Choose To Shine

Surbhi is an alumna of English journalism batch of 2013-2014. Currently Surbhi is placed in Maharana Pratap University, Jaipur as a Lecturer through campus placement.

Just like how a diamond is worthless until it is polished, intelligence is worthless if it is not put to good use. You have used your intelligence to shine like a diamond. Congratulations for passing the entrance exam.

I was a student of English journalism, 2013-14 batch of IIMC New Delhi. I am sure after clearing the written test all of you must be ebullient as well as highly strung about PI.

Things that you should keep in mind before Personal Interview

• While preparing for the IIMC interview, you need to be very sure why you want to be a journalist. Interviewers can ask you: Why journalism? Why IIMC? Why English journalism? Why not advertising and PR? Have you applied for another course in IIMC? Have you applied elsewhere? What do you like writing on? What are you interested in? Which city are you from? Tell us about your city? Have you worked before? If yes, where?
• Keep in mind that your interview is a 'personality test' and not intelligence test; you have to define your personality in front of them.
• Be in a good mood and maintain a smile  throughout the interview. Be enthusiastic without being hyper.
• Have positive views in your mind: Go for the interview with a positive mindset. Usually, it happens that negative thoughts would start coming to your mind. Especially, to those who are giving interview for the first time, So be positive and think right.
• It takes more courage to listen than to speak: You must listen to the interviewer before you answer anything. It is good to listen completely and then answer rather interrupting when they are speaking.
• Show confidence and talk to them, not at them: You should always look into their eyes and then talk. Do not look down or elsewhere and answer. If do then they might think you do not have self-confidence.
• If you have any previous published work with you, please do present them in front of the interviewers as it displays your passion for the field.
• Even if you don't have answers for all the queries, you should not agonize because one cannot know about each and everything that is happening around us.
• Do not sound supercilious: There is a strong chance that if you are a fervent candidate you will have strong views about few things, make sure you do not carry your preconceived notion to the interview hall.

These are the few things that you should keep in mind before entering the interview room.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

GOOD LUCK :)