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Interview Guidance Booklet
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What is personality test
A selection procedure measures the personality characteristics of applicants that are related to
future job performance. Personality tests typically measure one or more of five personality
dimensions: extroversion, emotional stability, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to
experience.
Quality Desired in an officer by Interview Panel
An officer must be totally dedicated to democratic norms. S/he must be insistent upon autonomy despite all
pressure. S/he must be capable of sticking to her/his words and goals and to the meaning of the word
’Services’ which is so inextricably attached to an officer’s status. You are protected as an officer. No adversities
except transfer can touch you. All this is done to keep you fearless and competent and to let you act in a
constitutional manner. An act of compromise therefore, is a betrayal of the very idea of Civil Services.
An officer has necessarily to be morally competent, professionally integrated, and intellectually inclusive in
nature
Common interview mistakes
All of us have made mistakes during interviews, and most of us have walked out of interviews thinking of all
the great things we forgot to mention and all the things we shouldn’t have said. But the most important thing
about mistakes is learning from them—and not repeating them. Here are some common interview mistakes: