 Welcome back students. I hope you are now geared for the second round which would be the interview skills but before we really move on to the interview skills there were certain things which I wanted to talk about or rather continue in the group discussion. So we would talk about we would just summarize things out there because post the group discussion comes the interview skills in a selection process. Normally you have a group discussion and then you have a selection interview for the selection process. So what one of the centers had raised the issue? How should we bring the participants who do not talk into the group discussion? And Professor Fatuk had given us a wonderful solution for it that you need to prepare beforehand for that particular situation. However if it is a group which is not known wherein you need to bring others. Now what happens? If there aren't very many participants your point get exhausted. That is why also it is important to bring other participants into the discussion. Over there what you could do is you could maybe they are very timid but you cannot take their names because they may not be well prepared for it. I have mentioned these in my videos and if you have gone through the videos you would know how to bring students who are reticent or shy back into the group discussion. You could raise a question when you're finishing your point you could look into their eye rest your gaze upon them so that they know that this is their chance to talk. So this is something which you can do otherwise it has to be an internal decision whether you wish to talk or you don't wish to talk. However the preparation for group discussion and interview skills begins much earlier. Students the soft skills course has been initiated in order to set in a practice. We want you to perform well in your GDs. We want you to do well in your interviews but for that you need to work on your communication skills. I did say that when it is the content you think that you are in the know of the topic but it is the language which is inhibiting you. You must still go ahead requesting the permission but honestly speaking most of the corporate most of the organizations have English as their medium of work and that is why it becomes very important for you all to improve upon that language and it is not just that it is the need of the day. Think it as you are gaining knowledge of another language it is always good to know several languages. So it should not start talking chit chatting in the language in which you would be giving your group discussion or your interview. When we talk of group discussions there was one point raised how does a leader emerge in a group anywhere. You know there is another concept which is known as the apple concept A P P L E. So in a group discussion the leader would perhaps perform the role of asking then he would participate he would probe choose the participant then he would listen to the participant another participant and then he would explore the idea. So what he is doing is he is exploring it from all sides he is tying things up and the person who ties things up is actually or rather emerges as the leader. Group discussion is not a debate you are generally marked on your knowledge content on your communication skills your leadership skills. So please go back to the videos that have been recorded just for you all and try to assimilate as much knowledge as you can from there we are there for you. So if there is any query we would definitely handle them. Now we move on to the interview skills and when we talk about the interview skills what comes to your mind. Let's go to some center. Hi Bansal Institute of Lucknow. How was the tea? Good morning ma'am. My name is Akansha. Ma'am actually I am the director of this course and firstly I would like to thank you for conducting such course which is going to be beneficial for the students and help them to build confidence in them and now I would like to hand over the mic to my students. They have certain points to say on this topic. Thank you very much. Pleasure it's an honor. Good morning ma'am. Good morning. My question is that if we are in a stress interview and we don't know how to keep our mind calm. Okay thank you I got it. So the question raised by one of our centers in Lucknow is in a stress interview how should we keep our calm. First and foremost congratulations if you are in a stress interview. They normally give you a stress interview when they see the potential in you. So if you handle it properly and if you have maintained your calm and answered the questions right you are definitely selected. Now coming back to your question how to be calm. Now there could be that the questions are being fired one after the another. This is one chance. There could be that they deliberately raise their tone in such a way, modulate their tone in such a way that you feel offended, that you feel whether you should be answering. You feel that they are making a mock career out of you. It is not that they have not seen you before they have not met you before. So why would they make a mockery of you? Why would they want to see put you under stress? They want to put you under stress simply to know how you would act. So let us suppose after answering one question after another your patience level or maybe your all kids. So even the maturity level you feel that it is failing you. You would have gone through my slides and I have mentioned very clearly out there. It is not whether you know the answer or not always. It is how you approach a particular question which matters over there. Many a times you know what happens they would be asking questions and they would be going a notch higher. Okay so if you do not know if you have answered three questions in the same segment pretty well or if they have seen you approaching that problem in the right direction they would perhaps move on to some other question because they have assessed that you are going in the right direction. So it is how you approach a problem there could be that you are going in a diametrically opposite way but over there there would be questions that they are not expected you to answer but the way you logically progress beat on a notepad or beat through your answers they would assess that you have a logical bent of mind. So that is more important in that interview. We are not supposed to know everything Abhi but yes of course on the content side the causes that you have done if it is mentioned you ought to know what you have done. Any other question? Yes ma'am I have a question. Good morning ma'am. Good morning. My name is Pratheer Misra. Yes suppose that a question has been asked with the interviewer and I am not compatible with that answer so what I should do? Well a question has been raised by the remote center that the interviewer has asked a question and the interviewee is not comfortable with the answer. I am going to ask the interviewee what he means by not comfortable. Is it that you do not know the answer or is it that you have forgotten the answer it's not coming to you then it is different the two things are different. Let us suppose that I didn't know the answer exactly the question has been asked by the interviewer. Now what that condition what I said. Now what happens in this condition when you do not know the question exactly in that condition you could just tell him that you have done that it's not coming to you in the mind. So what the examiner will do then is they normally try to give you a clue. They help you out with the answer if you do not know it at all and yet just to show you say that well it's not coming to my mind right now and even after the examiner is prodding you do not show any logical progression on the question then there is a problem. If you do not know the answer completely you have not heard about it let the examiner know that you have no clue it is wasting time because the next question which comes to you might give you a chance to explain things better. So that is why I say do not beat around the bush but if you know something you have forgotten you may have done it in the first semester this is a fourth semester and you have not you don't remember it perhaps at the prodding you would remember something. So don't fake it okay. Thank you very much Lucknow let's move on to some different center. Hi Colom how are you? Good afternoon ma'am. Good afternoon. Yeah I will give the mic to the students. Students before you really raise a question tell me the three most dreaded questions from your side. The group discussion I didn't have enough time to prepare a question for interviews but for group discussion I had a question it was when we're in a group discussion should we be selfish and just think about ourselves first and take a much time as we need or should we also think about the rest and think about rationalize and give time to everyone to speak. You know when we talk about well we have already handled that question previously because group discussion means the idea must be explored by the entire group okay. So we should not be doing the talking all the time right. So we should see that we get the fair share of talking and at the same time the rest of the group also comes up with points and based on it. Fine dear. So now tell me now tell me since you do not have any question or interview skills tell me two questions that the students dread in an interview. Okay you may take the help of your friends. Good afternoon ma'am I would assume the questions that you're expecting one of them would be what are your faults or demerits in your life or in your character. Okay probably the other one would be to describe yourself in ascendance or in two words. Not in two words. I would say tell me something about yourself which happens to be the very first question. Thank you so much for reading my mind. Are you a mind reader? Not currently. Not what you used to be. Oh well I should meet you sometime face to face. Okay think you have given a direction to the interview skills. So the very first question most of the students dread is tell me something about yourself. So what happens is when you are asked despite the fact that you know that this will be the first question when you are there you tend to rattle. You tend to forget what you wish to say. You do not know whether you should be talking about your background. How much you should be talking about your background. Do not give more than two minutes to that particular question because students remember acing an interview is an art. When you go for that interview whatever you have put on your resume might frame a question. Whatever you say as an answer whichever word you use in an answer might frame a question. So just be very careful how you introduce yourself. If in your introduction you happen to say that you have been, you loved lawn tennis or you loved swimming. So the question would be who was the national champion. Not that you should not be saying but you should be saying it in such a way that even if a question is raised and you do not know the answer who the national champion is or who the international Olympic champion is it wouldn't have much impact on the interview. If it is tell me something about yourself at your level I was just wondering how to make it easy for you. So what came to my mind is and my experience with the students have yielded the result as no matter what we say you would go back to the background you would say where you were born where you were brought up. So it is and most of you have this understanding that if you have nailed the first question you are confident enough. So you feel that if you are bailed out of that first question you are confident enough to tackle other questions. So remember students for the question tell me something about yourself go by this module it is just BALE it could be BAIL it should be. So you could find an acronym for these things. Now what you could do is you could begin with where you were born and brought up and then move on to your academics. I was born and brought up here I did my engineering from here these are the things I love this is my inspiration and these are the things I love. So this would suffice for the introduction. So now if you ask me tell me something about yourself suddenly and if I'm unprepared I would say well I'm Dr. Leena Jha I did my undergrads from here and I did my post grad from here and I did my PhD from here and well I love teaching I love to swim I love interacting with people and my passion is to write poetry. So I could just talk about this way. Now if I have come prepared perhaps I would come I would talk about my introduction in this manner students I want your focus now I have given you one pitch of introduction I'm going to give you another pitch of introduction see how concisely by preparing it we can really ace the first question tell me something about yourself a master's in English from JNU and a PhD from Bihar University introduced me to the polarities in the academic environment and sensitized me to the discrepancies in the social form I meant my interaction with corporate houses and technical institutes has sensitized me and helped me analyze the areas of prime concern since I know the areas of prime concern I work around those areas and these provide a healthy dimension to my sessions my career is devoted to encouraging enthusiastic learning and I stay in Mumbai so this would be a more concise form of introduction what I did was I talked about my academic qualification and how it has helped me in my field so prepare your answer do not mug it up but rehearse when you prepare you draft you redraft you recast and then comes a solid introduction so do that another question that was mentioned here was what are your strength and weaknesses when we talk about our strength and weaknesses there has been a trend that you present one of your strengths as a weakness and then come back saying that well this is what I am doing normally you know this question is going to come so do a SWOT analysis of yourself what is SWOT analysis normally the term used in corporate houses and industries in order to find out what is the strength the weakness the opportunities and the threats so you could actually before getting into an interview you should start the preparation with a SWOT analysis of yourself what are your strengths what are your weaknesses what are the opportunities you are looking for and what acts as a threat and acing the branch you are targeting so when you will work around that okay you would know what your weaknesses what is threatening you so you can come up with your weakness and then you could talk about how you are trying to combat it how successful you have been has there been any result what you could also do is you could just present a past experience wherein you suddenly learned that your patient's level is very low so that thing did not work out well for you because it was a patient's level that impacted it so now you are working on that patient's level so now when you come up with this particular story this particular experience you share this experience the panel feel takes you as a person who is honest has integrity so this is how you should answer tell us something about yourself and your strength and weaknesses and now let me go to some center and let's take that question now or we are JC College Andhra Pradesh welcome back may I have your question please my name is Ravi Teja ma'am okay Ravi Teja coming to my question how to create the positive psychological impact on the members of the panel how to become a leader in the discussion my very dear friend Ravi Teja we've just answered the second part of your question we said the Apple technique wherein you ask you probe you choose a participant participant then you listen and then you explore makes you helps you emerge as a leader okay but now we are talking about interview skills and I really loved the question you raise which is how to utilize pause to make an impact on the interview panelists okay so we are moving into the realm of vocalics as well as kindness it's which is body language so now what happens let us suppose why do I say that voice modulation is a very important aspect of any communication now let us suppose the moderator you know he's asked you enough questions on content on what you have studied and he feels that he should ask you more about your hobbies and somewhere in your hobby you have written that you love football so he asked you which club do you follow and you say Manchester United so now when you say Manchester United he would definitely ask questions about Manchester United it could be that he himself is a follower of Manchester United and that is why he asked you this question or he could be in opposition he could be Arsenal fans so now what happens when you ask our questions over here right they are not looking for the right answer they definitely are you cannot you know play with facts and figures but they want to gauge your passion level so perhaps when you are answering the questions you would raise your voice a little bit which shows your engagement and once you have done it and once you have made a fantastic point about the topics you are saying you need to pause when you pause you need to look in the eye into the eye of your panelists maybe you could look into the into the eye of the panelists to address the question and then step back so this is how you would utilize pause to create an impact does that suffice does that satisfy your answer what's the answer yes ma'am what is the difference between co-curricular activities and curricular activities curricular activities curricular comes from the word curriculum so whatever you are doing studying out there whatever is in the course would be the course and extra curricular activities would be whatever extra things that you are doing out there so spots maybe if it is not a part of your regular regime the drama we have drama clubs we are sports club we have quiz clubs we have event management clubs we have so many clubs in the colleges so those would be the extracurricular activities now what happens is normally students put that in the resume now when you put that in the resume you should know that you shouldn't be a passive member of that group if you have put it on your resume that you were the leader or the head of this particular club you need to tell exactly you need to have the facts and figures ready as to what events did you conduct and if you can give them a financial implication this was the money which we handled and this is how we handled so many things these are the personalities we had called for this particular function this would make a better impact rather than saying that I was the head of this particular thing I was a member of this particular group what exactly you did out there is what will make the difference so since we are already at it students let me again get a question for you which is or rather I would wait we'll go to some other institute now we have flurry of questions coming up it's all red I just hope I'm able to answer your queries techno India West Bengal ma'am I just have a question in the interview if someone asks why should I hire you hire you so what would be our answer you know what students you need to be interview is not something where in you get in and you give an interview you need to prepare for an interview so if somebody asks you why should I hire you you should be prepared with that answer what is the difference that you would make you bring to the table for them now here what happens you might just keep on saying I am a very good orator I am very hard-working I'm energetic I'm enthusiastic I love to learn you might just say all these things but there would be other students from your own college who would be saying the same thing so then again they would come back okay the rest of them would say the same thing again tell me why should we hire you so in this question for this question what you could do is you could always tell them about one experience that you may have had something which you may have done that shows that you are a strong personality and you would bring a novelty some creativity to the team so what you could do is you know we call it star technique so this would also this star technique would also work if they ask you what was your job out there what did you do before joining this company right it would hold water for both so in this star technique what you really do is you put the situation out there you develop a situation or you bring a situation from the past and then you tell them what exactly you did out there what action what action was required what task was required to be done what action you took and what were the results so now what you have done you have given them a practical demonstration of your personality there's no hiding behind adjectives so once you have given them a practical side of your action through the star technique I'm going to revisit it star is situation task action result frame your answer for the question why should we hire you or what did you do previously in your previous job frame your question around this module does that suffice best thing all thanks ma'am and one more question hello good afternoon ma'am ma'am like I'm a pressure I have no work experience and if the interviewer asked me that what salary do you expect so what is the best answer that I should give as a pressure you would definitely have tried to find out what the salary is right but as a fresher there is absolutely no need to negotiate or talk about it so what your answer should be your answer should go around the learning process so I'm still a fresher and I'm exploring the avenue I have gone through the vision and the mission of this company and I appreciate what is being done there to be a part of this company in itself it would be a very big thing for me and of course we have everybody loves money and we would have a salary structure in your company also so I'm sure you would give me the best if you want to hire me if you wish to if you think that I'm suitable for this job you would definitely give me the best thank you very much ma'am ma'am but so if you were asked me for a figure then should I directly tell him the actual figure that I'm expecting or should I just cover up the question of what should I do means if he still asks for the figure the amount there is a risk involved okay it could be that your expectation is maybe at 3 lakhs or maybe at 6 lakhs maybe at 10 lakhs once you join the company you realize that somebody is there at a 15 lakh in your position so there are two things if you're anticipating that there would be a question on money matters in that case explore try finding out from the seniors out there what is the salary structure out there you know we have to prepare for certain questions not certain in fact we have to prepare for most of the questions that are being asked in an interview that is one thing and second thing what you could say is so it should be like if you do not wish to name a figure as in your language covering up you could say so it should be such that I stick around for a longer period of time and I don't feel frustrated as it is time of fresh air and you would know best okay yes ma'am can I ask one more question okay please go ahead this would be the last from your center okay if the interviewer asks why have you applied in this particular company why not in some other company or why are you interested in this company only so what should I answer or maybe if the interviewer asked that do you find any negative points in the company so what should be the answer okay lovely so the question which has been raised by one of the sweetest state West Bengal is why you want to join this company so for this particular question you know I'm going to give you again another acronym which I just thought of last night work around it so it would be G O A L so for the question why should you why would you like to work for this company you could just come up and say that because it has a great brand image first and foremost you're trying to pump the company or perhaps your company comes across as a gold-driven company which is what I look forward to G offers opportunity O G O offers opportunity your company offers us immense opportunity A it values the three A it appreciates the three A the aptitude the attitude and it helps us achieve the altitude and L would be it is a logical culmination of my vision it's a logical culmination of what I wish to do in life now if you go and do it in this order if you do it in this you know rote manner it would look as though I have tutored all of you all nineteen thousand twenty thousand who have registered for the cost it should not be it should be your personality reflecting it but then this could be around these lines so derive an acronym for yourself and how you are going to talk about this so if they ask you why this company you could say all of these points there could be several other points as well is that okay thank you so much ma'am very are well or come back any question here good afternoon ma'am good afternoon and got again I'm the force coordinator we are from well over Tamil Nadu one of my students has a doubt to get clarified from you ma'am please go ahead thank you that's right ma'am I attend the one one interview the interviewer asked the question for me the properly interviews properly going on but the interviewer suddenly asked me you are useless below you are not good you're not perfect but at that time how do I react and what happened later why you selected what was the feedback that you received this was a kind of stress interview how did you handle it I would like to know how did you handle it I immediately cried you cried over there okay I'm really sorry and I do apologize you that person may have been because it should not have come it should not have come at all normally when this was a kind of stress interview dear this was a kind of stress interview so normally when people come across there are two things again when I talk about stress interview there are two things rather than crying you should have walked out if it felt so bad okay but at the same time you should have said if if somebody comes like that and talks directly and you feel that it is kind of an abuse there are two alternatives that you could take you could always say sir being useless so ugly and useless they have used in you and ugly must be a definitely it must have some use and that is why it is in the English dictionary or it would have been kicked out you know something to that effect but students I love you all dearly and there is one thing which I would want to point out never cry in an interview they will bring you to the level some of them could bring you to that level they could bring tears to your eyes but it is a kind of stress interview okay and the moment they would say that you are the bring they would again come up with something comfortable it is just that they are trying you may have come across as a very confident person and they are now testing your limits it should not be done in the manner it has been done but however even during adversity even during such things maintain a poker face just smile perhaps you could also say sir it would be much appreciated if we could keep the discussion if you could keep the interview at the professional level so when you say something I am trying to give you words because you know in stress interviews these words come handy so when you talk about this the interviewers know that well he will only take up to this limit post that he's going to react he doesn't care for the job he's not desperate okay so may I know your name please the person who had asked the question you know what you should feel empowered that you were able to sit for that stress interview okay and I don't want to see you crying ever again never again promise me you'll never cry again for an interview and if it hurts if in any interview it hurts so much you should just pick up your folder and walk out with a thank you okay but otherwise my suggestion would be do not get stressed if there is water drink it and then tell them sir I would appreciate if he can stay at professional level okay does that satisfy you does that make you happy that's not my IP I'm satisfied lovely lovely dear we'll move to some other side oh we have a question okay this is Ignesh I have a doubt and a panel interview session okay there are five members asking for hints for a person so whom should I answer first that is again another kind of answer so you know what you could do you should just smile at the panel okay and let us suppose there's one familiar face there is one face whose passion whose whose you know kind of firm you feel you can gel with so perhaps you could look at that face and then say may I take your answer first may I take your question first or this is one method the second could be you could just ask the panelist would you allow me to answer this question first and then we could move in a logical progression third would be so how do I go about answering these questions which one should I take first so they would obviously say oh well anybody so choose a face who you think is relatively calm and supportive answer from there is that okay okay yeah question ma'am tell me go about it is more important than other skills ma'am with my personality you mean the communication skills yes ma'am okay dear so normally in the selection process what I'm the question right now raised towards two personality matter in interviews what happens is when a company walks in they would have taken an assessment test they would have filtered students on the basis of their aptitude a written test on an aptitude then they have a round of group discussion post that when they come for the interview most of the students who have made to the interviews would be at the same level so knowledge wise most of you could be at the same level the way you would answer a question the way you would approach a question logically all these things perhaps may be more or less the same so it is then when communication starts to play a major role I wouldn't say that communication skills is the most important thing in an interview but communication having a good communication still certainly helps in an interview you need to have a good knowledge base your content should be great post that if I'm getting a wonderful personality who can who is able to translate his part into words effectively will definitely be my candidate and therefore polish on your personality set is not a very difficult thing to do and that is why it is a skill it is a life skill it is a communication still we develop personalities another question ma okay this will be the last from the center right now please go ahead during group discussion we don't have a idea about the topic how to manage it we had talked about this why are you there for the first session tell me I need to pull you all up now why are you there for the first session we talked about the special concept and there is enough material on my slide so if there is a question and you do not know much about it try to think about it politically socially economically technically environmentally and legally so from somewhere you would definitely get points I'm not going to dwell upon this particular question right now we are handling interview skills okay thank you ma'am hello good afternoon dear our student has some questions oh yeah sure we'll tackle it happy noon ma'am Gajalakshmi from Akshwashalinga Engineering College yes Rajalakshmi go ahead I have a doubt on GD so if I have more than one point to talk and should I have to once I raise up should I have to talk all the points whatever I know well again we have a question from GD and she wants to know whether we should talk about all the points that we have in one go well if you talk about all the points that you have in one go what would you do for the next of the GD so your most important points maybe if you have eight points make two points three points at the maths if you are a group of eight people and you feel that you cannot you will not get a chance so not more than two to three points in one entry you could come back again and make points as well as built on other person's point okay I'm not going to dwell on this for longer because we have to tackle so many questions on interview skills as well I hope it has been satisfactory the answer to your question Rajalakshmi I have another one question regarding the interview okay what kind of homework should we do or pre-preparation should we do you know before we face a head start should we have to take some like mirror practice or what kind of practice should have to perform you brought in an extremely important point middle practice yes that has to be there you know for the preparation of an interview as I said we have to prepare for GDs and interviews for a longer period of time if you really wish to ace it and get the best company so for interviews get a set of normal questions there are 10 to 12 questions 15 questions get those questions especially the the ones which you know they would ask prepare answers to them do not memorize them but you should know them well and every word in that answer that you are going to talk about every expression will lead to another question so just be careful of what expressions you are putting in your answers so once you have prepared you are not comfortable you're not confident about what kind of body language you are displaying in an interview so what you could do some of you could get into a group and have mock interview not just mock interviews you should record those mock interviews have somebody who would record that mock interviews for you so then your body language and it should not be just chit chat it should be held done conducted in a professional manner in fact you could get suited booted for your interview and then go for those mock interviews so then what happens your body language when you watch them in the video you would realize what you have to do and what you don't have to do what happens here is when you work in groups you develop a team concept when you're working together you want everybody to be selected so that feeling that you would evolve through these group activities both through mock gds and through mock interviews you know will go a long way in getting selected perhaps as a team by the companies so when we get into these interview now there could be a question so that person sitting outside person who was interviewed before you he came as a very good candidate so why should not we hire him why should we hire you so over there you could be tempted to you know play down his activities do not ever do that okay they are just trying to gauge how good a team player you are okay have you answered your question good afternoon ma'am good afternoon dear go ahead with your question I'm Priyanka hi Priyanka go ahead with I'm actually I have a question regarding group discussion it's a very simple question which is the best being an initiator or listening keenly listening to others the points given by others and then adding more valuable points because if I am an initiator then I can easily get into the mind of the coordinator or the one who is conducting the session and also if I'm listening to others and then adding more valuable points that will also be taken into consideration so which is the best how could I easily attract the coordinator well dear an initiator's position is a position of responsibility so if you feel that you have grasped the idea about the topic and you can introduce the topic in such a way that everybody in the group would understand and will be able to analyze the topic that you are setting in a healthy kind of setting stage for a healthy kind of group discussion then initiate then you would definitely get into the eye of the other kind of brownie points you are looking at but if you do not know much about the topic and you decide to just go about it simply because you would get into the eye of the moderator so don't because it is a position of responsibility if you have understood the topic go ahead if you have not listen keenly and then make your entries at either the third level or the fourth level not an issue normally students perception that if I do this I'm going to get this point if I do this I'm going to get this point if I conclude I will be taken as a leader if I initiate I have the chances to be a leader yes of course but then all these activities are not seen in isolation the moderator sees you as a whole human being how you have interacted what is the knowledge quotient what is emotional quotient what is a communication skill how have you interacted with a group member all these things are seen and all these things at a smaller level is there in the interview skills when you are interacting with your panel interviewers is that okay good afternoon ma'am good afternoon I'm Mahesh Singh I have a question on interview well I'm going for the interview we have been taught that be like a professional whether it is important or the dressing sense the way we answer everything my answer they say it must be in a professional way whether it is important or being myself and I am answering it whether it is important in your perspective being yourself is actually important but being yourself in a professional manner is what we are looking for okay we cannot fake things so when you talk about dressing up how would you I mean if I wore if for an Indian wedding I go wearing something really black and messy will that look good no if for this face-to-face interaction if I had worn the wedding finery would that have looked good so every place every condition every situation demands a decorum and that decorum is to bring the rest of the members on the same page it is not an enforcement it is something which helps all the members get on the same page so if we go for an interview it is better that we wear our suits we wear our tie because that is the demand of most of the organization we are dressed in our formal now if you have to attend a media interview perhaps the panelists may also be in their shorts so over there your dress could be something casual but for a corporate interview or for the government bodies we must give an appearance of being formal because with formality we can discard so many things we can calm down and we can think in the direction which we need to okay have have we answered the question properly Gafna ma'am I am Suvalakshmi from Mepkosh Lank engineering college I have a question that during interviews in some of the companies they'll be asking at the end do you have any questions to post to us and what kind of questions can we ask to them ma'am you know at your level what you could do is you know that's a very important segment and if they ask you and if there has been something in your mind please go ahead what you should do is if you are going for a company interview read their vision and the mission statements so that vision and the mission statement could help you frame a question another thing that you could do is you could ask them how would you see me post three years what are the growth prospects in the next three years this is something which you can ask them you could also ask them that does the company encourage people to go for their MBAs how important is an MBA for this particular institution or for this particular company so if so now they would ask you whether you intend to do an MBA so over there you could say learning process over here is such that I don't need to and I and I see my growth prospects here perhaps I might not need to but that is a call which I will have to take after two years with your inputs okay thank you very much dear we'll now move to the other center hello good afternoon please go ahead with your question perhaps queries from this remote center oh lovely please go ahead it's such a fantastic bunch of people thank you ma'am thank you the first query goes on here good afternoon ma'am good afternoon dear go ahead I would like to ask the question that how should someone mentally prepare himself before appearing for the interview the question which has just been asked is how should we mentally prepare ourselves for the interview a very good question thank you so much for for raising this question because you know what before an interview we are normally stressed we want to ace it and we wish to enter the room with the feeling that we have to ace it and in that stress perhaps we get a little nervous always remember that interview is again another step in your life but a major step for which you need to prepare so as I have said first you need to mentally prepare yourself when I talk about mentally preparing yourself it is not that you should be coding yourself I have my interviews on this day I have my interview on this day no in fact on the contrary you should be working around calming yourself okay I have this plan a I'm looking for this company and I'll go prepared with these kind of answers these kind of answers match with my personality and I should be talking about these things so when you have thought about what's there in your resume and you have explored the questions that are usually asked you are mentally relaxed which is very important for an interview you should not go thinking what if I do not ace this interview there is always a second chance students I would like to point out that if you do not ace an interview it is not the end of the road it does not auger bad on you it is not that because you did not perform well most of the time it is not that because you did not perform well that you are not in maybe on that particular occasion the company needed somebody with another set of skills and experience and that is why another person was selected work on your communication skills some of us are not very comfortable with speaking in English so this has to be a long-term preparation we must start preparation on English on our on our language on our communication skills we must get into groups and start working around it because most of us have the desire to go abroad to work in multinational to work at a global platform in order to work at a global platform this is the time to begin with the preparation and for this it has to begin from here mentally you have to steal yourself against all the temptations and say no I have to work toward making towards my personality I have to work towards building a new me or building an improved me so that is something which you must do but if you do not ace it it is not the end of the world there is something better lying for you is my ma'am we have another question can you relate to the answer that has just been given can you and the rest of the people relate to the answer that has just been given yes ma'am the answer is satisfactory oh it is satisfactory it is not good so my dear so do you all promise me to make yourself do you all promise me to strengthen your mental capabilities and gear up for the interview okay all those who promise me please raise your hands thank you so much dear thank you I have a split so do we have any other query from here yes ma'am okay so are the person may raise the question you may sit down please you don't have ma'am I wanted to ask if I'm in an interview and the interviewer suddenly it was the tables and asked me to pose questions what kind of questions should I ask we've just answered remote this remote center has just asked us what kind of questions should we ask from the interview panel if we are asked to do so so I had mentioned that we should go to the interview post reading the vision and the mission of the company because that gives us an opportunity to ask questions second thing could be you could ask about your prospect in that company post two years or three years third thing you could also talk about what is how does the company see the MBA degree how important is the MBA degree for the company and does the company has any tie up with any of the institutes so what would be the prospect post two years okay so these are the kind of you could ask questions relating what is the work atmosphere over there so you could ask questions relating to your career growth in that company like to know what are the common trick questions asked and how should we answer them without creating a negative impact we have handled this question and I said for the first question is normally apart from telling us something about yourself they would say in the tell us something about yourself they might just say talk something which is not there in your resume so perhaps something which may have made an impact on you in your life and gave a dimension to your life you could quote that incident out there fine there could be talk about yourself in five words right what if we do not hire you so these are the trick questions which they might just ask so you just have you know prepare the regular 10 to 15 questions they should match with your personality rehearse them mirror practice them use them in the mock interviews and most of the trick questions would be you know when they ask you trick questions they are not looking for a right answer they are looking for how you are approaching the question always bear that in mind okay so they wish to see the logical bent of mind the creativity out there okay thank you very much it was pleasure interacting with you we'll go to the next center I will take a couple of questions from Roland Institute or a star oh wow Rissa Roland Institute I love the sambal purisari from there good afternoon madam good afternoon please go ahead with the question we have little time now so we'd like to make most of it good afternoon ma'am good afternoon please go ahead my simple question is that I am a civil engineer my simple question is I'm in an IT interview I'm basically in civil engineer they ask me a question why civil in what answer I will give what answer did you give did you give any answer my answer that I am good in a programming language that due to some problem counselor had given me the civil engineering had you been a given that the counselor had given me that civil yes so had you been a mechanical engineer or any any have you followed any other stream the question would have been the same so it is basically why civil engineering because I thought I would interested in it could be that I could not get it could be a very simple thing that it could not get IT and therefore I did civil engineering because civil engineering of course is again it helps in building the infrastructure of the country so now I have an idea about civil engineering and I have a keen interest in the IT sector on both when I bring both on the table I'm sure I'll create something wonderful okay so your answer should be to the tune of this we'll take another center we'll take two more questions hi good afternoon SRM we'll take two quick questions hi ma'am this is jeswan have a curious question please go ahead with your question usually when we go for an interview like the interviewer they observe everything like the way we get inside the way we talk the way we present ourselves so out of all this I just wanted to know that please tell me like maintaining proper eye contact with the interviewer well the question is on eye contact and perhaps we have a question how should we maintain eye contact with the interviewer when you are asking when somebody has asked you a question it is important that you maintain an eye contact with the person however if you keep staring back at the interviewer somehow in some culture it does not go well what you could do is when you are answering the question you look into the eye of the person if the answer gets too long perhaps you could break the eye contact for a second but honestly speaking if you are passionate about it and you're working directly into the answer there is you should keep on maintaining the eye contact out there thank you ma'am thanks for the effort just okay last question Trina Ryan Institute Kerala hello please go directly into the question well participants it has been really very interesting interacting with you all and it would be much appreciated if you would I hope you all have gone through the slides and you have appeared for the quizzes as well please go through the slides please do the quizzes and come back with more questions we at this side are working very hard for you all and we expect the same from you all so if you are really geared into acing group discussion and interview skills you must start the preparation now and we have professor sati may I please invite professor sati to the discussion now because with his energy level he's definitely going to charge you all up hi everybody I've been in the background while you guys have been having discussions and insights into group discussions and interviews etc there are two things that I want to share before we close for the day we got another five minutes so we'll close at one o'clock and then for the lunch break and then two o'clock we begin with the workplace communication module the first question I have is how many of you to answer this question but you know at the level of the center at the level of the coordinators the question I need to deal with is how many of you have already registered into the IIT Bombay X I believe there's almost like 25 30 percent of you who have not registered now if you haven't registered a large part of the resources that are available through IIT Bombay X will not be available to you so it's important that you register and start doing the work okay so for every face-to-face for every week there is a video or some kind of resource material that's available and then there is a quiz so till you don't answer the quizzes say quizzes are simple they're not complicated they're just intended so that it keeps you on track regard to what is the expectation has you be a little familiar so you get to see our faces before you meet with us on face-to-face so do the work I think the real work is not in this face-to-face the real work is happening where you are so when you know professor Fatak this morning you know when he said and you know professor Lina Jha said that you need to be making small groups and working on your own so that the practice can take place without that it will not have be as effective at all so you know if you think that we can listen to a lecture on how to ride a bicycle that'll give you no access to riding a bicycle so you want to be able to get onto the bicycle yourself as soon as you get onto the bicycle you will fall a few times so I don't want you to go to the interview or to a group discussion for the first time and find out how much you are paralyzed because you're afraid get paralyzed ahead of time get afraid ahead of time so that you know how to deal with it don't be taken by surprise with your own body reacting a particular way when you are in an interview so this has to be done ahead of time you've got to practice practice practice and when you've practiced enough a point will come when you don't have to be worried about you know the interview you don't have to be worried about the group discussion who you are there is yourself and you know the person who is familiar with what is expected how to honor other people how to honor yourself and then things begin to you know happen on their own naturally you don't have to kind of practice for a group discussion you don't have to practice for that becomes a part of your you know it's like second nature to you so would you please do the work that's required you know we can only encourage you we can only give you resource materials we can only give you things that we have learned from our experience but you know we are working very hard yeah and I just want you to know that it's very enjoyable to we are loving doing it so there's no issue about the hard work we love it okay so would you please you know I'd like to see so Mahindra how many people at this point in time in this course so about 6,000 students have not registered online so this is my appeal to all the coordinators to please make sure that you know we're not doing this partially full value of the work will not become available if you don't participate fully okay we don't want to overload you every week you already are busy but that one or two hours that are required for it please put it in because you know that will develop the mind that will develop the muscle that will develop your you as a person so that you can actually be you know comfortable in for an interview or for group discussion or for life itself okay and that's it that's all I want to say I want to thank you Professor Lina for the I was in the background listening I was also seeing it on the YouTube so I was a participant myself and you know you look to see Professor Phatak also you know shared some things outside as to what are the things that so he said and this is I just want to share it because it touched me he said if as a group you have succeeded then everybody would have succeeded that for me is a message to take for group discussions and so if you have an eye on making sure that everybody in the group wins everybody gets a chance to contribute everybody gets a chance to participate then you are somebody I would want to hire on my team all right so thank you very much and please enjoy your lunch and we'll see you at about 2 o'clock thank you very much bye-bye