It is forever a daydream for all engineering students to get placed through campus placements. The primary motive behind this dream is – to make their parents happy. The rest is secondary. So you know that how to prepare for your campus interviews, so that you get placed ahead of others in the campus placement interviews.
1) Be prepared for ‘Beginning’ and ‘End’
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Most of the students who failed to get their dream jobs are the ones who started late because they start their study on the previous day of the interview. It should start before 1 or 2 years itself. You should start the preparation in the 2nd year of your engineering. The big advantage of starting early is – You can avoid frustration and stay ahead in the competition. Only the best of the best will have the chance at grabbing the jobs and that means the ones who start preparing earlier will be ahead of the competition.
2 Research on interviewer and organization
Spend some time to do a survey. Your seniors and placement officers can help you in this survey.
You should know about which companies visited at your college for placements (Infosys, TCS, L&T and so on)
Know what are the eligibility criteria? This is very important because it will assist you eradicate the companies you should be preparing for.
What is the general intake? For example, there are colleges where the big IT companies recruit in hundreds! This will help you decide the level of competition you’re likely to face.
3. Make a crisp resume
Your resume is a window to present yourself briefly. It should enclose headlines highlighting your key academic achievements and highlights of your extra-curricular activities. Frame a crisp introduction and maintain your CV short preferably lasting for one-two pages.
“In interview, you explain the points you have mentioned in the resume and this defines your communication skills in first two minutes. Your resume should not exceed two pages, however one page is ideal.
A crisp resume with all the necessary details about your professional experience till date is very effective. Try to picture in mind the success story, which you have mentioned in the resume and you are going to tell at the interview.
4. Solve previous question papers:
Google is your best friend here. There are plenty of websites on the internet where students post questions asked to them in an interview of a particular company. You need to make a list of topics from those and start learning one by one.
5. Make your basics strong:
Most of the students commit these mistakes. They ignore their basic engineering subjects. Strictly make sure, you revise all the basics of the subjects of your related branch in engineering. For example, if you are an electrical or electronics student – Make sure you remember the Kirchhoff’s law, how to analyze a given electrical network, gauss law in field theory etc. All of your efforts will go waste if you lack the basic knowledge of the engineering subjects.
6. Show interest in your favorite engineering topic:
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“Which is your preferred subject” – This is a very well-known question among interviewers during campus placement interviews. Now, to answer this question, you need to be really prepared with a favorite subject. It has a mixed outcome. You could either win or lose. You can win if you have prepared with your favorite subject quite early. It is quite obvious and natural that, you should be able to answer few questions out of your favorite subject. You can explain about your favorite subject, if you fail answering questions on it, you are definitely out of the interview process. So be careful. Be prepared with your favorite subject thoroughly.
7. Enhance your English Communication Skills:
English communication matters a lot. However strong you are in your technical skills, it is of no use, if you cannot explain it to your peer in English in your team. Therefore, English communication is checked during your HR interviews. The best way to improve it is to practice it. If you are poor at English communication, I strongly suggest you to start speaking English. No matter how many mistakes you make while speaking, just speak up. You learn by making mistakes. Do not bother about what others think of you when you speak bad English. You would definitely improve over it over a period of time. Meanwhile, read novels, newspapers, articles. Also write articles, blogs etc. This will drastically improve your written as well as your spoken English skills. The fact is that, a lot of people unnecessarily get rejected because they can’t communicate or express themselves.