Project manager interview questions
You never know what you will be asked on a job interview. The following project manager interview questions will help you prepare. You need to be able to answer all questions directly and professionally. Here are the tough interview questions and answers:
Q. Why are you considering leaving your present job?
A. Regardless of the reason, do not bad mouth your current employer. Negativism will always hurt you. Good answers include: “There is no room for growth at my current employer. I am looking for a company with long term growth opportunities”. “Due to a company restructuring, my entire department is relocating to Florida. I was give the option of moving, but do not wish to relocate”. “My current company is not doing well, and has been laying off employees. There is no job security there, and more layoffs are expected”.
Q. What are your goals for the future?
A. “My long term goals are to find a company where I can grow, continue to learn, take on increasing responsibilities, and be a positive contributor”.
Q. How do you handle stress and pressure?
A. “I find that I work better under pressure, and I enjoy working in an environment that is challenging.” “I am the type of person that diffuses stress. I am used to working in a demanding environment with deadlines, and enjoy the challenges.”
Q. What do you know about our company?
A. This question is used to see if you have prepared for the interview. Candidates that have researched the company are more appealing. Companies like prepared, organized candidates.
Q. We have met several candidates. Why are you the project manager we should hire?
A. Give definite examples of your skills and accomplishments. Be positive, and emphasize how your background matches the job description.
Q. What are your greatest strengths?
A. Be positive and honest. “My greatest strength is maximizing the efficiency of my staff. I have successfully managed numerous teams on difficult projects. I have an excellent ability to identify and maximize each of my staffs strengths.” Give examples.
Q. Tell me about your greatest weakness?
A. It is very important to give a strength that compensates for your weakness. Make your weakness into a positive. “I consider myself a 'big picture' person. I sometimes skip the small details. For this reason, I always have someone on my team that is very detail oriented.” Another good answer: “Sometimes, I get so excited and caught up in my work that I forget that my family life should be my number one priority.”
Hopefully these project manager interview questions will help you. It is important to tailor the answers for your specific background and experience.
Now that we have gone over the tough interview questions and answers, you need to be aware of important resources that can make your job search easier and more thorough.
Few Other questions
Questions That Examine Leadership Potential
1. How do you handle non-productive team members?
2. How do you motivate team members who are burned out, or bored?
3. How do you handle team members who come to you with their personal problems?
4. What are your career goals? How do you see this job affecting your goals?
5. Explain how you operate interdepartmentally.
6. Tell me how you would react to a situation where there was more than one way to accomplish the same task, and there were very strong feelings by others on each position.
7. Consider that you are in a diverse environment, out of your comfort zone. How would you rate your situational leadership style?
8. Give me an example of your leadership involvement where teamwork played an important role.
Questions That Examine Personal Strengths and Weaknesses
9. Why are you interested in this position?
10. Describe what you think it would be like to do this job every day.
11. What do you believe qualifies you for this position?
12. What have you learned from your failures?
13. Of your previous jobs, which one did you enjoy the most? What did you like the most/least? Why? What was your major accomplishment? What was your biggest frustration?
14. Tell me about special projects or training you have had that would be relevant to this job.
15. What are some things that you would not like your job to include?
16. What are your current work plans? Why are you thinking about leaving your present job?
17. Describe an ideal job for you.
Questions That Examine Judgment
18. What would you do if you found out that a contractor was in a conflict of interest situation?
19. If I were to contact your former employee, what would he say about your decision-making abilities?
20. Give me an example of a win-win situation you have negotiated.
21. Tell me about your verbal and written communication ability. How well do you represent yourself to others? What makes you think so?
22. Give me an example of a stressful situation you have been in. How well did you handle it? If you had to do it over again, would you do it differently? How do you deal with stress, pressure, and unreasonable demands?
23. Tell me about a tough decision you had to make?
Questions That Examine Experience
24. Describe what you did at your work place yesterday.
25. How would you solve the following technical problem? (Describe a typical scenario that could occur in the new position.)
26. What strengths did you bring to your last position?
27. Describe how those contributions impacted results?
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Useful Estimation Techniques for Software Projects
This article is orginally published at http://www.developer.com/mgmt/article.php/1463281 by Mr.Sanjay Murthi. Full credits to the original author.
The Importance of Good Estimation
Software projects are typically controlled by four major variables; time, requirements, resources (people, infrastructure/materials, and money), and risks. Unexpected changes in any of these variables will have an impact on a project. Hence, making good estimates of time and resources required for a project is crucial. Underestimating project needs can cause major problems because there may not be enough time, money, infrastructure/materials, or people to complete the project. Overestimating needs can be very expensive for the organization because a decision may be made to defer the project because it is too expensive or the project is approved but other projects are "starved" because there is less to go around.
Read full aticle at http://www.developer.com/mgmt/article.php/1463281
The Importance of Good Estimation
Software projects are typically controlled by four major variables; time, requirements, resources (people, infrastructure/materials, and money), and risks. Unexpected changes in any of these variables will have an impact on a project. Hence, making good estimates of time and resources required for a project is crucial. Underestimating project needs can cause major problems because there may not be enough time, money, infrastructure/materials, or people to complete the project. Overestimating needs can be very expensive for the organization because a decision may be made to defer the project because it is too expensive or the project is approved but other projects are "starved" because there is less to go around.
Read full aticle at http://www.developer.com/mgmt/article.php/1463281
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Free Computer Books, Free eBooks and Books Online
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OnlineComputerBooks.com contains details about free computer books, free ebooks, free online books and sample chapters related to Information Technology, Computer Science, Internet, Business, Marketing, Maths, Physics and Science which are provided by publishers or authors on their websites legally and free of charge
http://www.onlinecomputerbooks.com/
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
File recovery Software ...Very useful
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This tool can be used to recover deleted files or formatted hard disk...
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Thanks to this tool
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Malayalam Transliterate Tool from Google
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Bulk File Rename Utility
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Record Sound from Audio Tape (Casette) using Nero Wave Editor
Step 1: Connect your tape player to your sound card
If you have a tape player with a "line-out" jack, you should really use that, but you can use the headphone jack if line out is not there. Whatever you're using, connect it to the "line-in" plug on the back of your sound card.
Play a little bit of the tape to make sure it's coming out of the PC speakers -- if it is, you've hooked everything up right. NOTE: if you don't hear anything, there's a possibility that your "line-in" volume is just muted. Open up the Windows volume control (Start - Programs - Accessories - Entertainment - Volume Control), go to Options - Properties, make sure that "line-in" is one of the volume controls that is checked, and make sure that the line-in isn't muted.
On your tape player, make sure that any of the balance or bass/treble dials are set in the middle, so you'll get a true recording of the music. Also make sure any "bass boost" settings are off, so your final recording isn't muddy.
Step 2: Record a song
Open up the Nero Wave Editor and select the menu option Audio - Record. Use the default Sample Rate of 44100 Hz and 16-bit, and make sure that "Stereo Recording" is checked, and click OK. The Recording Console will initially start at a paused state. While the console is still paused, play a little of the tape, and make sure that the Input Level indicator goes up and down with the music that's playing. If not, you may have to change your audio input settings. You can do this by clicking Cancel, opening the Windows Sound Recorder (Start - Programs - Accessories - Entertainment - Sound Recorder), choosing the menu option Edit - Audio Properties, clicking the Recording Properties button (with the little microphone on it), and making sure that "line-in" is selected in the recording control (if it doesn't appear as an option, go to Options - Properties and select it as an available volume control).
Input level: Ideally, you want the whole song to stay in the -20 to -10 range on the Input Level indicator.
After you have the volume set properly, rewind to just before the beginning of the song, start playing the tape, and click the "Record" button on the Wave Editor Recording Console (the button with the little red circle). After the song is over, click the "Pause" button on the Wave Editor again (just to the right of the Record button, designated with 2 vertical lines) and click the "OK" button to insert the music you just recorded to a new Wave Editor file.
Choose the menu option File - Save As to save your recorded selection as a WAV file.
Step 3: Clean up the track
Now that you've created a WAV file, you'll want to clean it up a little. Here's how:
1. Select the entire track (menu option Edit - Select All) and "Normalize" it to 0-Db by choosing the menu option Volume - Normalize.
2. Select the entire track again (Edit - Select All) and choose the menu option Enhancement - Noise Reduction. Click OK. This should remove a good amount of the tape hiss that came over with the track (you never really want to set the Reduction Level in the previous step to 100%, because that can create a lot of strange audio artifacts in the track -- 70% is usually good enough).
3. Choose the menu option File - Save to save the file again.
If you have a tape player with a "line-out" jack, you should really use that, but you can use the headphone jack if line out is not there. Whatever you're using, connect it to the "line-in" plug on the back of your sound card.
Play a little bit of the tape to make sure it's coming out of the PC speakers -- if it is, you've hooked everything up right. NOTE: if you don't hear anything, there's a possibility that your "line-in" volume is just muted. Open up the Windows volume control (Start - Programs - Accessories - Entertainment - Volume Control), go to Options - Properties, make sure that "line-in" is one of the volume controls that is checked, and make sure that the line-in isn't muted.
On your tape player, make sure that any of the balance or bass/treble dials are set in the middle, so you'll get a true recording of the music. Also make sure any "bass boost" settings are off, so your final recording isn't muddy.
Step 2: Record a song
Open up the Nero Wave Editor and select the menu option Audio - Record. Use the default Sample Rate of 44100 Hz and 16-bit, and make sure that "Stereo Recording" is checked, and click OK. The Recording Console will initially start at a paused state. While the console is still paused, play a little of the tape, and make sure that the Input Level indicator goes up and down with the music that's playing. If not, you may have to change your audio input settings. You can do this by clicking Cancel, opening the Windows Sound Recorder (Start - Programs - Accessories - Entertainment - Sound Recorder), choosing the menu option Edit - Audio Properties, clicking the Recording Properties button (with the little microphone on it), and making sure that "line-in" is selected in the recording control (if it doesn't appear as an option, go to Options - Properties and select it as an available volume control).
Input level: Ideally, you want the whole song to stay in the -20 to -10 range on the Input Level indicator.
After you have the volume set properly, rewind to just before the beginning of the song, start playing the tape, and click the "Record" button on the Wave Editor Recording Console (the button with the little red circle). After the song is over, click the "Pause" button on the Wave Editor again (just to the right of the Record button, designated with 2 vertical lines) and click the "OK" button to insert the music you just recorded to a new Wave Editor file.
Choose the menu option File - Save As to save your recorded selection as a WAV file.
Step 3: Clean up the track
Now that you've created a WAV file, you'll want to clean it up a little. Here's how:
1. Select the entire track (menu option Edit - Select All) and "Normalize" it to 0-Db by choosing the menu option Volume - Normalize.
2. Select the entire track again (Edit - Select All) and choose the menu option Enhancement - Noise Reduction. Click OK. This should remove a good amount of the tape hiss that came over with the track (you never really want to set the Reduction Level in the previous step to 100%, because that can create a lot of strange audio artifacts in the track -- 70% is usually good enough).
3. Choose the menu option File - Save to save the file again.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
World Time and Clock on the web
You can configure different country local times online. This will be very useful if you are dealing with people from different timezones.
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/personal.html
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/personal.html
How to transfer a tape to a CD using Audacity
This article is originally published at nsftools.com
Step 1: Connect your tape player to your sound cardIf you have a tape player with a "line-out" jack, you should really use that, but you can use the headphone jack in a pinch. Whatever you're using, connect it to the "line-in" plug on the back of your sound card.
Almost every sound card in the world uses 1/8th-inch plugs, although your line-out/headphone jack may or may not be the same size. If it's a different size, converters are pretty easy to find. Also, make sure you're using a cable with stereo plugs -- if there's one little ring around the metal part of the plug it's mono, if there are two little rings it's stereo.
Click here to view the full article http://www.nsftools.com/misc/TapeToCD.htm
Step 1: Connect your tape player to your sound cardIf you have a tape player with a "line-out" jack, you should really use that, but you can use the headphone jack in a pinch. Whatever you're using, connect it to the "line-in" plug on the back of your sound card.
Almost every sound card in the world uses 1/8th-inch plugs, although your line-out/headphone jack may or may not be the same size. If it's a different size, converters are pretty easy to find. Also, make sure you're using a cable with stereo plugs -- if there's one little ring around the metal part of the plug it's mono, if there are two little rings it's stereo.
Click here to view the full article http://www.nsftools.com/misc/TapeToCD.htm
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