Tuesday, December 22, 2015
ideal time to send Thank you note
send exactly between 12 to 48 hours of the comption of the program. For example, if the program was finished 19 Dec 2015 at 6 pm, then the thank you note should be sent by 6 am of 20 Dec to 6 pm of 21 dec 2015
How Long Is Too Long to Wait Before Writing an Interview Thank You Letter?
Ideal Timing
Ideally, you want your interviewers to receive your thank you when your interview is still relatively fresh in their minds. Compose your thank you note within two business days of your interview, advises Virginia Tech Division of Student Affairs
http://work.chron.com/long-long-wait-before-writing-interview-thank-letter-19189.html
If you elect to email, do so within 24 hours for maximum impact, suggests Jenna Goudreau for ''Forbes.'' If this 24-hour window has long passed, don’t forgo the email option entirely, but instead send out your communication as close to the date of the interview as possible.
It’s always best to send out a thank you note within the first 48 hours but a tardy thank you note is better than no thank you note at all. Even if it is a year later, believe me, the giver still remembers and will be relieved to know you used the gift or appreciated the money.
http://dianegottsman.com/2011/01/thank-you-note-etiquette/
How Long Is Too Long to Wait Before Writing an Interview Thank You Letter?
Ideal Timing
Ideally, you want your interviewers to receive your thank you when your interview is still relatively fresh in their minds. Compose your thank you note within two business days of your interview, advises Virginia Tech Division of Student Affairs
http://work.chron.com/long-long-wait-before-writing-interview-thank-letter-19189.html
If you elect to email, do so within 24 hours for maximum impact, suggests Jenna Goudreau for ''Forbes.'' If this 24-hour window has long passed, don’t forgo the email option entirely, but instead send out your communication as close to the date of the interview as possible.
It’s always best to send out a thank you note within the first 48 hours but a tardy thank you note is better than no thank you note at all. Even if it is a year later, believe me, the giver still remembers and will be relieved to know you used the gift or appreciated the money.
http://dianegottsman.com/2011/01/thank-you-note-etiquette/
Labels: career, etiquette, thank you note
Sunday, June 28, 2015
subjectwise study and career information for students of Bangladesh
Life carnival - an informative site for Bangladeshi students audience. It provides subjectwise overview including availabilty in differnet Bangladeshi public and private universities, job opportunities, interveiws with relevant faculty and professional to give insight of hte job. Really good work.
http://www.lifecarnival.com/
Collection of interviews of some BUET graduates pursuing higher studies in different western countries including USA, Germany, Australia,Canada etc. In the interview, they provide information on living cost, how to apply for scholarship, what are the benchmark by the professors for selecting students etc. Good initiative.
http://teacher.buet.ac.bd/cfc/misc/NotesFromAlumni.PDF
common mistakes in recommendation letter
http://aegedu.com/blog/common-mistakes-indian-students-us-universities-recommendation-letter-part-1/
http://www.lifecarnival.com/
Collection of interviews of some BUET graduates pursuing higher studies in different western countries including USA, Germany, Australia,Canada etc. In the interview, they provide information on living cost, how to apply for scholarship, what are the benchmark by the professors for selecting students etc. Good initiative.
http://teacher.buet.ac.bd/cfc/misc/NotesFromAlumni.PDF
common mistakes in recommendation letter
http://aegedu.com/blog/common-mistakes-indian-students-us-universities-recommendation-letter-part-1/
Labels: career, higher study, jobs, study
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Career Workshops
Career workshops are usually run
by career service entity in the university.
Career workshops are also offered
by private firms like job agency and like.
Careershifters one evening workshop costing 85 British pound
Free fixed time online career workshop by FutureLearn. No
hidden charge. They earn by charging for paper certificate if someone needs it.
Labels: career, jobs, workshop
Workshop, certificate course, diploma course, short course, international diploma course
Workshop, certificate
course, diploma course, short course, international diploma course with
flexible time classes especially in weekend
Generally if there is a official entity titled as continuing
education and professional development, that entity usually offers such
Workshop, certificate course, diploma course, international diploma course with
flexible time classes especially in weekend.
Different academic departments, institutes, centres may also
offer such things for continuous professional development.
For example, supply chain management is a hot subject for
such short professional course or workshop. Topic for such workshop or short
course might be
Supply chain management for engineers and
executives
Essentials of supply chain management [book available in
this name too]
Appears below some links that provide information on such
workshops and courses on Supply chain.
http://www.apics.org/docs/cepd/operations-and-supply-chain-management-career-paths-and-patterns.pdf
UTM Malaysia uni certificate course catalog
UIU(united int uni Bangladesh) offers an international
diploma course certified by an UK body on Logistics and transport:
Labels: career, study, workshop
Researchers (Phds, postdocs) career options
A lot of information is available over the internet on
career of different fields. But it is hard to find information about career
path for researchers. Researchers mean those who are doing phd, later working
as postdocs or scientists. At some point, they may want to move into general
job career.
The usual career path for researcher and alternative path to
move into general jobs are given with
many handpicked links at Queen Mary university career portals.
Among the link, the prominent one is vitae which a non
profit work for researchers career:
career guideline for researchers when they want to move to
general jobs:
Labels: career, management
Sunday, May 03, 2015
Career Directions: purpose/aim of life;no regret principle;comparative advantage;done better than perfect
Purpose of life:
It is
very important to know what is your calling, that is your passion or in other
words purpose of life. Steve Pavlina, a popular blogger and self help guru,
suggests the following steps to discover one’s life purpose.
- Take out a blank sheet of paper or open up a word processor where you can type.
- Write at the top, “What is my true purpose in life?”
- Write an answer (any answer) that pops into your head. It doesn’t have to be a complete sentence. A short phrase is fine.
- Repeat step 3 until you write the answer that makes you cry. This is your purpose.
For details please check out: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/01/how-to-discover-your-life-purpose-in-about-20-minutes/
Give atleast one try what you desire:
it is also called no regret principle.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Well, sometimes what you like to do most or what is your
passionate, there may be nearly zero chance of success. As a side note, in life
there are very few things where there is clear zero possibility, in general
there is always some possibility. Then you might fail at the task you have
attempted, that’s fair enough. You will not have any regrets later your life
reminding if I would have tried. Besides, it would be a learning experience and
in general some new ways are opened up. As the saying goes on like when you
open the door then you could see what are inside, but if you don’t open the
door you could not see what are inside. After failure, you may opt to try with
another strategy or may go for your second best option. By the by, if the
option you desire most has life risk or risk of law infringement or involve
huge investment of money, you may think carefully to commit for that one.
However, only few things will have such consequences.
More insight
could be found here: http://www.gll-getalife.com/get-success/entry/not-trying-will-be-your-biggest-regret
Comparative advantage:
One should do what one could do
better compared to other things. For example, Dr Humayun Ahmed was the most
popular and highest selling fiction writer of Bangladesh. He had a phd in
Chemistry and he was good at Chemistry too. However, his command on writing
fiction is far better than teaching in Chemistry. So judiciously he took the
decision to leave teaching profession and engage in full time writing. So one
should not compare with others when taking decision about certain choices
rather look into what is the comparative advantage. For example, one guy is not
that good at both football and cricket. However, he is better in football than
cricket. So he should opt for football playing.
Look for more
detail analysis in ‘the undercover economist’ written by Tim Harford: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CFjupwQOgD4C&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&dq=comparative+advantage+undercover+economist&source=bl&ots=IebuHHpk4w&sig=rKtpRwL9T3Ad2g8HV1TYZBSAQDQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=uOksVa2bOM62uQSojoCIDw&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=comparative%20advantage%20undercover%20economist&f=false
Time Management:
Time flies as the saying goes. So
it is very important to manage time wisely and efficiently. Here goes some
tips:
Use pareto
principle and finish any task with minimal effort. Later on, if required you
may improve the quality. Generally you could reach 80 percent of your own
standard quality just by inputting that minimal 20 percent effort.
To test a
thing do it in small scale like prototype. Then if it works, go for bigger
version. If small sizing is not possible, then do a small part and see the
result.
Start early:
if average people start job when they are 22 years old, you may start job at 21
years of age. Starting earlier with minimalistic standard is far advantageous
that starting late with adequate resources. Because time always beat the amount
resource for a human beings.
Finish fast:
Try to finish fast, may be atelast 20 percent earlier than average standerd
time. Again after doing some part if you feel not good quit. Therer is no point
of bearing the sunk cost.
Use a time
schedule for every minute. Its better to use 10 minutes block. Make a rule that
you could not modify an item unless it is modified 10 minutes or 30 minutes or
so on earlier. To make life easy, you make the rule that you may change
whenever you like but you need to write it down in the schedule. However, it is
better to use 10 minutes or other loger minutes or hours or days rule to
change. In generally we procrastinate stating that we would pleasurable task
now and harder task later. It makes that
a little difficult by stating that you could change but not instantly. Usually our reasonable self works better when
we think ahead but when things actually come up our pleasurable self takes over
the reason. Again, by starting somehow a little bit you could eventually
continue to do so.
Its ok to
fail but not to try and remain in the race reasonable time.
Done is better than perfect:
Just doing
with minimal things is better than doing later with perfection.
So finish
everything in the rough draft format with minimal effort and things. Later if
needed, you will have plenty of time to tweak and improve.
Labels: career, personal development
