Slide 1:Wednesday, December 24, 2008 1 Welcome
:Wednesday, December 24, 2008 2 INTERVIEW TECHNIQUES
Grab your jobs…
What are Interviews? :Wednesday, December 24, 2008 3 What are Interviews? Internal view
Skills
Knowledge
Attitude
Why Interviews? :Wednesday, December 24, 2008 4 Why Interviews? Face to Face
Responses are immediate
To counter question
Guess the Gentleman :Wednesday, December 24, 2008 5 Guess the Gentleman
Leader? :Wednesday, December 24, 2008 6 Leader? Was Ford a Great Leader?
Slide 7:Wednesday, December 24, 2008 7 “I would call any Car as a car, as long as it is black”
…Ford
What is the relevance of Ford story with Interview Techniques? :Wednesday, December 24, 2008 8 What is the relevance of Ford story with Interview Techniques? Sometimes your interviewer collects opinions on eminent Personalities
Then, he would come out with some incident from the personality’s life which is totally opposite to the stand that you hold
Slide 9:Wednesday, December 24, 2008 9 Should you stick to the stand or should you change?
Self Introduction :Wednesday, December 24, 2008 10 Self Introduction Why such a Question?
Self Introduction :Wednesday, December 24, 2008 11 Self Introduction Personal Information
The city
Your Family
Professional
Your Educational Background
Strengths
Weaknesses
Self Introduction :Wednesday, December 24, 2008 12 Self Introduction Non-Academic:
Interests
Hobbies
Slide 13:Wednesday, December 24, 2008 13 Would you prefer to be an efficient worker or an effective worker?
What is Efficiency? :Wednesday, December 24, 2008 14 What is Efficiency? The skill which you have
Efficiency increases with the repetition of tasks
What is Effectiveness? :Wednesday, December 24, 2008 15 What is Effectiveness? Doing right things at right time
Common sense
Presence of mind
Efficiency Vs Effectiveness :Wednesday, December 24, 2008 16 Efficiency Vs Effectiveness Assume there’s going to be a race between a horse and a donkey.
Who would win?
Efficiency Vs Effectiveness :Wednesday, December 24, 2008 17 Efficiency Vs Effectiveness Undoubtedly ,
It’s the HORSE who would win
Efficiency Vs Effectiveness :Wednesday, December 24, 2008 18 Efficiency Vs Effectiveness Assume there’s going to be a competition between the same horse and same donkey.
But as to who’s going to weigh the maximum Load?
Efficiency Vs Effectiveness :Wednesday, December 24, 2008 19 Efficiency Vs Effectiveness Who would win?
This time, it’s the Donkey
Efficiency Vs Effectiveness :Wednesday, December 24, 2008 20 Efficiency Vs Effectiveness Tell them that Efficiency without effectiveness is meaningless
And effectiveness without efficiency is also meaningless
What are your short term and long term Goals? :Wednesday, December 24, 2008 21 What are your short term and long term Goals? Short term and long term goals should be in congruent with each other
Your short term goal is a kind of preparation for your long term goal
What kind of people bug you? :Wednesday, December 24, 2008 22 What kind of people bug you? No kind of people bug me
I don’t want to give my emotional keys in the hands of the other person
What does success mean to you? :Wednesday, December 24, 2008 23 What does success mean to you? Success means different things to different people
Success is more of subjective in nature than objective
Success is a journey and its never an end
Would you compare yourself with others? :Wednesday, December 24, 2008 24 Would you compare yourself with others? I would compare myself only with myself
I would compare my current performance with my previous performance.
How would you react to criticisms? :Wednesday, December 24, 2008 25 How would you react to criticisms? First try to identify the criticisms are healthy or unhealthy
If they are healthy, I will work on it. If not, I would turn my deaf ears
Why should we hire you? :Wednesday, December 24, 2008 26 Why should we hire you? Focus on what is required for the job
Match your strengths with what the job requires
How long will you stay with us? :Wednesday, December 24, 2008 27 How long will you stay with us? As long as the company is fruitful to me and as long as I am fruitful to the company.
Slide 28:Wednesday, December 24, 2008 28 Thank You