NIT Silchar student shares Important pre-placement tips

By: Aman Patel

Aman Patel shares a few important tricks and tips that will help you sell yourself to an employer for a particular job role.

Before going for an interview, it must be clear to you that you are going to sell yourself to an employer for a particular job role. Therefore, keeping this thing in mind, here are the tips and tricks a candidate must follow for the preparation of an interview.

1. Be ready with your formal

Since the physical appearance of an individual plays a very important role in the first impression, so be ready with at least two pieces of professional outfit days before your interviews. It will save your last hours, and you can utilise that time to prepare for interviews.

2. Research about the Company

Before going for an interview, you must do research about the company and its industry.

Good knowledge about the company shows that you are quite serious about the job opening and the role. You can also contact the employees of the company to get a clear picture of the company on various professional social media sites like LinkedIn.

3. Be prepared in your Core Subjects

Since companies hire candidates who fit in the job role. So, they must have good knowledge of their core subjects and topics. If you are going for a job role of a Digital Marketing Executive, you must cover all the topics during your preparation starting from SEO, SMM, SMO, Email Marketing, and Google Analytics and so on.

Another example, when you going for an interview for the role of GTE in an automobile company, you must prepare all the topics of Automobile Engineering, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer and other relevant subjects of Mechanical Engineering.

4. Practice Interview Techniques and Behavioural Questions Regularly

You must be prepared for behavioural interview questions because the interviewers try to judge your behaviour and personality by those questions. They will try to put you under pressure and in tough situations, in which you have to make very quick and hard decisions.

Before going for an interview, you have to practice a lot for this tough scenario. You can ask your friends or any of your family members to act as an interviewer and help you to practice and prepare for the interview by answering to them only. This technique will surely give you confidence in the interview.

5. Be ready with questions to ask when you are allowed by the interviewers

Sometimes, interviewers test the candidate by allowing them to ask questions. So you have to be ready with some thoughtful questions which you can ask during the interview like

* About the challenges which company is facing

*Where they see their company in next 5 years

6. Be positive for the interview

Since being confident and being positive are the most important thing when you are presenting yourself in front of others. You need to be confident and positive for an interview. This will surely get you extra marks during an interview.

Follow the aforementioned steps, the success is all yours.

Placement Cell of My College:

Like other colleges, my college also has a Training and Placement Cell. Here are the facilities offered by Placement Cell of our College:

• Well trained Training and Placement Coordinators who convince HRs of various companies to visit for Campus Placement
• Transparent Management System so that no one can question them
• Opportunity for every student to get placed in at least one company

About the Author:

Aman Patel is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from NIT Silchar. He is a digital marketing practitioner and content writer by profession. His fields of interest are Psychology, Human Behavior & Emotional Intelligence, Writing and Social Media Communication.