Team Disha HEPP Placements 2015-16 Personal Interview Preparation Some General Tips 10, uw 2 B Mm, 4, 15, 16. v7. Make sure your introduction/answers seem spontaneous rather than memorised. Try talloringitto the company’s values or the attributes that they seek na candidate. Have about 5-10 instances in yourlife which you can adapt for most questions Practice speaking out youranswers to yourself (orideally someone else). Things always seemdifferentin yourhead Evenif you are askeda genericHR question about yourself and yourskills, provide arelevant ‘example forit. Itbecomes much more believableand the company will stop probingif you volunteeranswers ItisESSENTIAL that you are clear about why you want to be ina company/industry/profile. Try and individualise these and draw upon your experience as well as on the research you've done on the company Lastly, stay calm and enthusiastic. Do not appear stressed if they throw youa question you have not thought about. You've got this © Background Tell me about yourself. Take me through your CV Tell me somethingnoton yourresume? Where did you grow up? What are your three major accomplishments? What was an experience in yourlife that you would wantto go back and change? How would yourfriends describe you in 3 words? Goals/Career prospects What new goalshave you established for yourself recentiy? Have your goals changed since uM? What are yourfive toten yearcareer goals? Why marketing orwhy finance or why consulting or why operations? What are the attributes of an ideal job for you? What are the alternative positions/jobs youare considering? What salaryare you expecting? In addition to salary, what benefits would mostinterest you? Previous Bosses/Companies How did you find yoursummer jobs? How doyou thinka former supervisor would describe your work? Two situations when youstood up to your superiors: One where you failed, andone where yousucceeded ‘What did you enjoy most about your last employment? Least? (Tread carefully here, donot be overly negative about your previous company/boss) Describe the jab or the activity which hashad the greatestimpact on yourcareer goals. Job / Company / Industry ‘Thi stay sure was donload by 1000008105102 rom Couee cam on 67-27-2021 59-51 GMT 0:00, pen courecher ome 41002 7/HR Interview: Preparation20. a 2, 24, 25, 26. 22. 2. 30. 31 32 33. 3, 35. 36. z. 38. 39. 41. 2, 43. as 47. v. 51, 92 53, 5A, 55. Why ___company/industry/profile? What do youthink this ob requires? Given thatyou have no background in thisfield why are you interestedinit? You have five minutes to describe the most relevant and specificitemsin your background which show youare uniquely qualified forthis position. What concerns you about our company? What do you believeare the key issues and problemsin ourindustry today? What do you predicts going to happen in this industry inthe nextS years? How would you go about evaluatinga business? What do youknow about ourcompanyand competitors? Leadership and Teamwork styles/situations What is your management philosophy? Define leaderstip. What qualities should a successful manager possess? Do youhave these attributes? Situation when you successfully resolved a conflict. Situation when you faced an ethical dilemma Give me an example of aleadership role you have held when not everything went as planned. Situation in which you provided a solution toan employer. Situationin which you worked under deadlinepressure. Give me an example of how youmanage multiple projects. Situation where you ledateamto achieve something significant Biggest Failure of yourlife/ Part ofa team and failed Namea point in your life where youturnedanegative into a positive. Decision youhave made that you later regretted, situation when you changed your mindsetby listening to others? OR Describe asituation when you changed your decision after being influenced by someone? {situation where youhad to persuade others to achieve agoal, overcoming resistance, How didyou go about doingit? What did you learn fromit? Describe asituation where you initiated anewidea orapproach andimplementedit. How did you goabout it?/ Non-Traditional approach situation where you displayed creativity situation where you showed initiative situation where you were short of time/resources. How did youapproach it? situation where you dealt with ambiguity. How did you deal withit? How do ou feel about workingovertime? What would yousay to a boss that has a sub-paridea? Strengths/Weaknesses & skills What are your strongest abilities? ‘What is your biggest weakness? Never say that being a perfectionist is yourbiggest weakness. Some applicants think that this makes you look better, but it seems that you not Why should we hire you? What makes you stand out among your fellow students? How doyou feel about workinginastructured environment? Are you able to work on several assignmentsat once? In what kind of work environment do you do your best work? ‘Thi sndy sure was donload by 1000008105102 rom Counee com on 67-27-2021 595 GMT 0:00, pete curecher one 41002 7HR Interview: Prepartion‘56. What type of work/people prevent you from doing your best? 57. How competitiveare you? 58, How doyou workunderpressure? 59, What has been yourgreatest challenge? VIL Education 60. Why did you decide toget an MBA? 61, Why IIML? 62, What has been yourimpression so far about MBA and IM? 63. What made you decide tomnajorin_? 64, What have you learned at IIMAL that will help youon this job? 65, What electives have you taken? Which did you enjoy the most andleast? 66. How doyou balance the different priorities MBA student life presents? 67. Did your grades accurately reflect your ability? Why/Why not? VIL Extra-Curriculars 68, What have you learned from your activities? How will these learnings help in your job? 69, Were your extracurricular activities worth the time you put into them? 70. How did you become involvedin your extracurricular activities? 71. What do you enjoy doing outside of work-in your free time? 72, What is our favorite book/movie/song/painting-or author/actor/singer/artist? 73. Which magazines/newspapers do you read regularly? Which books have you read recently? 74, Have you ever done volunteer activities? ‘Thi sndy sure was donload by 1000008105102 rom Couee cam on 67-27-2021 59-5 GMT 05:00, pete curser ome 741002 7H ntervew-Prepartion