Mumbai: Cracking job interview is a passport to your professional life success. A job interview call raises hope and excitement but in case of rejection in the interview, excitement gets replaced by anxiety. Over 50% candidates fumble in job interviews reveals a TimesJobs Study. Nearly 46% India Inc. employees consider company reviews when taking the final call for job offer. Further, 28% respondents further consider interview questions as one of the most important parameter in company reviews.
Giving interviews is certainly a big deal for Indian employees as over 40% candidates polled have faced between 10-20 interviews in their careers and 10% candidates have faced even more than 20 interviews. TimesJobs has surveyed over 700 working professionals pan-India for this study.
Abhishek Rastogi, a 35 year old IT professional from Pune recently shifted his base to Delhi to work with a multi-national ITeS company. He said that he researched at least 2-3 company review websites to know about interview procedures and the kind of questions he would be asked before going for the job interview. Surprisingly, his preparation actually helped him to get the job.
TimesJobs’ Vikas Deep Verma explains, “The Job Market is highly competitive, and the best way to ensure fast career growth is to choose your battles carefully, do your research and target the company culture that best suits your attitude and the role that best suits your aptitude.
In a statement, TimesJobs informed that its offerings help job seekers to choose the best suited company with interview questions and company reviews by thousands of current and previous employees, who give candid insights into the company culture, work-life balance, career growth, interview processes, etc. to ensure you join a company whose culture fits your personality.
Further a host of personalized self-assessment, skill enhancement and salary benchmarking tools help you to ascertain your own aptitude and set your self-development, career growth & salary expectations, to ensure you ace your interview,” Verma added.
However, TimesJobs’ study clearly shows that every job interview story does not have a happy ending. 71% candidates felt they were turned down was that they hadn’t researched the role and company and 50% also felt that not appearing interested or engaged during the interview were the reasons for their rejections.
Commenting on this, Swati Dayal, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Sagoon.com said, “Job-seekers doing their own homework before coming for an interview is not new. Everybody has been doing that. However, with the advent of social networks and the Internet, the task is now a whole lot easier. Reviews and ratings by fellow applicants and existing employees are emerging as real-time decision-making tools for job aspirants. And social and professional networks are used for gaining awareness and narrow down on preferences.”
In view of Rajesh Tripathi, VP & Head-HR, GHCL, the job seeker should undertake his/her due preparation before appearing for the interview in a very scrupulous manner. They should browse the company’s website and other social networking pages of the organization to acquaint oneself with the company information.
