Best Interview Tips for freshers

Best Interview Tips

Interview Tips for Fresher, Before you move forward for an interview with any organization, first, let's try to understand, 

"On what all things a candidate is assessed".

It is observed, candidates with excellent qualifications and certificates fail to crack a simple interview with the Human Resource team, and on the other hand candidates good in behavioral competencies easily go through the tough Interview Questions. The selection/rejection or salary negotiation of any candidates apart from his / her knowledge, experience and educations is largely depend on a candidate's behavioral competencies.

"You can refer to my earlier blog on "Factor Considered for Salary Calculation".

Let us discuss the same and understand Interview Tips.

1) Personal Effectiveness - Judgment on candidate's customer interfacing skills based on

Ø  Overall personality (posture, body language, effectual presentation skill, communication tone, eye to eye contact, etc)

Ø  Confidence level (person's belief in his or her own capability to accomplished the task, reaching or forming the decisions)

Ø  Flexibility (ability to adapt to and work effectively in any situations, Individual or group, to understand and appreciate the different and opposing perspective of issues, overall not a candidate with high rigidity in his belief & focus)

Ø  Customer orientation (focusing one's efforts on discovering and meeting the customer's or client needs)

     Overall aptitude level of the candidate 

2) Communication skill - Ability to present ideas or points in a 

clear and succinct manner taking into consideration the audience and situation. 

3) Interpersonal skills - Ability to work & interact with people from a variety of backgrounds effectively. This may be judged based on the listening power, sensitivity to others, awareness of others’ feelings, cross-cultural sensitivity & related parameters. 

4) Creativity - Ability to generate novel and useful ideas, solutions towards facing problems & challenges

5) Analytical thinking - Ability to understand a situation based on the available information/data. It includes organizing the parts of a problem or a situation in a systematic way; making comparisons of different features; setting priorities on a rational basis; identifying time sequences, causal relationships etc to reach a solid solution.

6) Dealing with ambiguity - Ability to perform in uncertain situations when complete information might not be available. This also includes coping with uncertainties that are brought in by the change in business conditions, technologies, work environment, etc.. 

7) Initiative - Preference for taking action. It is doing more than what is required or expected. For a fresher, this could be judged based on any completed event/incident/assignment wherein the candidate has gone beyond the assigned roles and responsibilities.

An interviewer may check these points by asking a scenario-based questions like "what will you do in case you need to submit the project in next to one hr and your system is down" or may pick questions from your resume so better make your resume very informative, you can refer to my earlier blog on "How to prepare the resume".

"Happy Recruiting"