Job Interviews - More Tips and Secrets to Help You Change Careers

Job Interviews - More Tips and Secrets to Help You Change Careers
Job interviews are hardly anyone's favourite hobby. They
can be boring, nerve wrecking and challenging to say the
least. However, with the right attitude job interviews can
be a creative and highly rewarding process. The following
ideas and strategies are guaranteed to help you succeed at
job interviews and make the career changes you desire.

1. Find the problem - You are being interviewed because the
prospective employer has ongoing or potential problems that
need to be solved on a regular basis. As a result, your
success at the job interview depends on how well you are
able to demonstrate your problem-solving abilities. Find
out more about your prospective employer's wants and needs
by conducting vigorous research. For instance you can carry
out internet searches, speak to relevant staff, read
company literature and browse through press archives.

2. Find the solution - Anyone can identify problems but it
takes a winning candidate to create helpful solutions.
Whilst preparing for your job interview, seek a thorough
understanding of your prospective employer's wants and
needs then brainstorm for ideas and strategies that can
satisfy those wants and needs. The more solutions you can
proffer, the more capable you will appear. However, be
careful not to give too much information away at the
interview. Just say enough to demonstrate your expertise
and generate some positive interest.

3. Fire your desire - During the job interview, your
interviewers will want to know if you genuinely want the
job so don't hamper your chances by exhibiting nonchalant
behaviour. Whilst preparing for the interview, fire your
desire by repeatedly visualising yourself in the new role.
Remember that we attract the things we focus intently on.
Be sure to maintain high levels of confidence whilst
keeping your feet firmly on the ground. If you carry out
your due diligence and remain persistent, you will succeed
at job interviews and make the career changes you desire.

4. Get inside knowledge - It's important to find out,
beforehand, what format the job interview is going to take.
Will you be asked behavioural and situational questions for
instance? Will you have to prepare a presentation or take
any assessment tests on the day? The more you know, the
better prepared you'll be. It also helps to find out basic
information about your prospective interviewers. How many
people will be interviewing you on the day? What are their
names? What age group do they belong to? What are their
roles within the company? Again, if you know what to
expect, you'll feel more confident at the interview. Ask
the prospective employer, recruitment agents and other
reliable persons for detailed information then tailor your
responses to suit your interviewers' style.

5. Get some help - Often people find job interviews a chore
because they do all the preparation alone. But why bear the
burden yourself when you can easily get others to help you?
For instance, you can get close relatives to practice
likely questions and answers with you or pay the
neighbourhood whiz kid to do some research on your behalf.
If you are one of those people who can't figure out what
'smart casual' really means, get a fashionable friend to
help you choose what to wear on the big day. If your morale
is low, ask your nearest and dearest for encouragement and
support. Remember that even the most unlikely people can
offer unique perspectives and nuggets of wisdom too.

6. Do your best - It is true that you can only do your
best, but aim to make your best good enough. Speak clearly
and confidently at the job interview whilst maintaining
your natural style. For instance, if you are a slow talker
don't try to speak quickly just because you want to sound
keen on the job and if you are the serious sort don't try
to be overtly humorous either. Maintain eye contact with
your interviewers throughout the interview as this will
make you come across as honest, confident and intelligent.
Just be your best self and you'll make a positive impact at
the job interview.

7. Follow up - Never leave the interview room without a
contact name and direct telephone number you can use for
follow up purposes. However, make sure you find out how
long you should wait before soliciting job interview
feedback. It is wise to send a thank you note a few days
after the final interview and to ring for information
within agreed time scales. If more follow up is required do
so no more than twice per week, contacting the key decision
makers (usually the interviewers) directly where possible.
Do exhibit polite and professional behaviour at all times.

Well prepared candidates usually do well at job interviews.
Keep the above pointers in mind and you too can outshine
your competitors, secure your dream job and enjoy lasting
career happiness.

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Ogo Ogbata is the founder of leading lifestyle and career
design website CreativityandSense.Com. She helps
individuals find (or create if necessary) financially
rewarding work that allows time and energy for what matters
most in life. Visit http://www.creativityandsense.com for
tips and strategies guaranteed to help you create the
working life of your dreams.

Plastic Film Defects Ought To Be Caught

Plastic Film Defects Ought To Be Caught
All possible plastic film defects ought to be detected and
eliminated by the extruder operator before the roll gets
shipped to the customer. But in practice, through oversight
and inattention to detail defects can slip by that may be
all too easily spotted by the customer or the customer's
customer. I have found a variety of unrelated faults that
fit into this category.

First is the appearance and a good looking finished plastic
roll of film this aspect can be half of the battle. Keep in
mind is that first impression what you see is what you get!
A superficially ugly looking roll which may convert on the
filling machine or bag machine can have the operator
looking at the roll much closer for the entire lot for real
or imaginary defects.

A roll that has a machine cylinder look means no scuff
marks, damaged edges, and fuzzy ends, protruding or buried
core ends, or crushed cores. The solutions to these
problems are self evident. There are other finer detailed
defects that can be buried in the roll, and may be if the
production line is never approached by the operator except
during a roll change. There is no excuse for the customer
being the first to see these.

I have a couple of areas for helping prevent roll defects:

How to Tackle Blocking of the Plastic Film - a common
reason for blocking is too much winding tension. This maybe
over looked unless tension is so great as to crush the core
as the film is being wound on the roll. This makes it
impossible for the operator to remove the roll from the
winder shaft. With a case of crushed cores, the rolls may
be hard to get off of the shaft, only to have the customer
find them impossible to remount on a un-wind stand. Just as
bad of a problem can arise if the winding tension is too
light, no blocking but the film may telescope from one end
of the roll, making it impossible to convert into finished
product. Hot weather can bring its share of blocking
problems. Plastic Film is insufficiently cooled and the
inner surface blocks as they pass through the nip rolls.
For a cure you must reduce the output, raise the tower
height or nip rolls, or use refrigerated air or other means
of improving cooling efficiency. It also can be an
inefficient air ring. An entirely different cause of
blocking can be using a resin to produce 1 mil film that
has a slip and anti-block additive level designed for
heavier gauges like 4 mil. There just isn't enough additive
to do the proper job. Over-treatment and or high gloss can
aggravate if not cause blocking with any of the above
conditions.

Tendency to Split - Plastic Film with splits tendencies can
also be overlooked unless samples are taken to examine, or
actually tested. Insufficient cooling, a high frost line or
to low of a blow up ratio, separately or a combination can
accentuate the machine direction or orientation of the film
causing the film to become splits. Also your nips in the
tower maybe to tight particularly with an old and hardening
nip roll which can deform the plastic film in the edge
crease and make it splits. Die lines or another name is
weld lines from the extrusion die make splits film as can
scratches from the collapsing frame in the extrusion tower
or a bur that has developed if using wooden collapsing
frames. But not so readily detected are the fine weld lines
caused by degraded particles of resin or dirt lodged under
or in the die lips that make the film extremely split at
the weld.

Good operator observations to equipment maintenance,
quality testing of roll samples and putting the proper
procedures in place will help in building customer loyalty.

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David Banig has been in the Flexographic printing industry
for 32 years and has had various patents along with hands
on experience. If you are looking for someone to improve
your packaging P&R Flexible is the inovator and consultant
of todays packaging.
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