Marriage ended up well

Today there was a marriage near my house in one of the halls. I think no doubt it was a good marriage and my blessings to both groom and bride but the people who were outside the marriage didn't have the civility to keep quite and allow the marriage procession go smoothly.

They were shouting swear words outside the hall and it made the whole marriage efforts dismal. This is not the procession where you want to end up in fights. Some people were entertained by the fight and others were crippled and could do nothing about it, even though their cerebrum said leave the place.

I asked what was going on and there were none who could answer my question. Even they were baffled. Then again there were swear words that people insulted each other. God forbade I think it did not end up in a nasty fight.

We regret marriage processions like this, certainly the parents of the groom and the bride would not have liked the marriage to continue in this way.

Sales up Morale up

Recently, I read "One minute sales person". It is a good book for every sales person and so it is recommended that every sales person should buy one. It will make your wallet lighter by just 125 Rs. For a non-sales person like me it has some very useful observations and aphothegms about sales. Sales are best understood when you start selling. It talks about empathy, it gives advice on how we get referrals, what everyone should expect and all these things at every stage.

It gives talk about presales, during sales, and post sales stages. We mainly as laymen concentrate on 'during sales' and forget pre-sales preparation and post-sales ending. It has simple and ready to use tips and hints that any new comer in sales would require. Why only new comer even veterans can get a hint or two. We all do sales in the same way as if there is a benchmark method. Actually there are no same methods unless we adopt one from others, Mostly we make preparations by ourselves and learn through imitation.

Read it. After all there are very few happy sales men.

Grammar for everybody

Becoming familiar with grammar is very important in today's world. I suggest that everybody must have a grammar book in their bag. Most of us know here which grammar book we are talking about.

Even though it is difficult to learn grammar it is not far fetched to learn some basic things about it. Every office goer who writes emails, letters, etc must have some grammar knowledge. Most of the companies do test the incumbents knowledge of grammar. Because they know that it is necessary. The problems and time gets elongated when we don't know how to write these letters well. Letter writing is a part of every managers agenda. He fails to send letters because they are not well versed with the nuances of language.

We must not shy away because these things matter.

Editing results

Day before yesterday I had appeared for an interview. They had two tests. One multiple choice and the other an article which was needed to be edited. The multiple choice went well, but the second one editing an article did not go as expected. I think sometimes that I went without preparation for such a test.

When they handed me the article I was surprised to receive because I did not expect them to straight away give an article. That must have been their procedure.

Today when I called them back to know the results I was told that I wasn't selected the reason being that the article was not edited to their benchmarking standards. I need to put my nose down if I must succeed in the forthcoming interviews.

Be Editor

Today I had an interview in one of the company which promises to be a good place for editor and editorship. The first test had 60 questions while the other one was one page column which needed editing.

The first test went well, the second test also went well but not that good. I was actually shocked when they gave me a word document and directly told me to edit it. The column could have been simplified but a simple language will make the subject non-technical. Also, I was told that my goal must not be to compress the column but just to find any major and minor suitable errors in it.

I hope that they will give their feedback by next week.