Over the centuries people have considered creativity as a way of ‘beautifying the environment, a form of self-expression and communication, or a way of understanding, opening up or coping with the previously unknown’. Nowadays, creativity is seen as the main condition for the development and existence of high technologies such as microelectronics or cybernetics. At the same time, it has penetrated into all scopes of life: science, culture, arts, agriculture, industry, engineering, management, government, armed forces and other fields. Therefore, creative people are considered as ‘the vital resource needed to meet and conquer competition for markets and market shares, for instance through creative design and creative production or marketing’.Besides, it causes the emergence of creative transformational leaders and progressive managers who work on innovations in all scopes of the modern life including government, military forces and other state institutions. Therefore, creativity is seen as the key point to establish certain conditions for the rapid development of economic, political, social, scientific, and cultural life of each contemporary country by modernizing all industrial branches and improving education and healthcare with the further growth of democracy and stability.

Basically, creativity consists of three main elements: novelty, effectiveness, and ethicality. They characterize a final product of the creative work, as well as an idea or method of its making. At the same time, creativity describes a person who did the work from the point of view on his or her ‘abilities, knowledge, skills, motives, attitudes and values, as well as, personal properties such as openness, flexibility, or courage’. Each individual has inherited properties and the acquired ones, and one of the main tasks of a teacher or an educator is to develop the necessary skills in her or his students in order to help them to become creative persons. Educational settings play one of the most important roles in enhancing creativity in students because the future development of the necessary properties depends on certain educational processes and environment created by a teacher or an educator.

Unfortunately, teachers can also block creativity in their learners. Each individual has certain psychological properties which can be divided into four groups, ‘general and specific knowledge, thinking skills related to creativity, motivation, and personal properties’. Some teachers can block creativity by elementary inattentiveness to their students, for instance, by not motivating them. As a rule, students are very sensitive to marks and teachers’ attitudes to learning. They form their own point of view on the educational process in particular and on their life in the school as a whole. Therefore, each injustice can lead to the block of creativity. It is necessary to recognize one’s own mistakes for creating the proper environment in the class. Yet teacher’s job might be overwhelming at times and some tools like plagiarism checker for teachers might help to automate these processes and allocate more time to motivate students. Teacher is also a leader that not only punishes them for mistakes, but helps them to gain knowledge and improve their creative properties for becoming …

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While going for the interview of your dream job, i.e., the job under the Indian Engineering Services, make sure you fit your best and don’t stand a chance of losing the opportunity. Body language is the first thing any interviewer keeps note of before even beginning with the interview.

Body language hacks to use in IES interviews

So, you need to be very careful about your body language if you want to make your impression count for your selection. The following hacks will definitely let you crack your interview in no time:

1. Confidence is the key

Confidence is the weapon which has the potential to kill any speck of doubt arising out of any curiosity level. Since the interviewer knows very well that you are a budding Engineer and you need a job at a workplace which needs people who are brimmed up with confidence, you must have a good show of your confidence even if you are really nervous deep in some corners of your heart.

You have to either have the genuine confidence or a fake one to fool the interviewer if you want to grab the job. Showing a lack of confidence can lead to a poor show you might have to regret later when the results get announced. So, make sure you have an air of self-confidence in whatever you speak, do, or exhibit while answering the interviewer.

2. Smile it up

A smile is infectious and doesn’t have any language. Wearing one will make your examiner believe that you have a soul which is full of optimism and mirth and that you will prove a bane to any institution you get employed into. Do not show any signs of bad temper or drooling eyes.  Just make up a good mind and hold up a good smile. Throw this weapon in a wise manner; smiling just at any smart question might give a wrong impression to the employer. So, smile at constant intervals and never forget to surprise the interviewer with the mirth you carry within yourself.

3. “Eye to Eye” works

Always keep eye contact with the interviewer. Make sure; he never feels that you need to run away from the question or you are bored with the session or that you are scared. Look into his/her eyes fiercely and boldly while talking to him or responding to his queries.

It is possible that the examiner may give up his tendency to threaten you and fall for the courage you carry. Making eye contact also means that you are bold and daring enough to beat the fear of the interview within yourself so nicely that you don’t even fear the interviewer whose approval you desperately want to get hired. This will definitely make you the show stealer and will give the employer an insight of the fearless personality you carry which has the capability of fighting any hurdles that obstruct your path in a challenging manner.

4. Maintain the posture

Posture is the most important hack. If your …

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