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30 Important Tips To Rule Your Job Interviews

When I was chatting over dinner with two of my good friends a couple of months back, one of the topics we talked about was job interviews. One of my friends (who is still a student) said she was glad she was still studying because she found the prospect of job interviews scary. To her, the thought of having someone grill you face-to-face with questions and being in the pressure to think on your feet was quite overwhelming.

I found her adversity towards interviews quite interesting. While interviews can seem a little intimidating, they are definitely manageable with the right level of preparation. In fact, as you do more of them, you will find them to be easier and easier – and something to look forward to! Personally, I find interviews a very awareness raising experience. I remember that every time I had an interview in the past, it always felt like such an adrenaline rush!

30 Job Interview Tips

In my years as a business student and in the corporate world, I learned numerous things on what’s important in an interview and how to win over your interviewers from seminars, reading different resources and personal experience. Here are 30 job interview tips which will come in handy as you are…


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Published May 21 2009
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Passion Paycheck

This is part of the Passion & Career series.

  1. Passion or Money?
  2. Pursuing Your Passion With No Money
  3. How To Discover Your Ideal Career: Your Message and Your Medium
  4. Overcome Fear Of Loss And Pursue Your Dreams
  5. Passion Paycheck
  6. A Guide To Pursue Your Passion With Success: 14 Essential Steps (bonus article in Personal Excellence Book, Volume 2)
  7. Top Entrepreneurs Interview Series
  8. Million Dollar Tip Series


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(Originally written and published on May 11, 2009.)

For those of you who have started working in one form or another (internships, attachments, free lance, part-time work, full-time work, etc), you are probably accustomed to getting your paychecks every month. However, have you received a passion paycheck before?

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Published May 11 2009
Filed: Career & Work, Money & Wealth, Passion & Dreams
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Pursuing Your Passion With No Money

This is part of the Passion & Career series.

  1. Passion or Money?
  2. Pursuing Your Passion With No Money
  3. How To Discover Your Ideal Career: Your Message and Your Medium
  4. Overcome Fear Of Loss And Pursue Your Dreams
  5. Passion Paycheck
  6. A Guide To Pursue Your Passion With Success: 14 Essential Steps (bonus article in Personal Excellence Book, Volume 2)
  7. Top Entrepreneurs Interview Series
  8. Million Dollar Tip Series


“Hi Celes, I read your article about how you left your job to pursue your dreams. I did the same for a simpler reason – I had enough of being an employee (it’s been 10 years). However, with no income at all, I’m beginning to regret my decision at times. What is your opinion on this?” – gabybali

Hey gabybali, thanks for your question :) Let us take a closer look at your situation. (more…)


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Published Apr 4 2009
Filed: Career & Work, Money & Wealth, Passion & Dreams
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Media Coverage in My Paper

I’ve been featured in My Paper today! :) For the non-Singaporean readers, My Paper is a free Singapore bilingual paper. It is distributed in local train stations every morning, with a circulation of approx 300,000. It also has an electronic version available at its website.

The article features how I made the decision to pursue my passion over money, the personal development work I do at Embrace Living and my views on personal development in Singapore. Overall I’m really happy with the article and the journalist did a really great job (If you’re reading this, thanks Jingting! :D And thanks Jamie for being such an excellent photographer to work with! :) ) Just some nuance pointouts on the information in the article – A) My pay – It’s not precisely $70k B) My current coachee profile – They span from 20s to late 30s and include people from other countries.

* Note on Oct ’11: Embrace Living was the old name of the site when it first started, for the first 6 months. It’s now known as Personal Excellence.

Unfortunately they didn’t feature the site url, probably due to internal policies regarding advertising other services. It seems like quite a number of the readers have found the site regardless through Google/Facebook search, so all’s good :D So far I’ve…


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Published Mar 27 2009
Filed: Media & Interviews
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