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2. Lack of Guidance and Preparation.

3. Lack of information about the recruiters

4. Lack of idea about the industry standards.5. Lack of Interest.

This is an attempt to bridge the gap for students in these participating colleges.

2. Basic Things before the Interview-

2.1. Resume

The resume is representative of the individual. As they say, the first impressionis the last impression. It is therefore in the best interests of the individual that

enough due diligence is done on preparing the resume. Candidates can talk toprofessionals or alumni and take their help. The NorthEastIndia(write to

[email protected]) mailing network is a pool of suchwilling professionals who can help. Similarly, students must exploit the wonderful

resource called the Internet.

Some references to websites1)http://freshersworld.com

2) http://naukri.com

3)http://timesjob s.com

2.2. Information about the Recruiter

Any candidate who is going to eligible for campus interviews should first gather

information about the recruiter and know more about them. Read about theorganization, ask people about what they do, what their hiring policies are like, keep

track of the companys visit to other college campuses across India. A wonderfulsource would be to visit their official website. Another source could be business

magazines like Business India or Business Standard.

2.3. Information about the recruitment process

It is highly expected that any candidate, who is appearing in the campus interviewtest, must collect information about the whole recruitment process of that particular

recruiter. Serious efforts need to go into this activity - they should do some

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homework before giving the actual interview. Please study the following steps in

detail.

3. Written test

3.1: Aptitude Section

Most of the companies nowadays mainly give importance to this section.

Infact if it is related to IT or some management then surely there will besection for aptitude. Students need to prepare well before they sit for the

written. The main thing in any aptitude test is the management of time.For this, students require to practice a lot before the test.

Sources

1. The Internet: In todays world best source is Internet. Anyone canfind a companys question paper in the net.

Some of the site names where question papers can be collected are

http://freshersworld.com http://ittestpapers.com/ Along with this student can join some yahoo groups like chetna,

efreshers.In this yahoo groups students from all over Indiaexchanges question papers /queries /interview experience and

all.

2. Aptitude Books: The second source for aptitude is books.

Aptitude TestBy RS Agarwal

3 books of Puzzles --By Shakuntala Devi

Puzzles By George Summers

Puzzles By Ravi narula

GRE guide

Study material for CAT by some standard institute like IMS

3.2: Technical Section

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For IT related companies questions may come from the

following area

1. C Books---

Let us C /Pointers in C/Test your C skills /Let Us C

solutions ---By yashwant kanetkar

The c programming language by -- Kernighan and

Ritchie

2. Data structure TannenBaum3. C++ -- Balaguruswamy and Schaum Series

4. Unix UNIX shell programming by yashwant kanetkar

5. Java -- A Programmer's Guide to Java Certificationby KhalidA. Mughal6. Operating system OS by Galvin

7. Microprocessors8. Networking ---- TannenBaum

9. Software engineering --- Roger Pressman.

Note: -- Here the technical section will be different for different

organizations. It may happen that questions will be asked only in 1 or 2

sections.

Point to be noted: For core Engineering companies questions may comefrom the areas on which generally most of the organization are offering

services .It will always depend on the organization .Students need togather information well before the actual test.

The main point here is that not everyone is good in each and every field.Each one of us has our fortes and weaknesses too. What companies look

for are people who know their area of specialization and are an expert init. More over for all the branch related technical test students can refer

study material of GATE,IES and many other handbooks .

Therefore, it pays to be a master in some fields if not the jack of all.Students need to at least choose two subjects from the entire engineering

course preferably, on which most the companies offer their services andprepare well for the interview. Since in campus interviews generally the

duration are not that much long for, students should take this advantageand should show his skills with in this time period.

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3.3: English Section

This is one of the key focus areas of every organization looking to recruit

competent resources. Employees with good written and verbal communicationskills are highly sought after. The pattern of this section will vary for company

to company. But the basic things will be always there in the written test.Student can refer to the question papers and should do some homework.

Sources---Books

Mainly any Vocabulary Book.

GRE guide

Study material for the management course

4. GroupDiscussion

Generally companies conduct group discussion after the written test so as tocheck on your interactive skills and how good the student are at

communicating with other people. The GD is to check how the candidatebehave, participate and contribute in a group, how much importance do one

give to the group objective as well as with his own, how well do one listen toviewpoints of others and how open-minded are one in accepting views

contrary to your own. The aspects that make up a GD are verbalcommunication, non-verbal behavior, and conformation to norms, decision-

making ability and cooperation.

For preparation of GD --

Students in every institute can organize mock GD among themselves.

Can gather tips for GD from different sources like the Internet, books.

They can go through the courses for GD basically provided for the

institute which is meant for management exams.

Students need to be aware of current affairs.

5. Technical InterviewTechnical Interview will vary from companies to companies. It is obvious that

those questions which are generally asked for IT sector will not be asked forthe other sector. So again everything will depend on the recruiters. Students

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need to gather sufficient information about the company for which they are

going to give the interview.Some points

Prepare the resume well.

Students should analyze the possible questions that interviewer can

ask while going through the resume and should prepare for thosequestion. For instance if mentioned leadership skills in the resume,

student should be able to tell the interviewer what are the projects or theprograms student have done or organized as a leader.

Students need to remember one thing that they have worked on the

project for whole 6 months and they are the person who knows mostabout their project more than any one else.

It is easy for non-CSE students to clear the technical interview in IT

sector. This is because if the interviewer asks them questions on advancedtopics, they have an excuse to say that they did not study them in their

curriculum. Non-CSE candidates will be asked questions mostly in Clanguage. So they should be proficient in C language.

Another important thing in Technical interview is the project. Some of

the interviewers ask 60% of the questions in project only. So students

need to be very much clear and in depth knowledge on the area on whichthey hade done the project. For example if anyone from E&T or EE branch

have done his project on Microprocessor and then the probability of

question will be more in that area. Interviewer may ask for the student favorite subject. Every interviewer

expects that student should be able to answer most of the questions in at

least his favorite subject. Student should be thorough with your favoritesubject.

6. H.R Interview

A candidate generally faces this round after having cleared the above saidstages (with the exception of certain companies where you face it before the

technical round). The candidate must be fully prepared for this stage. The

general questions asked in this round are

Tell us about yourself.

What do you know about our company?

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Why do you want to join our company?

What are your strengths and weaknesses?

Where do you see yourself in the next five years?

Why should we hire you?

Adding here another point ,since in the campus interviews most of the ITcompanies recruit from Non IT branch also .So in the HR interview the

recruiter will ask for the specific reason for changing their career path to ITfrom other core branch.

Again will it be said that everything depends upon the recruiters. These may

seem easy to answer but one must be well prepared with answers with properscript beforehand. Here are a few preparation tips that can help a candidate

1) Candidate should outline their education in the reverse chronological order

(ie latest first.) reflecting upon their achievements.

2) Candidate should regularly check upon their strengths and weaknesses. Jotdown the technical and non-technical skills and should be prepared for citing

examples of their skills for effectiveness.

At the end of the interview, most interviewers generally ask if the candidate

has any questions. Therefore, one should be prepared beforehand with 2-3technical and 2-3 non-technical questions and commit them to your memory

before the interview.

Here we are giving few sample questions that one can ask at the time

of their interview.

Sample Questions

Could you tell the growth plans and goals of the company?

What skills are important to be successful in this position?

What are the criteria your company uses for performance appraisal?

Therefore before going for an interview, one should find out as muchinformation on the company as possible. The best sources are the

public library, the Internet (you can check out the company's site),and one can even call the company and get the required information.

The information gives the candidate a one-up in the interview besidesproving his/her content for the company or position.

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7. Last but not the leastThe most important thing for the student is to be confident, have a positiveframe of mind and be flexible about your work and location.

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