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INTERVIEW SKILLS
 

BEFORE APPEARING THE INTERVIEW

1. Rehearsed Strategy for show casing Your abilities
2. Practice your delivery to raise Your confidence and to keep your resume at the fore Front of Your Mind
3. Review Your Self Management Job Content and Transferable Skills/
Language skills

IN THE INTERVIEW

1. Use numbers where ever you can
2. Avoid nervous ness
3. Use the energy to make sure you appear engaged, not hyper active
4. Avoid tapping your foot excessively,fidgeting in your seat and darting your eyes around the room
5. Do not dominate the conversations

DO'S CAREER

1. Bench Mark your Performance constantly and ask for feed back
2. Evaluate your employability skills and re learn continuously
3. Choose Start Ups and Emerging segments, Enhance Learning
4. Net work – Keep a Tab on Options out side Your Organisation
5. Critically assess – Your Career needs, make an informed choice

DO NOT'S CAREER

1. Do not get Boxed in an Industry or even a function
2. Do not get complacent either about your skills or Your Market Value
3. Do not Insist on Large Companies and steady Organizations
4. Do not balk at Parallel options like contractual Jobs or Consulting

Prepare for GD and interview from the beginning of the academic year. Besides this give mental clarity and self awarness. While preparing for the Interview the following points have to be considered .

Self Awarness- Increase the chances of an appropruate fit between interest and the Job in hand. Allows for an expression of skills and Talents in Snappy, Pithy sentences.

Self Evaluation- Make Your SWOT Analysis to know Your self appearing the interview.

SWOT ANALYSIS

Strengths :

What are What are the Things I am good at ?
What do I enjoy doing ?
Which activities did I graviate towards in College ?

Weakness :

Which are the areas I need nurturing ?
Am I defensive about my weak points ?
What are my plans for wedding out the negatives from my personality habits

Opportunity :

By my Talents and Interests which are the areas in Industry that I can contribute ?

Threats :

Am I loosing out Goals because of skills and Knowledge that are going absolute ?
Do I have traits like Complacence ? Because those undermine One’s success.

Johri Window :

This is the best method to self evalution. In this process you have top understand and evaluate 4 areas.

1. What I know about my self and others are not aware of.
2. What I know about my self and reaveled to others.
3. What others know about me and I am not aware of.
4. What could possibly be un articulated even to my self as well as to others .

PERSONAL INTERVIEW Vs GROUP INTERVIEW:

In the Personal Interview, students are usually examined on the basis of the In formations they provided in the application form like Academic Details, Extra Curricular Activities etc.

But Group Interviews are done to gauge the ability of applicants to work in groups and to what extent the candidate is attentive and receptive to others. Generally the awareness level of the candidate is judged but pre valence of the arrogant or aggressive traits is harmful to the candidate. Displaying the social sensitive and empathy in the group is preferred. In this the applicant level of maturity in dealing with a group of strangers is found out.

BODY LANGUAGE IN THE INTERVIEW :

1. Mirror your Interviewer in a subtle way ever if the Interviewer crosses his/her feet, you should do the same gradually but not immediately.
2. Do not rest in the backside of the chair all through.
Slightly lean towards the Interviewer to demonstrate interest and to maintain eye contact that displays confidence.
3. Keep your hands lower than your elbows, rest them on the arms on the chair or on your thighs or you may make a low steeple with the fingers of both hands.
4. Keep the leg in low cross position where the legs are kept together and crossed at the ankles or you may put your legs in athletic position where one leg is brought under chair so that only toe of that shoe is in contact with the floor. The other leg is firmly planted on the floor parallel with the direction of the chair.
5. Avoid nervous habits like cracking knuckles, drumming fingers etc.
6. An upright Posture is the best.
7. You need to be relaxed but alert.
8. Avoid slumping in to your seat.
9. When crossing your legs , make sure that you do so at your knees together and do not under any circumstances shake your legs in any manner.
10. If you are at a table, then keep off it. You should not encroach your Interviewer/Employer territory.

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