Showing posts with label career development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label career development. Show all posts

Wednesday, 26 October 2016

Tips: Applying to Google

Ready to apply for an internship or a full-time job at Google? Here’s what you’ll need:
  • An updated resume
  • A transcript from your university (unofficial is fine)
  • In some cases, a cover letter, short essay, or additional information listed in the job description

Focus on your resume

Your resume is the first piece of information we’ll see about you. Here’s how to highlight your achievements:
  • Align your skills and experience with the internship or job description
  • Be specific about projects you’ve worked on or managed. What was the outcome? How did you measure success?
  • If you've had a leadership role in a volunteer organization or at a part-time job, tell us about it. How big was the team? What was the scope of your work?
  • Include your GPA, as well as school-related projects or coursework that demonstrate relevant skills and knowledge
  • Keep it short: Aim for one page. If there’s additional information we need during the hiring process, (like a portfolio), your recruiter will work with you to collect it

Prepare for the interview process

  • Once you’ve submitted your application online, our staffing team will review your resume, transcript, and any supplementary materials
  • The next step in the process is a series of interviews—which may be on the phone, via video conference, or in person—to assess your skills
  • For technical interviews, practice coding on a whiteboard, in Google Docs, or over the phone. You can find sample coding questions on sites like LeetCode, CodeLab, Quora, and Stack Overflow. The book “Cracking the Coding Interview” is also a good resource
  • Structure your interview answers: It’s important to show how you arrive at a solution, so think out loud
Helpful questions to think about as you prepare:
  • How do you work best, both as an individual and as part of a team?
  • What challenges have you faced at school or at work and how did you overcome them?
  • Which of your skills or experiences would be assets in the role and why?
If you don’t understand a question, ask your interviewers for clarification and take the time you need with responses.

Sunday, 10 July 2016

How to build an android app

The world as we know it is changing, we are leaving the 21st century gradually. Technology is already taking over in many instances and some people are getting left behind. It's a new world out there, a game changing world and when the game changes, we ought to adapt to the new changes. People have different ideas, imaginations and innovations that can be brought to life if well nurtured.
Many people wish to express themselves but are hindered by different kinds of resources. Such resources includes:

  • Lack of tools
  • Lack of technical know how
  • Inadequate information dispersal
  • Non access to financial resources.
Some other people are working round the clock to find solutions to some "if not all" of the aforementioned problems. They noticed that the main reason people repudiate this new changes is their low level of technical knowhow. They despise programming. For them technology is boring; as you need to study hard and stress yourself writing lines of jargons. To make programming easy while carrying everybody along with the changes in the new world, some people sacrificed their time and efforts to build something that would make you develop a program without writing codes. 

Yes! You can write a program without having any knowledge of programming. All you'll need is the willingness to adapt to change. And wherever there is a will, there is surely a way. 

MIT APP INVENTOR SITE
To start creating your apps, you'll need the following:
1.     A laptop or a desktop
2.     Internet access
3.     A google account
4.     And the will to create

Once all of this is acquired, head to MIT API2 website and login with your google account.

Thursday, 7 July 2016

Career Choice

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” (Confucius)




The ultimate goal in life is to be happy. Happiness cannot be bought, but it can actually be chosen as a way of life. One cannot be happy doing something he/she hates. Choosing a career is like choosing a way of life since career is something that's suppose to last a lifetime. Choosing a career can be very challenging for some people while for some others, its been imprinted on them since birth.