Interview Process

For Recruitment

Based on
three organizations survey

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Interview Process
For Recruitment

Based on
three organizations survey

Prepared for
Dr. Deepa Sethi
(Faculty) JIML

Prepared by
Avinash Kumar -040
Amrit Agrawal -013
Ankit Srivastava-022
Ankit Agrawal -017
Abhishek singh -002

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Through this acknowledgement we express our thanks to prof. Deepa sethi who gave
us this opportunity to know the interview process of three organizations- Uninor, SBI
and TOI.

After that we extend our thanks to the various people who have shared their
opinion and experiences through which we received the required information crucial
for our report.

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TABLE OF CONTENT
Exécutive Summary……………………………………………………………………………
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………….4
Option Choice table…………………………………………………………………………….…5
CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………………………………………...…17
BIBLIOGRAPHY……………………………………………………………………………………18

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LIST OF FIGURE

Figure 1.Position of officers involved in interviewing………………………………………….6

Figure 2.Nomber of officers in Panel Interview………………………………………………...6
Figure 3.Most common type of interview ………………………………………………………7
Figure 4.Duration of interview………………………………………………………………….7
Figure 5. Candidate behaviour in given situation……………………………………………….8
Figure 6. Interview………………………………………………………………………………8
Figure 7 Phone and Video interview……………………………………………………………9
Figure 8 Number of candidates interviewed in mass interview ………………………………..9
Figure 9 Weightage to personal appearance……………………………………………………10
Figure10 Irrelevant question……………………………………………………………………11
Figure 11 Ration of candidate interviewed and get selected…………………………………...12
Figure 12 Situational and behaviloral interview……………………………………………….13
Figure 13 Tense and nervous during interview…………………………………………………14
Figure 14 Structure and unstructured pattern of interview……………………………………...15
Figure 15 Number of candidate interviewed per day……………………………………………15
Figure 16 Necessity of separate HR department……………………………………………...…16
Figure 17 Extra curriculum activity……………………………………………………………..16
Figure 18 Trained or fresh candidate……………………………………………………………17
Figure 19 Candidate work experience……………………………………………..……………17
Figure 20 Percentage of female candidate………………………………………………………18.
Figure 21 Prefer Male candidate or Female candidate…………………………………………..18

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 Executive Summary
We have taken three organizations viz Times Of India, State Bank Of India, and
Uninor. We tried to know their interview process and the area at which they give more
importance. We made a structured questionnaire with options. We found that almost
every organization has the same view and process regarding the interview. During our
interview we found that organization involve senior level officer for the interview
process. They prefer to have 4 members in their interview panel. They take 10-15
minutes time for their interview and also believe in phone and video interview.
Sometime they also conduct mass interview and also give some weightage for personal
appearance. Generally they don’t ask irrelevant question in their interview and the ratio
of candidates interviewed and selected is 4:1. They also consider candidates work
experience.

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 Introduction

The only thing that scares most people even more than taking a test is appearing for a Job
Interview. Even the mere though of facing an panel of Interviewers / recruiters is enough to
make job seekers sick in their stomach and extremely nervous.

A job interview refers to a meeting between a person (employer) who is looking to hire the
most suitable people for a vacant position in an organisation and a candidate (prospective
employee) who is interested in presenting him / herself well so as to land the job offer! The
job interview provides both the interested parties with a chance to meet each other and know
each other well with the purpose of hiring & getting hired.

Interviews are one of the most important hiring tools available to employers, used
extensively to judge how appropriate a prospective candidate to fill a role with an
organisation.

For our assignment work we went to The Times Of India, State Bank Of India and Uninor to
know about their interview process and their view about various issue related to interview.
There we talked and asked about their interview process. After that we gave our questionnaire
for structured answer.

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 Times Of India Uninor SBI
1 3 2 3
2 3 2 2
3 2 3 2
4 3 1 4
5 4 2 2
6 1 2 1
7 1 1 2
8 3 2 1
9 3 1 3
10 3 2 2
11 3 3 3
12 3 3 3
13 2 2 2
14 3 1 1
15 4 3 4
16 1 1 1
17 2 2 3
18 2 1 1
19 4 5 3
20 4 5 4
21 2 2 1

Figure I

Summary

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5
4
Options

3
2
1
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
Que stion No.

Times Of India Uninor SB I

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1) Question No.1
(figure-1)
In SBI and
a d
Times of India, 0% 0%
we find that b
senior level 33% a
grade officers b

are involved in c
c d
interviewing 67%
process.
However, in
Uninor the same
work has been done by the middle level officers. So, there is no involvement of junior level officers
for this purpose.

2)

In Uninor and SBI, we see the number of officers in panel interview is 4 whereas it is 5 in Times of
India. So we can interpret that TOI involves more members in its panel interview.

3)

Here we have three types of interview- (a) one to one (b) Panel to one (c) Group Interview. SBI and
TOI generally conducts panel to one interview, but Uninor conducts group interview.

4)
Question No. 4

e
0%

a
34% a
d b
(figure-2) 33% c
d
b
e
0%
c
33%
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 There is no similarity of duration for interview in these 3 organizations. TOI takes 10-15 mins, SBI
takes 15-30 mins and Uninor takes 2-5 mins for their interview.

5)
The answer of the question related to the job that focus on how candidate would behave in given
situation, SBI and Uninor gave the same answer whereas SBI has different view.

6)
All organizations agreed that there interview process is different for officers category and clerical
grade.

7)
SBI doesn’t believe in phone or video interview but TOI and Uninor conduct phone or video
interview for selecting their candidates.

8)
Question N o. 8

e
d 0%
0%
a
c
34% a
33%
b
c
d
e

b
33%

(figure-3)

All organizations conduct mass interview but the number of candidate for their interview are
different. For the TOI it is 4-6, for SBI it is 2 and for uninor it is 2-4.

9)

SBI and TOI give some weightage to personal appearance during interview, but Uninor doesn’t give
any weightage to personal appeareance.

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 10)
Question N o. 10

a
d 0%
0%

c
33% a
b
c
b d
67%

(figure-4)

SBI and Uninor do not make applicant uncomfortable by series of irrelevant question during
interview, but TOI sometimes asks irrelevant questions to its candidate.

11)
Question No. 11

a e
d 0% 0%
0%
b
0%
a
b
c
d
e

c
100%

(figure-5)

Here we see the ratio of candidates interviewed and selected is 4:1 for all the organizations.

12)

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During interviewing candidates all the organizations follow situational and behavioral interview.

13)

All organizations accepted that the candidates were tense and nervous during their interview.

14)
Questio n N o . 14

c d
33% 0%

a
b a
b
0% 67%
c
d

(figure-6)

SBI and Uninor follow structured interview pattern whereas TOI follows mix of both.

15)
Qu estion N o. 15

a
0%
b
0%
a
c b
33% c
d
d
67%

(figure-7)

In TOI and SBI the number of candidates called for interview process per day is more than 20 but
for Uninor it is 15-20.

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16)
All organizations agreed that it is necessary to have separate HR department.

17)

TOI and Uninor consider a little bit candidate’s extra curricular activities in their interview process
whereas SBI gives more emphasis on candidate’s extra curricular activities.

18)

SBI and Uninor prefer a trained candidate for their recruitment, whereas TOI prefers a little bit
trained candidates to fresh one.

19)
Question No. 19

b a
e 0%
0%
33% c
34%

a
b
c
d
e

d
33%
(figure-8)

On the part of candidate’s work experience, all organizations have different view. For work
experience TOI gives 20-30 % weightage, SBI gives 10-20 % weightage and Uninor gives more than
30%. So we see different organization have different requirements.

20)

In TOI and SBI 20-30 % female candidates get selected in their interview whereas in Uninor it is
more than 30%.

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21)

In TOI and Uninor females candidates are preferred to male one but in SBI male candidates are more
preffered.

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Conclusion:
The jobs and careers industry is blooming and expanding by leaps and bounds. Almost every
individual - experienced or fresher is on the look out for building a satisfying and successful career.
In such a scenario, many a times, most good Companies receive a plethora of applications for just 1
single position making it difficult to narrow down to 1 most eligible candidate. Job Interviews help!

• The Interview provides an opportunity to meet several candidates and screen them to find the
ones most suitable for the organisation.

• Helps to evaluate a person's skills, capabilities and personality trait.

• Provides tremendous insight into a candidate's confidence level and ability to handle a
pressure situation.

• A chance to communicate the Company's policies, beliefs, work culture and expectations
from the prospective employee.

• Finally, narrow down, select and hire the best talent to fill the job vacancy. This should
ideally be a person who is focused, skilled, confident and excited.

It is noticeable here that all three organization viz The Times Of India, State Bank of India and
Uniror almost following the same strategy to select their employee. The Times Of India is specially
interested in recruiting female employee for their Marketing work. Which is also noticeable.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Asha Kaul, “Business Communication” second edition, PHI publication

Documents provided by our faculty in class

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