mythology But for the whole rest of the book they they accepted the reality of human transportation This bit didn't that's all I'm saying Overall, I give this book five out of five stars. I loved it The writing is lush the characters are beautiful and oh my god Kamala the horse Also crown of wishes is coming out soon It's not a sequel per se, but it is in the same in the same vein And and I'm really excited to read pretty much anything else that this author writes So let me know what you guys thought and I want to know if you've read this book And how you felt about it if you haven't read this book if if you want to read this book Just just talk to me about books. I love books Abiento