My Interview Experience

Perhaps they already have a candidate in mind, and interviewing the other candidates was merely a formality; so it might not have mattered what you said.

Thank you,

They have to select 278 candidates out of 833 appraximately. Their interview process is very genuine. So there is no question that,they have (all) the required candidates in mind.

Forget to mention.The interviewer was laughing through-out the intewrview. I stayed cool through-out, but a bit nervous later.

There was one person in the panel who do not ask any questions, but only observe our expressions. I would like to know, what type of impression my character made.

"I would like to know, what type of impression my character made" I would say impression you had made was not impressive. You must have been already aware of BHEL as organisation. It is PSU but it to some extend works as private organisation and has also performed well in many sectors. It is not an purely Govt. organisation. You will get secured job, many things to learn, but slow promotion. Also salary wise it is not bad paymaster but not as good as private company. If you are hard working person and prepared to take risk then you should continue in private sector. More over there are good job opportunities in India for Engineers.

About your interview I would like say that you should remain silent and answer the questions asked to you in short. You should not ask questions about organisation for that you should do your own home work. Of course you can describe in short your past achievements. In short you should act as Matured and experienced Engineer.

Thank you Sir,

I was quite aware about BHEL before interview. I am of course a hard working person. But also give more importance to work-life balance.

In a reputable company they do not care about your self interest rather what you can do and improve. From the begining of the interview you could have talked about your current achievements which could have led the interviewer to change the line of questions but you missed that. Yes, in large and reputable companies you need to convince them of your expertise and achievements evidently.

At the beginning of interview itself, i tried to show the awards and performance ratings. But he didn't see and told "That is why you must not leave"

Er...you seemed very pushy from the start...an attribute no employer wants. He obviously thought you already had a better job and didn't want you to leave it. He knows what the advertised position involved and probably didn't want to subject to to a 'lesser' job.

One older guy I know told me that one should always organize/apply for jobs to land an interview at least 3 times a year (even if you are not interested in changing jobs). His thinking is;

1. You get interview experience up to scratch
2. You get a feel for what current jobs are out there
3. You get a feel for what current employers are looking for
4. You see what going pay rates are out there

I somehow think he is right. That way you don't get emotionally attached to a position/job that you are going for before you even get the job. I think this is where you are ATM.

Excellent advice. I stayed away from inteerviews in the last 4 years. This is a mistake.

But there is no logic to consider i am over qualified. They have lot of technically challenging positions like design/ manufacturing / Automation/ erection and commisioning/Servicing/ R&D etc.

Thank you Sir,

I don't bother about the results. For me feedback given from you experts is more important so that i can manage the future interviews which emphasizes on behaviour.Also can improve my attitude.

The panel was having one technical person. He asked questions to others but only one or two very basic questions.

I believe that, the interview process is genuine.

I also had a similar experience.

In such occasions if the interviewer is not accepting anything, what to do?

Continuously try to convince the interviewer or Keep quiet? Please advise.

Interview is never to judge technical skill of a person. Technical skill is judged before you show up for interview using your resume for lower position like yours and telephone conversation for manager and above.

When you come for interview most of the time interview assumes they have brought technically qualified guys and like to see his approach how you will fit in the current organization culture and in your current company how you convinced your supervisor to do correct stuff.

If you are not able to move your Manager or VP to take care of operator and production workers health issue what confidence I have you will be able to convince new group you want to be player in meeting there needs.

In India you will get fast track permotion in private sector over public sector that is my experience before I came to USA and then migrated here for good. I think this is still good. You get permotion in public sector based on your number of years on job your cast and how much supervisor likes you and how much pull you have from government MP and ministers. In private your work and your relation with your supervisor. You caste and push does not play game in your permotion your ability do.

Thank you Sir,

If you are not able to move your Manager or VP to take care of operator and production workers health issue what confidence I have you will be able to convince new group you want to be player in meeting there needs.

I am in junior management. VP is in top management. I he don't know something then i can explain him. I he does something intentionally, then how i can.

I will share one incident with you.

One of the Senior managers met VP and told him, "One person is not able to manage a shift as the plant is expanded. So please raise man power in ______ area. VP replied him, if you cannot manage, please resign."

Actually the claim of senior manager was acceptable,as the other departments raised man power as per expansions.

So, how did the senior manager manage?

He was forced to try to develop an alternative. Did he succeed either fully or partially?

The shift engineers frequently requested senior manager to raise the man power as they were not able to handle wide area after expansions. As senior manager felt the same, he requested VP and his idea was rejected. The senior manager shared this incident with the shift engineers to convince them. This is how it is leaked.

There were 4 BPOs reporting to a shift engineer. The senior manager raised it to 6. But still it remains a problem as the shift operation engineer has to attend 50 to 200 phone calls in 8 hrs from various depts and inter-dept along with his other activities.The other depts. would not call directly to BPOs as they are contractual man power.

So it worked out good for the VP and somebody had to do more work. That's only 25 calls per hour max.

Was there a quantifiable reduction in quality or pro-rated output for the expanded facility?

The 200 calls are not distributed, May get 100 calls in a single hour. There is a rule in our plant that, at heavy vehicle movement area one should not speak in mobile. Due to extreme work pressure he has to speak continuously while working, which may lead to accident.(Already one happened in other area of our plant)

Last six months there was only one incident of reduced protection due to this problem.

If safety is the issue then easy to convince the VP.

Construe a ruse to get VP into a hazardous situation and give him a first hand "near miss".

Solved.

Sorry a correction.

Last six months there was only one incident of reduced protection restricted production due to this problem.

Convincing is in the hands of operation team. Thank you,

I got 88 out of 100 in interview. Got posting at "Heavy Electrical equipment plant" which is manufacturing steam turbines, turbogenerators, heat exchangers and condensers.

Thank you very much for all your comments.