How do you answer hobby questions in interviews if you do not have any serious hobby?
Excellent question! :)I am sure 50% of the readers do not have a serious hobby here.When an HR person or a B-school interviewer asks you this question, they just want to know if you have a life outside work/studies. So try to be truthful. Craft a clever answer which can throw light on your dedication.You can go for a safe reply. Here’s a possible answer to ensure that there are NO FURTHER QUESTIONS on this topic :P“I love jogging, and try to cover 5 to 8 kms daily in the morning. My personal goal is to cover 10 kms or more daily. I am actually trying to become a marathoner. That is because I recently discovered my love for running and I thoroughly enjoy the adrenaline rush that takes over my body after a run. Being a pocket friendly cardio, running saves my gym money and also keeps me charged up all day long! I have participated in some half marathons. Last year, I took part in the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon but I had to stop at 10 kms, total distance to be covered was approximately 21 kms. I wasn’t fully prepared. This year, I am determined to complete the entire marathon. So you can count jogging and running as my one and only hobby.”You can also go for a complex reply. Here’s a possible answer (especially for Indian ladies, as I am a trained classical dancer myself) to ensure that AGAIN, there are NO FURTHER QUESTIONS on this topic :D“I love dancing. Yes, you can say that dancing is my hobby. I am actually a trained ODISSI classical dancer. I have cleared my Prarambhik and Sangeet Parichaya exams. I am not carrying those certificates right now, but I can furnish them later. But its not possible to practice Odissi daily, hence I have joined Zumba classes last month. My instructor told me that Zumba is a combination of Latin and International music. But I feel that it is a fun workout, where I get to dance daily for an hour!”A hobby need not be a serious one. If you love doing something regularly, something as simple as tending to plants or driving or even cooking (basically inventing your own recipes), feel free to openly talk about them. As long as your hobby is exclusive to you, nobody can cross question you too much!Please feel free to share more answers. :D
Is this sentence correct, "Once it's done I will update you"?
It is not necessarily wrong…just harsh.“Once” is the difficult word in this sentence. The ear favors a different word with the same meaning. EX: “When”, “After” or a combination such as, “As soon as” or “The second/minute”.Compare the two sentences:“Once it’s done I will update you.”vs.“When it’s done I will update you.”or better yet…“I will update you, when it’s done.”As a thought on the subject of Once vs. When or (Other possible conjunction), Once is a word that best refers to a past action more so than a future action, and more specifically at times, a single moment in time.As in…Once upon a time, in a land far far away.orShe was once the most respected woman in Hollywood.To illustrate this with your sentence…“I will update you, once it’s done.” - It is not a past event and we do not know the exact moment in time that the event will occur. So we us (when) in place of (once). When implies some uncertainty to the moment in time but does not weaken the sentence at all.There is a substantial amount of leeway in any case but as a good rule of thumb, if it sounds awkward when you read it back, it probably is and you may want to replace it with a nicer sounding word with the same meaning, check punctuation or rearrange the sentence slightly.Hope this helps.James
What are the top things on your bucket list? Have you ever accomplished anything that was on that list previously? How has it changed over time?
My wishlist: Live on a beach for some days.Run a marathon (10 Km in under an hour ).Go on a road trip to some distant location (something like a trip to Leh).Go to Tibet, live a monk’s life for a week/month.Cook a full meal my self.Go to a graduate school. Become a doctor (not the one which cures others).Publish my own book (a book on my favorite poems).Attend a live concert (preferably Coldplay).Do volunteer social work for an extended period of time.Start a social enterprise. Find someone who loves me, propose and marry her (try and try and at last you succeed).Contribute something significant to the open source (yeah, a geeky contributor too).Complete my wishlist of places I want to visit – New Zealand (for its beauty), Norway (I want to see the sun at 12 am), Switzerland, Amsterdam (you know why ).Have a six (at least a 4) pack abs for a short period of time.Buy my mother a Honda City.Learn a musical instrument.Try sky diving, bungee jumping – getting closer to death.Publish a top tier conference paper all alone by myself.EDIT :: 2) Done twice. Next aim 15 km.6) Going to Princeton for my Phd.9) Worked at an NGO for a few weeks. Satisfying experience.
Do you beleive in the peak oil crisis? Geologists believe that we wil use all the oil in the earth by the...?
end of this year. For every barrel of oil produced, we consume 6 barrels. Fossil fuel is used in the production of every single thing. If it runs out and if a reliable source of energy is not discovered, we can even go back to the stone age in just a few years. Do you agree ? What is your opinion ?