How to face an interview...

How to face an interview

As undergraduates, the way of facing to an interview, is very important. In this week PPD session we were acknowledged how to prepare for an interview

1.      Research the company

First thing of all that we should do is, do some research of the company and have some sort of picture about it. By going through the mission of the company and knowing about company environment and company culture make confident ourselves in order to impress them.

2.   Research your interviewer(optional)

Not only about the company but also by doing some sort of research on the interviewing board can be helpful according to situations which are can be occurred in an interview.

3.    Prepare to answer common questions.

We do some searching on the internet and about common interview question and we can get ready. By doing this we can face the interview with confidently.

4.    Practice with a friend

Although we have confident that we can able to face it successfully at that moment we can get nervous.  Therefore have little practice of interview help us to overcome that obstacle.

5.      Prepare to bring everything you need

 We should be well prepared for the interview with all documents which are required. By preparing at the last minute can caused many unfortunate situations that will ruin your interview. Therefore better preparation makes everything successful.

6.      Arrive at least 10 minutes early

 For an interview, punctuality is one of the most important facts. By arriving 10 minute early it will become more helpful to be adopt to the company environment.

All of this point I think the most important thing to be done  is to be prepared well for all kind of situation.

Story writing

Story writing

In the first day of activity session, as there were time left after doing air plane flying task, Our conductor decided to do a little activity. Therefore we were divided into 3 groups and had to do a mini task.

The task was to write a story on the white board. But the most interesting part of the task was, one member can write only one word at a time and other members cannot see what is on the white board and cannot discuss about the task. There were 4 rounds and each member got chance to write on the board about 4 words in the whole story.

At the end of the written part we got chance to read our stories. That was a great moment. It was a great pleasure to read all the stories because the end of the story was so different from the beginning. The flow of the stories was a mess.

In this mini activity, the fact that we should focus was, good communication makes everything better.

Air planes making

Air planes making

As the first blog of this semester, I would like to convey that the idea of PPD again as a reminding. PPD is program which was the main desire is personal progress development of undergraduate of University of Kelaniya.

In this week session we did this air plane making activity and it was very interesting one as well.

First of all we were divided into 2 groups. Each group was provided by 6 color papers (blue and yellow). The task of the day was to build maximum number of airplanes (size does not matter).And the conductor marked 10 feet distance on the floor. Our planes should fly over that marked line.

We were given 3 minutes to come up with a strategy for the task. Therefore we got really exited and started discussed about the size of the plane. After few trials we decided a certain size and we all get to gather and make airplanes as much as we can. By the end of the given 20 minutes were able to make 36 planes.

Then the flying time was arrived. Then Sivakajan and I volunteered to make our airplanes fly. We were able to make 36 air planes and 24 of them were successfully landed over the line.

Therefore we won that task and behind the victory our contribution of every member was the secret of our success. As well as I think we got the maximum use of that given 3 minutes came up with a proper size.