GD-LESSON#4

FOUR General Rules of GD

  1. Personality
  2. Knowledge
  3. Experience
  4. Communication skill

General rules for GD

  • Don’t be surprised if the panel throws a basketball at your group and ask them to play a game for 20 minutes and give a report to them.
  • Look at the attributes that they are checked out through the Personality Assessment Tools(PAT)
  1. Personality
  • Confidence, perhaps, is the single most important attribute that contributes to the “personality” of an individual.
  • The lack of it is visible in the very first few minutes of interaction with an individual.
  • Confidence is the result of various factors. the level of confidence with which individual walk in the interview room depends on the following:

General rules for GD

  • Don’t be surprised if the panel throws a basketball at your group and ask them to play a game for 20 minutes and give a report to them.

Look at the attributes that they are checked out through the personality assessment tools.

  1. Knowledge :

In the following functional areas-

  • Knowledge in your area of specialization (academics, job, details of organization, hobbies)
  • Self-awareness (self-including strengths & weakness, career goals, personal aspirations)
  • Contextual awareness knowledge to which one belongs-the school, the college, the company, family, country, etc…
  • General awareness (Something about political system, economic situation, the human rights movement, etc.)
  1. Experience:
  • Past experiences have an impact on the level of confidence. Successful experiences, add positively to one’s level of confidence and failures lower the end of confidence.
  1. Communication Skills:

One of the most critical factors that contribute to the success at the personality assessment stage is the skills of communication comprising both articulation and listening skills.

  • Aspirants possessing sound articulation skills and who are also aware of it always carry greater confidence with them.
  • Do not equate communication with articulation.
  • Listening skills are under emphasized. Especially, in tasks that involve group activities one has to convey that is an active listener.
  • Good and active listeners, generally add greater value to a GD and also convey greater maturity to the panel

 

GD- The discussion involves an exchange of thoughts and ideas among members of the group. GDs however, are not the only tool used.  Interviews (PI) too are well-established selection techniques. Number of participants in a group varies from 7-15 people. In most of the cases a topic, case or a situation will be given, and the group members will have to discuss it within a given period of time.

Types of GD:

  1. Structured GD
  2. Unstructured GD

 

  1. Structured GD
  • Structured (or default) GD is one is most commonly used.
  • The group is given a topic for discussions within 10 to 20 minutes for discussion.
  • There is no leader appointed for the group and the brief may not include anything but the topic for discussion.
  • Majority of the cases students gets Structured GD
  1. Unstructured GD:
  • Unstructuredness can be built into discussion by going no clear instructions.
  • The panel expect the group to achieve some objective (s) during the course or by the end of the GD
  • These might include tasks such as choosing the topic for discussion, appointing a leader chairman etc.
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