Yesterday I attended a personal Interview workshop held by
Bull’s Eye institute in order to give us the taste of it so it we will be aware
about it. These are the main point are being discussed
Why PI??
1.
To understand the thought process.
2.
To judge the attitude
3.
To judge commitment
What area do they
check??
There are 5 areas panellist usually takes into account
1.
Your past life
2.
Present
3.
Future
4.
Situation based question
5.
Behaviour skills.
In the rest of the text he discussed these points in detail.
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Introduce yourself
It is usually the 1st question that company asks.
So in order to answer this question you must have some point
in the mind because your answer to this question will decide your further
question.
1.
It must be sequenced
It means that you must talk about you in
sequence like first you should talk about name, city, schooling, graduation,
hobbies and then one special characteristic. In most of the time next question
will be on the special characteristics. So it’s better to be prepared
2.
It must flow just like it is within you. He told
us do a task
Take a A4 sheet and write your introduction
on it and practice it thoroughly so that you must be fluent. It must take at
least 1 min.
3.
In introduction part don’t include your strength
and weakness.
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So after you are done with your introduction question will
be on previously discussed 5 topics.
1. past
It includes academics, work experience,
strength, weakness, hobbies, family. In this section usually normal people go
half prepared.
Acads
Points to remember
1.
Reasonable working knowledge in all the subject
you studies in your B.tech courses and deep knowledge about your favourite
subject.
2.
Talk in
bullets and examples because it will be lucid.
Extra curricular
You should give
example of question asked in this portion with situation that you faced
while doing extracurricular
activities.
1.
Example of any failure situation
2.
Example of leadership skills
Hobbies/Interest
The main difference is hobbies are those
which you are thinking of 24/7 when you are free and Interest means activities
to get relaxed.
And you must have knowledge about your
hobbies.
Strength/ weakness
Normally asked questions are how you
overcome those weaknesses.
For example you can start with something like this: I do have 100 of weaknesses but right now I
can think of one because I am currently working on it.
2. Present
You must be aware about what’s
going in your surroundings. Previous part discussed about how much you know
yourself and this part give emphasize on how aware are you about your surroundings.
You must have answer about why
you are applying for the job.
So in order to do it you must
have general knowledge. In order to increase your general knowledge newspaper
is must. He told us to spend at least half hour on reading and I am not talking
about Hollywood pageJ.
3.
Future (goals)
There is difference between goals
and dreams. Goals have to be SMART ( specific, measurable, achievable,
realistic and time bounded).
Please be clear on your goals
otherwise it will suck in the interview. Be definite that what you want to at
that time and it must be visible that you have properly planned it.
4. Situational based questions
Situational based question based on variety of
ranges like what you will do to increase tourism to your city. These are question to test that how fast you
can thought of answers.
5. Behavioural skills
It tests the body language, eye
contact, gestures.
1.
You should make eye contact with him
2.
Sit straight with straight spinal cord without crossing
your legs(for boys).
3.
Dnt take your gestures(hand movement) beyond
your body perimeter.
In order to practise it you should start today. Try to talk
with person with eye contact whether with you friend or any new person. It will
give you confidence.
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Note: there are some
stress interviews also in which they will make you angry with some dumb
question because they want to see your reaction in various circumstances.
Thank you and best of luck J
