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How interviews help you understand your strengths and weaknesses

How interviews help you understand your strengths and weaknesses?

Of all the Human Resource Management functions, staff selection is arguably one of the most important and vital. In this process, the “interview” tool and technique helps in assessing potential employees’ “fit” in the organization. The 2-fold advantage of such interviews is: assisting in employee selection, and — for the candidates — realizing their own potential. Every time an individual attends an interview, it makes them a better person in terms of career growth by making them more competent, confident, ready and willing to take up challenging assignments. ‘No one is perfect’ and everyone has strengths and weaknesses at their own level. These play an important role during the interview sessions that an individual experiences.

The essential qualities of a person that surface during an interview session are:

  • Personality
  • Attitude
  • Knowledge through education
  • Self developed knowledge/Tacit knowledge
  • Skills 

These five qualities are a face value portrayal of the basic characteristics of an individual. Among these virtues, most people usually score well on knowledge through education and skills. This is because it is imbibed by us through coaching, while the other qualities are made up of talents, concentration and mental quickness. These qualities, which decide the strengths and weaknesses of any individual, are developed over a period of time and vary from person to person. 

When the interviewer and the candidate meet for a job interview, the demeanor, body language and mannerisms of the candidate are observed. Under these circumstances, it becomes very important to keep up the positive note within us. This will not only create positivism within the candidate, but also in the surrounding environment. It is this positivism that takes people far ahead in life and especially in a career. 

Secondly, the determining factor of one’s personality is attitude. At times the knowledge and talent that an individual acquires blinds them to the world of humanity and this may be termed an ‘attitudinal problem’. This is a common weakness that many people develop because it becomes difficult for them to handle the power they are vested with. This is one characteristic that is very difficult to overcome and becomes obvious in one’s behavior.

It is not necessary that an individual has to get through every interview that they attend, but every interview brings out a better individual to face the next one. Both success and failure during interviews can help an individual understand their own strength and weaknesses. It helps too in leveraging success factors and working on areas needing development. Hence, each interaction like these helps in shortening the learning curve.

How to decide on a good watermark for note pad printing

How to Decide on a Good Watermark for Note Pad Printing

A watermark is a good and subtle filler for the empty spaces in notepads. You must however always choose your watermark image with care so that it doesn’t ruin the appearance of your notepads. You don’t want to send a bad watermark for note pad printing, discovering that it renders all your notepads barely usable. Below are some tips that should guide you on deciding the correct watermark to use for your notepads.

Look for clear uncomplicated designs: One of the general rules for watermarks in color notepads is that they must be clear, simple and uncomplicated. It must not have too many details, that can clutter up the look of the notepad even though it is just a watermark. So never attach a watermark with too many intricate details, curves and objects. Most especially try to avoid watermarks with distinct dark design elements that can really hamper the way you read and write words in the notepad. You can do this by choosing watermarks with a nice large homogeneous color area. This can be something like the sea, the sky, a wall or something similar. Alternatively you can enlarge your logos and other objects so that the empty spaces between their design elements can serve as empty spaces as well for better notepad writing and reading. Doing this should assure your notepad of a large and workable space for writing notes.

If possible match the color with your notepad theme: Also, please do not forget to match the color of your theme to the dominant color of your watermark. They should compliment each other rather than clash. Bad color clashes with the watermark and notepad header design can really make notepads look bad. Aim for that coherent theme with all your notepad elements. So if you have red logos and text, why not have a pinkish or orange watermark to compliment it. If your dominant notepad header color is black and white, why not try a nice gray scale image as the watermark? By doing your watermarks this way you should make your notepads look like a complete and well thought of printed work and not a clashing piece of art.

Use something that reinforces the note pad’s use: Another good tip for you watermarks is to use images that reinforce the note pad’s primary use. For example, if the notepad is a doctor’s prescription pad, the watermark can have images of medicine on it. This is just so that people can immediately identify the piece of paper as a medicine prescription pad even from afar. You can do this for your other notepads like reminder notepads, task post it notes etc. It should really be a great addition to the overall design of the notepads.

Those should be enough tips to guide you in choosing the correct type of watermarks for your color notepads. If you get simple, color-coordinated and useful images for your notepad printing, you should have no worries at all at the end product. You will assuredly have well made notepads with watermarks that improve the design and not hamper the note pad’s use.