20 Expected Interview Questions

1. Please introduce yourself.

I am Ravi, son of Muthaiah, coming from Salem. My father is a farmer. I did my tenth and + 2 in Gugai Hr. Sec. School, Salem. Now I am doing my B.E. Computer Science and Engineering in Muthayammal Engineering College, Rasipuram. This is my brief account about myself. I come from a village and it is famous for mangoes. Every year we celebrate Pongal and Deepavali in a grand manner.

2. Where do you come from?

I come from Salem. My house is near Vinayagar Kovil Street.

3. Who is your father?

Muthaiah is my father. He is a farmer

4. What is your father?

My father is a farmer. We have five acres of land

5. Why do you prefer Muthayammal Engineering College?

Actually I come from Chennai. But my parents have heard of the discipline and hard work of the teachers here. The college is situated in a calm and serene environment. I like it very much

6. Why did you choose IT course?

IT industries are growing fast. Job opportunities are plenty

7. Who is your role model in your college?

Our Principal is the role model not only to me but also to most of the students and teachers in the campus

8. What qualities do you like in him and you also follow?

Our Principal is sincere, hardworking, humorous, affectionate, time conscious, honest, simple, a friend, philosopher and guide and a hard worker. I try to emulate these qualities

9. Who is your role model outside the college?

Ratan Tata, Chairman, TCS

10. What qualities do you like in him?

The Chairman of TCS has taken his company to its peak by his hard work, innovation and imagination. I like him because I would like to become an entrepreneur like him. In the company, if I work under you, you’ll be my role model.

11. What is your aim in life?

I would like to become an entrepreneur and start a business of my own

12. What are your short term and long term goals?

I would like to achieve something daily and it would give me great satisfaction and happiness. Long term goals are to achieve something great in every gear

13. What salary do you expect?

As per your company norms

14. Will you be ready to work anywhere in India?

Yes, I’ll. If you give me appointment in any terrorist living territories you have provide me security

15. How do you define success?

It is my way of life and it is a process. Effort and hard work will automatically lead me to success

16. How long would you like to work in our company?

If I get job security and career advancement in your company, I won’t switch over to another company

17. Do you have the flexibility to work under pressure?

It depends on the nature and pressure I get. I’ll try to collect new ideas and get guidance from senior people like you and try to overcome any pressure

18. If you are appointed, What would be your contribution to our company?

I am different from other people. I have great faith in hard work or smart work. My thinking, innovation and flexibility would enhance the face value of the company

19. What are your personality traits?

There are two types of personality physical and mental. Generally corporate people like the following personality traits

Persistence, sociability; concentration; initiative; truthfulness, honesty, courtesy; co-operativeness; industry; self confidence; emotional stability; reliability; etc., I have most of these qualities. (Courteous, honest, industrious)

20. What is personality?

The outward appearance alone is not personality. It denotes mental. Emotional and social qualities of an individual

Dr. F.L. Clapp has listed ten qualities as the components of a good personality.

1. Personal appearance, 2. optimism 3. enthusiasm, 4. fairness of mind, 5. sincerity, 6. sympathy, 7. vitality and 8. scholarship

Employable Skills

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

By

Dr. S. Malaikkani

Professor, Placement and Training

Muthayammal Engineering College, Rasipuram

Entrepreneurship:

Govt’s training programs to start small scale industries. Bank Loans up to 1 crore rupees. Education tops the Entrepreneurship program. Techno-preneur Programs funded by Govt.

IT Enabled jobs :

BPO – MT – KPO – Call centes – project Management – MNC Posts

Government posts:

UPSC posts like IAS, IES, IPS, IFS etc. Bank Exams – Coaching Centres

Net – Based jobs:

WWT ,Maths, Science, and English Tuition. Share marketing business

Language – based job opportunities:

Teaching, Trainers, Technical Writers, Editors, and Proof-readers

Key- Skills for Employability/ Industry – ready Skills/ Skills Expected by the MNCs:

Hard Skills:

Technical, subject-related, Job-oriented, Computer skills, Driving license, Typing speed with 35 to 45 words per minute. Current research trend in your area of study

Soft Skills:

Communication, Motivation, TM, Stress Management, 24x7 hard worker, Good personality, Leadership, Problem solving, Latest trend in business, Maintaining a Blog, Meditation, Extra-curricular activities, Entrepreneurial skills, Meta-cognitive abilities

SBM, RBM, IBM – Arithmetic skills, Moral values

10 Tips to Boost Your Body Language Skills

We’ve all heard of the many benefits of controlling your body language. It’s been flaunted as one of the many ways to move up through your company, get that girl or guy you’ve been eyeing from across the room, and just increase your overall mood.

What body language really comes down to though, is communication. Sure there are many other benefits of understanding and controlling your body language, but at their hearts, the benefits come from good communication.

This can be attributed to Albert Mehrabian’s 7%-38%-55% Rule of communication. In this rule, words account for 7%, tone of voice counts for 38%, and body language accounts for 55%. 55%! That means that more than half of communication is done through body language!

Here are my favorite tips to enhance the control of your body language and be a better communicator:

1. Eye Contact - To write about all the subtleties and benefits of good eye contact would be enough for its own post entirely. For now, keep in mind the basics: maintain eye contact, but do not stare. This may seem difficult or peculiar at first, but after a few days of consistency, you’ll realize your eyes are one of the best ways to convey emotion, feeling, and to communicate effectively.
2. Arms - Arms are clues to how receptive a person currently is to interaction. Let your arms rest at your sides or move them behind you. Try to refrain from crossing your arm as this is usually perceived as a defensive sign. However, arms work both ways. If you are talking with someone who just said the wrong thing, don’t hesitate to cross your arms and let them know.
3. Hands - Keep your palms face up. Open palms are seen as receptive to interaction and friendly. Hand gestures with you palms facing down can be seen as dominant and perhaps aggressive. Instead of fidgeting with your hands, use your hands to describe something as you talk about it.
4. Legs - For many people, legs are the hardest part of our bodies to control. Be aware of their movement. They have a propensity to move around when we are stressed or nervous, next time you feel your legs moving, make an effort to keep them still. As with arms, crossing your legs matters. There are many ways to cross your legs and although legs have less importance in determining the receptiveness of a person, be aware that the “Figure-Four”, which is bringing up your leg to rest on the knee of the other, is the most defensive stance.
5. Posture - Be sure to stand up straight. Keep your shoulders back and head up. Your spine doesn’t stop at your neck, it travels up and through your head, so be sure to keep your head straight too. Slouching not only makes you appear shorter, but it also portrays you as a person with low self-esteem.
6. Dedicate Attention - As a kind of catch-all, if you are seriously interested in what someone has to say, your body language will project that you are. To really get a grip on your listening skills, check out 11 Tips to Be a Better Listener.
7. Get the Angles - Angles are everything. Be aware that one’s body in relation to another’s is an indicator of one’s feelings about those others. We tend to angle towards people we find attractive, interesting, friendly, and fun, and we angle ourselves away from those we do not. A subset of angles is leaning. Whenever seating restrictions, like stadium seating in a classroom, hinders traditional angling, leaning can be seen amongst a crowd with the same conditions as angling.
8. Smile - Smile frequently, but not constantly. Smile especially when you are introduced to someone, but if you keep that smile on your face for too long, you’ll seem artificial. Laugh frequently, but try to refrain from laughing at yourself. Laughing at oneself is often seen as a nervous maneuver. Be aware of other mouth movements. We often tighten our lips or tilt them to one side when we are thinking. This same pursing of the lips is used when we are trying to hold back a nasty comment. Be aware of this because it will be picked up by others and they will get the feeling you are not happy.
9. Watch Your Distance - Create your own personal space. Let other people know that you have your own personal space and be careful not to invade theirs. Standing either too close or too far from a person is not a good thing. Before you make a decision, observe the average distance between others in the room and pick a distance accordingly.
10. Proactive Mirroring - When two people are talking and getting along with each other, they often begin to unconsciously mirror each other’s body language. You can use this to your advantage by pro-actively mirroring a person to induce a “getting along” situation. For example, if the other person leans forward slightly, you lean forward slightly. If the other person places one hand on her lap, you would do well to do the same. However, give ample time before imitating and don’t be an exact mirror, let some changes in their body language go un-mirrored.

Body Language: a Basic Interpersonal Communication Skill

By Lyndsay Swinton

Why do jade dealers wear dark glasses? No this isn’t the start to a bad joke, it’s a serious question, with a telling answer. Jade dealers, and poker players alike, aim to hide what they’re really thinking and saying by suppressing their body language. Unless wheeling and dealing is your game, it’d be wise to master the basic interpersonal communication skill of body language and be better understood.

93% of what you say remains unsaid

How can this be?

Stereotyping is short-hand decision making on whether you like someone and determines how you much effort you put into the conversation. Your hair colour, clothes, age, ethnicity and other features that don’t change during a conversation, all add up to give an overall impression, which may be good or may be bad. The way you look speaks volumes - it's a communication skill in itself. So, start conveying a favourable message by getting your image right.

If it works for chameleons

Stereotypes can work to your advantage – people who wear glasses are more intelligent right? So wear glasses to an interview. And people who wear revealing clothes are only out to find a mate and can’t be taken seriously. (A quick expose - a recent study found that ovulating women expose more flesh than at other times in their cycle!). Learn from chameleons and change your appearance to fit your surroundings and your communication will be taken more seriously.

Eye to Eye Contact

We look less at people who make us uncomfortable. Conversely, when we are truly engaged in a conversation, we make loads of eye contact, making both parties feel interested and interesting. So, lift your gaze and make eye contact if you want your conversational partner to feel understood.

Okay, I don’t mean intense starting – that’s just plain scary – fix your gaze on the bridge of the nose and drop your gaze every now and again. If you’re talking in a group, remember to include everyone in the conversation by scanning round and making eye contact with everyone.

Mirror and Match

Next time you’re out at a restaurant or bar, take a look round and see how people sit when they’re in deep, intimate, conversation. Chances are they are sitting in very similar positions – almost as if one were a mirror image of the other, matching posture and position.

To test your rapport building skills, strike up a conversation with a friend or foe, and see if you can mirror and then lead their movements. Take some time to mirror their body language – if they’ve got crossed legs, make sure your legs are crossed too. If they are bouncing their leg, maybe tap a pencil in time. Above all, be subtle – it’s a delicate dance and no-one likes a partner who stomps over their party shoes.

After some time, do a mini assessment. Maybe scratch your nose – if they follow by touching their face in response, you know you’ve hit the mirroring jackpot. If not, don’t worry, just take some more time to build a deeper rapport.

It ain’t what you say

In difficult or uncomfortable situations, most people worry about what’s going to come out of their mouth. Truth is, get your body language right, and you’ve mastered the most basic interpersonal communication skill. And the other 7% will take care of itself.

Courtesy to:

Lyndsay Swinton
Owner, Management for the Rest of Us
www.mftrou.com

Learner – Friendly Text Books

Many students today hate text books and treat them as their enemies. Hence they resort to cheap bazaar notes. As a result, the standard of education deteriorates. Therefore, an urgent necessity has arisen to find out new strategies to write learner – friendly text books. This process involves two stages. The first one is the simplification of materials to suit the need and level of the students. The second one is the printing convention of the text books. The simplification of materials should be based on the latest research trend in the area of self-learning techniques. The printing aspect should include such items as the quality of the paper, font size, clarity of the print, space for note – making. self – testing questions, glossary, pictures and bold and italic letters wherever necessary to highlight the key ideas and definitions.

Ideal Teachers

Ideal teachers produce ideal learners. “A good teacher is a good simplifier and is worth a million books and his influence affects the eternity”. Students remember the teachers who strive to change the lives of students. An ideal teacher should be a lover of books, a life-long learner, a mightily thinker and a great writer. His aim should be joyful learning without tears. Such teachers make the students think and put their thoughts in writing. They serve the society by their thinking and make others think in a different way.

Self-learning Techniques

Self-learning Techniques

First of all students have to know self-learning techniques. It is ‘learning how to learn’. There “is no royal road to learning” is an old adage. But students should try to lay a royal road to learning. They may resort to speed learning, find out a suitable learning style, simplify materials, comprehend it, make notes and store the materials learnt in their Long Term Memory (LTM). Group discussion is the only royal road to learning and note making is the unique self-learning technique. Apart from these, there are a few self-learning formulas.

The following formulas will be very useful for learning of Science and Technology

i) SQR3MW (Survey, Question, Read, Repeat, Recite, Memorize, Write)

ii) OK4R (Overview, key ideas, Read, Recall, Reflect, Review)

iii) PQRST (Preview, Question, Read, Sum, Test)

iv) SQR3 (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review)

TQMTE

Total Quality Management in Technical Education (TQMTE) has become the talk of the day. This concept should enter the portals of all technical colleges. TQMTE can be achieved by empowering the technical students in the areas of motivation, language development, time Management, self-learning techniques, critical thinking and creative writing. The teachers should motivate the students, simplify the materials make the technical text books learner – friendly and help them learn better.