Interview has always been a common process in selection rounds for all the organisations. It’s like a selling of yourself by portraying your best to the organisation. But interview rounds at our SSB and thoda hatt ke from all this stuff. Things are psychologically judged here as the assessor would be interested to assess whether you have qualities or not. In fact all the rounds with different means would only try to assess OLQ’s and if you have them no one can stop you from getting recommended. In today’s article I would focus more on different categories of questions that could be asked to you by the interviewer. The Interview is though in your hand and you are the driver of it. You should just have the knowledge of the art to drive the PI. Also you should know how to represent yourself properly and behave with the least requirement. I will deal all these aspects separately in different articles. But let’s now concentrate on different categories that the officer can ask you. Prepare well for all of them as you never know how and what the officer will ask you.
- Stress questions: This category is specially designed to test the confidence of the candidate. Here something unrelated and not mentioned things might be asked which might not relate to your academic or personality background. Try to be confident and don’t take stress.
- Rapid fire questions: This is the most different category where you would be asked a series of questions altogether and then you are required to answer them all in one go. Here the questions asked might vary from 8 to 15 questions in one go, so try to be alert and catch the sequence which will help you to link things with each other. Try to answer all without forgetting.
- Personality judgement questions: this category of question is usually asked in the very beginning which usually helps the candidate to get relaxed in the new environment. Please remember that you should link your personality properly in all the three rounds and portray it in the same way. This will help in you recommendation. In my mentorship program I analysed one of the mentee was posing differently in psychology and mock interviews and thus he might not be selected. We need to point and correct things and personality development needs time so start early.
- Technical questions: this is usually asked to see if the aspirant is aware of the things he or she is reading or working on. So prepare them well.
- General awareness: To test the happenings in and around the world as officers are expected to keep themselves updated on latest issues. Work hard for this round.
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