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How many of you had stumbled upon an interview question you haven’t prepared yourself for, and your mind drew a blank? Sensing that awkward silence, you blurted out whatever words you could find and desperately made sentences out of them. The interview ended moments later, and as you reflect back on what you had said, you dreadfully realized those words don’t make much logical sense! Okay, if you are looking for a job now, then you’re in luck. This is a guidance post of ten most common interview questions that you might be asked for your upcoming interviews. Without further ado, here are the top 10 questions, let’s get started! 1. "Tell me about yourself?" This is typically the first question the interviewer will ask once you’ve taken your seat. This is the opportunity for the interviewer to assess you as a person through what you say and how you deliver it. As they always say, first impression is at utmost important, so you’ve to make sure you’ve prepared yourself adequately...

Let’s face it, while receiving money can be very addictive, invoicing is a total nightmare for freelancers, especially designers with artistic talent. However, the truth side about the freelance business is you not only need your design skill to succeed, but carefully and wisely managed invoicing to keep you business going smooth without troubles from the financial side, or frustration from the client side. We talk about professionalism, but in fact all you need is to do it right. Choosing the right invoicing software, implement the right policies and charge method, asking for a right payment method, manage the invoice record right, this article is all about sharing the right tips for you to do the right invoicing. So learn from the tips right, then you’re on the right way on doing the right and most importantly, professional invoicing. Full detail after jump! 1. Using Good Invoicing Software The first thing you need to do when preparing invoices for your clients is to select good invo...

Ambitious employees always seek opportunities to climb up the corporate ladder. There is no dearth of individuals who are eager to climb the professional ladder of success, but what matters is whether they have the discipline and the positive intent to reach the desired level. Successful individuals always keep track of great principles, which will help them to reach the top. It is not always the bigger notions that get noticed but a combination of small principles and actions that eventually make the difference. To begin with, here are 10 significant tips for you to practice in your work to make an impact to your company and eventually make yourself rise to the top, have a read and master them all. 1. Always Dress Impeccably Formal dressing is a must. A dress code tells a lot about an employee’s attitude. You will be judged on the basis of your dress, and in most situation, formal dress means you are serious at your work. It also indicates your commitment in the affairs of the company...

We are all impressed with the smooth running of the Apple Mac OS X as we compare with the contemporary Windows OS like Vista or Windows 7. However, there are times when your Mac might be slowing down as you put in more stuffs in your hard drive and work the system hard. That is perhaps a good time to evaluate where the bottleneck could be and clear it. In this post I’ll be sharing tips I found useful in speeding up the Mac. While most of the tips do not cost you extra bucks, they also help you to clean up your Mac to not only make it run fast like cheetah, but also keep it as powerful as lion. So spend some time to get really well with these tips, then you’ll be smiling happily as you run your Mac smoothly! 1. Clearing Your Desktop Your desktop plays a part in how long it takes for you to boot the system because it’s the first screen that it has to load up. As much as possible, try to keep it simple by minimizing the number of icons from the dock and clearing up the amount of files you...

Editors are a busy lot, always having to decide what goes into a publication and which does not. Hence, it’s no surprise that many print magazines do not encourage unsolicited submissions. But if you are an ambitious writer, one who dreams of making it big in the publishing world, you may need to use this path to get yourself noticed.  The problem is, there is a lot of substandard writing out there, and they are cramming your entrance. Therefore, editors have decided to make the search process a little easier – albeit, for them. They want submissions to come with query letters. What is a query letter? A query letter can help to convince an editor to give your writing a shot. Hence, you shouldn’t write it in a too-casual tone. It is not an application, and you should never write anything that remotely amounts to begging them to consider your manuscript. It is however a picture of your writing skills, and your achievements. It doesn’t have to be fancy but you can use it to showcase t...

I’m sure you know by now about Pinterest , which is just about one of the fastest growing social networking sites ever. It connects people not only based on their friend’s network, but by their shared interest. While Facebook has great virility, Pinterest offers greater content exposure to its targeted audience, and this enhances the content-sharing experience. Timeline for Brands on Facebook may have its benefits and appeal, but if you secretly wished that it was just as easy to use as Pinterest , then we have good news for you. In this quick-tip, we will guide you on how to use Pinvolve , a Facebook app that will automatically rearrange and polish your content presentation to mimic the styles of Pinterest. On top of that, the app will add a pin button to each of your shared content to make it easier for your fans to share your featured contents to Pinterest. Convert your Fan Page into Pinterest style layout To get started with the Pinterest-like layout, go to the Pinvolve Facebook ...

Facebook is the most comprehensive social media platform for small businesses owners. With a large network and the ability to interact dynamically with your fans via video, photos, updates, etc., it is one of the easiest ways to reach your consumers. And even better, the integration of multiple apps means you can do more than ever with your Facebook page — even sell your products. That’s right, you can add a virtual storefront to your page for low or no cost, allowing your consumers to shop from within the Facebook platform. Here are a few apps that can help you get set up quickly and easily. 1) Vendorshop Vendorshop is a free app that allows fans of your page to shop directly within Facebook, without being redirected to a different site. All transactions are secured, a plus for your customers. You can also create and manage different storefronts on different pages from one dashboard, a plus for you. Convenient tools like being able to share digital coupons are a win-win for both you a...

Social media is a new and powerful technology that is changing the way we communicate with each other. But this new method of communication may have serious implications, both good and bad. While businesses have focused on the monetization of social media, and the media has focused on the blurred lines between personal and private information, a much less-publicized issue is how social media can affect an individual’s self esteem. Social Media: Good or Bad For Self Esteem? Though it is a new area of study, researchers are becoming more interested in how social media might affect an individual. Interestingly, the findings vary greatly. It does appear, however, that social media has different affects on different generations, and even different genders—with some decidedly negative findings. For teens, social media is an enormously popular way to interact. However, it can be harmful in some ways. A University of Haifa study found the more time teen girls spend on Facebook, the more likely...

Social media is now one of the most important parts of any marketing strategy, with Facebook and Twitter being the most prominent platforms and a great way to continually promote your brand. But for a small business, managing the day-to-day operations can be a full time job, so it can be a challenge to stay active and engaged. With Twitter, it is important to tweet, retweet, reply, mention, promo, and direct message—and that’s just on one social media platform! Luckily, tools like Timely help you automate tweets, which is an effective ways to maximize your time and social media presence. Here are five more reasons why scheduling your tweets is a no-brainer. 1) Save Time With so much to do and think about, tweeting throughout the day is likely the last thing on your mind. Scheduling your tweets allows you to spend a few minutes prepping everything you want to say, and the rest of the day taking care of business. 2) Get More Exposure with Less Effort Not only can scheduling your tweets s...

Businesses that use Facebook to build brand awareness, sell products, and gain new clients will have to adjust their pages now that Facebook has converted them to the Timeline format. The good news is these changes can actually help fine-tune their promotional methods and increase social media visibility, all of which will result in more sales and an increase in new customers. Here are our tips to make the new Timeline work for your business. 1. Choose a Strong Cover Photo Facebook has significantly changed the rules for cover photos on its business pages. Businesses can no longer run a strip of photos across the top of their pages. Instead, they must feature one large image that measures 850 pixels by 399 pixels, along with a 30 pixel by 30 pixel profile picture. Note that your cover photo can’t include any calls to action, so don’t add messages such as “Like Me,” “Share” or “Contact Us.” Instead, choose a nice, focused image (that fits within the dimensions) to make your first impres...

MobileMe customers who still use Mac OS X Leopard will now probably get a free Leopard DVD. Thereupon, one can then change the usual price for Lion and then go on to icloud MobileMe so Macgasm . The deadline for MobileMe is the 30/06/12 until 15.6. Customers can fulfill all of MobileMe nor the offer from the top. Do you have subscribed to the service, you will get a mail from Apple. It describes, we can import it to your MobileMe account icloud. Apparently, Apple is trying to make as many users as possible icloud available. According to Tim Cook has icloud already 100 million users to come up with the new safety campaign with some of them.

The iPad is a new course of true hit - with or without the support of China. So far, the conflict between Apple and Proview for the naming rights of the iPad were a reason for the launch of the new product from Cupertino still has not begun in China . Apple wants to press the Chinese government to have more to draw attention to themselves. Proview aroused recently Aufsinn frequently in disputes over rights to the name of the iPad on the Chinese market and is responsible for short sale stops in China and a number of complaints relating to the company from Cupertino.     Dongxiao Ma, a Chinese lawyer Representing The Proview company, said on Friday the talks were happening, but declined to offer details. The legal dispute between Apple and Proview is quietly being deliberated by the Higher People's Court of Guangdong Province. But earlier this week, the court recommended that both Apple and Proview find a way to mediate the dispute, according to a court spokesman. According...

iOS hackers can finally record a success message, it is possible with the help of a vulnerability in Apple's activation system to unlock the iPhone. It is no matter what generation it is the iPhone model, IOS version does not matter. The method was baptized under the name Artificial subscriber module e (abbreviated SAM). The only requirement is that the device must be jailbroken.  The small program can be installed, must be added the following source: http://repo.bingner.com and there needs to be installed SAM. How exactly do you go then you have just described, but still looks relatively complicated because of the iPhone has to be disabled, among other things. With this method it is possible 4S iPhone, iPhone 4, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G unlock, so you can use any sim card. SAM works from IOS 5.0.

Following in the footsteps os Tumblr who announced that it will be incorporating ads into its service, Foursquare has become the latest social media site to begin monetizing its site, this time through paid search ads. What this means is that merchants will be able to promote check-in deals on the platform when users search for local specials, employing the same algorithms currently used on the app’s ‘Explore’ tab, ClickZ report . Foursquare is reportedly collaborating with past brand partners to create the paid  ads platform. Over the past two years, the company has worked with brands such as Pepsi, Dunkin’ Donuts and Walgreens, the latter brand social media manager Adam Kmiec confirming that he had spoken to Foursquare about its plans. Before this change was confirmed, Foursquare’s mobile app searches have produced organic results as well as seeing merchant specials and syndicated deals from Groupon and Living social in the ‘Explore’ section. It is expected that the new paid sear...

Arousing interests to make money from your blog There are millions of blogs and WebPages on the internet with their specific target audience. Some of them are there for fun, entertainment and the other are for making money. It is not always essential for a blogger that he will earn money if he owns a blog. It does not matter whatsoever be the business point or marketing strategy but you will have to define a different but trendy strategy which can bring in money. Reasons for creating blogs With a change in the present mindset of people, it has become quite clear to read their thinking and future objectives. There may be several reasons why people are more tilted towards the blog creation where a lot of other business opportunities are still in the pipeline all over the world. Nowadays, every person has easy and quick access to the internet. People often search everything on the internet and they look for the cheap but the best deal which is available on different marketing platforms. 1...

Expert advice on how to get the best insurance plan. Q: It’s open enrollment season for health insurance. What should I compare policies on to make sure I get the best one for the price? A: Generally, you want to look at price, coverage, and ease of use. Clearly, affordability should weigh heavily in your decision, but don’t let that be the sole criteria. If you have a preferred doctor, make sure he or she accepts the plan you’re considering. Also, look at the prescription drug costs in the plan, the deductible you have to pay before benefits kick in, and the overall amount you can be expected to shell out in any given year. If you’re in good health and single, you can save money by picking a low-cost, high-deductible plan that will cover you mainly for major procedures. However, if you go to the doctor a lot or have kids, don’t make the mistake of picking a cheap policy only to later discover that it only covers major injuries or catastrophic illnesses. On the coverage front, find o...

How to end bottom-line battles, build up college savings, and more—from finance coach Lynnette Khalfani-Cox. Q: My husband and I constantly fight about money, especially when things are tight. How can we get on the same page? A: Money battles are a frequent source of frustration for couples. The biggest culprit generally isn’t how much is in your bank account, but your clashing money styles (you’re a spender, he’s a saver, and so on). Another huge problem is lack of communication. Let’s face it: Most of us aren’t comfortable talking about money—even with our spouse. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Have a nonconfrontational “monthly money date” with your husband. Adopt this mantra: disclose, discuss, and decide. Start by disclosing the debts, assets, income, savings, pension benefits, and loans you each have. Then get at what drives your arguments by each completing this sentence: “What stresses me out (or scares me) most about our financial situation is …” Is it really about a lac...

For conditions that aren't life-threatening, you may be able to save time—and money—by going to your local urgent care facility. Learn which site suits your medical care needs. When trying to settle medical bills, don't be afraid to negotiate.Emergency rooms are not always the fastest choice for your medical care needs—and certainly not the most cost-effective. For conditions that aren't life-threatening, you may be able to save time—and money—by going to your local urgent care facility. Sometimes called a “doc in a box,” these freestanding walk-in centers usually offer extended hours, and their doctors can treat non-life-threatening medical situations, perform basic X-rays and lab work, and dispense prescriptions. Emergency room vs. urgent care facility Franz Ritucci, MD, president of the American Academy of Urgent Care Medicine, recalls a Florida woman in her 40s who came to him with chest pain and heart palpitations. He took her medical history and did a physical exam, i...

Local plumber to get incapacity insurance? Before you need it.Chronic discomfort, many forms of cancer malignancy treatment, serious depression—these are just a few of the almost plenty of factors you may not be able to appear to perform for a considerable time period. Consider this statistic: A 20-year-old has a 30% possibility of becoming incapable by time he or she gets to pension age. Useless to say, the economical repercussions of a incapacity can be harmful. In 2001, more than one-fifth of personal bankruptcy in the Combined Declares took place because the individuals (or their spouses) missing at least two several weeks of earnings due to damage or sickness. While govt applications such as Public Protection offer incapacity advantages, the qualifications specifications are strict: Your incapacity must be predicted to last for at least a season and the govt must determine that you are not capable of any gainful career. Also, the advantages may drop well brief of your missing ear...