Tips for Personel Interview

This is your chance to turn the things your way. Interviews are the key to admission. Even if you have got a strong GD, interviews can turn the things for you the other way.

There is a popular saying that always be honest in your interview, well I would say never make that mistake. Be honest about brighter things in your life but never about the –ve things.

Like if an interviewer asks you what are your weakness never say you are emotional or impatient even if you are.

Secondly never give your strengths or weakness which is very popular like for example never say that communication skill is your primary strength, I bet 80% of the candidates would be saying that during an interview for an MBA college. Come up with something new, something rarely heard.

Just make sure whatever you say you have some examples to prove it. Like if you say your strength as problem solving skills, or adaptability back it up by saying something like as follows:

Adaptable: with the fact that I was engaged in different processes during my career in TCS and me having worked in a very comfortable environment of an IT company and in an exactly opposite environment in a Retail company I would say I am flexible enough (this is my career profile)

For all those who have work ex always try and give examples related to your job. For fresher’s figure out something from your extracurricular like managing an event, or taking part in quizzes.

For a CET interview try and show them some of the manager skills. When an interview asks you “tell me something about yourself” try and tell him some managerial aspects that you have done in your professional or academic career. Such things need not be true but make sure you have answers to any questions that come up your way.

Also in CET interview the panellist are generally old professors so do not try to use your vocab too much stick with basic words, you can use smart words but keep it simple easy to understand.

When asked about hobbies never say you like playing cricket or watching music. More than 85% students would be saying this. Some better hobbies could be photography, coin collection, blogging. Just google it out and learn some basic things about it and go and say it in the interview.

Just make sure in an interview that the panel knows that you have three basic attributes

• Thinking clearly and analytically
• Problem solver
• Communication & Presentation skills

In short time, I would also post what answers you could give to a particular questions that come your way in an interview so that these skills what generally any interviewer looks for is seen in you by him.