Not all are perfect, most of us feel nervous during certain tests and its a normal human behavior, but what when defence only needs confident men and women. You can’t simply keep this excuse during personal interview in SSB, you have to overcome your nervousness, which can improve your body language during personal interview because your non-verbal actions speaks more about you.
Before going further, lets talk on what makes SSB personal interview so different, difficult and tough to crack. Some of the points are:
- IO do not react on your answers must, he never says correct or incorrect.
- Sometimes he never looks at you and keep on doing some other work while you answer, you may feel that this questions is just for namesake. In short, he distracts you when you answer.
- You face different questions, such as personal life questions and we are not habitual of answering such questions.
- He cross check most of the time, there is no room for hiding if you are not a good player.
Now let’s take about what is poor body language and how it affects our performance in personal interviews.
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Poor Body Language:
Your body language plays a vital role during personal interview, your non verbal actions speaks louder about your present condition. How do you speak, your sitting positions, your facial expressions and etc. It helps IO to analyse your total personality.
Some wrong body moves due to nervousness:-
- Sitting in a low power pose: Most of us, who are not confident about personal interview just go in and surrender ourselves in front of IO. We gave some low power pose while sitting which clearly reflects our present condition, it tells that we are not confident at all.
- Wrong Postures: Some of the postures like, making our body small by folding our hands, moving towards front frequently to justify something, touching your face or neck, looking somewhere but not at IO and so on.
You are well aware that IO can see you from top to bottom, and they actually want to see your body movements, that is why there is more sitting distance between you and IO. Sometimes, IO like a lifeless person constantly gaze at you to see your body movements, they can easily calculate your confidence and preparedness from your body movements.
How To Improve Our Body Language:
In reality most of us do not know how we are using our body while answering, we use to be so focused in answering and forget to control our body. But it can be improved with constant practice, it is all about improving your confidence level. At home, you may find yourself more confident, you say this time I am going to pass it, you promise that you will be confident through out the interview, but during interview you might feel little nervousness, it is all because of our hormones. You have to control your mind by telling it, ‘that this is just an informal discussion, IO is your friend, you know everything about you and that is what most important, if you feel nervous you will not get recommend this time also‘.
Some of the tips to boost our confidence level
- Find some place to be alone, like bathroom, make some high power pose, try to, look at the mirror and smile. Tell your mind that you are confident and you can face anyone in this word.
- Do not read anything, just relax, just be happy because you are going to talk with a old friend, and this talk can fetch you a badge of recommended candidate.
- “Fake it till you make it” even though you are nervous, you are not allowed to show it, fake your mind that you are confident till you finish your interview.
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Do you feel nervous during PI, what measures have you taken to overcome it. Do write your thoughts and comments below.
@ Pavan N Kattimani,engineers can apply for any of the three branches-but technical branch is specially for engineers.
@ Pavan N Kattimani,engineers can apply for any of the three branches-but technical branch is specially for engineers.
keep saying ALL IZ WELL 🙂
hello sir
Myself Pavan from Davangere i’m in final year BE(E&C)…i want to join air force..as i wrote AFCAT 2012..but unfortunately i didn’t get shortlisted to next rounds..but i will attend again with good preparation….but sir my doubt is if we join technical branch we will b recognized as an engineer but..if we join flying branch means…inside flying branch is der any recognization for engineers and other degree holders or it is common for all…for engineers which branch do you prefer and also i want information about next rounds in both technical and flying branches…….
@shiwedra…. i feel its better u to go ssb center and show ur name in the list..by taking a print out of tgc 116 list….if they allow do ur best..if not u ma lose 700 rs roughly…and nothing(money)is not more important than aim i think…all the best frnd
@harsh, yeah bro. i contacted them bt they r nt picking up d phn, i also have done email bt they r nt replying.
@admin what do u think sir i should go or not bcoz i have no tym. my ssb date is 5 nov.
i will do as u will tell.
ur response is necessary for me..
During interview i forget the answer of known question…and when i come outside then i found that i know it…bt at interview m not able to ans.
My nervesness is also high…
Tell me sir hw to improve this…¿
Confidence comes with practice, you have a fear of PI, remove it. Be calm and free during interview, think before answering don’t be in hurry. If you forget something, no problem, but do not show nervousness.
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hii sir,
greetings
My name is shiwendra shashank. I have applied for tgc-116 and my name
is in acceoptance list of ssb and the date is 5 nov. at allahabad but
at 24 i got a post by indian army, they send my envelope with all the
doccument and wrote in front of the envelope “REFUSED”.
I am very dipressed and confused that what i have to do.
can i appear for ssb or not?
is there any hope because i have tried hard for this and my marks are
also good, overall in B.tech its 79% then how can they refuse me. i
have send all documents to.
i am very dipressed, please help me.
if i ask to indain army help blog then they didn’t reply me.
can i appear in ssb bcoz one of my frnd said that they only check the name list of joinindianarmy and my name is still in it.
what shuold i do sir???
waiting for your response
shiwendra shashank
tgc roll no. 544319
I think you can contact Army HQ or SSB centre and let them know, you can clearify your doubt with them.
sir we can’t move our hand when question require for explanation?
We can, but in a controlled way.
@ Author of Article:
“Fake it till you make it” from TED Talks. 🙂
Yes Sujit, it is also a catchphrase 🙂
tell him u dnt know the ans…he wil respect ur honesty….never bluff…it wil follow more questions..
if during pi we dnt kw the answer of any question den wat to say to the io?