Interview Question for Management Post

1.       So, tell me a little about yourself.

My name is Peter. I graduated from XYZUniversity with bachelor degree in Sales. After 5 yearsworking as a Sales Manager, I have well experienced intraining, mentoring and motivating other sales personnelto achieve the goals of the Company.

2.       Give a brief summary of your experience inyour latest positions

have worked for ABC Companyas Sales Manager for North-East Region. With my skillsfrom training courses, I developed many sales campaignswhich contributed much to the development of newcustomers and maintenance of current customer base.After 6 months, my sales force and I did regain thecompany’s market and promote the sales revenue up by37%.

3.       What is your viewpoint of management?

I believe the main goal of any management position is to get things done by evenly distributing the workload to the most qualified members of the team. They also make sure that each member of the team has all the resources and training that are necessary to complete the job.

4.       What is your definition of success?

In my opinion and as it relates to the workplace, success is a measurable variable. If you don’t measure your accomplishments, success is lost. Success can be tied to everything you do each day.

5.       What is your definition of failure?

For starters, failure is an event and not a person and you only fail if you quit and I’m not a quitter. I may not complete a project on time or miss an important deadline, but that does not qualify as having failed in my book. If I complete a task, but miss a deadline, I still consider it a success because I finished, but without the desired result

6.       Do you feel that you are an organized person?

Yes, I consider myself to be very well organized. Everyday when I arrive at work, I check my email and messages. Then I plan out exactly what I am going to do that day. Even if I already know that I am going to work on the Johnson proposal, I still review my current status and set my goals for the day. At the end of the day, I review my progress and plan for the following day

7.       How do you manage your time

I only have so many hours in the day to get my work done and I have found that if I don’t create daily, weekly, and monthly goals, it seems like nothing ever gets done. I keep track of all my responsibilities and goals in spreadsheet and review them daily.

I mark down when I am first assigned a task, how long I think it will take, when it needs to be completed and how much time I will need to spend on it each day to complete the job on time. This helps me in so many ways, but mainly it keeps me on track with what is important. It also helps me from getting overbooked and promising more than I can deliver. Now, I can always deliver what I promise and be on-time

8.       What information do you need before making a decision?

“Before I make any kind of important decision, I first consider all the surrounding facts, possible outcomes and the desired goal. I won’t hesitate to seek an outside opinion and I generally do, but I am the one who makes the ultimate decision

9.       How do you react to problems?

“I don’t react to problems, but acknowledge their existence and respond to them in a calm manner. Reacting to a problem causes a panic and the problem does not get resolved until everyone calms down, accepts the situation and then focuses on a resolution

10.   Do you consider yourself a risk taker or do you like to play it safe?

I believe that taking risks is part of life but by mitigating the risk, I believe the best possible solution presents itself. I’m not afraid of taking risks; I just make sure that I have considered all the facts and possible outcomes my decision will have.

11.   How Would You Describe Your Management Style?

I choose to adapt my management techniques based on the present situation, as work environments are constantly dynamic and often need to be handled in unique, novel ways.

12.   How Do You Keep Staff Members Motivated?

I do my best to show recognition and acknowledgement to all employees that meet goals, which keeps morale high and employees on task. Also, when applicable, I keep tasks interdependent within the team, so that staff members require and encourage fellow staff members to complete their work.

        13 . How Do You Delegate Tasks?

For each staff member I create a sheet of detailed, relevant tasks and estimated deadlines. I then meet with each staff member individually to ensure they also agree to the deadlines and answer any questions they have. I also schedule regular work in progress meetings to check in on their status.

14.   What is Your Biggest Management Weakness?

Sometimes in the heat of a deadline, I have found that I have overlooked great work by a staff member. I am working on making sure everyone I work with gets their deserved recognition for successful completion of their tasks, because it is important that every individual staff member be recognized for their contributions toward building the company’s success

15.  Why do you want to work here at XYZ Company?

I've been following XYZ's growth and I want a company that I can grow with. Your company is solid and stable, with a growth rate of X percent last year and a great competitive position" Or, "I like a start-up environment where I can really make a difference.

16. Why should we hire you?

Because I would be an asset to your organization. I'm loyal, tenacious, motivated, and I learn fast. I'm someone who could be very productive very quickly.

17.   Let's talk about salary. What are you looking for?

right now, I'm more interested in talking more about what the position can offer my career." That could at least buy you a little time to scope out the situation. But if you do have a specific figure in mind and you are confident that you can get it, I'd say go for it. I have on many occasions, and every time I got very close to that figure

18.   Do you prefer to work independently or on a team?

I am equally comfortable working as a member of a team and independently. In researching the LMN company, your mission statement and the job description, I could see similarities to my previous position where there were some assignments that required a great deal of independent work and research and others where the team effort was most effective. As I said, I'm comfortable with both.

19.   How do you handle stress and pressure?

·  Stress is very important to me. With stress, I do the best possible job. The appropriate way to deal with stress is to make sure I have the correct balance between good stress and bad stress. I need good stress to stay motivated and productive.

·  I react to situations, rather than to stress. That way, the situation is handled and doesn't become stressful.

·  I actually work better under pressure and I've found that I enjoy working in a challenging environment.

·  From a personal perspective, I manage stress by visiting the gym every evening. It's a great stress reducer.

20.   Who was your best boss and who was the worst?

I've learned from each boss I've had. From the good ones, what to do, from the challenging ones - what not to do.

Early in my career, I had a mentor who helped me a great deal, we still stay in touch. I've honestly learned something from each boss I've had.

SEO Techniques 2012 : Boost Up Traffic To Your Site

Search engine marketing or SEO has become a well felt secure label. People recognize this method. However, individuals do not know just what marketing is all about. Search Engine Optimization is a strategy. This strategy guarantees much higher ranking for your web site. To obtain direct exposure in the worldwide market, you require greater ranking in the search engine. The procedure gets you the desirable ranking and much higher traffic. With time the attempt to get a position in the 1st page of search engine has become a conflict for survival. If you are not on the first page, individuals will not identify you. In that instance, you will certainly drop company as well as clients. The web users do not turn to the 2nd webpage of the search engine to discover any type of information. Nonetheless, you must locate a well felt secure company to do this job for you.

Search Engine Optimization techniques

There are various SEO methods which you can easily use to optimize your site. These methods are essential as these determine the fortune of your website in the search engine web page.

Being focused

You should carry out to the method. If you think that when your web site is in the 1st webpage of search engine, it will certainly be there for life, you are misinterpreting. You have to adhere to it. The algorithm changes frequently as well as you ought to keep on your own upgraded.

Perseverance

This is not an uncomplicated method. You must be patient. Otherwise, you could wind up making some error. Keep in mind that nothing defeats hard work. Even if it takes months of effort, you will absolutely make it to the first web page.

Site

Create a wonderful site. Without a really good website, you will certainly not have the ability to make it to the first page of the search engine. Speak with the well recognized eCommerce net layout companies.

The correct provider

It is important that you find the appropriate company for this job. There are different business which give SEO solutions. For this explanation, you will have to do some analysis prior to working with a provider.

Content

The content of your website issues. This is the thing which will certainly draw the attention of the clients. The subject matter must not be out dated. Because situation, you will certainly have to eliminate the contents often.

Put on your own in the website visitor’s shoes

You ought to place on your own in the mind of the readers. Think exactly what they desire and just what they such as. Also, you should assume exactly what the specialists could use to explore the information. You could utilize the probable words as keyword phrases.

Keep daily upgrading

One of the most essential ideas is to maintain your website updated. You need to maintain the key words upgraded and maintain changing them. This draws in the attention of the search engine as well as gets better ranking for your website.

Material titles

The titles of the contents are very important. The search engine will definitely look at the titles as well as figures out whether the content is relevant to the search topic or not. Therefore make certain to use the keyword phrases in the title. It will certainly assist your website have noticed.

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A great roundup of responsive design techniques

What is responsive design?

Let’s just get right into it: Believe it or not, the Treehouse blog that you’re reading this article on is actually a responsive design! To see it in action, open this article on a desktop browser and slowly make the browser thinner and wider. You should see the layout magically adjust itself to more comfortably fit the new width of the browser, even if you make the page as skinny as the resolution of a mobile phone. Here are some screenshots of what the Think Vitamin design looks like at various screen resolutions:

The first key idea behind responsive design is the usage of what’s known as a fluid grid. In recent memory, creating a ‘liquid layout’ that expands with the page hasn’t been quite as popular as creating fixed width layouts; page designs that are a fixed number of pixels across, and then centered on the page. However, when one considers the huge number of screen resolutions present in today’s market, the benefit of liquid layouts is too great to ignore.

Fluid grids go a few steps beyond the traditional liquid layout. Instead of designing a layout based on rigid pixels or arbitrary percentage values, a fluid grid is more carefully designed in terms of proportions. This way, when a layout is squeezed onto a tiny mobile device or stretched across a huge screen, all of the elements in the layout will resize their widths in relation to one another.

In order to calculate the proportions for each page element, you must divide the target element by its context. Currently, the best way to do this is to first create a high fidelity mockup in a pixel based imaged editor, like Photoshop. With your high fidelity mockup in hand, you can measure a page element and divide it by the full width of the page. For example, if your layout is a typical size like 960 pixels across, then this would be your “container” value. Then, let’s say that our target element is some arbitrary value, like 300 pixels wide. If we multiply the result by 100, we get the percentage value of 31.25% which we can apply to the target element. Here’s the math:

Fluid Grids

If your values don’t work out so neatly, and you get some floating point value with many numbers after the decimal, don’t round the value! We humans may enjoy nice neat numbers and making our code look pretty, but your computer (and the final look of your design) will benefit from the seemingly excessive mathematical precision.

Fluid grids are a very important part of creating a responsive design, but they can only take us so far. When the width of the browser becomes too narrow, the design can start to severely break down. For example, a complex three-column layout isn’t going to work very well on a small mobile phone. Fortunately, responsive design has taken care of this problem by using media queries.

Media Queries

The second part of responsive design is CSS3 media queries, which currently enjoy decent support across many modern browsers. If you’re not familiar with CSS3 media queries, they basically allow you to gather data about the site visitor and use it to conditionally apply CSS styles. For our purposes, we’re primarily interested in the min-width media feature, which allows us to apply specific CSS styles if the browser window drops below a particular width that we can specify. If we wanted to apply some styling to mobile phones, our media query might look something like the following.

@media screen and (min-width: 480px) {
 
  .content {
    float: left;
  }
 
  .social_icons {
    display: none
  }
 
  // and so on...
 
}

Using a series of media queries like this, we can work our way up towards larger resolutions. The set of pixel widths I recommend targeting are as follows:

• 320px
• 480px
• 600px
• 768px
• 900px
• 1200px

Again, these are just recommended, and should serve as a starting point. In an ideal world, you would adjust your layout to perfectly match every device width, but often times you have to pick and choose where you spend your efforts. From a more practical perspective, the resolutions that a design targets will be based on the resolutions of the people using that design, time and budget constraints, highly contextual situations, and so on. In summary, when deciding what resolutions to target, you should use your judgement. Targeting more resolutions is going to take more time, and assuming you’re not an immortal being with unlimited time, that effort should be spent carefully.

Again, to see a responsive design in action, simply open this article up on a desktop browser and slowly resize the browser to make it thinner. You should see all the page elements adjusting themselves automagically to fit the new width, going all the way down to the size of a mobile browser.

Read more: Beginner’s Guide to Responsive Web Design - Treehouse Blog http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/beginners-guide-to-responsive-web-design#ixzz26Lax5uan

Facts: Exploring E-commerce with web, in mobile and for tablet devices

Are you selling products online? Have you explore your business through #web and #internet? If yes, then you would be leading the business among your competitors – because you’ve E-commerce advantages in your hand.

A worth reason for Money: E-commerce stands for Online Business

E-commerce makes personal growth for every business and has become an enormous reason within last decade and leveraged a meaningful growth for few years. To this point most stand-alone personal systems and smart cellular devices are the well-liked for users when it involves online shopping for products and services. In such a situation marketers are competing e-commerce value and try to clear visionary ideas for their services with Mobile.

An open access protocol: Cloud Platform

Mobile E-commerce become a personalized platform. Social Networks also play a vital role as an E-commerce platform. Today there are plenty of choices available to buy or a sell product of your choice via Internet. Internet gives a successive path to E-commerce. It will be a practical fever across globe in next 2-3 years.

Websites, Mobile apps and also recently launched hybrid assistants – ‘Tablets‘ are most favourite for E-commerce campaigns. Through this digital and electronic medium business avails maximum return on investment with compare to one-to-one communication and drives a welcome opportunity for developing countries in international market.

Read more about 8 trends that will shape the face of E-commerce in 2012.

Are you creating a buzz in social media? Be transparent with audience

Gone were the days when using social media websites was only for getting in touch with friends, colleagues and family members. Due to the wide prevalence of social media websites like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Digg, Delicious, Reddit and many many more, businesses are focusing more than ever to create a viable social media marketing strategy that keeps them engaged with their consumers.

Why creating a buzz in Social Media is important?

Successful business entrepreneurs would now agree that businesses not relying on social media marketing to create a buzz about their products and services, are at complete disadvantage as compared to those businesses with a proper online marketing strategy.

The power of Facebook

The ability to login at one place and get updates in forms of status, photos and videos form all around the world using Facebook is truly amazing. Using social media sites is all about creating a buzz. For example a new restaurant, hot dishes, special offers on products, saving coupons and contests are all designed to engage customers, increase loyal followers and definitely create a buzz about your business online.

Gaining targeted traffic and leads

From internet marketing point of view, Google indexes those businesses having a social media strategy backed up with regular updates on the blogospheres much fast as compared to those business neither involving in a social media marketing strategy, nor having a blog updated. Why do companies like Levi’s Coca Cola, Pepsi, General Motors, General Electric and several other consumer companies are successful today? They have successfully created a buzz in social media that is ever growing at an exponential rate.

Getting targeted traffic is more important than ever in today’s highly stiff competition. Build up a Facebook page, an official twitter account and a professional LinkedIn account to market about your products and services. Start making followers and connections and you would gradually notice site traffic dynamically improving.

Importance of unique content and delivering what target market wants

Businesses should remember that reputation is not their property. It is something earned over time by creating high quality of products and services and gaining customers comments on social media websites. Due to information overload, it is impossible to generate targeted traffic and leads due to which your business should create a unique marketing campaign on social profiles that attract targeted people. Understanding the needs and demands of clients is the most important aspect to make a business successful.

Buzz spreads through similar type of people. As a result, your business page on social media websites should have people with similar interests that can follow you and visit your site whenever you share something new and cool with them.

Now is the time you create not only engaging content with your audience to gain targeted traffic. Do not get lost in the online world. Get distinguished online by creating a buzz in the social media platforms about yourself.

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