Interview Questions :

Introduce yourself.
Tell us something about your family background.
Can you tell us why are you choosing this company and why do you want to work for us?
Can you explain a situation where you did not meet your goals and objectives?
Explain a situation where you faced conflict and communication problems.
If you current manager has to tell about your strengths and weaknesses what would be your
Strengths and weaknesses?
Why should we give you this job?
Where do you see yourself in 5 years time?
Are you a team player or a team leader?
If you were to start working with our company what is the first thing you would change?
Have you ever had a conflict with a boss / colleague /professor or with your family members? How
was it resolved?
Tell us something about your interests.
Do you really think that your skills match this job?
Which aspect of your personality needs improvement?
Explain how you would prove to be an asset to this organization.
Would you be willing to relocate if required?
If hired, how long would you expect to work with us?
Why do you want to work for this company?
Do you believe in hard work or smart work?
Explain a situation where you have worked under pressure. What were the results?
Whatwould you do for the benefit of the company?
Who is your role model and why?
Would you be willing in working in night shifts?
What has been the toughest decision in life that you have had to make?
If you win 10 crores in a lottery, would still continue to work?
Why is there a gap year in your education?
Why have your grades dropped from 10th standard to 12th standard?
Explain a situation when your work was criticized. How did you react in that situation?
How do you feel about reporting to a younger person?
Do you have any relative or acquaintance in our company? What does he/she state about
his/herexperience with our company?
What feature of your co-worker would be the most irritating for you?
What qualities do you look for in your boss?
Which achievement of your life are you the most proud of?
What do you want to do with your life?
Tell us a situation you have faced with a huge challenge or worked to an unreasonable deadline?
Tell me about a time when you were held accountable for the mistake you made. Did you take
theresponsibility? What did it result in? Do you have any regrets?
Tell me about a situation where you tried to accomplish something and you failed. How did you
react in that situation? What was your next step?
Tell me about a situation that made you angry? How did you handle the situation?
Tell me about a situation when you were totally unprepared for something but you had to
undertake the task. What were the results?
Tell me about a situation when you have had to learn something really quickly.
What has been the biggest impact that you have made in anybody's life?
Tell me about a time when you had to give someone difficult feedback. How did you handle it?
If I were your supervisor and asked you to do something that you disagreed with, what would you
do?
What was the most difficult period in your life, and how did you deal with it?
How will you react to your colleague having beef at a business lunch?
What are you looking for in terms of career development?
How do you want to improve yourself during the next year?
What kind of goals would you have in mind if you got this job?
If I were to ask your last supervisor to provide you additional training or exposure, what would
she suggest?
Situation: Your competitor presses you to reveal some confidential information about your current or
previous employer. What would you do?

Tips on Presentation Skills

Effective presentations follow a pattern:

"First tell them what you're going to tell them;
then tell them;
then, tell them what you've told them."
In outline format it looks like:-

Introduction:
A good introduction should accomplish the following.

1. Capture your listener's attention

2. Give your audience a reason to listen
3. Set the proper tone
4. Establish your qualifications

You can open the presentation in the following ways:

1. Ask a question. Asking a question is a good way to involve your listeners in the topic and
establish its importance to them.
2. Tell a story which is short and relevant.
3. Present a quotation. Someone else has already said what you want to say in a very clever
way.
4. Use humor. The right joke can be an effective way to get attention, make a point, and
increase the audience's liking for you.

Body
For the main part of the presentation keep in mind the following:

1. There has to be coherence between the different parts of the main body.
2. There has to be a sequential flow of ideas.
3. There has to be a structure to avoid random presentation of content.
4. Make the main body interesting by including examples and cases.
5. Establish and maintain eye contact. A speaker with good eye contact is seen to be more
sincere.
 6. Move effectively. Having a good posture doesn't mean being rooted one place. Moving about
can add life to your presentation and help release nervous energy. You can approach and
refer to your visual aids, walk away and return to your original position, and approach the
audience.

Conclusion
A conclusion has two parts: a review and a closing statement.

1. The Review should contain a restatement of your thesis and a summary of the main points.
2. A strong closing statement will help your listeners remember you favorably; a weak ending
can nullify many of your previous gains. Besides it will give a sense of completion.

What Should I Speak in a GD? Sample GD with points.

Should we allow incurably diseased persons to live or not?

Points In Favour:

1. If we feel sad to kill even an animal or a bird, how can our conscience allow us to kill a fellow
human being just because he is incurably ill? Moreover he has done no harm to society and
his illness is not because of his fault. Therefore, we must provide him proper treatment and
allow him to live as long as nature has willed it
2. God has gifted us life. So, he alone has the right to take it back. No human being has a right
to interfere in His scheme of things. Once on this earth, every man has a right to live as long
as God does not want him to die. Therefore, the reasoning that just because a man is
suffering from an incurable disease, he should be put to death is untenable and beyond
reason
3. It is not always the case that incurably diseased persons spread contagious diseases as
some might argue. Even in those rare cases where it may be true, these persons are not real
health hazards because it is medically established now that all incurable diseases are not
contagious. However, as a precautionary measure, we should open separate hospitals or
isolation wards for persons suffering from incurable contagious diseases and thus quarantine
them.

Points against:

1. This world is governed by Darwin's survival of the fittest principle. An incurably diseased
person is weak and has no value whatsoever to the society. Moreover, he has no means to
live. Therefore, it would be in the fitness of things to kill him even against his wish.
2. An incurably diseased person is the cause of constant worry to his family, his demands are
unending and notwithstanding the best possible attention, care and treatment given to him, he
always remains dissatisfied and disgruntled.
3. These days we are saddled with the responsibility of reducing our burgeoning population. The
many diseased persons constitute a good part of it. Even otherwise their contribution to
society being nil and burden great, it would be justified and reasonable not to allow them to
drag on their agonizing life.
Conclusion:

Defining gray areas is something which any amount of legislation can never achieve. Our policies
need to ensure that the group of people taking a decision to terminate the life is doing so in the best
interest of the patient and society.

Job Application: How to Write Cover Email?

Dear Sir / Madam,

I'm writing to express my interest in the Systems Engineer position at XYZ Ltd.
I have developed individual as well as group projects in ____.
I also have received training from ____ in ____.
My experience during Industrial Training at ___ has taught me how to ______

If there is any other information that is required, I can be reached via name@email.com or phone
at 888-888-8888. Looking forward to your mail,

Thanks and Regards,

Name
Contact Number
Address

Do's in an interview

1. Use a strong voice and clear diction.

2. Make sure your personal appearance is prim and proper, and you dress appropriately.
3. In case of a handshake with the panelists, make sure it is a firm one.
4. Establish eye contact with the interviewer but do not stare at him.
5. Do equip yourself with sufficient knowledge about the B-school/organization you are
seeking admission to. Equip yourself with good knowledge of the company / institution, both
the ones that you have been in, and the one that you want to join.
6. Take criticism gracefully.
7. Take time to think before answering tricky questions and do not be rushed into your answers.
8. Make concrete goals in planning for your career.
9. Demonstrate sufficient grasp of the key concepts of your favourite subject, your key projects
& papers.
10. Support your answers with examples, wherever possible.

Donts in an interview

1. Don't be arrogant, overaggressive or vain.

2. Don't show a lack of attention or lack of energy.
3. Don't make excuses for adverse conditions in your record, such as below average marks.
4. Don't condemn past institutions of education; keep comments positive.
5. Don't display a noticeable aversion for schoolwork.
6. Don't be uncertain and indecisive in your thoughts.
7. Don't display prejudice or bias.
8. Don't be late for the interview.
9. Don't contradict your own answers.
10. Don't glorify experiences dating back to formative years of schooling.
 Tips to handle a GD

When proposing an idea or argument, you must be clear in your communication and thinking. Your
proposal should be structured and systematically put across to others in the group. Charm and
personality takes you up to a certain point but after that it is simply your intelligence, thought process
and command over the language which pulls you through. After proposing your idea, your must put
forth a question. The person who answers the questions will have to look at you while answering,
giving you a chance to intervene with another idea. Once you learn to handle group discussions in a
scientific way, there is no need for you to resort to techniques such as shouting, hammering your fist
on the table, etc.

Be Yourself:

The most important mantra to ace GDs is Be Yourself. The more you change things about yourself,
the more trouble you would find yourself in. The best way to go about things is to be natural and make
sure all your responses are natural and spontaneous.

A Group Discussion is not a seminar:

The most fundamental principle of participating in a Group Discussion is that you need to speak; there
is no escape to this bare minimum requirement of a group discussion. Even though it is stating the
obvious, yet at times you go in with a mindset that is not best suited to a group discussion.

Prologue and Epilogue:

Most of you may think that opening the GD is the best way of entering one. But do remember that this
approach is fraught with dangers, and the risks and rewards of doings so are generally very high. As
far as time to speak in a GD goes, the opening speaker has the best chance to speak for the longest
duration of time. But quantity is not quality.

Taking the Stage:

The key challenge that some of you face in a discussion is entering it. In a hostile environment, with a
number of speakers putting across their points in a vociferous manner, it becomes hard to enter a
group discussion. The solution to this problem is not a cut and dried one; it requires practice. In such
a scenario, where you are stuck in the middle of a very aggressive discussion, it becomes vital that
you participate in a discussion and make sure you speak.