Important Tips for Personal Interview

Important tips and tricks to ace your personal interviews:

As placement season has been kick-started across various institutes and thus, you should be fully prepared before sitting for the most crucial stage of the recruitment process i.e., Interviews.

These are some tricks no one else will tell you:

1) Prepare your answers according to the Job Description:
– Each company requires a specific set of skills in the candidate and your answer should be in line with those skills.

2) Be already prepared with at least TWO strengths and weaknesses:
– Use examples and quotes from your past experiences to justify them.
– Weaknesses shouldn’t be too negative. Research properly about yourself.

3) Honesty, Diligence, and Punctuality are NOT strengths:
– These are common traits that are expected out of every individual in every role.

4) Think about your salary expectations beforehand:
– Be realistic.
– Research beforehand about the current salary rates according to your level of experience.
– This could come across as a question in most cases.

5) Research about the company beforehand:
– You should know the origin, partners, what the company does, its full name, etc.
– Check their core values, latest products, and past 2-3 years’ financial statements as well.

6) Be ready with the answers to what you have learned and what challenges you have faced during every role:
– Your experiences only count if you learned something from them and you faced problems that you overcame.

7) Do not speak negatively about your past recruiters:
– Even when the question pops up, “Why did you leave them?”, you don’t have to be negative.
– Just state your reasons in a positive manner.

8) Be prepared for some common questions beforehand:
– Always keep a notepad where you sit and write down answers to all the common questions like ‘Tell me about yourself.
– Spend some time upon discovering yourself and jotting those answers.

9) Ask the interviewer about the next steps and always ask them questions in the end:
– This shows your interest and curiosity towards the organization and the role.
– Being a little informal is okay.

Hope these tips help you in your next interview process. All the best!