Smart Phones to capture Moments

Posted on 18 January, 2011 at 11:45 PM by with 4 Comments

With the easy accessible to a Smartphone that has camera features. Many people are just taking photographs easily and conveniently. Thus you will see many people upload their pictures into social media like facebook, flicker etc. Camera sales are not that sellable anymore.

Pictures are amazing. They are able to capture that very moments that you like. Send it for print and the memory can last forever. The pictures will also serve as a break time topics for friends to laugh about.

In the past, Smartphone were not the hype thing. Car owners that involved in accidents were having headache to prove their innocence so as to claim car insurance. They did not have any picture to provide evidence. Thus it was a real headache. Unlike today, many car accidents scenes are easily taken by a phone that comes with camera feature.

In order to prove the completed task for management reporting, now you can also capture the finished product or activity in a camera. Take out the Smartphone such as iPhone, Blackberry and you can capture the sample or product. Any angle you like and asked for.

Lessons Learn: Capture the best moment and let it sink to your memory and hopefully you can talk about it sometime later with your loved ones or friends.

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Lesson Learned in Interviewing Candidates

Posted on 17 December, 2010 at 11:45 PM by with 4 Comments

I happened to interview some candidates for the position of a Project Coordinator.

There were 2 unique candidates in this interview session.

Both of the candidates resigned their previous job without securing a new position.
Thus their notice period is immediately available.

Candidate 1
She is a young lady of 26 years old. We had arranged for a 10am morning interview session.

While the interview panel (including myself) is waiting anxiously at the meeting room.
The candidate called and said that she will be few minutes late for the interview.

However, she took more than 20 minutes to arrive the meeting room.
The first impression was already discounted. Her punctuality had gave her away.
Out of grace, maybe she was caught in the traffic.

Thus we started the interview.
The moment we sat down, the candidate immediately took out a piece of paper from her handbag.
It seems like she is trying to read from her prepared script and not stating the true fact.
Each time a question was given to her, she seems to be looking onto that piece of paper for inspiration.

Being a NLP trained, I looked at her eyes while she speaks.
Her eye contact was floating and she had been moving her eyes all over the place. Looking upwards, sideways and downwards.  It gave me the impression that she is making up facts and trying to say somethings to please the interview panel.

After the whole interview session, the panel evaluated and feedback that she is not ready for the position.

Candidate 2

After the last incident in the morning,the interview panel had started to be more watchful.
The next candidate had overcome the impression of punctuality

Panel discovered that she had started her career for the last 10 years in the same company, from a entry level admin clerk till the position of HR Admin Manager.
She had given the panel the impression that she knows what she is doing and she presented herself well.

Not having discussed further, the panel cut short the session.

Comparing the 2 interview candidates performance.
The panel had decided to shortlist the second candidate and offer her the position.

Lessons Learned:

  • First impression really last if both parties are meeting for the first time.
  • Know what you are saying and be confident of yourself.
  • Do not be late for any important meeting
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File Naming Convention

Posted on 29 October, 2010 at 11:45 PM by with Leave a Comment

How would you name a file name when you save a document?

There are many naming conventions for many people. Some will use versions appended behind a file name, say <filename ver 1>. Some will use date to indicate the version that created in a day <filename 020310.xls>.

In my opinion, having a clear file naming convention is vital because it needs to be easily deciphered by readers or anyone who wants to access the file. It will be difficult to pick up the correct file if there are many of such numeric names in the same folder. It may be confusing.

It may seem alright for the creator to identify the filename. However, if this document or spreadsheet is going to correspond to other party, then a clear file naming is critical. Complex naming convention will be a problem, imagine the recipient has to understand the file name first before deciding which is the correct file.

Comparing < filename 030410 Customer product.xls > v.s. < filename 040310 Customer product.xls> may have dual meaning. With the above scenario, is the file 0304 saved on 3rd of April or 4th of March. There is a mixture of meanings to the file.

If the filename is clear and sharp, the recipient will be able to pick up the correct file.  Say if you are the Project Manager and had saved files in such manner. You may have a possibility of updating the wrong document, say project plan, project cost file etc.

It is of paramount to have a good filename convention. As for me, I would name my file like this

<filename_dd_MMM ver 9.xls>.

Filename is whatever the topic that you are referring to. Include the date in numeric and to abbreviate out the month plus a version number at the back. This will indicate to the recipient that the spreadsheet is created on which date and which versions if there are multiple files saved on the same day.

Hope this helps in your future documents saving.

Please share your comments if you have any feedback or alternate suggestions.

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