convert your laptop into a Wireless HotSpot?

This article will help you convert your Windows XP and Vista based laptop in a Wireless HotSpot. One you setup your laptop as HotSpot then you do not need a router, switch, hub, etc… to form a network, in fact other laptops or PC’s can connect or access the internet through this newly created HotSpot

What do I need to set a HotSpot?

1. Active Cable Internet
2. Laptop
3. WiFi on Laptop
4. Wired net connection

Once you have all the above things mentioned, you are all set to follow the steps:

How to setup HotSpot on Windows Vista:

1. Got to Control Panel
2. Click on “Network and Sharing Centre”
3. Under Tasks choose “Setup New Connection”
4. Wireless “Ad-hoc network”
5. Now type in a “Network Name”
6. Choose “WEP” password if you don’t want to share the connection with the entire world
7. Click “Internet connection sharing”
8. Done!

Now a WiFi enabled machine will be able to connect to the network you have just setup with the WEP password

Lets setup a HotSpot on a Windows XP machine:

1. Go into Control panel
2. Open “Network Connections”
3. Right click on "Wireless Connection" and click on "Properties"
4. Click on the "Wireless Networks" tab and select the check-box which says “Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings”
5. Under “Prefered networks” click “Add”
6. Type a name in “Network name” text box
7. Select “Shared” from the options under “Network Authentication”
8. Under Data encryption select “WEP” and type in your password in “Network Key” field and now click "OK"
9. Now the new HotSpot should show in the list of preferred networks.
10. Click on the “Advance” button and select “Computer-to-computer (ad hoc) networks only" and press close
11. Hit “OK”, we are done with the wireless connection properties

One more step, we have to change something in the wired connection setting so that it knows that it has to share connection with the computers accessing our HotSpot.

1. Go to local Area Connections, right click it and select properties
2. Go to the “Advanced” tab and under Internet Connection Sharing check the box which says “Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s internet connection” and make sure the box under that is NOT selected so that no one can disable the network remotely.
3. Hit “OK”

I hope this helps setting up a wireless connection without a WiFi router. Have FuN!

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It is pretty safe to assume that you will come across behavioral interview questions at some point in the interview process. Common behavioral interview topics include team building, versatility, problem solving, commitment, perception, analysis, and communication, to name a few. Keep in mind that the behavioral interview is based on the premise that past performance is a key indicator of future performance in a similar role/environment. Preparing for behavioral interviews can greatly improve your interview skills for phone screenings and traditional interviews, so read on…

Preparation includes

• Gathering knowledge about
  o the company,
  o roles and responsibilities of the position,
  o necessary skills to do the job,
  o why the position is open (is it a new role, or did someone leave, and why)
• Presenting a top notch resume,
• Being prepared to discuss your education, work experience, and the characteristics you possess coupled with your ability to operate in the work environment.

The objective is to sell yourself and to do so truthfully…don’t embellish on your resume, or during an interview.

Get the interview. Your resume is how you create your first impression, so make sure it is complete, professional, honest, and error free (including spelling and grammar). Once your resume and application get you noticed, often times, the phone interview is treated as a screening to ensure accuracy of your resume and to weed out candidates based on functional/technical ability and how your experience lends itself to the opportunity. When you are brought in for a face to face interview, continue to be prepared to discuss your skill set, work experience, and resume, and be prepared for behavioral interview questions. Behavioral interview questions give recruiters and hiring managers a true sense of how you handle situations in the work environment including stress, management, colleagues, deadlines, and more….remember “past performance is a key indicator of future performance in a similar role/environment.”

During the interview, it is imperative to keep in mind the position for which you are interviewing. For example, if you are interviewing for a management position, and a question is asked of you about your previous experience leading a team, make sure you provide a positive example that highlights your management/leadership skills that helped your team be successful. This seems like common sense, but the nerves of an interview can take over if you are not prepared (be prepared, not memorized and insincere). Practice answering questions with the STAR approach.

1. Situation/Task (state the situation or task at hand)
2. Action, (state the action that you took)
3. Result (state the results/outcome)

The STAR approach enables you to provide a complete answer with a beginning, middle and end. Coupling this approach with your knowledge of the roles and responsibilities of the position for which you are interviewing, you should be well prepared for most questions.

Here are some sample behavioral interview questions:

1. Provide an example of how you have been successful at empowering either a person or a group of people in accomplishing a task.
2. Tell me about a time when you made a personal sacrifice in order to reach a work objective.
3. Describe a time in which you found it necessary to speak up about an issue where there was a real or potential risk to the company or your project and your perspective was not popular. What was the outcome?
4. Tell me about a position you have held that required you to remain focused in a chaotic environment.
5. Describe a project when you were especially energized and others (team, business unit etc.) did not able to share your exuberance. Were you able to change their views or inspire more energy and motivation for the project?
6. This position is an important leadership role for moving our organization forward – Why are you the one for the job?

Good luck!

Thanks Allison for sharing it.

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CV hints and tips transcript

In this KPMG podcast we are going to be speaking to Lynn Williams. Lynn is a career counsellor and a trainer and apart from her work as a counsellor Lynn is also the author of Readymade CVs and Readymade Job Search Letters, both published by Kogan Page. And that’s what we are going to be talking about today. If you’re looking for a new job then one of the things you are always going to need is a CV.

Lynn, is the CV today more or less important?

It’s as important as it was back then. It was quite easy to produce a CV that would stand out, that was clear and well-printed and looked good. These days it’s actually quite difficult to produce something that will stand out from the 150-200 people who have also sent in their CVs.

When you do workshops with people do you still find them making obvious mistakes?

Very much so. And I still get people who bring their CV along and it’s just a list of jobs, just a list of the people they’ve worked for. There’s nothing about their skills, nothing about their achievements, nothing about their competencies — and that’s quite a key word that’s cropped up in the past few years. Companies hire competencies; they hire skills; they hire background; they hire experience.

So with that in mind, how do you make your CV stand out?

I think the best advice I would give somebody now, in the current situation and probably for the future as well, is to customise your CV. I’m not sure that the day hasn’t gone when you could go to a CV-writing agency, get thirty copies of your CV and send them out to various people.

This is no good any more?

I don’t think it is. You might be lucky. You might have exactly what they’re looking for and you and might have somebody who’s got the time to sit down and read through your CV and pull out the key points, but what you really need to do now, to make sure that you stand out, is to pull those key points out for yourself. Make sure that you look at the job ad and look at exactly what they want, the key skills, qualities, background, experience and put those right at the top of your CV: name, personal profile, and your key strengths.

Now, the temptation is just to chuck everything in. Is it possible to make a CV that’s too long? What’s the maximum length?

The preferred length is two pages, and unless you’re going for a very, very senior position — and I emphasise ‘very’ senior position — it shouldn’t be more than two pages. If you need to cut it down, look at your most recent two jobs and give details on that and condense the rest.

Is it ever acceptable to lie on your CV?

It’s absolutely never acceptable to lie on your CV, and you can actually be dismissed if anything you put on your CV is found to be wrong. Don’t forget we now live in the age of google, so people can find out exactly what you’ve done and who you’ve done it for — but really it shouldn’t be necessary to lie on your CV. It’s not necessary to dress things up, to make them look better. If you’re reading the job ad, looking at the skills that they want, and telling them when where and how you’ve demonstrated those you’re telling them exactly what they want. You shouldn’t need to dress that up at all.

How personal should a CV be? How emotional should it be? Or should it be a very dry statement of fact?

On the whole I would err on the side of being as dry and as professional and as businesslike as you can be. You can loosen it up at the interview if that’s the impression that you get, but I would be very careful about doing that on the first approach that you make to a company.

So having too much personality on your CV is more dangerous than having too little?

It can be off-putting, yes. I know people do it in an attempt to stand out, but I go back to what I originally said: if you’re looking at the job ad, if you’re looking at what they need, if you’re telling them exactly when, where and how you’ve demonstrated those skills it will be personal enough. You will be painting a detailed, professional picture of yourself.

So to sum up, Lynn, is the ability to customise your CV the one piece of advice that you think is more important than any other?

That is the most important piece of advice I would give anybody.

Thank you very much, Lynn. If you were interested in this podcast, and we hope you were, please remember to subscribe to KPMG’s careers newsletter, so we can keep you up to date with future podcasts.

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