8 Ways to Crack an interview at the First Go

When you’re prepping for an interview, your focus is probably on the tough questions you’ll face, the thorough responses you’ll give, and the professional-yet-slightly-witty anecdotes you’ll tell. After all, that’s what the bulk of the interview is about—and what will (hopefully) get you a fast pass to an offer letter.

But before you even get the chance to deliver those impeccably thought-out answers, you’ll already have all eyes on you, evaluating your potential to fit the job and the company. From the moment you walk in the door, the pressure’s on: You have to make a stellar first impression.

Before you head into your next interview, check out these eight tips to make sure you’re presenting yourself in the right light and setting yourself up for the most successful interview possible.

1. SWOT analyse yourself

Yes you read it right, its you who is gonna work and you know about you better than anyone.  Prepare a speech about yourself.  Believe me it will be turning point.  Be specific and don't express your personal and negative character

2. Basics is the key for your Interview

No interviewer will ask you about how the stock markets will perform tomorrow.  He or she will test your basics, so be strong in your fundamentals. Be clear with concepts and theories.

 3. Do your Homework prior 2 Interview

      Try to track the company and its performance and what they need from you.  Be Updated with the recent happenings relating to your Industry.  It might be #BrexitIssue or #CyrusMistry'sExit

4. Show Up on time ⌚

You’ve heard it a million times: “If you’re early, you’re on time; if you’re on time, you’re late.” Being punctual should be a given—especially when your dream job is on the line. But no matter how many times you’ve heard it, it’s worth mentioning again: Show up on time.

Running late? Call as soon as possible to let your interviewers know. They’ll appreciate it much more than if you offer up a lame excuse after they've already been waiting for 30 minutes.

5. Dress the Part👼👼

Your appearance probably won’t be the basis of the interviewer’s final decision—but it can certainly play a part in how you’re first perceived. When you show up in a neatly pressed suit and scuff-less shoes with a portfolio in tow, you’ll come across as professional and well put-together.

If, on the other hand, you’re dressed down a few notches more casual than everyone else in the office, juggling your briefcase, purse, umbrella, and a stack of resumes, you’re probably not going to exude the same sense of professionalism.

6. Be Nice to the Receptionist😉

The person at the front desk may not be the hiring manager—but that doesn’t mean his or her impression of you doesn’t matter. In fact, some companies specifically ask their front desk attendants to report back on the demeanor of interviewees who come through the door. And that likely plays a role in the ultimate hiring decision—so it’s important to treat that person as well as you’ll treat your interviewer.

7. Put Your Phone Away📵

It’s a natural tendency to pull out your smartphone any time you have to wait: in line at the grocery store, during commercials, while you wait for the vending machine to dispense your Diet Coke—you get the picture.

But if you’re waiting in the lobby, don’t automatically default to your phone. Instead, take that time to look over your resume (or All-in-One Prep Guide) and think through what you want to convey during your interview. Then, when your interviewer makes his or her appearance, you won’t be caught off guard, shutting down Angry Birds and stuffing your phone back into your briefcase.

8. Have Everything Neat, Organized, and Accessible 😇

You can be certain that, within the first few minutes of your meeting, your interviewer will ask for a copy of your updated resume. But if you have to dig through your bag past candy wrappers, phone chargers, and old receipts, you’re going to look a little unorganized.
To make the best first impression, everything you need should be neatly organized and readily accessible: You should be able to pull out your resume, references, and even a pen (one that’s not completely mangled) on command. The less you have to rifle through your bag, the better.

All the best!! 😇

7 Easy Ways to Make ur Failure 2 Speak into Success speech

When it comes to promoting your business, landing a job, inspiring followers, or gaining visibility for yourself or your organization, the one attribute you need is good communication skills. Frequently, this means proficiency in public speaking.

The good news is that you don't need to suddenly become an "excellent" speaker. Your task is to deliver a message to people who will benefit from hearing it, and to enjoy yourself while doing it. It really is simpler than you might imagine.

1.Pretend you're talking to just one person.
You're not really standing in front of an audience and talking to everyone (even though you are.) Pretend that you are talking to one person, each in turn as you speak to that individual, then another. The art of conversationality is what you're looking for. Talking to one person makes it all more personal for your listeners.

2.Make a powerful entrance.
Actors excite their audiences by the energy and powerful focus they bring on stage with them. Why shouldn't you? Your speech begins when you enter the room, not when you open your mouth. Have fun with your entrance! Become familar with the body language messages you may be broadcasting. And learn the 5 body language errors that will sink your presentation. There are many creative ways to make an effective entrance. Without overdoing it, and considering the audience and the situation, come up with a few that you can have fun with.

3.Talk about something you are passionate about.
You don't have to be the world's foremost expert on your topic (though you should know enough about it for the purposes of your speech). But what you should have an abundance of is passion for your topic. Have you noticed how hard it is not to listen to someone who's speaking passionately about something? Your audiences will respond exactly the same way.

4.Save time for Q & A.
In Dr. Genard's book How to Give a Speech, he calls Q & A "The Forgotten Avenue to Audience Persuasion." That's because anybody can deliver a presentation if it's prepared beforehand and they've practiced it enough. But the speaker who can handle himself with poise, expertise, and conciseness in a Q & A session is the one who will not only persuade an audience, but look good doing it. To turn that idea around, become familiar with the 7 danger zones of Q & A so you know how to handle yourself effectively.
5.Work with a speech coach.
A speech coach can help you with a myriad of factors in dynamic public speaking. These include organization, presence, tone, body language, engaging with audiences and keeping listeners interested, using PowerPoint, responding to challenges, vocal expressiveness, and other important delivery skills. It's impossible for you to experience from inside yourself how you look and sound. Actors don’t work without a director, and golf pros always use a coach. You as a speaker need a gifted "third eye" to see how you come across.

6.Be vulnerable.
Share something about yourself that the audience will be interested in. It can be a personal anecdote, or a connection to your subject matter. Speakers sometimes think it's not appropriate to bring themselves into a discussion, but that couldn't be further from the truth. To wear an invisible suit of armor to protect yourself in the "scary" environment of a public speech will just make you look impregnable. Audiences don't find it easy to relate to such speakers. Let them see the real you, because the chances are good that they'll like what they experience.

7.Less is more.
You've heard this phrase applied to many areas of human activity, and on-stage performance is one where it applies most clearly. Many speakers meander through their topic, or give their audiences far too much information. As the French philosopher Voltaire said, "The easiest way to bore someone is to tell them all you know." We would say more on this subject but, well, less is more.

All that u wanna know about BuyBack

Section 68 of Companies Act 2013
Power of the Company to purchase its own security

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, but subject to the provisions of sub-section(2), a company may purchase its own shares or other specified securities (hereinafter referred to as buy-back) out of—
(a) its free reserves;
(b) the securities premium account; or
(c) the proceeds of the issue of any shares or other specified securities:
Provided that no buy-back of any kind of shares or other specified securities shall be made out of the proceeds of an earlier issue of the same kind of shares or same kind of other specified securities.

(2) No company shall purchase its own shares or other specified securities under sub-section (1), unless—

(a) the buy-back is authorised by its articles;
(b) a special resolution has been passed at a general meeting of the company authorising the buy-back:
Provided that nothing contained in this clause shall apply to a case where—
(i) the buy-back is, ten per cent. or less of the total paid-up equity capital and free reserves of the company; and
(ii) such buy-back has been authorised by the Board by means of a resolution passed at its meeting;
(c) the buy-back is twenty-five per cent. or less of the aggregate of paid-up capital and free reserves of the company:
Provided that in respect of the buy-back of equity shares in any financial year, the reference to twenty-five per cent. in this clause shall be construed with respect to its total paid-up equity capital in that financial year;
(d) the ratio of the aggregate of secured and unsecured debts owed by the company after buy-back is not more than twice the paid-up capital and its free reserves:
Provided that the Central Government may, by order, notify a higher ratio of the debt to capital and free reserves for a class or classes of companies;
(e) all the shares or other specified securities for buy-back are fully paid-up;
(f) the buy-back of the shares or other specified securities listed on any recognised stock exchange is in accordance with the regulations made by the Securities and Exchange Board in this behalf; and
(g) the buy-back in respect of shares or other specified securities other than those specified in clause (f) is in accordance with such rules as may be prescribed:
Provided that no offer of buy-back under this sub-section shall be made within a period of one year reckoned from the date of the closure of the preceding offer of buy-back, if any.

(3) The notice of the meeting at which the special resolution is proposed to be passed under clause (b) of sub-section (2) shall be accompanied by an explanatory statement stating—

(a) a full and complete disclosure of all material facts;
(b) the necessity for the buy-back;
(c) the class of shares or securities intended to be purchased under the buy-back;
(d) the amount to be invested under the buy-back; and
(e) the time-limit for completion of buy-back.

(4) Every buy-back shall be completed within a period of one year from the date of passing of the special resolution, or as the case may be, the resolution passed by the Board under clause (b) of sub-section (2).

(5) The buy-back under sub-section (1) may be—

(a) from the existing shareholders or security holders on a proportionate basis;
(b) from the open market;
(c) by purchasing the securities issued to employees of the company pursuant to a scheme of stock option or sweat equity.

(6) Where a company proposes to buy-back its own shares or other specified securities under this section in pursuance of a special resolution under clause (b) of sub-section (2) or a resolution under item (ii) of the proviso thereto, it shall, before making such buy-back, file with the Registrar and the Securities and Exchange Board, a declaration of solvency signed by at least two directors of the company, one of whom shall be the managing director, if any, in such form as may be prescribed and verified by an affidavit to the effect that the Board of Directors of the company has made a full inquiry into the affairs of the company as a result of which they have formed an opinion that it is capable of meeting its liabilities and will not be rendered insolvent within a period of one year from the date of declaration adopted by the Board: Provided that no declaration of solvency shall be filed with the Securities and Exchange Board by a company whose shares are not listed on any recognised stock exchange.

(7) Where a company buys back its own shares or other specified securities, it shall extinguish and physically destroy the shares or securities so bought back within seven days of the last date of completion of buy-back.

(8) Where a company completes a buy-back of its shares or other specified securities under this section, it shall not make a further issue of the same kind of shares or other securities including allotment of new shares under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 62 or other specified securities within a period of six months except by way of a bonus issue or in the discharge of subsisting obligations such as conversion of warrants, stock option schemes, sweat equity or conversion of preference shares or debentures into equity shares.

(9) Where a company buys back its shares or other specified securities under this section, it shall maintain a register of the shares or securities so bought, the consideration paid for the shares or securities bought back, the date of cancellation of shares or securities, the date of extinguishing and physically destroying the shares or securities and such other particulars as may be prescribed.

(10) A company shall, after the completion of the buy-back under this section, file with the Registrar and the Securities and Exchange Board a return containing such particulars relating to the buy-back within thirty days of such completion, as may be prescribed:
Provided that no return shall be filed with the Securities and Exchange Board by a company whose shares are not listed on any recognised stock exchange.

(11) If a company makes any default in complying with the provisions of this section or any regulation made by the Securities and Exchange Board, for the purposes of clause (f) of sub-section (2), the company shall be punishable with fine which shall not be less than one lakh rupees but which may extend to three lakh rupees and every officer of the company who is in default shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or with fine which shall not be less than one lakh rupees but which may extend to three lakh rupees, or with both.
Explanation I.—For the purposes of this section and section 70, “specified securities” includes employees’ stock option or other securities as may be notified by the Central Government from time to time. Explanation II.—For the purposes of this section, “free reserves” includes securities premium account.

8 tips 4 Success - Jamie McIntyre

Jamie McIntyre learned early on that to be successful he needed to get surrounded by successful people and so today he maintains excellent relations with personalities such as Sir Richard Branson, Tony Robbins, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Oprah, Tim Ferriss and many others.

I had the chance to interview him for his 8 golden tips and advice on achieving multi-million dollar success:

1) You should work more to learn, than to earn

2) Find a mentor to compress decades of knowledge into a few years

3) The key to being successful is adding value and making a difference in the world

4) People who have a high sense of purpose are more likely to succeed

5) People who focus on money the most are the one’s who have the least

6) We need to have our heads right if we want to be successful and it requires educating ourselves

7) Start your day by focusing on 5 things you’re grateful for

8) The shortcut to success is to model other people’s success; there is no need to reinvent the wheel

All. You want to know about Removal of a Managing Director!!

(Notified)
169.Removal of directors

(1) A company may, by ordinary resolution, remove a director, not being a director appointed by the Tribunal under section 242, before the expiry of the period of his office after giving him a reasonable opportunity of being heard:
Provided that nothing contained in this sub-section shall apply where the company has availed itself of the option given to it under section 163 to appoint not less than two- thirds of the total number of directors according to the principle of proportional representation.

(2) A special notice shall be required of any resolution, to remove a director under this section, or to appoint somebody in place of a director so removed, at the meeting at which he is removed.

(3) On receipt of notice of a resolution to remove a director under this section, the company shall forthwith send a copy thereof to the director concerned, and the director, whether or not he is a member of the company, shall be entitled to be heard on the resolution at the meeting.

(Notified from 1st June, 2016)
(4) Where notice has been given of a resolution to remove a director under this section and the director concerned makes with respect thereto representation in writing to the company and requests its notification to members of the company, the company shall, if the time permits it to do so,—

(a) in any notice of the resolution given to members of the company, state the fact of the representation having been made; and
(b) send a copy of the representation to every member of the company to whom notice of the meeting is sent (whether before or after receipt of the representation by the company), and if a copy of the representation is not sent as aforesaid due to insufficient time or for the company’s default, the director may without prejudice to his right to be heard orally require that the representation shall be read out at the meeting:
Provided that copy of the representation need not be sent out and the representation need not be read out at the meeting if, on the application either of the company or of any other person who claims to be aggrieved, the Tribunal is satisfied that the rights conferred by this sub-section are being abused to secure needless publicity for defamatory matter; and the Tribunal may order the company’s costs on the application to be paid in whole or in part by the director notwithstanding that he is not a party to it.

(5) A vacancy created by the removal of a director under this section may, if he had been appointed by the company in general meeting or by the Board, be filled by the appointment of another director in his place at the meeting at which he is removed, provided special notice of the intended appointment has been given under sub-section (2).

(6) A director so appointed shall hold office till the date up to which his predecessor would have held office if he had not been removed.

(7) If the vacancy is not filled under sub-section (5), it may be filled as a casual vacancy in accordance with the provisions of this Act:
Provided that the director who was removed from office shall not be re-appointed as a director by the Board of Directors.

(8) Nothing in this section shall be taken—

(a) as depriving a person removed under this section of any compensation or damages payable to him in respect of the termination of his appointment as director as per the terms of contract or terms of his appointment as director, or of any other appointment terminating with that as director; or
(b) as derogating from any power to remove a director under other provisions of this Act.

Why 1 must start blogging?

If you are reading this post it probably means that you recognize the importance of blogging but aren’t doing it yourself, or aren’t doing it effectively, and you are looking for help.

This is the second of a four part series on small business blogging best practices. In the first post we talked about how to generate blogs that your customers and prospects actually want to read. 

In this post we are going to answer the question, How often should you post for your small business blogs to be effective? (Tweet This!)

As a rule of thumb, the more you blog, the more effective it is. How you define ‘effective’ can vary, but in the end what you want your blogs to do is raise awareness of your product or service, drive more traffic to your website, convert more of these visitors to leads, and ultimately turn qualified leads into sales.

Blogs help do all of this.

Obviously you first have to be blogging for any of this to happen, and you have to be posting consistently, which brings us back to the original question: How often do you need to blog?

Here are some industry statistics that help answer this question:

• An average company will see a 45% growth in traffic when increasing total blog articles from 11-20 to 21-50 (Source: HubSpot)

• Companies that blog 15+ per month get 5x more traffic than companies that don’t blog (Source: HubSpot)

• Companies that increase blogging from 3-5x/month to 6-8x/month almost double their leads (Source: HubSpot)

• Blog frequency impacts customer acquisition. 92% of companies who blogged multiple times a day acquired a customer through their blog (Source: HubSpot)

Now, after looking at these numbers you are probably saying to yourself, yeah, that’s all fine and dandy, but I’m just getting started - writing once a week would be a good milestone but these numbers suggest it’s at the twice a week mark where the magic starts to happen.

This may be true, but blogging once a week is still a very good place to start, and this level of activity alone produces results:

(Source: HubSpot)

(Source: HubSpot)

Blogging 3-5 times a month, or once a week, increases traffic and leads. And a key to these charts is the phrase, “long-lasting marketing assets”.

The thing to recognize is that a blog post is not a one-trick pony. Your blog will not only have an impact at the time it’s written but long after that because the content can be as relevant a year later as it is the day you posted it.

That is, unless you are writing about a time sensitive topic, your message is evergreen – it will live on your website and can be found at any time by someone searching on your blog topic. Blogging is marketing that pays dividends down the road.

To help you get started, or even if you have started but want more information on blogging, check out our blogging best practices. If you would like to learn how to optimize all of your marketing to maximize lead conversion (and ultimately sales) download our free guide - The Lead Generation Blueprint: