How to STAND OUT? Lets explore.

A few months back I was interviewing someone. Let's call him Arvind. He was decent. Had the right skills, he knew his subject well and knew what was asked and how to answer it.

We were a 3 member interview panel. Even before the interview began we were impressed with his resume.

The thing that was impressive about his resume was not what he has written but the actual verifiable evidence he gave of his work. That's what made his resume stand out.

A tool he has created in his leisure time is recommened by a professor of the caltech university. His contribution to a programming forum on internet has 1000+ downloads.

The fact that all this were not required and he did this in his part time were a positive for him.

So what am I getting at?

This is what I call personal assets. That guy in his spare time, after his work life was active with his passion and created things with those skills. This way slowly he has built something that others find useful and this is what he leveraged in his job search.

This method worked as everyone who saw that resume was impressed.

This is what I mean when I ask people to work on side projects. Not only side projects improve your skills but they help you create assets that one can leverage.

Internet and tools available there give you immense opportunity to stand out. The question is are you using them?


In the year 2012, I will be exploring this topic in more detail. I would like to see everyone participate in this. Tell us what do you think it takes to stand out?

Interview Questions !!!!

Dear friends,

There were several times I have seen nervousness on the face of my candidates before interview, It's just because lack of knowledge about the questions HR is going to ask. Hence I suggest everyone that before going to interview, one should prepare for it & should know about the company, the projects for which company is hiring and all......  Preparation and confidence are very important. Good preparation always creates confidence. So the important thing to an interview is to be well prepared. In this you have to consider two things:

1. You must prepare yourself practically for the interview.  
2. You have to gather information which is useful during the interview.

Please find the below given links which will help you in preparing for the interview and in building up confidence 

Questions asked in Honeywell Interview.

http://www.allinterview.com/company/Honeywell.html

Questions asked in HAL Interview

http://www.allinterview.com/company/HAL.html

• http://www.allinterview.com/company/HAL/technical-test-questions.html
• http://www.allinterview.com/company/HAL/interview-questions.html 

Question asked in various companies @ Embedded Systems for Avionics domain

http://www.allinterview.com/Interview-Questions/Embedded-Systems.html

http://www.allinterview.com/Interview-Questions/Embedded-Systems-AllOther.html  

beside the above links, Internet is the best source to prepare for the interview.

Good luck to all..........

January 05, 2012 

Air Force Common Admission Test

Dear friends,
Indian Air Force invites application for grant of short service commission in flying branch and permanent / short service commission in technical and ground duty branches. Please find the below given link and note that LAST DATE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS is 13th January 2012. 

http://careerairforce.nic.in/home.html

Good Luck to all.......

Great strength

Let's begin the new year with this quote.

"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great
strength to decide on what to do." - Elbert Hubbard

Wish you find the strength to do what is right!

Happy 2012? What are you aiming to acheive this year, let's discuss in
the comments.

Be winner _ Group Discussion

Group discussion is a part of interview in many organization, I personally feel that by referring some below given points we can win GD. It should be controlled by logic and arguments not by emotions. Isn't it ?

Tool A

It will increase the weight of your arguments

Point
Logic
Example

 

• Point—Put your point of view in front of the group. It’s not necessary that your point should be different from others’ points. But it should be on well defined assumption. Your initiate will not provide your leadership quality but your thought process and how people accept your point.
•  Logic – Explain your logic behind that point. The logic will close all options for invalidity of your point. The acceptability across the member of the group will be lesser.
• Example – Support your logic with some facts and figures. When you will support your point and logic with examples, this will be the moment when you convince most of the people in the group.

 It looks simple but it has a sound psychological background. It will help you to control the members of the team.

Tool - B

It should be used when you are not the initiator in the GD and have fewer points to discuss. It is used when the topic is unexpected.

Synthesis
Analysis
Value
Example

• Don’t speak in the start up (for 45 seconds) and just listen to others.
• Notice all the point of views (with facts) spoken by the team members. Synthesis the information.
• Now after having point of view with facts of majority of the team members you will analysis the collected data and give it a different meaning from all team members but should support their facts. There might be more than one analysis.
• Value the analysis by prioritizing them.
• Add the suitable examples and put your argument.

Influence the people all together and make them listen to your words. This can be done by speaking facts rather then judgments. Now the next thing will be to influence the main opponents who are challengers. There are two strategic ways to do it. Either convert majority towards yourself or make him react. If four in a group of five are in your favour then you need not to worry. If the fight is when you have only 50 percent people in your favour then attack the weakest member of that group to join you or make the opponent react so as to prove him weak. Execute the above steps in a sequential way. You will win the group discussion.
 
I hope that it will help you a lot at the time of interview.

Happy New Year

Wish you all happy new year, may the new year bring you joy and success.


As Dr. Seuss put it "Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened."

Stay positive for the next year and aim high and reach for the stars.

As AeSI students and engineers we all are a unique lot and let us make this our strength and not a weakness.

Once again wish you a happy new year!!

Importance of TEAM WORK @ Aviation

Dear Friends,
All of us are familiar to "Team Work" however let's have a look on this picture to understand the importance of TEAM WORK in aviation.
It's like a chain, if one loop breaks, it looses its strength accordingly ....... 

Friends, Is it possible to land an aircraft safely without having co-ordination & team work between people, equipment, technology .......... ? Share your views ...!!!!
 

Softwares used in Avionics .....

Dear all,
It's been several years we are follwing this blog & had lots of knowledge by the admin of this blog. It's really awesome to know about aviation industry by the experts & morever to have an interactive plateform where all aviation bachelors can share/learn lots of new things happening in the industry.

Friends,
Please find & check few links of avionics domain, I hope that they will be very helpful to you because many times students are unaware about the software, they are going to work in the future & about the job profile. Below links will help you in understanding that what does a company exactly do in terms of Avionics.

HCL Technologies
http://www.hcltech.com/aerospace-and-defense/Avionics/

WIPRO
http://embedded.wipro.com/focusareas/iautomation/avionics.htm


Tata Consultancy Services
http://www.tcs.com/offerings/engineering_services/aerospace-defence/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.tcs.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/Brochures/EIS_Brochure_Avionics_05_2010.pdf

"Try to find out more companies who are in avionics domain and then do analysis that what is their requirement when they select a candidate.... then we can learn excellence in those stuffs so that by the time we shall finish the degree, we shall have job in our hand."

All power is within you, you can do anything & everything, just believe in it.  - Swami Vivekananda

Cheers !!!
Himalya Bansal
himalya.india@gmail.com

Mastery of complexity and AeSI holidays

"Technical skill is the mastery of complexity, while creativity is the mastery of presence of mind!"

Saw this as a status message on a friends Facebook page.

Instantly liked it.

If you have read the ebook or are reading the blog for long, then you will agree that i always say. When learning something, in the beginning don't worry about the quality concentrate on quantity.

Do as much as you can. Produce as many models as you like. But focus on the quantity. This entails that you master the complex technical skills first before worrying about the products of your labor.

Once the skill is mastered, mind always gravitates towards the quality.

What are your views? Are you using the relaxing time after the exams in doing something that will create a long term professional asset for you?

If not, new year is right around the corner, there's no better time than this.

Please Welcome........

I guess by now you might be bored of my posts. It's been long. I have
been to it ever since I was in aesi as a student.

It's a long loney journey since then, and it gives me great pleasure
that a long time reader and admirer of myaesi, Mr Himalya Bansal is
joining myaesi as an author.

Please join me in welcoming him.

And I know this change of perspective that Himalya will bring will be
refreshing.

At least, just like you guys, I will always have this mystery of what
post might be coming next on myaesi. ;)

Welcome Himalya. Waiting for your posts!