HR Interview Questions for Entry Level Professionals

There are many types of Fresher jobs available across all levels. Whatever the industry type and job profile, everyone has to go through many rounds in a particular job interview. Depending upon the job type and your position applied for, the questions asked in the interview varies. One thing is common in all job interviews and that is the HR round.

Every company has an organized Human resources department that conducts interviews and recruits staff for various internal company requirements. During the interview for any position in the company, besides the head of the department asking questions to the candidate, even the HR also asks certain questions to the candidate.

Given below are some common interview questions asked to a fresher.

· Tell me about yourself?

This is the most common question every HR personnel ask the candidate. Always give a smart and well thought answer to this question. Remember that based on this question, the next round of questions will be asked.

· How has your experience prepared you for your career?

For a fresher, this question is difficult one as he /she has no work experience. The candidate should answer about the experience based on the learning during the coursework. If he is an engineering graduate then he should share about the experiences and learning during the engineering program. He should mention how making of reports, design projects and presentations have prepared him for the career ahead. Mention about the internship programs as an enriching experience.

· What do you plan to be doing in five years' time?

This is something most HR personnel ask during interview. Keeping your career goal in mind, give this answer.

There are other questions also asked depending on the sector and jobs type.

My Journey from Biotechnology Labs to Content Writing

I collected my postgraduate degree in biotechnology from my institute and landed Delhi with a dream in my eyes to grab a pharma job that can match my profile and shape up my career. But to my disappointment and my bad luck, I could not get a job even after months of job search. During my job search, I met many candidates who were post graduates in pharmacy (M.Pharma), from reputed universities, but they also found it very difficult to get the suitable Pharma jobs with the pharma companies. It is really tough to make out what the pharma companies actually want.

So after spending lot of time over internet and talking to those fellow jobseekers, I had a realization that having a degree is not enough, the companies need experience for the pharma jobs, which I was not having in my hand. But I don’t understand that how one can have experience if not started from any point! A fresher with a post graduate degree is not given that weightage. To find the best pharma jobs, you must have an M.tech or a PhD degree in the relevant subject. But actually I had not that patience to study further and wait for years for my PhD to complete and then seek a job, so I decided that let the destiny decide my career, and eventually I got placed into writing and editing jobs.

It was sheer luck and what else can I say, the job portals which have come out as the best job providing solutions. I uploaded my resume on the job portals of India such as Naukri.com, Monsterindia.com, Timesjobs.com and then got the lucky call from my first company.

Finance and Bank Jobs

Banking and finance career options are highly respected and in great demand in the Indian society. A number of people can be seen employed in the industry with good salary packages and attractive incentives. These jobs allow their employees to express their creativity and make the best use of their calibre. The increasing number of banks and financial institutions these days has lead to an easy availability of jobs in this industry. Govt and semi govt jobs usually have state level entrances for bank jobs, for cracking which a candidate has to work very hard and give his best attempt

Few of the main banking and finance organisations, where one can search a job for him, are:

1. ICICI Bank Careers
2. SBI Capital Markets Limited
3. Bajaj Capital Ltd.
4. State Bank of India
5. Axis bank
6. Housing Development Finance Corporation:
7. HDFC Bank
8. Birla Global Finance Limited
9. Punjab national bank
10. LIC insurance

All these companies are known across the world and provide great opportunities to candidates coming from different parts of the world. Whether it’s an opportunity at ICICI Bank careers or in the LIC insurance, the candidates are meant to prove their potential according to which the job is given to them. Like every other job, finance and Bank jobs also require its candidates to be properly trained and highly qualified. Skills and qualifications vary depending on the field the candidate has chosen for the job. MBAs, MSc Maths, MCAs are the qualifications which are high in demand when it comes to banking jobs. Risk management and finance MBA also helps the employees to keep a pace with the ongoing development in the industries. This is the reason a large number of people pursue higher studies along with their job.