To make a good impression dress conservative and clean cut, wear clothes appropriate to culture, hair clean, neat and tidy, keep jewellery to a minimum, no after-shave or perfume, clean shoes, suits dry-cleaned if worn, overall cleanliness, hands, nails etc. Practice good hygiene, comb or brush your hair, and dress appropriately. Even if you know that company dress is business-casual, dress up anyway. It shows professionalism and respect.

Dress conservatively and avoid bright, flashy colors. Navy blue or gray is usually best but wear colors in which you feel confident. Interviewers might be offended by strong body smell. Don't wear strong perfume. Fragrance is a matter of personal preference and your interviewer might not like your choice. It's best to have soft perfume a few minutes before interview; a little mouthwash may be good.

Body Language Remember body speaks louder than words. Body language comprises 55% of force of any response. Verbal content only provides 7% paralanguage, or intonation, pauses and sighs given when answering, represents 38% of emphasis. How to Act During Interviews

Greet them as per time of day. Smile and have a firm handshake if offered. Read mood. If interviewer is formal, then you probably should be, too. If interviewer is casual, then follow along while remaining courteous and professional. Wait to be told to take a seat and say thank you. If it's possible, scoot your chair a little closer to interviewer's desk or take chair closet to desk. This shows interest and confidence. But don't invade interviewer's personal space, a perimeter of about two to three feet. Sit with good posture. Even formally trained interviewers are regular people like you, so they'll expect you to be a little nervous while sitting in hot seat. Still, try to avoid obvious signs. Maintain comfortable eye contact with interviewer as failure to maintain eye contact indicates that you are lying, reaching for answers or lacking confidence. Take your time to answer questions - this will prevent you from providing a poor answer. Speak clearly and thoughtfully - be sure to speak at an appropriate volume and do not speak too quickly If interviewer offers coffee or other beverages, it's okay to accept if he insists otherwise say no thanks. It's probably better to say no thanks to snacks. How to Sit at Interview

With upper limbs guideline is that less a person moves their hands and arms, more powerful they are. This supports view that they are used to people listening to them and they therefore do not have to resort to gesticulation to get their point across. Try to keep your hands lower than your elbows, rest them on arms of chair. Try to gauge interviewers' preferred distance by their seating arrangements. Move closer only if they seem skeptical about what you're saying.

Where you sit, too, is as important as how you sit.

If you are sitting on edge of seat it can make you look eager but also scared, like you are ready to bolt out of room. Go ahead and slide to back of chair and sit tall and straight. That will make you look confident and comfortable. Girls should not cross their legs and instead sit with their knees together. Men should avoid sitting with their legs too wide apart. Anything that creates an intimacy before there's a rapport established will signal to interviewer that you don't use good judgment and that you resort to inappropriate behavior. Here are some typical interpretations of body language.

Openness and Warmth:·Open-lipped smiling, ·Open hands with palms visible.

Confidence: Leaning forward in chair chin up, Hands joined behind back when standing.

Nervousness: Jiggling pocket contents, running tongue along front of teeth, clearing throat, hands touching face or covering part of face, pulling at skin or ear, running fingers through hair, wringing hands, biting on pens or other objects, twiddling thumbs, biting fingernails. Looking at your watch very frequently. Nervous hand habits, like nail biting, hair twirling and hand twitching, can distract interviewer and, convey nervousness and insecurity. Untrustworthy/Defensive: Frowning, squinting eyes, tight-lipped grin, arms crossed in front of chest, chin down, touching nose or face, darting eyes, looking down when speaking, clenched hands, gestures with fist, pointing with fingers, chopping one hand into open palm of other, rubbing back of neck, clasping hands behind head while leaning back in chair.

Interpretation of Various Postures Crossed arms - means that person is in a defensive and reserved mood. ·Crossed arms and legs - means that person feels very reserved and suspicious. ·Open arms and hands - means that person is open and receptive. ·Standing before you with his hands inside pockets - means he is not sure or feels suspicious. ·Standing before you with his hands on his hips - means he is receptive and ready to help you out. ·Sitting in a chair shaking one of legs - means he feels nervous and uncomfortable ·If his eyes are downcast and face turned away - means he is not interested in what you are saying. ·With palm of hand holding or stroking his chin - means he is in an evaluating position and being critical. ·Leaning back in his chair with both hands clasped behind his head - means he is in an analytical mood, but it is also a gesture of superiority. ·Rubbing or touching his nose when answering a question - means he is not telling complete truth. ·Rubbing back of his head or rubbing or touching back of his neck - means conversation is not really interesting. ·If he moves his body and sits with his feet and body pointing towards a door - means he wants to end conservation and leave room. ·Steepling your fingers, particularly in an upright position, when answering a question. This can be perceived as arrogant, saying I know more about this subject than you do.

Tips about using your Voice

Teaching is one of oldest professions in world. In good old days students who had desire to learn used to come to learn and usually were self motivated. Moreover going through process was comparatively easy as things and concepts were relatively easy. With changing socio-economic scene whole process has undergone a tremendous change. In today’s society there are students who come just to earn a degree so as to have a respectable social status. Moreover due to advancement in various fields, concepts and applications have become quite complicated to understand and practice.

The teachers job under these environments has become more difficult wherein he has to ensure that learning takes place when he teaches for most of students who come from diverse backgrounds. The attitude that our task is to teach and they will learn only if they want to is a negative approach to my mind.

The Missing Links

What has largely been considered classroom teaching and learning process traditionally has got certain missing links to my mind. I consider following to be complete cycle of teaching learning process and I have tried to stretch it beyond learning to achieving proficiencies and developing competencies. The complete cycle is as shown below: -

(a)Teaching may lead to… (b)Awareness, you should go beyond to ensure… (c)Knowing, knowing does not mean …… (d)Understanding, if they understand next stage is… (e)Learning where they even can do things them selves this has to be developed to… (f)Proficiency where they become proficient in what they do and that has to be developed to… (g)Competencies

What is difference?

I always thought that if I teach and they (students) understand. I think I have done my Job well. Is that sufficient? Probably not! Let us take an example: -

I was trying to teach my daughter how to dance I taught her to my level best, put on best music, told all steps to perfection and gave enough time and attention and what not BUT It came out to be total failure. She probably understood dancing but could not dance way I wanted. What did go wrong?

Reason is very simple she was only a toddler and was in no position to dance, though probably she became aware and up to some extent understood also. But was that enough? Please remember that very first essential step to ensure that students learn what you teach is to ensure that you are coming to their standards, this becomes first essential step to bring them to your standards.

That could be one reason but there can be many more … What is needed?

For making teaching learning process to be successful a change in teachers attitude and approach is required following can be tried out:-

1. Paradigm shift from “Catch me if you can” to “catch them if you can”. Speak language which they understand and in manner that they understand.

2. Not only that! make sure that they don’t abandon you in between. You could devise mean to make sure that they stay with you. One technique is to ask students to repeat part of teaching of previous class and you should be able to identify students who are falling behind for what ever may be reasons. Target such students for your questions very often and let it be known by them after all it is for their own good.

How do you Ensure Learning

1. Generate interest in whatever you teach. Test their knowledge, which they gain by way of discussions and question answers. You could also ask some good students to give answers to questions raised by other students in class.