Task for MRS semester 4 students (Job Interview)

Here I have share the things related with an interview. In the comment box you have to write down the questions related with interview. Minimum you have write down 10 questions. Deadline of your task is till Tuesday night.  

What is the definition of Interview?

“a formal meeting in which one or more persons question, consult, or evaluate another person: a job interview.”

Job Interview Etiquette Tips

 What to Wear to a Job Interview

When you are dressing for a job interview the image you present is really important. Your image is what makes the first impression on the interviewer - and that first impression is the one that sticks - so it's important to dress appropriately when interviewing.

Regardless of the type of job you're interested in, you want that first impression to be a great one. When dressing for an interview for a professional position, dress accordingly in business attire. If you're applying for a job in a more casual environment, like a store or restaurant, it's still important to be neat, tidy, and well-groomed, and to present a positive image to the employer.

 What to Bring to a Job Interview

It's important to come prepared to a job interview. Bring extra copies of your resume along with a list of references to offer the interviewer. Also, bring a list of questions to ask the interviewer.

If you're interviewing for a tech or web job and you want to show examples of your work, it's fine to bring your laptop or tablet to show the interviewer what you have accomplished.

What shouldn't you bring? Don't walk into a job interview with a coffee cup or bottle of soda or water or anything else to eat or drink. Don't chew gum.

Your cell phone should be turned off and out of sight. You don't want to be the applicant whose text messages or calls disrupted the interview.

When to Get to a Job Interview

It's important to arrive a few minutes early, or on time, at the latest, for a job interview. Know where you're going, how much travel time you need, and how to get to the interview location. Check out the logistics ahead of time, so you ensure that you're not late.

Giving yourself a bit of extra time will give you an opportunity to stop in the rest room and freshen up, if need be, to make sure you don't have any hair, makeup or wardrobe malfunctions.

A few extra minutes will also give you an opportunity to catch your breath and stay calm. An interview is even more stressful than normal if you're rushing to get there on time.

How to Greet the Interviewer

When you arrive at a job interview, introduce yourself to the receptionist, if there is one. Let him or her know who you are and who you are scheduled to meet with.

Greet your interviewer with a firm handshake and introduce yourself. Be prepared for a little small talk, but don't overdo it. Follow the interviewer's lead and let them guide the direction of the conversation.

The Best Way to Respond to Interview Questions

When you respond to interview questions, listen carefully to the questions, take time to phrase your responses, and ask the interviewer to repeat the question if you're not sure what they are asking.

Be brief and don't ramble when you respond. However, do be sure that your responses answer the questions, are focused, and highlight the skills you have that are relevant to the job.

Keep in mind that your responses are your sales pitch. You're selling the interviewer on yourself as the best candidate for a second interview and for the job, so be sure you focus on your relevancy i.e. why you are a good candidate, how you can do the job, what you can contribute, and how you will benefit the company if you're hired.

What to Give the Interviewer

Bring extra copies of your resume with you, in case the interviewer needs a copy or you end up meeting with several people. 

Have a list of three references printed out, including contact information for each reference, ready to offer the recruiter at the end of the interview.

A pen and notepad are always useful for jotting down questions you might want to ask, and for making a note of the names of people you meet with.

Review this list of what to bring to an interview, so you're sure to have everything you need.

How to Close an Interview

Towards the end of the interview let the hiring manager know that you think the job is an excellent fit and that you are very interested in the job.

It's appropriate to ask what the next step in the hiring process will be and when you might expect to hear.

Finally, thank the interviewer for the time they spent interviewing with you.

Be Prepared for a Phone Interview

Phone interview etiquette is just as important as in-person job interview etiquette when it comes to getting hired. That's because, regardless of whether you interview on the phone or in-person, a successful interview will get you to the next stage of the hiring process.

Review phone interview etiquette tips, including phone interview techniques, advice on how to prepare for a phone interview, and phone interview questions and answers, so you can ace the interview.

Remember Your Table Manners

Dining with a prospective employee allows employers to review your communication and interpersonal skills, as well as your table manners, in a more casual environment.

Good manners can give you the edge over another candidate, so, take some time to brush up your dining etiquette skills before you go to the interview.

Links of PPT

link of ppt on What is Meeting?

https://www.slideshare.net/diptivaghela/what-is-meeting-80822445


Link of ppt on Notice...

https://www.slideshare.net/secret/FidneFOnDTykfJ



PPT on 'Bhulya tyathi fari ganie'

https://www.slideshare.net/secret/fZgOLfFXQeAsnx

Power played a vital role

It is very significant image. It shows power of how the system goes on. Everywhere power played a vital role. Every one try to be powerful than other. Because of this power structure human being has to suffer. So don't be like that behave in proper way with everybody. 

Task for Semester 1 students (MRS)

Before some days, there was an Orientation  programme. The handling of programme done by MRS SEM-3 students. There are some photographs as under,

You have to give the answers of these many questions as under,

1) What have you learnt from this programme? 
2) Write five sentences about this programme.
3) Which activity do you most like? 


Thus, you have to answer these many questions. Deadline of your task is 30th August 2017 till night. You have to give your comments under this blog...

Yesterday on the celebration of Rakshabandhan our MRS students presented a wonderful Street Play. Some photos of that play are as under,

This play is about the current affairs going on our society such as corruption, poverty, gender discrimination, lack of humanity, etc. From this play we have to give message of 'Togetherness'. We have to solve these problems because these are our problems. So, congratulations to all MRS semester 3 students. Well done.  

Wonderful clip

 A wonderful video clip created by Bhutan. It is about the carbon neutral. They tried to focus on happiness of the people than other. In the country of Bhutan, they are celebrating their food and festivals and education as well as medicines are free of coast. They are thinking about atmosphere and it is our basic needs. Pollution harms to us and the solution of that thing is the plan of Bhutan.

 Here is a link of that video clip,

This country isn't just carbon neutral — it's carbon negative | Tshering Tobgay

This country isn't just carbon neutral — it's carbon negative | Tsh... Deep in the Himalayas, on the border between China and India, lies the Kingdom of Bhutan, which has pledged to r...

Scholar's Life

 Scholar's Life

Introduction

First of all if we ask a question that what is scholar? Answer is that ' A learned or erudite person especially one who has profound a knowledge of a particular subject'. Scholar masterly gets some knowledge of his subject of choice. Literary means connected with writing study or appreciation of literature. So, literary scholar means a scholar one who study or get knowledge of literature. The behavior of scholar, language of scholar, thoughts of scholar, everything is different than other, so let’s know more details about the life of scholar. 

Scholar’s Life

 Literary scholar never stops being a scholar. Today most of them earn their living as members of teaching faculties in colleges and universities throughout the world. Their responsibility is quite remote from the pursuit of knowledge. They have to do many other works being as teacher, administrators, academic committee members, etc. Not only these but they have to do their private role as spouses, parents, family, social works, etc. In the busy schedule the literary awareness of the literary scholar keeps twenty-four- hour days. It means their ideas and thoughts are going on related with their work. They have to do multitasking all the time whether in school, university or at home. So, as a literary scholar they have to be alert whole days.  It is now almost a century since literary study began to be professionalized. For scholars there is no good environment in which they study only as scholar.

 According to Wayne Booth, for instance, The Scholar regretted the proliferation of dissertation topics that concentrate on the formal aspects of literary texts "isolated from the influences of ethics, politics, history, logic, dialectic, and even grammar." The scope of English studies now also includes writing theory and pedagogy. At the same time meaning of the word 'meaning' have been drastically redefined. It is eternally slippery word.  Now a days, scholarly activity become for gathering figures rather than knowledge. The scores of conferences are just remaining; only quantity is lying, lost of quality. The study of literature remains at base an intensely private pursuit. No one read papers before an audience to see his or her original ideas on a literary topic printed in a learned journal. Right Intentions of conferences are to love of books and a consuming interest in the intellectual and esthetic questions from different backgrounds and tastes. In scholarship there is no prejudice born of national origin, creed, color or social class. They always live in truest democracy of all, the democracy of the intellect. Scholars are working together for the benefit of society, not for private aggrandizement. Scholar always think in different ways as compare to common man, always think about the better society while common man think about his personal profits. So, from these many ways scholar is very different than others.

Two Principles of Scholar’s Life

1) Let others know what you are working on. Don't worry about boring them; if you are genuinely excited, your excitement is bound to be contagious. True scholar always opens up his works or his ideas that what he think and how he think. He never hides his literary works rather than he presents it. In this technology era, scholar shares his works through digital tools and because of that more people can read it on easier way. This is one of the great benefits of this techno-era. And as a scholar, he must have to use it.

2) Keep up with what other people are doing, not only in your own field but in others as well. As a scholar, he must have to be aware of his time and society. He must have to be closer observer, so he comes to know or understand that what is going on in and around us. As a literary scholar, he must have to know everything related with literature but only that much is not enough. He has to observers every field, what's going there. So, these two principles are very important to being a scholar.

Other things related to scholar’s Life

Scholars are sustained by desirability of fair play, self- respect, and professional morale. Sometimes scholars are discouraged and may share the belief, so prevalent in the word outside, that our achievements have an unreal quality, or if they are real, at least they are futile: that they add nothing to the sum of human wisdom or happiness. Yet if scholars are unappreciated and undervalued, the fault is partly theirs. They gladly learn, but outside the classroom many of them are curiously uninterested in teaching. Many modern critics and scholars have developed the habit of talking only to each other, neglecting the broader audience of educated people. It is scholar’s responsibility to seize every opportunity to communicate with the lay audience, as in book reviews or in articles and essays in the popular press on history, biography and Culture. To educate students at all levels to read, write, and think, developing in them the intellectual curious habit of mind that casts a disinterested eye over all important issues, appreciating their complexities; and to lead students by extensive reading and critical analysis of recognized writers and thinkers, ancient and contemporary, inside and outside the mainstream, to seek, in Matthew Arnold's words, "The best that is known and thought in the world". And the purpose of creating in their own lives a 'current of new and fresh ideas' appropriate in this current time. And current time is related with technology so scholars and students of literature also have to use these current tools of technology, to walk with time. And because of that people understand and appreciate the works of scholars, use of those works in betterment of society. (Altick)

Conclusion

Thus, to be a scholar is not an easy task, and the life of scholar is much busier than others. They have to always be ready to do many works with at a time. And for that the skill of multitasking is very important to acquire as scholar. Because they have to do many works at a time and their minds are always alert. Any common man can’t be scholar; it is an intellectual activity which requires sound knowledge as well as understanding.

“They're so cold, these scholars!

May lightning strike their food

So, that their mouths learn how

To eat fire! "

-Friedrich Nietzsche

Bibliography

Altick, Richard, Fenstermaker. The Art of Literary Research. n.d.

Theory of Sphota

 Theory of Sphota

Introduction

          Theory of Sphota is the contribution of Bhartrhari to linguistics. In this assignment we will see the meaning of spota and what is the concept of this theory.

What is Sphota?

          Words have two faces: the external face looks at the sounds (dhvani), while the internal face looks at the meaning (artha). The underlying cause of the articulated sounds (sabdanam nimittam) is the sound- pattern which underlies instances of the utterance of the word; this abstract sound- pattern with the time- sequence still attached to it is called ‘Prakrta- dhvani’ and is the external aspect of the language. The internal aspect, which is directly attached to the meaning, is the sphota. It is kind of mental perception which is described as a moment of recognition, an instantaneous flash (pratibha), whereby the hearer is made conscious, through hearing sounds, of the latent meaning unit already presents in his consciousness. In short meaning is lying in whole sentence rather than in words and meaning is already lying in the mind of reader. So, this is the basic concept of sphota.

Origin of the ‘sphota’:

Sanskrit sphota is etymologically derived from the root sphuṭ 'to burst'. It is used in its technical linguistic sense by Patañjali (2nd century BCE), in reference to the "bursting forth" of meaning or idea on the mind as language is uttered. Patañjali's  sphoṭa is the invariant quality of speech. The acoustic element (dhvani) can be long or short, loud or soft, but the sphoṭa remains unaffected by individual speaker differences.

 Development of the ‘Theory of Sphota’

          He emphasizes that a word has a double power; it can convey an idea of the form of an expression as well as its content. Meaning is like water, if we put it in glass then it shapes like that and if we put it in another thing then it shapes like that thing. As same, meaning is also changing with its context. The grammarian too accepts that words will have to be taken as referring to themselves until the relation between the word and the meaning is known. According to Patanjali, when we do not hear a word properly, we ask, ‘What did you say?’, thereby indicating that we have not understood the form of the word.

          Bhartrhari analyzed three aspects of the language situation as under,

          So, let’s know these three terms one by one,

1)   Vaikrta –dhvani (Vaikhari): It means the actual sound spoken by the speaker and heard by the listener. It includes all the various differences in intonation, tempo, pitch, etc. This is depending on individual speaker. It is not capable to express the meaning of an utterance. It is only express ‘madhyama’ form of speech which conveys the meaning. In short it is only the sound which is listen by our ears for example if we don’t know the English language, and anybody said something to us in English at that time we listen the sound spoken by the person but meaning is not conveyed to us.

2)   Prakrta- dhvani (Madhyama): It is the phonological structure, the sound pattern of the norm. It considered as acoustic image of the normal expression, or the expression in the mind, keeping the time-order with it. Sometimes it may happen that without use of vaikrta the meaning is bearing spota by the help of prakrta, when somebody is reading silently.

3)   Sphota (Pasyanti): It is the integral linguistic symbol, which is the unit of meaning. We cannot be pronounced or written. This is manifested by the prakrta- dhvani.

Thus, the vaikhari sounds indicates the madhyama and the madhyama sound expresses sphota. So, after all these three are inter-related with each other. The meaning conveyed through these three processes. And it happens one by one, so we understand the meaning of word through these many things.

Understanding of Sphota in detail