How to Think like a Hiring Manager and Get the Job

Step by step instructions to Think like a Hiring Manager and Get the Job When youre meeting for a new position, the chances are in support of yourself in the event that you can depend on a referral from a shared companion or a major name previous manager. On the off chance that that is not the situation, youre going in to a circumstance where youll need to sell yourself. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-advertisement 1467144145037-0'); }); Hiring supervisors are regularly deluded by their own predispositionsâ€"and figuring out how to arrange the cards in support of yourself can take care of when it comes time to get hired!Keep the accompanying as a top priority if youre preparing for a significant interview:We will in general contemplate individuals who we believe resemble us.What would you be able to get some answers concerning the organization culture or even the recruiting administrator specifically to assist you with exhibiting intrigues they may share?We will in general view those unique in relation to us adversely, regardle ss of whether we need somebody with totally different skills.While its great to act naturally in a meeting, its solitary presence of mind to make light of any periphery interests or tense individual style highlightsâ€"for instance, shroud noticeable tattoos or piercings until youre sure the workplace culture is responsive to them.First impressions count.The corona impact and its inverse (the pitchfork impact, possibly?) is the thing that happens when we discover one quality we like in an individual and accept that the remainder of their obscure characteristics are most likely similarly as great (or as an awful, on the off chance that we center around a quality we don't like).If you establish an incredible connection with one region of experience or character attribute, the questioner may assume the best about you in zones where they think less about you! (The other side is obviously that one awful impression may shading their entire view of you similarly as easily.)People make subli minal assumptions.Try as you may, you wont recognize what qualities will ping a recruiting directors radar. It could be your school, your last organization, your old neighborhood, the groups you support, or the stores you visit. Look out for what you may make reference to, however consistently always be real. Everybody can recognize a fake.Living and working in New York, I have needed to become as careful about revealing games affiliations as the vast majority are about legislative issues, religion, and cash! Be that as it may, when Im sufficiently fortunate to experience an individual Mets fan or an individual from my graduated class affiliation, I play that up like nobodys businessâ€"dont be timid about school/group/town name-dropping, simply abstain from appearing to be The Offices Andy Bernard and attempting to reflect everyones involvement in your own!

Finding Solid Career Support During Career Transition - Hallie Crawford

Finding Solid Career Support During Career Transition How can you remain positive and focused during your career transition? Here are some ideas: Career networking both online and in person. There are tons of career-focused networks and resources on the internet and in your local area. Do a Google search. Check out your home town paper to find out where the best career focused communities are hiding. Individual career coaching. A good coach is there to offer expert advice, an objective viewpoint, positive encouragement and suggestions to help manage your goals effectively, in a manner that works for you. A career seeking buddy. Seek like-minded people or a supportive friend to commiserate with, share experiences with, and bounce ideas off of. A mentor or someone who has been there. Is there someone in your life who you admire because they didnt follow the status quo, made their own way or just seem to be living out an amazingly full and satisfying life and career? Set up some time to talk with them. Career education courses. Newspapers, career publications, public libraries, online career resources and even my career website, are all great places to discover reasonably-priced career education and transition courses. Become armed with the knowledge needed to begin your journey on the path to a more fulfilling career. Good luck! Hallie Atlanta career coach

Next NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology Conference Set for April

Next NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology Conference Set for April Next NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology Conference Set for April Next NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology Conference Set for April The sorting out panel for the ASME 2015 fourth Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology (NEMB 2015) is tolerating abstracts from analysts keen on introducing specialized papers and banners at the meeting, to be held April 19-22, 2015, in Minneapolis, Minn. The cutoff time for entries is Jan. 5. The following year's occasion in Minneapolis follows an extremely effective 2014 meeting, held in San Francisco last February, which pulled in excess of 300 participants and highlighted 45 specialized meetings, 40 keynote and included speakers, and various all-hands meetings and instructional exercises. NEMB 2015 is equipping to be similarly as energizing, with various illuminators from the field of nanoengineering for medication and science as of now ready as gathering moderators. Speakers previously affirmed for NEMB 2015 incorporate Rashid Bashir, educator of electrical and PC designing and bioengineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and executive of the college's Micro and NanoTechnology Laboratory and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology; Shuichi Takayama, teacher of bioengineering at the University of Michigan; Lihong Wang, teacher of bioengineering at Washington University in St. Louis; Paul Weiss, the Fred Kavli Chair in NanoSystems Sciences and executive of the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles; and Denis Wirtz, educator of synthetic and biomolecular designing and bad habit executive for research at Johns Hopkins University. Voyages through the Minnesota Nano Center at the University of Minnesota, a cutting edge office for nanotechnology R&D, will be led on Sunday, April 19, during the ASME 2015 fourth Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology (NEMB 2015). The NEMB 2015 specialized program will be isolated in six topical tracks, covering the regions of nano-imaging and nanophotonics; nano-therapeutics; nano and microfluidics; nano-to-full scale multiscale displaying; nanotoxicology in general wellbeing and the earth; and biomimetic materials. A few instructional exercises will be introduced on Sunday, April 19, covering such themes as open doors for ladies and under-spoke to minorities in nanoscience and innovation for medication and science; National Cancer Institute subsidizing in nanotechnology; cardiotoxicity of developing malignant growth nano-treatments; and coordinated multiscale biomedical displaying and investigations. Voyages through the University of Minnesota Nano Center additionally will be offered on April 19. The gathering will highlight an extraordinary ASME NEMB Poster Competition, which will offer understudies the chance to connect with pioneers from the field of nanomedicine, present their examination before many participants, and talk about their thoughts with companions, teachers and delegates from government and industry. Chosen finalists will participate in the opposition's lightning round, during which money prizes and declarations will be granted. Grant champs will likewise be highlighted in a progression of recordings to be posted on ASME.org and other ASME internet based life outlets. Caroline Cvetkovic, one of the banner moderators from NEMB 2014, is included in a video cut that was as of late posted on ASME.org. Cvetkovic's video is one of a few meetings with NEMB 2014 banner moderators now accessible on the ASME site. A few meeting cuts highlighting banner moderators from NEMB 2014 were as of late posted on the ASME site. Visit ASME.org to watch a meeting with Caroline Cvetkovic, a member from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and for connections to different meetings. To present a paper or banner unique, visit www.asmeconferences.org, and adhere to the directions on the website page. For more data on the fourth Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology, visit www.asmeconferences.org/NEMB2015 or contact Christine Reilley, Engineering Sciences, at (212) 591-8486 or reilleyc@asme.org.

Uber Interview Questions - Maximum Sum of Non-adjacent Elements

Uber Interview Questions - Maximum Sum of Non-adjacent Elements As you may know, one of our blogs current focuses is on Uber interview questions. Their questions are usually representative and you can expect exactly the same kind of questions from other top companies like Google, Facebook, Airbnb, etc.. In addition, we only cover questions that were asked recently. This week, the question is maximum sum of non-adjacent elements. Its of medium difficulty, you may expect to have it as the second question in an on-site interview. We are going to cover topics including array, recursion/dynamic programming, algorithm efficiency and so on so forth. Maximum Sum of Non-adjacent Elements Given an array of integers, find a maximum sum of non-adjacent elements. For example, inputs [1, 0, 3, 9, 2] should return 10 (1 + 9). The question has been asked by Uber recently (as the time of writing). Ive also seen many similar questions like finding the maximum sum of subarrays. Analysis Again, if you havent seen this questions before, solve it by yourself first. Otherwise, theres no point to reading this post. Its not obvious to solve this problem naively. Unlike many other interview questions, you can hardly use brute force or some greedy algorithms here, because theres no way for you to list all non-adjacent elements combination. But just because of this, it provides a great hint dynamic programming. Let me explain more here. Dynamic programming You may check Step by Step Guide to Dynamic Programming if you are unfamiliar with this concept and its completely necessary to know it for coding interviews. When I was trying to solve this problem, there are two obvious things that make me think about dynamic programming. First, when the question is about finding particular subarrays or subsets, dynamic programming is usually a great approach. This is because the problem is easy to break down into sub-problems. Second, when you find it impossible to brute force all possibilities, it also indicates that recursion or dynamic programming is worth to try. For example, finding subarray with given sum can easily be solved by brute force (of course its not optimal), but you can do the same thing to find the subset with given sum. (Check this post for more info) Solution With that in mind, we should think about how to break down the big problem into sub-problems. Suppose we know the max sum for all subarrays, how can it help us to solve the overall problem? Lets use max_sum[i] denote the maximum sum for subarray arr[0i]. If the last number arr[i] is included in the sum, max_sum[i] should equal to arr[i] + max_sum[i-2] (because arr[i-1] cannot be included). Similarly, if arr[i] isnt included, then max_sum[i] should equal to arr[i-1]. Therefore, we have the following formula: max_sum[i] = MAX(arr[i] + max_sum[i-2], max_sum[i-1]) So the code is like: Memorization One of the advantages of dynamic programming is memorization. In the above code, many steps are unnecessarily re-calculated. To make it faster, we should store all results in memory. Thus, we have the following code: As you can see, we use array mem to store all results weve processed so that we wont repeat the unnecessary calculation. The time complexity is O(N) because from i = 0 to N, every single one is calculated at most once due to memorization. As we use an extra array, the space complexity is O(N) as well. Optimization Can you further optimize the solution? First of all, theres no way to improve the time complexity because we should check every single number at least once. Thus O(N) is the lower bound. Thus, we should think about reducing memory usage. If you take a look at the previous formula again, you might notice one interesting fact. Every step only relies on the previous two steps results. In other words, if we care about max_sum(i), theres no need to store anything before i-2. The code might be quite different from previous versions, that is because we are doing a bottom-up approach for dynamic programming. We use prevOne and prevTwo to store results of previous two steps. From i = 0 to N, we store the results of each subarray arr[0i] to prevOne and arr[0i-1] to prevTwo, thus the next iteration can use them to calculate for the new subarray. In essence, they are exactly the same as previous solutions. Summary I hope you found the question maximum sum of non-adjacent elements helpful. Instead of giving you the final solution, I think its very necessary to provide the whole analysis process and provide the coding solution at each step. Otherwise, many people wont be able to know where the final solution come from. Dynamic programming is a hard topic in coding interviews. Most of the time a top-down approach is enough, but for this one, a bottom-up approach is more efficient. By the way, if you want to have more guidance from experienced interviewers, you can check Gainlo that allows you to have mock interview with engineers from Google, Facebook ,etc..

[DARE #14] - Unstuck Yet - What Went Wrong in 2014 - Melissa Llarena

[DARE #14] - Unstuck Yet - What Went Wrong in 2014 [DARE #14] Unstuck Yet? What Went Wrong in 2014? Its the last Sunday challenge of the year.  Last week I encouraged you to figure out ways to delegate yourself out of your current job to a better one it was a forward-looking task.Now, lets take one step back.Be warned: this one is uncomfortable for everyone but its about increasing our self-awareness.If we increase our self-awareness around the promises that we make to ourselvesIf we increase our self-awareness around the expectations we place on ourselvesIf we increase our self-awareness around why we have unfulfilled promises and unsatisfying expectationsthen we can get to the root of what it will really take to achieve our desires in the new year.So, dare #14 is for you to revisit your 2014 New Years resolutions.  Crack open that old notebook.Read your list.So did you eat healthier?Are your finances in a better place?Did you get that makeover?How did that career transition go or not go?Are you in a new home?Did your business grow?Did you launch your website?Are you happier today than when 2014 began?Think through your 2014 New Years resolutionsCross out the ones you got done and celebrate thoseHighlight the ones that you didnt get done in 2014The assignment is not to dwell on missed opportunities but to figure out why you left so much on the table.Its inevitable.Chances are (unless you had few or zero 2014 resolutions) that a few big ones did not happenChances are that year after year the same one is haunting youWhen looking at those unresolved dreams ask yourselfDid I ever really want that or was I trying to fulfill someone elses expectations?Was I really ready to sacrifice my sleep or family or [x] time for that goal?Did I continue to surround myself with unsupportive folks?How well equipped was I by myself to reach that goal?Was I setting myself up for disappointments by aiming for unrealistic goals?Was I seriously sober when I wrote that? (Just kidding, maybe?)Heres an example of one of my own 2014 unfulfilled goals:My goal was to have in place a do-it-yourself product so that when I birthed my twins I could continue to sustain my business while going from being a mom of one little boy to three boys.So how did I net out?I created this sales page.I sent a note to my database 1.5 months prior to going on maternity leave.I sold some packages.And then proceeded the sound of  crickets.I went on maternity leave for about four months.And instead of selling this DIY packetformer and new clients wanted more of me and my time rather than less of me and my timeIn other words, you guys didnt really want to do-it-yourselvesYou prefer a partnerAn accompliceA sound boardingA strategic career expert to give you confidence in knowing that you are doing everything right or who will help you think through what youre doing wrong based on years of experienceSo after reviewing this 2014 goalGetting to know hundreds of youAnd evaluating my anticipated 2015 best lifeMy plan is to offer higher-touch, even more tailored, deeper diving career coaching options to fewer clients in 2015Why?You want more of me and I want more of you.Let me explain.You want me to be accessible the night before your interviewYou want me to iron out your interview answersYou want me to uncover usable insights around your interviewersIn turn,I want to teach you the most effective ways to outsmart your competition based on your specific situationI want to show you how to work a room filled with prospective colleagues, leaders or direct reports while taking into account what it will take to get YOU comfortable in a stressful settingI want to meet you one-on-oneNow, there is no sales page (yet).My rationale behind my example is not to sell you on my brainchild instead I want to show you how you can think about your 2014 unrealized resolutions to inform your 2015 goals so that they will have a higher likelihood of success.Now, its time to reevaluate your 2014 resolutionsBe honest with yourselfUncover why so me never happenedAnd use those insights so that 2015 is more productive and fulfilling.Happy Sunday,Melissa