How to communicate effectively in a job interview

Take a few deep breaths to calm down if you feel yourself getting nervous or overwhelmed

Communicating effectively is one of the key steps to performing well in a job interview. It lets an interviewer know you are articulate, educated and personable. Learn a few methods on how to communicate effectively in a job interview so you make a good impression on potential employers.

Utilize small talk:

Use small talk at the beginning of the interview to your advantage. Smile, respond to pleasantries and be sure to shake your interviewer’s hand. This will help the interviewer gain an understanding of your personality and how you communicate with people.

Stay positive:

Focus on positive or neutral topics. Avoid mentioning any negative issues or controversial current events that will cause the mood of the interview to shift in a negative direction.

Answer the questions:

CIT-IOE (Centre of Information Technology)

CIT:

Cit is one of the vital part of IOE. It is the central area from where the whole network of IOE is controlled. It can be said as the heart of IOE network. Different departments of IOE are interconnected in LAN and it connects with the outer world of internet via CIT. 

Internet Source:

Currently, it’s receiving 8 Mbps internet from Nepal Telecom Corporation (NTC). The bandwidth is not limited to specific department. Everyone receives the same 8 Mbps bandwidth. The band limiting device was temporarily discarded due to some problems.

Physical Medium/Reception:

CIT uses single optical fiber to receive 8 Mbps internet from NTC. Before this, it used to receive 2 Mbps internet from co-axial cable and uses two co-axial cable, totaling to 4 Mbps internet. To distribute the internet from CIT to different departments, it then uses co-axial cable.

Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop

Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop is based on the most recent stable version of

Apache Hadoop with numerous patches, backports, and updates. Cloudera shares this distribution in a number of different formats: compressed tar files, RPMs, Debian packages, and Amazon EC2 AMIs. Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop is free, released under the Apache 2.0 license and available at http://www.cloudera.com/hadoop/.

Cloudera has an online configurator at http://www.cloudera.com/configurator to make setting up a Hadoop cluster easy (Figure B-1). The configurator has a simple wizardlike interface that asks targeted questions about your cluster. When you’ve finished, the configurator generates customized Hadoop packages and places them in a package repository for you. You can manage any number of clusters and return at a later time to update your active configurations. 

To simplify package management, Cloudera shares RPMs from a yum repository and Debian packages from an apt repository. Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop enables you to install and configure Hadoop on each machine in your cluster by running a single, simple command. Kickstart users benefit even more by being able to commission entire Hadoop clusters automatically without any manual intervention.

Prerequisites

Installing Apache Hadoop

It’s easy to install Hadoop on a single machine to try it out.

Prerequisites

Hadoop is written in Java, so you will need to have Java installed on your machine,

version 6 or later. Sun's JDK is the one most widely used with Hadoop, although others

have been reported to work.

Hadoop runs on Unix and on Windows. Linux is the only supported production plat-

form, but other flavors of Unix (including Mac OS X) can be used to run Hadoop for

development. Windows is only supported as a development platform, and additionally

requires Cygwin to run. During the Cygwin installation process, you should include

the openssh package if you plan to run Hadoop in pseudo-distributed mode.

Installation

Start by deciding which user you’d like to run Hadoop as. For trying out Hadoop or

developing Hadoop programs, it is simplest to run Hadoop on a single machine using

your own user account.

Download a stable release, which is packaged as a gzipped tar file, from the Apache

Hadoop releases page (http://hadoop.apache.org/core/releases.html) and unpack it

somewhere on your filesystem:

% tar -xzf hadoop-x.y.z.tar.gz

Changing careers midway

Researching current market trends is essential before taking the plunge

Whether due to ardent desire or due to less than ideal situations in the present economic meltdown, changing careers mid-way is a distraught decision. Some points to mull over before changing careers midway.

Always keep a contingency plan ready:

You can move within the same or related industry or may be to a completely different one. But before the shift, ponder few questions like whether it pays you to help you survive. Without money, life becomes difficult. Often hobbies and passions do not convert to high paying jobs, even entrepreneurship takes time to translate into a well-paid job. It is better to keep something ready to fall back on. Also, moving to a new industry is risky and may not be as exciting.

Decide whether the field is appropriate at that moment:

Students Demand Instant FeedBack: Study

Students currently going through the higher education system are part of a 'net generation' who expect, instant feedback because of their heavy reliance on mobile phones, social media and video games, a conference has heard.

Arlene J Nicholos, an assistant professor in the Department of Business Studies and Economics as Salve Regina University in New England, spoke at the Society for Research into Higher Education conference, held in Wales, giving findings from her research on learning methods among 100 students at a small private university.

Python 3 examples and Explanations: Generator Function

 Generator pattern are incredibly important and useful pattern  in python. It actually creates an iterator.

 Reference code is:

#this is a general function

def isprime(n);

            if n == 1:

                        return False

            for x in range(2,n):

                        if n % x == 0;

                                    return False

            else:

                        return True

# this is a generator function

def primes(n = 1):

            while(True):

                        if isprime(n): yield n

                        n += 1

Better sleep habits improve education: Study

University of Cincinnati research finds that college students could be undermining their own education, simply because they’re not practicing proper sleep habits. The study, led by Adam Knowlden, a UC doctoral student in UC’s Health Promotion and Education Program, holds recommendations for students to form better sleep habits that will ultimately enhance their learning.

The study evaluated the sleep habits of nearly 200 undergraduate college students between the ages of 18 and 24 who were not living with a parent or legal guardian. The study included 130 females and 67 males who were mostly first and second year college students. The majority of them worked either full or part-time jobs as they were going to college.

The study surveyed student sleeping habits over 24 hour period. As per the study, only 24 percent

Install and Configure Python 3 in Eclipse

Download latest python from http://www.python.org/download/releases

Download Eclipse from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/     . Any of the eclipse will work. But I recommend to download the classic eclipse.

For Eclipse you need to have java installed in your machine. Windows doesn’t comes with java by default.

First install python. Just double click and follow the instructions. You may stick to the default configurations.

Then install eclipse. Extract the zip file. You may copy the entire eclipse folder to ProgramFiles or simply run eclipse from anywhere you want.

This is not the end. We need further process.

We need to install Pydev. That’s the development environment for python. Or you can say it’s the necessary plugin to configure eclipse for running python.

Filaria Medication Programme (Friday & Saturday : Jan 6 & 7, 2012)

What’s Filaria?

Filaria is a communicable disease. It’s causative agent is parasitic filarial worms Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia malayi. Mosquito is the medium of it’s transmission from one person to another.

Who can be affected?

Anyone is vulnerable to be affected by disease. Since, it’s the function of the Mosquito, children are more vulnerable to this disease, BUT, the symptoms will be shown in the young age.

Symptoms 

How to write an appointment letter

Give all the relevant details pertaining to the offer, as well as the benefits

An appointment letter is written to inform a person that he or she is selected for a particular position in an organization. This letter is used for a formal beginning of relationship between the employer and employee. The appointment letter is a document that has details about the designation you will be working on, date of joining, and compensation package. With an appointment letter, you get a document that has terms and conditions. This letter is used for formal correspondence, so it has to be professional.

This type of letter helps the candidate in understanding various aspects about his or her job as well as policies of the organization. All benefits like leave, insurance, etc. are mentioned in the appointment letter, which helps the employee understand the exact nature of his job as well perks that come with it. The letter has to be direct and concise. All the essentials details about the job that you are offering have to be mentioned in the letter. This letter helps the company in creating an impression on the new employee who is about to join, hence it has to be drafted carefully.

Here are some tips that will assist you in drafting an appointment letter:

# The  letter has to directly address the person to whom the job position has been offered.

# The letter has to be printed on the company’s letter head.