Success Mantra for Interview

After the two interviews with the IIMs and the lot of MOCK interviews during my training, I came up with the success formula for cracking the interviews. It is nothing but 5C:

Calmness: Always be calm before and while the interview. Loosing the calmness cost you lot when it come to the answering the questions. You should think before you answer and even if interviewer try to stress you this weapon will help you to defend yourself.

Coolness: “Just be Cool” is the most widely used and less practiced clique. What actually means by being cool? I will define it as just don’t loose your normal thought process. It will make conversation as simple as you are talking with your friend. Genuine smile on you face surely helps you a lot here.

Composed: You should look composed. It includes way you carry yourself in interview like using voice modulation, body language and of course the way you put forward your views. In nut shell the interviewer should see a hidden future manager inside you here.

Confident: Yes!!! This is very important aspect of a manager’s personality so why not to show it also. Just think a second or two about the question before you answer. Then decide if you know it or not and if you are guessing it tell them that I am not sure but it might be….
Even ‘don’t know’ in right way show more confidence than giving a bad try.

Courage: One should not loose one’s courage at any point of the time in interview.
Take every question as a new and don’t bother even if you have long history of don’t knows before. And don’t forget one thing your interview is not the end of everything.
Though it’s true that you badly need to get into the IIMs but IIMs also want candidates like you badly so its fare game hence don’t allow the pressure to daunt you here.

This all will definitely act as arrows in you arsenal but wait only arrows will not help you. You will need a strong bow of overall knowledge of various areas around which your interview will revolve so make sure you tight your strings before you hit the bulls eye,

This is all Gyan that I accumulated over the last 2 months.

I agreed that practicing it is difficult game but these are my weapons to tackle my next encounters. I will share with you how effective they proved in actual scenario in coming days.