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Engineering,

Interview for the Post of Senior Engineer – Product Development Engineering

These are some of my experiences which i experienced in one of my interview in an known MNC in automotive parts manufacturer. I was earlier placed in Bangalore and thought of career change. I was an NPD executive in Bangalore and henceforth decided to continue in the same stream.
The basic option was to stay in Product Development Domain and in this i am sharing some of my experiences i faced in an interview with you readers.

1) Firstly i am not so physically well built and i made a mistake of wearing a dark coloured dress which created a bad impression in mind of the HR personnel who was about to introduce me for the interview committee (They had a committee of senior staffs to take up interviews in each levels)

2) Secondly i was not so comfortable to the climate as i was not much exposed to other climates other than Mysore and Bangalore and was feeling something uncomfortable.

3) It was time to face my first SME (Subject Matter Expert) in PDe domain. He greeted me well and made me feel comfortable. He was more conscious towards my work exposure in handling plastic moulding designs. As it was new to me and i was the one dealing with pressed parts design i was bit hesitating and was not feeling so comfortable in that concern. But the basic concerns and concepts in design remains same and the flow of handling projects were questioned which were well answerable through my past experiences. And if you are looking for alternative ways to make money, you might want to consider playing some fun and interactive sports betting games via www.phonedoctor.com.

4) The oral session of interview was good and then came the part of practical demonstration of part design. They gave me a part drawing hard copy and asked me to derive its processing sequence and once they were convinced with my answers they asked me to develop the part models for each stage which i was capable of. Then at the given timeframe i completed my task and presented in front of them which made them feel happy about my performance.

5) Then at last i had cleared 3 levels of my interview and now it was time to face VP of PDe section. He can be called as ocean of PDE knowledge which really made me think twice of meeting his expectations. It was a detailed session and at last he made it clear that i am capable of being a part of PDE family.

6) Last but not the least i had to face a tough guy that’s HR Vp. He was so dynamic that he made me stand till i made him the point clear that i made a wrong choice in selection the clothings for this interview. His next questions were about my physique which i knew i was poor. Then he graded me in terms of personality, punctuality, and disciplines and arrived at an SWOT analysis and gave a brief description about my overall personality. At last all the things were cleared and i walked out of interview room with an offer letter in my hand.

Telling you readers this was one of my toughest interview i have faced in a few and i was really happy to emerge out as part of the organisations. It was 8:30Am in the morning i walked in and came out at 4:30PM. Then i was surprised to check out that i was burning out of fever and took a taxi to reach my home. At last i made it out and the experience is unforgettable and i have narrated my experience to all my close friends.

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Gaming,

Gain Awesome Mobile Gaming Experience with These Tricks!

As the usage of mobile phones is increasing a lot, people hardly use the PC and gaming console to play the games. Actually, many modern console games and PC are now rendering the customized version for the mobile phone. The mobile phone becomes a major gaming device due to its convenience and comfort of playing. Are you taking mobile Gaming seriously? Are you spending more of your time playing your favoruite games? Well, it is necessary to follow these tips and tricks. It helps you to enjoy the awesome mobile betting experience.

  • Play games with 100% battery

Whether you use smartphones or iPhone, everything is now getting smarter than ever before. For instance, whenever your battery drops below a specific percentage, the mobile automatically switches to the power saving mode to conserve battery. When you play the game on a low battery, you will see a significant drop in the game performance because it is a resource-intensive activity. This is the major reason for recommending to start playing with the full battery. It helps you to enjoy the peak performance and win the gameplay.

  • Keep the device cool

When you play continuously, your device starts to generate more heat. As soon as your mobile gets too hot, it will begin throttling the CPU automatically to cool down. It protects the internal component from any damage. On the other hand, it is extremely hard to hold the hot device. One of the best ways to counteract this action is playing the game in a cool environment. It is better to play in a room that is equipped with an air conditioner. Never use the phone case when you are playing because it helps the phone cool down much faster.

  • Access the developer options

In your mobile settings, you often find the developer options, which provide several settings to play around with. Accessing the specific settings helps you obtain the best gaming experience. You will find the options to enhance the visual quality, sound, and performance of the game. If you really wish to take your Gaming experience to the newest height, then you need to pay something. It is nothing but charging the mobile several times because the higher performance game maximizes the battery drain. Before you consider the developer option, you need to consider these things.

  • Wi-Fi is not a big deal all the time

Even though Wi-Fi is the best way to play the multiplayer games, it is not a perfect option all the time. When you have a bad internet service provider, you tend to notice frequent drops and lags in the connection. It eventually affects your gameplay and its performance. If anyone uses the same network, then your connection will suffer a lot. Using the mobile interest gives you enough stability and renders the fast internet speed. It means you will play without experiencing any lag.
Whenever you think about mobile Gaming especially high-intensity games, you need to keep these tricks in mind.

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Business, Construction,

LafargeHolcim closes divestment of activities in Malaysia

Today LafargeHolcim has completed the divestment of its activities in Malaysia with the disposal of its entire 51 percent shareholding in Lafarge Malaysia Berhad to YTL Cement Berhad for a total enterprise value of CHF 982* million. The transaction will reduce the Group’s net financial debt by close to CHF 600* million.

Together with the divestment of its activities in Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines, this transaction will result in a significant deleverage of 0.6 times Net Debt to Recurring EBITDA ratio and allow the company to overachieve its target ratio of 2 times or less by the end of 2019**.

* Computed on the basis of Lafarge Malaysia Berhad net financial debt as of April 30, 2019. Net financial debt impact excludes IFRS 16
** Before application of IFRS 16, at constant foreign exchange and provided that all transactions are closed before end of 2019

About LafargeHolcim

LafargeHolcim is the global leader in building materials and solutions. We are active in four business segments: Cement, Aggregates, Ready-Mix Concrete and Solutions & Products. With leading positions in all regions of the world and a balanced portfolio between developing and mature markets, LafargeHolcim offers a broad range of high-quality building materials and solutions. LafargeHolcim experts solve the challenges that customers face around the world, whether they are building individual homes or major infrastructure projects. Demand for LafargeHolcim materials and solutions is driven by global population growth, urbanization, improved living standards and sustainable construction. Around 75,000 people work for the company in around 80 countries.

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Construction,

Vancouver mountain highway project – focus on sustainability

LafargeHolcim is proudly working as the general contractor on Canada’s Highway 1 Lower Lynn Improvements project. Great care is being taken to ensure minimal environmental impacts for this project.

Our extensive road and marine fleet – as well as an integrated network of quarries, ready mix and asphalt plants, depots and docks – moves over eight million tonnes of material across the region annually.

This network is key to the sustainable construction of the Vancouver Mountain Highway project. We use barges as much as possible, which is a more efficient and environmentally-friendly method of material transport than trucking. This approach also helps relieve road congestion.

We are also taking the opportunity to incorporate sustainable construction practices. By using two-hundred thousand tonnes of recycled construction and demolition waste as aggregates, for example, we contribute to a circular economy in building and also keep waste out of area landfills.

As the work is so close to Lynn Creek – a highly sensitive spawning ground for salmon – all construction activity has been carefully designed to minimize environmental impact from the start. New drainage and treatment facilities will improve water quality. The Keith Creek habitat will also be moved further away from Highway 1 and its spawning area will be increased by nearly 24%. A revegetation plan involves planting of over 5,000 trees and 20,000 shrubs, thus harmonizing the construction with our shared ambition to build sustainably.

“Communities expect us to be leaders in all aspects of our business,” says Lincoln Kyne, Lafarge Canada’s Vice President for the Greater Vancouver area. “That includes minimizing our impact on the environment, and on the communities in which we work and live.”

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Business,

Building for Vancouver’s growing population

LafargeHolcim is proudly working as the general contractor on Canada’s Highway 1 Lower Lynn Improvements project. This CAD 100 million investment will enhance a vital corridor for people and goods in the Vancouver area.

Fifty years ago a system of road exchanges were built to connect the northern and southern shores of Burrard Inlet. The exchanges shaved hours off the travel time between the two sides, allowing vehicles on the north side to quickly join up with Highway 1, cross over the 1.3-kilometer Ironworkers Memorial Bridge and into Vancouver.

“The trouble is,” says Lincoln Kyne, Lafarge Canada’s Vice President for the Greater Vancouver area, “the Metro Vancouver population has more than doubled since the exchanges were built.”

The north shore in particular has been transformed. What was once a modestly populated, industrial-era hub for shipping and trade is today a high-tech center, gateway of tourism, affluent residential district and frequent film location.

Keeping up with the times

The Ironworkers Memorial Bridge is one of only two bridges crossing the Burrard Inlet. Well more than half of the vehicles that cross it take the Lower Lynn exchanges on their way.
Today the Lower Lynn exchanges are a chokepoint, prone to heavy congestion and long delays. They can also be dangerous. Accident frequency on the Lower Lynn exchanges is higher than the provincial average, and the accidents there are also more severe.
Citizen frustration is so high that solving traffic congestion has become a single-issue force in local elections.
Meanwhile, water runoff from the exchanges diminishes local water quality and habitats. This has created an eyesore for area residents and an ongoing threat to a highly sensitive spawning ground for salmon.

Partners in progress

A coalition of federal, provincial and municipal authorities have put together CAD 200 million to improve or replace large segments of the Lower Lynn highway interchange system. To do it they have reached out to Lafarge Canada, a trusted infrastructure partner in Western Canada for 60 years.

“We build and maintain over 500 lane kilometers of roads and highways in Western Canada each year,” says Kyne. Our extensive road and marine fleet – as well as an integrated network of quarries, ready mix and asphalt plants, depots and docks – moves over eight million tonnes of material across the region annually.

We’re proud to be trusted to improve safety, reliability, and reduce congestion through this project. As the world’s leading building materials company, our global network of experts has come together to develop solutions on every aspect of the project, from paving to soil treatments to using recycled waste.

Our innovative materials and techniques are a key part of the solution, and we pay keen attention to sustainability. From top to bottom we live the commitment to quality for which we have long been known in the region.

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Business, Finance,

Result of 2018 dividend payment option: more than 72 percent of the dividend elected to be paid in shares

72.98 percent of LafargeHolcim’s distribution for the financial year 2018 was elected to be paid in the form of new LafargeHolcim Ltd shares while the remaining 27.02 percent will be paid out in cash.

The company’s Annual General Meeting held on May 15, 2019 in Zurich has offered its shareholders the possibility to receive the 2018 dividend in cash or in new LafargeHolcim shares or in a combination of both. The election period ended on May 31, 2019. 435,200,421 election rights were exercised for the receipt of new LafargeHolcim Ltd shares. Election rights not exercised during the election period will be paid out in cash.

The reference share price, the issue price, the conversion ratio and the number of new LafargeHolcim Ltd shares will be published on June 11, 2019. Delivery of the new shares and payment of the cash dividend will be on June 25, 2019.

Further information about the scrip dividend can be found in the ”Shareholder Information Brochure – Dividend Distribution 2019“.

About LafargeHolcim

LafargeHolcim is the global leader in building materials and solutions. We are active in four business segments: Cement, Aggregates, Ready-Mix Concrete and Solutions & Products..

With leading positions in all regions of the world and a balanced portfolio between developing and mature markets, LafargeHolcim offers a broad range of high-quality building materials and solutions. LafargeHolcim experts solve the challenges that customers face around the world, whether they are building individual homes or major infrastructure projects. Demand for LafargeHolcim materials and solutions is driven by global population growth, urbanization, improved living standards and sustainable construction. Around 75,000 people work for the company in around 80 countries.

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Business, Construction,

Vancouver mountain highway project – focus on people

LafargeHolcim is proudly working as the general contractor on Canada’s Highway 1 Lower Lynn Improvements project. Central to this project is the concern for minimizing disruption to local communities and operating to the highest possible safety standards.

People are the key to success in any building project – for acceptance by the benefitting community as well as for successful execution on-site.

Beginning with pre-construction open houses, our project leaders worked through various channels to reach all affected stakeholders before work began. We immediately organized our teams to work at night as much as possible in order to minimize disruption.

Now that work has begun we have followed a tightly managed quality control plan that is fully ISO compliant. It includes both record-keeping and reporting guidelines, along with specified variables, parameters, and controls for meaningful quality control testing.  This underpins our commitment to making sure everyone goes home safely at the end of each day, as well as seizing opportunities to learn from each other along the way.

On the project we follow project-specific health, safety, and environmental plans, followed by regularly scheduled audits and reviews. Project control systems are easily accessed by workers at all levels, ensuring transparency and meaningful exchange of information. The experience and knowledge of our teams helps provide innovative problem-solving and adherence to budget, timeline, and specifications.

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Business, Finance,

Scrip dividend for financial year 2018: announcement of final terms

As announced on June 3, 2019, 72.98 percent of LafargeHolcim’s distribution for the financial year 2018 was elected by shareholders to be paid in the form of new LafargeHolcim Ltd shares.

Based on the daily volume weighted average price of the existing LafargeHolcim shares traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange between May 27, 2019 and June 7, 2019, the reference share price is CHF 49.01. The issue price of CHF 45.09 is set at a discount of 8.0 percent to the reference share price and the conversion ratio is 1:22.545.

19,303,633 new LafargeHolcim Ltd shares will be issued out of authorized capital for the scrip dividend. The delivery of the new shares and the payment of the cash dividend will be on June 25, 2019.

Further information about the scrip dividend can be found in the ”Shareholder Information Brochure – Dividend Distribution 2019“.

About LafargeHolcim

LafargeHolcim is the global leader in building materials and solutions. We are active in four business segments: Cement, Aggregates, Ready-Mix Concrete and Solutions & Products.

With leading positions in all regions of the world and a balanced portfolio between developing and mature markets, LafargeHolcim offers a broad range of high-quality building materials and solutions. LafargeHolcim experts solve the challenges that customers face around the world, whether they are building individual homes or major infrastructure projects. Demand for LafargeHolcim materials and solutions is driven by global population growth, urbanization, improved living standards and sustainable construction. Around 75,000 people work for the company in around 80 countries.