Blogging is definitely an activity I seldom enjoyed. Although it is a brand new experience, I was not thrilled at all to blog. Perhaps due to my workload, school work excluded, I barely found sufficient time to blog, especially with limitation for me to connect to the web constantly. Thus, I needed to admit that I did not contribute significantly to the blog due to the lack of experience and time. Furthermore, several late submissions indeed made me feel guiltier.
Nevertheless, it was still a great learning experience. I had learnt to elaborate viewpoints openly and became more cautious about the word used and interpreted. Blogging can be a useful way to present a perspective, an idea or opinions. Many blogs function as personal online diaries too. Indeed, there are numerous cases that bloggers were found to use inappropriate words or expressing discriminating viewpoints and some were even charged on court. Thus, it is still important that one should remember the openness of blog. Relating to my personal experience, a close friend of mine found an argumentative entry on her buddy’s blog. She was devastated at how the best friend had criticized her openly. It broke her heart instantly and I was definitely saddened by this circumstance. This is an ideal example of blog that hurts. Thus, bloggers need to write sensibly too, with great understanding on people related to the blog. Blogging, to a certain extent, seems comparable to literature.

It also seems suitable to share some of my feedbacks on this blogging experience. I feel that it would be a more interesting experience if there is a major theme behind all the topics we had blogged on, such as sports, food or a country. Overall, adoption of the topics from current trend still sounds appealing. In short, this blogging experience is considered memoriable and meaningful, but most probably I will never blog again.

Edward

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Emotional intelligence (EQ) is an important soft skill that many had acquired. It can be developed through life experience, thinking skills or inspirations. Both articles related EQ to job-seeking, thus it has become a new trend that EQ is identified as an important factor to influence employers’ choice.
As mentioned in the Globe and Mail article, EQ also affects how one builds relationships, this enhanced its importance in a multi-cultural and multi-racial working environment. The ability to create and sustain relationship among fellow workers can foster teamwork and cooperativeness in workplace. This will in term generate greater efficiency and coordination within the company. The article also implied that EQ allows worker to be open to new skills and knowledge, it will be essential for a company with innovative skills and practices.
EQ can determine the workability and capability of individual worker to a great extent, that it shows their ability to create positive influences or even changes. Personally, I would suggest that EQ also determines how the IQ is demonstrated, as it is through EQ, one makes his or her decision to develop the IQ fully. Truly, EQ has the final say in all our decision-makings. According to researchers, a normal person makes 6000 decisions daily and each of them may create either positive or adverse influences. Of course, this applies to our daily work-related decisions too. Thus, an employer will favor workers who can make a difference to create positive change or influence.

Lastly, it seems to be more important that EQ greatly accounts for how one react in the face of adversities and tough situations. Employers would not want to entertain job-hoppers who have minimal resistance against risks and resilience in tough times. In fact, loyalty and sense of belonging are generated through EQ.

In summary, it is the qualification that grabs a job, but it takes EQ for one to choose to live out the qualification off the certificate and that secures a position.

Edward

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English had been regarded as the most useful language. It was the common language of the world, just as how the whole China had been unified using a common language, Chinese, also called PuTong Hua by them. The importance of a common language is to enable communication despite the persons involved came from different cultural background. With the common language, least effort would be poured in to reduce miscommunication. Thus, it is beneficial if the whole world will be speaking and communicating in a common language, English. Currently, English is the closest choices from millions of languages in the world. Being a dominant language in the western society, it is strongly influential and is found to be seeking the way into different parts of the world, in fact, the entire world.


As mentioned is Korean’s article, the language has anchored human progress. Today, English’s supremacy is strongly stabilized and strengthened by the fact that China, the country with the most population in the world, is creating a series of policies to induce English into their society. It is mentioned and clearly elaborated in the China Post article.

However, there will also be challenges in preserving the original language if the importance of maintaining both Chinese and English are not recognized. With the probable perception that English-speaking regarded as most prestigious over Chinese-speaking, the government should also promote the preservation of Chinese at the same time. It is truly possible to allow them to co-exist, but judging or weighing the languages would be the most foolish thing to do. After all, languages are only tools to connect people by communicating.

Overall, I am thrilled and looking forward to see that English become the unofficial world language and the benefits this English drive can make.

Edward

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Blogging has been my routine once a week for the past 10 weeks. Blogging has certainly improved my language and knowledge. Since I rarely read newspapers and get to know about the current affairs, blogging enables me to be aware of what is happening currently. Blogging has changed the way that I normally think and write. The blog serves as a wall where I get to convey my thoughts and express my feelings. I think further and deeper.

The issues that we are required to blog are somehow related to life. An example would be plagiarism. After reading the article, I am more cautious when researching for sources from the internet for projects. If not for the article, I would take plagiarism lightly and not be aware of the consequences. Nowadays, Singaporean children seem to be communicating in English more often. The article on the Mother Tongue language makes me realise on the importance of our second language. I learn to treasure my Mother Tongue language, sustain and try to communicate in it more.

My opinion on ways to keep Singapore young allows me to stay connected with the country. I get to express and suggest relevant strategies. The issue on the English Language make realise on the importance of having one. English Language plays an important part in both education and job industry. For Cyber Awareness, I have a more clear vision on the harmfulness of cyber.

Apart from expressing my thoughts, blogging enables me to share my views with the rest of my blog teammates. As each individual have a different opinions, I get to read their different perceptions. I feel more mature when tackling with the issues in blogging. No doubt that blogging has improved my language. Moreover, blogging make me ponder and broaden my thoughts.

Emotional Intelligence refers to the ability to perceive, control and evaluate emotions. Some researchers suggest that emotional intelligence can be learned and strengthened, while others claim it is an inborn characteristic.

Not everyone has natural emotional intelligence. When entering the job market, apart from high qualifications, employers would want to hire employees who are able to apply their expertise well.
Employees are not only required to complete the assigned tasks given and what differentiate them from the rest are their well-rounded qualities. This includes having the initiative to lead their peers or colleagues, working independently and anger management. Research collected by the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations shows that salespeople, military recruiters, and executives with better scores on written EQ tests outperformed and out-earned colleagues who scored lower. This is probably due to the fact that occupations such as salesperson are constantly interacting with people and the environment. Older workers tend to have a higher EQ. Throughout their career life, they may be exposed and overcome with the challenges imposed. Younger workers may have insufficient experience as they just entered the working world.

The area that successful people have in their life is the ability to understand their own emotions and influenced, inspire and understand the emotions of others. The main ability of a successful leader is to recognize his followers’ emotions, problems and how they react to them. Hence, they will be able to lead their followers well. When a company hires a new employee, they are searching for a suitable candidate with qualities that distinguishes them from the rest. Companies conduct interviews to examine their emotional intelligence before selecting the best candidate. Interviews will enable employee to tackle their thoughts and answer the questions within the limited timing.

Overall, I feel that one who has emotional intelligence is a skill. One who possesses EQ is at an advantaged.


julia.

Labels: Emotional Intelligence

For the past few weeks, blogging has been a weekly routine for me. Even though sometimes I do it just for the sake of doing it or completing my homework, however blogging makes me grow more in touch with the outside world. Recently I've realised that we have been blogging on special issues that are not very much related to current affairs. In fact, we are blogging on issues such as cyber wellness and emotional intelligence. They are more related to individual skills.

For the past few weeks, I have been reading up on the articles given by my teacher Mr Pang for blogging and it has helped me in either getting more interested in the topic or it has helped me get more knowledge for the topic. For instance, for the cyber wellness blogging, I have come to know that spyware are simply able to get into my computer by downloading any possible files with spyware inside. In the topic of emotional intelligence, I have come to realise that employees are now recruiting people who have high emotional intelligence rather than people who have skills. Previously I have been believing that skills is the only crucial criteria that is able to get myself employed easily in the economy. I have been kept "in the dark" for these period until i read the article from Mr Pang for blogging.

In fact, blogging is also one way in which i can strenghten my english. I have been trying to blog in professional english to get my post presentable. However, how well I did can only be revealed once my teacher has got the results ready. Blogging have also made me more mature. More mature in terms of thinking. I have been doing simple research or using my basic intelligence that i have to post for the blog topic. I have been thinking further and deeper into the topic and it has helped me to widen my ideas and to expand more knowledge that I am capable to have.

Overall, blogging have been a fun issue to me that I have been able to commit myself to post weekly. I am also able to contribute my own ideas and views which can be shared with my friends who visits my blog. Similarly, I am able to visit other people's blog to see how they write and what they write to fill myself with more interesting informations.

Er Chin

Emotional Intelligence is what people need to have. Emotional Intelligence can be used in many aspects of our lives.

In this world, Emotional Intelligence plays a big part in recruitment of jobs. Employee does not look at the skills of employers. They look for employers attitude and character. Most importantly, the inner capabilities. Maybe people will be wondering what "inner capabilities" are? It simply refers to the special capabilities that people have in their character. Some simple examples are to build relationship with one another, the ability to finish or rush work when facing pressure and etc. Employees need people who have the attitude or commitment towards the work they are assigned to rather than skills. It is believed that people who have the attitude or commitment will do the job whole heartedly rather than those who have skills and slack off. In addition, when they have the attitude, this shows that they have the similar attitude towards learning to upgrade themself with more experience. Therefore, this is one of the main reason why employees are now looking for such people as they feel that it is more worth while to find these "treasures" where they have the inner capability. Skills can be taught and it is much more easier than learning skills than Emotional Intelligence.

Positive working attitude is important and this sector falls under EQ which is also known as Emotional Intelligence. One good example of a group of people who have high EQ are teachers. Even though statistically it may not be through but teachers are very good in building relationship skills. They can easily communicate with students and know what we like. Students at this generations do not look forward to boring lessons. In fact teachers are now trying to change the style of teaching to bring up the lively classroom environment. How can they do it? Teachers basically will find out what students prefer for the lesson to be teached. Once again, it requires communication skills and the ability to understand students' needs and wants. Students now do not prefer boring and experienced teachers. In fact, they prefer teachers who can make lessons interesting and yet experienced. In this situation, we can see that how Emotional Intelligence have caused a great impact in the educational sector.

In conclusion, I personally feel that Emotional Intelligence is something we need to groom ourself with personally. People would prefer working towards a interesting journey using EQ rather than going by theory. Individuals would be able to improve on their own character to blend into any environment when they are being placed in using EQ.

Er Chin

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