The interview is obviously an indication that on the basis of your written test you have been found suitable for the job subject to satisfaction performance
at the interview. Therefore it is extremely important that in order to save your performance at the examination from get wast you prepare well for the
interview.
An interview in simple language is the interaction the employer would like to have with you so as to find out if you are the person whom they are looking for.
It is believed that the attractive one creates in the first 10 or 15 seconds is the impression that stays. So an interview begins right from the moment one
enters the room and it is interaction begins.
At this point one important needs to be applied in action and that is to assume yourself as the interviewer and then think of how you would like your
interview to behave. These things are very important one would like to appear cheerful, confident, respectful, humble and so on. If this is put into practice,
the subsequent oral interaction will be satisfactory for the simple reason that the interviewer will talk in manner that will display a liking for the
candidate.
Never forget that looking cheerful and smiling, genuinely, honestly and not putting on a rubber smile will be reciprocated smile is infectious.
You have called for interview to judge your manners, confidence, communication, poise and self assurance. Display all these in ample measure. While
answering hold yourself straight, Mention your achievements, medals, prizes both in academic field and in social field. However nothing should be said
with arrogant pride. Unless you are specifically asked to give details of your family, there is no need to mention your parents,
siblings, their profession etc. All questions related to your subject should be answered accurately and briefly.
Other questions which can come up are about your hobby. Make it certain that you name your hobby on which you can take questions. For instance if you say
reading is your hobby you may be asked who is your favorite author and what is it from him that you have read. Inability to answer or a diffident response
exposes the lie.
Now the trickiest question: your strengths and weaknesses. Here one has to be cautious. You may name any of your strengths but you shall confess to your
shortcomings. Indeed you do not have weakness. But if you confess things like, I am emotional, I lose temper, I have less tolerance etc. You have prepared
ground for being ticked off. if you say you have no shortcomings, it is likely that the interviewer may say So, the strategy should be to project a virtue
as though you carry the same to excess. Thus if you say, “I avoid all bickering , fight as I feel they are self-destructive . Now, an instant question will
come. What is wrong in that how do you count that as your weakness? To this the answer will be that you avoid fights even at a price.
Other examples of weaknesses:
I cannot leave a job half done even if I have to get past mid-night to complete that.
I am a little too punctual. The consequence is that on reaching a place dot on time, I find myself alone and singled out.
I am temperamentally tolerant to a large degree. People take it as a sign of weakness.
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