Dinged -Lessons Learnt

Read this mail in the grp...From a person who received a ding from ISB !
He has written down his lessons learnt. Good post mortem.Iam sure he must have had some backup plans and would get succes over there.



I recd. my reject letter y'day. Looking back, I feel I could have done my interview much better.
Just thot' of sharing what I think went wrong during my interview which would probably help the
applicants whose interviews are scheduled in the future.

**Think of interview as a new round. It is your responsibility to explain them clearly about anything
they ask you. Do not go under the assumption that the people at the adcomm would have read your
whole application package (though most probably they would have).

**For some reason, if they hadn't read your application package, then you are a complete stranger to them and it is in your benefits to tell your positive points.
For example, when they ask you "Tell us about your work experience",then you may have to clearly tell them your accomplishments so far. Let us say, you had been an Onsite coordinator (for IT guys), then don't assume they know what is Onsite Coordinator (one of the panelists may know very little about IT).
You have to tell what you did as Onsite coordinator and how that would help you add value to the class.

**Do not expect the interview to go in the way you think. Probably you would have attended a few mock
interviews before the actual but the actual interview is a different ball game than your rehersals.
Be prepared for questions that may not have been posted by the applicants in this group. The very
first question could completely take you offguard. It need not always be "tell us something about
yourself or tell about ur work exp".

** Practise for every combination of questions possible. What if they ask about your uniqueness as very first question, when you had thought that would be somewhere in the middle. Then probably, you may have to give the contents in a different structure than what you had rehearsed for. This is a very important thing to be kept in mind.

Have a thorough knowledge of what you are expressing about your future plans. They will be drilling
on this. Suppose, you say you want to have your own business, they are going to drill you on your
business plans. You should be able to convince them that you have researched on that particular area
and you really know what you are going to do.


**The adcomm is willing to listen what you say with patience. Use this to your advantage and put
forward all the points you want to say in a structured way.