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Which is better, Senior position in a start-up company or a middle management position in a well-established company and why?

Rashmi Iyer
Rashmi Iyer
Updated on 27-Jun-2020 302 Views

Work experience in a particular field and mostly specializing in a particular wing is considered to be an asset today considering the fact that field level experience develops a major quantum of skill in a person as against mere degrees or educational qualifications. After reaching a certain point in your career and gaining sufficient work experience, an employee has a desire to switch their job profiles due to better prospects.At times like these experienced people are often in dilemma on the work profile of the company i.e. whether to take a senior position in a start-up or mid-position in a ...

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What is the significance of dreams in our life?

Rashmi Iyer
Rashmi Iyer
Updated on 27-Jun-2020 3K+ Views

Great leaders and entrepreneurs from Bill Gates to Steve Jobs, from Winston Churchill to Mahatma Gandhi had the courage to dream something. Every great movement in history has the dream and vision of these personalities recorded.Dreams can be understood as aspirations and ambitions of a person to achieve a target or a goal in life for at an individual level or for a social cause. To achieve success in true spirit in your life, dreams play a very significant role. It can be understood by the following points -Give Momentum To the LifeDreams help an individual get a purpose in ...

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What is Happiness Planner/Journal? How to use a happiness journal?

Prasanna Kotamraju
Prasanna Kotamraju
Updated on 27-Jun-2020 726 Views

The Happiness Planner / Journal is a planner designed to help you make a habit of listing down the events of our life which give us happiness. It can help us in embracing the power of positive thinking, gratitude, and thanking for the positive events of your life. The Happiness journal helps us to increase positive attitude towards life and fills us with self-awareness and feeling contended from within.A happiness journal is a record of the things that make you happy every day, it is like a list of things that made you happy today or yesterday or day before ...

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World's oldest message in a bottle!!

Prasanna Kotamraju
Prasanna Kotamraju
Updated on 27-Jun-2020 171 Views

In the era of Super Smartphones and jet speed internet, it is difficult to imagine how people used to send messages to each other from one corner of the world to another.The earlier courier services in the world date back to Roman Empire run by Augustus in the 1st century itself. We can imagine those services would take days and months to be handed over on road and water by a special messenger personally handing over the message.Imagine a message reaching after 132 years!!!Recently a message was found inside of a bottle on an Australian beach, which is dating back ...

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Why are some languages written left to right?

siddhartha kotamraju
siddhartha kotamraju
Updated on 27-Jun-2020 192 Views

Actually, we don't have much written historical records of how the writing system has started from right to left or left to right. We believe they were started to avoid smudging from the other side. And mostly they are for the convenience of writing.Here are some languages which are written from left to right.Arabic.Aramaic.Azeri.Dhivehi / Maldivian.Hebrew.Kurdish (Sorani)Persian/Farsi.Urdu.

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How can I improve my English speaking skills? I'm really afraid to talk in public.

Prasanna Kotamraju
Prasanna Kotamraju
Updated on 27-Jun-2020 271 Views

“For any challenge, there will be a difficult and an easy solution, you just have to be smart enough to choose the right one.”Speaking English is a very difficult task for many people. I have seen people with great vocabulary and good grammar sense also fear spoken English and fail in interviews because of that. There can be many reasons behind it. Strong Mother tongue influence, being an introvert, not surrounded by many English speaking persons, having their primary education in their mother tongue etc., can be some of the reasons.Whatever may be the reason, it is very important to ...

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Why are TV serials called daily soaps?

Dev Kumar
Dev Kumar
Updated on 27-Jun-2020 2K+ Views

The actual phrase used is daily soap opera and it all began in the early part of the last century when the radio was the only broadcasting media as TV had just been invented sometime in the 1920s and was still some time away from becoming a full-fledged media. So, it was the radio that was ruling the wavelengths just as TV does now. Radio stations were getting more and more creative with their presentations and programs but implementing them needed money that nobody was ready put unless there was some tangible ROI (Return on Investment).Condition of PromotionIn those days, ...

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What are the beautiful untranslatable Hindi words?

Shanmukh Pasumarthy
Shanmukh Pasumarthy
Updated on 26-Jun-2020 2K+ Views

There are some words in Hindi, which are beautiful and cannot be translated into English. We can only describe the meaning of the word in a sentence but there are no exact replacements in English. In India, we use some Hindi words as it is even in our English documents to keep up their sanctity.Viraha - the realization of love through separationAkashvani - celestial announcement ( voice from skies)Maya - The illusion or deceptive appearance of this physical world. Acts of God which cannot be understood by humans.Pushpanjali - Pushpa- flowers; Anjali - folded hands - Folded hands with full ...

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Google Talks- A Trendy Knowledge Sharing Show

Sharon Christine
Sharon Christine
Updated on 20-Jan-2020 263 Views

In the year 2005, with the sole purpose of internal enrichment of its employees, Google started the program, Google talks, thru this program, brings actors, actresses, authors, filmmakers, actresses, musicians, chefs, women, politicians, scientists, innovators and speakers of all kinds, to Google talks centering on their recent works. This program has gained popularity in very short time and it evolved to become a public facing program, reaching millions of viewers, with varieties of interests on YouTube Channel. The talks are hosted by Googlers in Google offices across the world.In this program, a disclaimer is also posted, that the views or ...

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Why is the term "Bachelor" used in educational qualifications?

Suman Nanda
Suman Nanda
Updated on 30-Jul-2019 374 Views

A college degree (from Middle Asian baccalaureus) or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin baccalaureates) is an undergraduate academic level awarded by universities and colleges after completion of training lasting three to several years (depending on the organization and academic discipline).Origin of the TermThe definition of bachelor in the twelfth century referred to a knight bachelor, who was too young or poor to gather vassals under his own banner. By simply the end of the 13th century, it was also employed by junior associates of guilds or schools. By folk etymology or wordplay, the word baccalaureus was associated with bacca Laurie ("laurel berry")It was ...

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