Effective extra curricular activities for improving your career

In today’s world a mere professional without any extra curricular activities is treated as a country man. There should be some activity apart from the curricular one. The extra curricular activity brings you some creativity and communication skills, which are essentially needed. Extra curricular activities can also help debunk stereotypes by making senior management and potential employers aware of hidden facets of your competencies.

Extracurricular activities can broaden your image by providing an indicator of aptitudes and skills that aren't readily discernable from your professional experience. For example, coaching a sports team shows leadership and organizational skills; artistic pursuits suggest creativity; acting indicates traits such as poise and confidence, as well as public speaking skills; chairing an industry trade group evidences management and communication skills; and awards or competitions won generally suggest an appreciation for nuance, not to mention a desire to excel.

Also we have to develop knowledge of functional areas beyond the technical arena. For instance, serving as treasurer for a volunteer organization evidences knowledge of finance and accounting; positions as public relations chair or membership chair show experience in marketing; and general leadership positions such as president or vice president indicate managerial know-how.
These roles allow us to experiment and experience new types of responsibilities and thereby acquire knowledge outside of our 9-to-5 domain. They are also indicators of the broadly defined "people skills" that are key to success in everything from marketing, to strategy, to general management.
At last in my view effective extra curricular activities are the one which make you different from your peers.

Views on work smart to work hard

In this 21st century, time plays a major role in our life. Every second plays a major role. The one who manages the time for all the deeds, in my view is the best person. To manage the time well I view working smarter is the best choice then to work harder.

Everyone work to lead a happy and enjoyable life latter, but if we go on work harder and have no time to spare for ourselves or for our family then what’s use of working? Hence we have to work smart to save time for ourselves.

Working smart is to apply your sense while working to reduce the time taken by that work. Let’s have an example of working hard to working smart from our daily routines: if we want to phone a friend from mobile, if you use the phone book it takes 3 to 4 seconds, but if we use speed dialing it takes less than that. Even using the mouse while using the system is treated as a hard work in my view since it consumes time, there are short cuts provided by operating system use them. In this way if we apply our brains there will be some way out to reduce the time taken for work.

In today’s world even the corporate is looking forward for the one who work smart but not for one who work hard.





I don’t mean to say not to work hard; if there appears the situation to work hard for success, we have to work but while working apply the human spark to it.

As I view working smart is to learn from mistakes other do, while working hard is to learn from our mistakes. Working smart is to utilize the tools which u has.

The effect of computers on the logical reasoning of an individual

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit.
Louis Gerstner

Computer what’s it? It’s just a piece made of plastic and some metal, just like the table or chair which is made of wood, and then what’s great in it? It is one which just computes fast and accurately. Computers as the name suggests are just computing machines, which are invented by man for the sake of decreasing the computation stress. Even to do the computation, computers don’t do it them selves, we are the one who makes the plastic piece to do the specified work.


To make the computer (plastic piece) to work, it’s the human who had to think logically, and analyze all the pros and cons of that particular application. For example the calculator in the computer was the application written by some one, but not the computers .The one who uses the application designed by others as I view will have a limited growth in their logical thinking but the one who designs the applications will have a very steep increase in their logical thinking.

Finally I say that computers are the one which can just compute but not think, but humans are one who makes the computers to work.

Enumerate on the criteria for the evaluation of your skills

Everyone in this world has some inherent skills present in them, but the only thing is that these are to be known by us and use them for the best.

Some conditions which bring the best of me are:

TASKS OF INTEREST: If the task is interesting to me, I will do my best to make the task successful. An example of this is when I was given a project in C language, in my bachelor’s degree; I did the project with my whole heart and made the project successful.

MEETING THE DEAD LINES:
Meeting the dead lines is one which makes me to move on my toes. To meet the dead line given I will make use of everything I have and do the job. An illustration of this is our MSIT program which always keeps me on my toes and makes me to work smart and hard.

Besides these I think sincerity in the work is one which is important for everyone. I am passionate to learn new things which I think are important to grow.

Evaluate yourself with illustrations on “Are you a leader or a follower”

To be a leader means to shape our opinions and decisions around the greater good for the project we are responsible for. This requires sacrificing our own interests and needs, in favor of those of the project, and the people who work on it. Of course it’s possible to find ways to match our interests with the needs of the project, but it’s the project that comes first.
To be a successful leader means directing our energy in ways that creates the greatest possibility of success for everyone that works with us. Good leaders go beyond their own resources and cultivate positive power from others. They use any combination of persuasion, intellect, magic spells, free cookies, humor, political acumen, and surprising forms of generosity. But regardless of how they do it, leaders get everyone to understand the reasons of why they should contribute their own energy. Good leaders make people want to contribute and work hard.

I had the privilege of leading a group of six on a professional front. This opportunity came to me when I am in the final year of my Bachelor’s degree. As the project on which we had to work was to be decided by us I took the initiative and proposed a project. As the project was picked by me, I planned every thing and organized everyone, i.e. who should do a particular thing and at what time. Our project was to make a charger for the mobiles, which don’t take any electric power input. Since this was a new thing, everyone in the group were tensed and all doubted weather this would work or not, but I clarified their doubts and convinced them that the project will work. At last we were able to complete the project on time and our team was the one which took the best project prize for that year.

At last I think Leader is one who is accountable for the project, weather it’s good or bad. He is the one who should take the responsibility for completion of the project on time and he is the one who should motivate team members and guide them.