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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
8 Websites That Give You Tips On Job Interview Questions and Answers
Facing a job interview board probably comes right below public speaking on a fear list. Many of us liken it to a third-degree interrogation. But heck, do a few and you'll find it's not too bad at all. Every veteran interviewee will tell you that being prepared is half the battle won. A technical interview might be a different ball game though.
Sometimes, the most matter of fact questions can knock you off kilter. The tell me about yourself' interview ice-breaker makes the most difficult interview questions' list quite often. A smart off the cuff answer works, but it works better if you have the answer prepared.
If preparation is the key, browse through these eight interview websites and bulletproof your job search with the wealth of technical and non-technical interview questions and answers listed there.
Sometimes, the most matter of fact questions can knock you off kilter. The tell me about yourself' interview ice-breaker makes the most difficult interview questions' list quite often. A smart off the cuff answer works, but it works better if you have the answer prepared.
If preparation is the key, browse through these eight interview websites and bulletproof your job search with the wealth of technical and non-technical interview questions and answers listed there.
CareerCup
Careercup is a resource of tech interview questions from companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and a lot of others. The site was started in 2005, so to date the bank of questions is 3,000 strong. You can trawl through the questions by using the dropdown for Companies, Job Titles, and Topics. The answers and solutions are supplied by the community of readers. You can add your own interview questions and also engage with others in the chat room.
Glassdoor
We have featured this free career website and community before but it was as a salary comparison tool. Since then, the site has come out of beta and developed into a deeper microscope for the job market with company reviews, salary comparisons, and interview tips. The site lists interview questions across the spectrum of job listings from sales to technology. The site is well organized with each company getting a page that starts with an overview and hives off into details like interview difficulty rating, questions asked, and other information like background checks, interview schedules, etc. It's definitely is one of the better job information sites out there.
Monster
The go-to site for career and job listing information has a well covered career advice section with a section devoted to interviewing. Check out all the articles listed under The Tough Questions. A few hints from How to Answer Five Difficult Interview Questions and 100 Potential Interview Questions should help you ace any interview.
Job Search (About.com)
The wide variety of guides on About.com is always more than useful. It's the same with the roll of interview questions and best answers for each of them. Follow all the links and check them out.
Management Consulting Case Interviews
We move away from all the general and technical interview websites with this one. As the name says, the site is all about in-depth interview questions for those who are interested in getting into management consulting. The case studies are arranged by type, industry, and consulting firm.
Xor Swap
The technical interview website is simple in looks but its list of actual interview questions asked by IT companies could be more than useful. Each question also has the answer and you can add your own. Filter the questions against the company using the list of companies on the right.
Geek Interview
The site of course, has a nicely laid out interview preparation section with a lot of questions for the software programmer or coder. The site leans towards the Indian IT scene but the questions should be universal for an IT interview. The site also has tutorials on technology, tech articles, career related articles, job postings, certification questions and guides, online tests and other study aids.
Common Interview
The website with a barebones search engine-like interface is actually a dynamic, community driven collection of most common general purpose and technical interview questions. The search box gave me a bunch of unrelated results (the Advanced Search targets them better), so I guess it's better to use the menu on the top. Not all questions have answers but the collection of interview questions and answers is quite large.
Armed with the best answers, you can further polish your interview tackling skills with 5 Sites with Job Interview Tips to Help You Ace Your Interview or take the visual route with 5 Video Channels for Learning Basic Job Interview Skills. As you prepare for the next blind date' with the job board, let us know about the toughest interview question you ever had to counter.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
How To Find Out If Your Email Address Was Leaked Through Gawker’s Database
In December 2010 Gawker Medias entire network of websites was affected by an exploit that preyed on both staff and visitors. More than 1.5 million accounts were compromised by the attacks, and users' email addresses and their respective passwords were posted online for all to see.
If you are an active participant on any of Gawker's websites then you'll probably have changed your password by now (hint: do it). However, if you're not sure whether you've contributed any comments and would like to know for sure then you can check your email against the list to get the answer you need. You can then take appropriate action if you've fallen foul to the leak.
If you are an active participant on any of Gawker's websites then you'll probably have changed your password by now (hint: do it). However, if you're not sure whether you've contributed any comments and would like to know for sure then you can check your email against the list to get the answer you need. You can then take appropriate action if you've fallen foul to the leak.
Why Such A Big Deal?
There's a reason you're strongly encouraged to use different passwords for different services. Had you signed up to Gawker's commenting system with your usual personal email address and used the same password you use to log into said email address then your email and password combination is freely available for all to see.
It has emerged since last month's attacks that a considerable amount of .gov, .edu and .mil (US military) email addresses were included in the leaked database. If these individuals had used the same password for their email login then government, education and military email addresses would be potentially compromised.
According to the hackers 2,650 used "password" or "qwerty" as a password including one .gov address, three .mil addresses and 52 from .edu addresses.
This is a prime example of how using a variety of passwords can really save your bacon. Should someone gain access to your email account then personal information like online banking or web hosting details is at the mercy of the intruder.
Ok, I'm Sufficiently Scared
Good, so you'll probably want to check if you're on the list. As the whole network of sites used the same shared commenting system, every Gawker site was affected. Many of these sites are popular and renowned for breaking news, reviews and their quirky nature.
Outlets include Lifehacker, Gawker (main site), Gizmodo, Kotaku, Fleshbot, io9, Jalopnik, Jezebel and Deadspin. If you have ever made a comment and used your own valid email address then you really should have changed your Gawker password, and any other services that use the same password.
Step 1
To check whether you've been affected you'll first need to change your email address into an MD5 hash, which you can do here. Simply enter your email in full, click md5 and copy the result to your clipboard.
Step 2
With your MD5 saved, go here and click Show Options. From the first drop-down box select MD5 and in the text field paste your MD5 hash and click Apply Filter.
If nothing appears then you're home dry, your account has not been compromised and you can sleep easy. If you do see a matching row but you've changed your password already – no worries, you acted fast.
If you see a matching row and have not changed your password then you'll want to change your Gawker password and any other passwords that match.
If you need a bit of help coming up with a couple of passwords, we've got an article covering that but please be careful and don't use too many shared passwords.
Did you get stung by Gawkergate? Learned your lesson from shared passwords? Still using "password" as your password? Tell us all about it in the comments below.
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How To Reface Your Facebook Profile Using FB Photo Magic
Facebook has decided that all of its users' account will be upgraded to the new profile, which was introduced last December. Even though not everybody likes the arrangement that comes with the new profile, the new layout opens up to some cool "hacking" possibilities.
It's said that Alexandre Oudin - a French artist - was the first one who explored the possibilities of creatively "refacing" the new profile page. Since then, many people have come up with their own version of a personalized profile page. As the refacing process required some skills in photo editing and the tenacity to find the perfect arrangement, most of us couldn't (or wouldn't) join in the craze. But that was in the past. Today, everything can be done easily in a few steps with the help of an online tool called FB Photo Magic.
Let's Create Some Magic
If you want to join all the cool kids on Facebook, why don't you try to reface your own profile page? Go to the FB Photo Magic website and click the "Start" button.
Click "Choose File" to pick the picture that you want to upload and then click "Upload Photo". Based on my experiment, it's advisable to pre-process the photo prior to uploading it. Not only will you get the portion of the image that you want, but you will also get a smaller size compared to the original picture.
The first thing that you will notice after the uploading process is the drop down list of "Text lines". This list asks you to choose one of the numbers according to how many lines there are on your profile page.
To get the figure, go to your profile page and count the lines under your name next to your profile picture.
Then you can set the image template. You can resize the box and move it around. The parts of the picture under the white boxes are the ones that will show up on your profile page. Adjust the boxes' position so that they will overlay portions of the image that you want to show.
Click the "Save" button at the top right corner of the page, then continue by clicking "Upload to Facebook".
A confirmation window will open, asking you to allow FB Photo Magic to access your Facebook account.
When everything is done, you'll see the success message along with quick instructions on how to set everything up.
Completing The Process
Now we are a few steps away before we finish the refacing process. To complete the journey, log into your Facebook account and go to the "Photos" page by clicking on the link in the sidebar under the profile picture. Then open the FB Photo Magic album.
Inside the album, you will see a set of "puzzle" photos that you've just created. Click on the last picture to open it. This last picture is the largest picture on the left that will be your profile picture.
Go to the lower part of the photo page and click on the link "Make Profile Picture".
Then click "Okay" in the confirmation window.
And you're done.
Just for the sake of the experiment, I created another set of profile pictures using my daughter's photo, activated it, and decided to keep the result (she's a lot more photogenic than I!)
An Alternative And Few Notes
FB Photo Magic is not the only application that you can use to reface your Facebook profile page. Another alternative that I found is Schweppes Profile App. The working process is similar to FB Photo Magic. However, during my experiment, I was always stuck on the "uploading to Facebook" step. But feel free to try it, maybe you'll have better luck.
Please note that even though I used FB Photo Magic with several images without any problem, one of the profile images that I got was distorted. So if you get distorted image, you could repeat the process or use alternative images. Use the "Preview" feature before uploading the result to Facebook.
Since the images shown on your profile page are actually images tagged with your name, it's possible that the set that you created is replaced by more recent set of images also tagged with your name. If this happens, you could hover above the images that you don't want and click on the "X" to close them. Doing this will not erase the images. You just keep them off your profile page.
I found that refacing my Facebook profile page is fun. You should try it yourself and enjoy the time when your friends beg you to tell them how to do it!
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It's said that Alexandre Oudin - a French artist - was the first one who explored the possibilities of creatively "refacing" the new profile page. Since then, many people have come up with their own version of a personalized profile page. As the refacing process required some skills in photo editing and the tenacity to find the perfect arrangement, most of us couldn't (or wouldn't) join in the craze. But that was in the past. Today, everything can be done easily in a few steps with the help of an online tool called FB Photo Magic.
Let's Create Some Magic
If you want to join all the cool kids on Facebook, why don't you try to reface your own profile page? Go to the FB Photo Magic website and click the "Start" button.
Click "Choose File" to pick the picture that you want to upload and then click "Upload Photo". Based on my experiment, it's advisable to pre-process the photo prior to uploading it. Not only will you get the portion of the image that you want, but you will also get a smaller size compared to the original picture.
The first thing that you will notice after the uploading process is the drop down list of "Text lines". This list asks you to choose one of the numbers according to how many lines there are on your profile page.
To get the figure, go to your profile page and count the lines under your name next to your profile picture.
Then you can set the image template. You can resize the box and move it around. The parts of the picture under the white boxes are the ones that will show up on your profile page. Adjust the boxes' position so that they will overlay portions of the image that you want to show.
Click the "Save" button at the top right corner of the page, then continue by clicking "Upload to Facebook".
A confirmation window will open, asking you to allow FB Photo Magic to access your Facebook account.
When everything is done, you'll see the success message along with quick instructions on how to set everything up.
Completing The Process
Now we are a few steps away before we finish the refacing process. To complete the journey, log into your Facebook account and go to the "Photos" page by clicking on the link in the sidebar under the profile picture. Then open the FB Photo Magic album.
Inside the album, you will see a set of "puzzle" photos that you've just created. Click on the last picture to open it. This last picture is the largest picture on the left that will be your profile picture.
Go to the lower part of the photo page and click on the link "Make Profile Picture".
Then click "Okay" in the confirmation window.
And you're done.
Just for the sake of the experiment, I created another set of profile pictures using my daughter's photo, activated it, and decided to keep the result (she's a lot more photogenic than I!)
An Alternative And Few Notes
FB Photo Magic is not the only application that you can use to reface your Facebook profile page. Another alternative that I found is Schweppes Profile App. The working process is similar to FB Photo Magic. However, during my experiment, I was always stuck on the "uploading to Facebook" step. But feel free to try it, maybe you'll have better luck.
Please note that even though I used FB Photo Magic with several images without any problem, one of the profile images that I got was distorted. So if you get distorted image, you could repeat the process or use alternative images. Use the "Preview" feature before uploading the result to Facebook.
Since the images shown on your profile page are actually images tagged with your name, it's possible that the set that you created is replaced by more recent set of images also tagged with your name. If this happens, you could hover above the images that you don't want and click on the "X" to close them. Doing this will not erase the images. You just keep them off your profile page.
I found that refacing my Facebook profile page is fun. You should try it yourself and enjoy the time when your friends beg you to tell them how to do it!
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