Tips for successful interviews in entry level positions. Recognize that YOU are the center of the interview and the reason for the success. Technical competency and behavior maturity needs development over time IIT is the best place to broaden your ideas and integrate all learning into discovery Given at IIT Bombay Earth Science on 10th Aug 13 A job offer is NOT the only measure of successful interview performance. Your FEEL-GOOD is an important success factor. In most situations the offer is an interaction between your GOOD performance and the ground REALITY at the company and interview members. However, a FEEL_GOOD performance is completely your own making!

1. Successful Interviews are from your
desire to be successful
Interviews

2. You at the Center of Interview
KNOWN
• Confidence
Partially
Known
• Discover
• Investigate
UNKNOWN
• Respect
Salary $
Contributio
n
Desperati
on
MOTIVATION

3. Interviews
Positive - Selection Negative - Rejection
1. Give reason to be
selected
2. Communicate your
strengths
3. Play to win
4. Attitude is to guide
the interview
5. Smile and be
curious
1. Stop reasons to be
rejected
2. Camouflage your
weakness
3. Play not to loose
4. Attitude is to defend
the position
5. Serious and be
focussed

4. Skills in Success
Soft
(Personal)
Hard
(Technical)
1. Communicate
2. Listening
3. Interpersonal
4. Adaptation
5. Individuality
6. Integrity
1. Observe
2. Structure
3. Analyze
4. Investigate
5. Invent
6. Persistence

5. Communication is the most important
Corner stone of all successful interviews
 To handle interpersonal relations
 To take appropriate decisions
 To communicate effectively – What? Why?
How?
1. Body Language
2. Spoken Language (Written & PPT)
3. Emotional Language
 To have good impression and impact
1. Focused
2. Brief
3. Result oriented (Action oriented)

6. Presentation
 Presentation skills
  include planning, preparation & delivery of the message
 You need to demonstrate and present what you KNOW -
CLEARLY
 Presentation skills can be broadly categorized into physical oral, &
electronic
 Success in interviews depends on presenting ideas in an
appropriate manner
 Look at the eyes of interviewers & speak in a natural,
conversational voice
 Appropriate voice will make the presentation effective and
interesting
 Ask for clarity from your interviewer about the questions or
the conditions when needed – briefly and once or twice &
change accordingly
 In your answers especially, stop occasionally to check the
response from other interviewers in their body language and
response

7. Team Work
Interviewers may like to know how agreeable
you are and yet maintains your technical
integrity and individuality
1. Questions that focus on conflicting positions
2. Questions on Dilemma
3. Questions on Peer pressure
 Adjustment
 Persuasion
 Commitment
 Individuality
 Integrity

8. Ethics & Integrity
 Professional ethics is the need of the hour
in India
 When a person is at the work spot, he/she
must think of work
Candidate demonstrates in interview
 Competency
 Commitment
 Confidence

9. Time & Stress Management
 Manage the Emotion and Stress in Interview
room
 Ability to focus on the MOST IMPORTANT point
to the question
Handle Conflict : Conflict management
Handle Ignorance : From Self and from the
Interviewer
 Handle Time : A very large answer in a short time
Handle Stress : + & -

10. You are the maker
Leaders, executives & managers expect YOU
to be very clear about YOURSELF –
TRUTHFULLY
  Trust your self
  Keep smiling and stay +ve
Get Offer
• You +
• Interviewers
Feel Good
• You
• YOU only
Dejected
• You +
• Interviewers
• Situation

11. Q&A
1. Don’t fully know the answer?  Express what is known crisp and brief
2. Express yourself?  1min max. 30sec your core competencies & interests. 30sec
idea of contribution to the company/science
3. General long-questions (geology along your journey)?  20sec demonstrate you
know the main points
4. Personality questions (whom do you like.. Best subject)?  20sec. Clear committed
answer with a one phrase why as a quality that inspired you
5. Controversial subject? Take a position but identify it as controversial.
6. Career, Study or other breaks/shifts? Brief 30sec. Tell truth and identify the central
issue or quality that forced it.
7. What you intend to become in the company?  30sec. Focus answer on what
contributions and professional acceptance you wish to reach.
8. Uniqueness? Every interview is unique. Prepare a 1pg idea of how you wish to
cultivate your interests in contributing to the organization. SHOW only when right
environ and opportunity occurs