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My SP JAIN INTERVIEW....Interviewer: So tell me what are derivatives?Me:Sir i have no idea...Interviewer Ok tell me what are futures?Me: sir i have applied for marketing not finance....Interviewer so you think you know about marketingMe: Yes sirInterviewer:Which FM CG manufactures Axe deo?Me:i think its HUL.

Interviewer:u think?Me:im not so sureInterviewer: ok what are the 4Ps?Me: they are price position promotion and...and... i cant rememberwhat is the 4th.Interviewer: ok thank you. nice meeting you.

Luckily this was just a dream. A dream which thankfully never cametrue. After what i heard from my friends and senoirs i was sure im in

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for a stress interview. but things turned out to be quite different.

I coulnt sleep properly that day. Questions kept popping inside myhead even while dreaming. But that morning i wasnt a bit tensed.Maybe it had to do with the cold weather. Or maybe it had to do withmy new Lee cooper shoes.maybe....

I was dressd, what should i say, a bit unconventionally. Half sleevewhite shirt,quadras and no tie(yes no tie!). one thing i learnt atcollege interviews that one's formal attire doesnt make anydifference(you may disagree). My friend Ketan's innocuous query "tuudhar ja ke change karega?" made me realise that i may havedressed a bit too casually. hell with it.i dont give a tiny rat's as s.

After reaching SP Jain we had to verify our documents and soon thebatch for the 1st interview was announced. Ketan and i were in thesame group along with 4 other candidates. The 1st interview had 2panelists-Renuka kamath(marketing) and one more lady prof(i guessfrom systems). They were quite friendly,always smiling but alwaysevaluating. We were asked to introduce ourselves. i gave 3 linerintro short and simple. others narrated their whole life s tory.

Coincidently the other prof turned out to be from vjti and she quicklyturned her attention towards us. for the next 5 mins the conversationrevolved around vjti. finally renuka kamath boke our conversationand went to the 1s t guy.the questions were mostly factual. He made

only one blunder. when asked which company he loved to work with ,he said ITC(big mistake..poor guy he paid for it , he was the onlywho didnt get selected). and with the ever smiling face the panelist(here comes the knocker) asked him "if itc doesnt come to sp jainthen what will you do?" . His answer was rather unconvincing.

15 mins into the interview everyone was asked something or theother one candidate was also asked to play the the tabla. but not asingle question was directed towards me. finally the panelist asked"Has anyone read 'the world is flat'? can anyone tell me who is the

author" i was the only one who knew the answer. Finally all thatreading came to my rescue. Mr thomas friedman thank you verymuch. and i spoke abt the book for the next 2 mins unaware that iwas swinging side to side in the revolving chair. she lookedimpressed. and i was content.

After the 1st interview we took a behaviour test and within an hourwe had our 2nd interview. This too turned out to be an easy goingone. tell told said us to introduce ourselves tell us something which is

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not given in your CV and the guys did the exact opposite. During theintos another candiddate and i mentione the word "creative" (hottopic for interviews), so he asked each one what do they think"creativity" is and can it be learnt. After that they asked to give acreative solution for reducing India's poverty. while the 1st candidatewas having a go at it the panelist said"mankar tejas ..tejas that'syour first name? yes sir ...so tejas do you agree with what he said?"

A nice way to check whether i was listening luckily i had kept a trackof what he was trying to say. i was able to successfully refute what hewas trying to propose. he was basically saying the government shoulddistribute money to the poor. creative but infeasible. To be fair acreative answer is not always a feas ible answer just like lateralthinking you have to combine lateral and vertical thinking to comeout with a feasible answer. And you cant control creativity how canone come up with a creative answer [and feasible] within 30 secondsand in such a tensed environment.Then the panelist trained their guns on me. so tejas recently theunion health minister urged SRK and AB not to smoke was it rit to doso? i went on creative liberty...right to express..blah blah.. ok so ifyou were given 10 lakhs to model a cigarette would you do it? If im anupcoming model not so popular as SRK well then yeah i will do it. Noapprehensions.No moral dilemma.They asked the next guy "what about you?". He says no sir i wont doit(yeah right!!) the panelist says"but you are not SRK".Still i wont doit,he said. The panelist then asked another candidate "Tejas justmentioned the word 'integral'. You think actors can avoid smoking on

screen.You think in GODFATHER he could have used a chewing guminstead of a cigar." The candidate its possible that they can avoidsmoking on screen but since she had not seen GODFATHER she cantcomment on it.He then moved to the third guy. he too hadnt seenGODFATHER. I was getting desperate. Come on ask me ask me!!.Someone up there must really like me. So tejas what you have to say."Sir...Don Corleone ....the Italian Gangster...if you look back at thatmovie every part was played to perfection.People remember the wayhe spoke,the italian accent(maunday,tuesday..),the dialogues(i willmake you an offer you cant refuse),the way he scratched his chin

....everything was perfect,bang on. So if actors smoke on screen itsbecause they need to develop a character... ".First thomas friedmanand now Godfather. im starting to get goosebumps.BTW the roomwas damned cold.The guys having work experience were grilled on their company'soperations.who are their clients and so on. One piece of advice BEEXTREMELY CAREFUL WITH WORDS . Never use strong words like"passionate". Use the correct words(wazz the difference betweensentimental and emotional??). Know the difference between values

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T E J A S M A N K A R

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and strengths. Yeah by the way they asked us whether value systemsare relative.To answer such questions you need to be well read and this is exactlywhat they are trying to gauge. how in depth can you think can youprovide an insight with whatever knowledge you possess right now.So preparing for interviews is a constant process.

Thats about it. no question on marketing no question on profile sheetAll in all i was satisfied with the way i conducted myself.

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Wanderer said...

hey..you interview seems to have gone really well. At the end

of the day, I 'm sure you would have preferred the "real"interview to the "dream" one.

:)

FEBRUARY 12, 2008 9:38 PM

Tejas Mankar said...

mr. wanderer ur lucky u hav 6 chancesbut i had only 1 chance and im glad it went well because it

could hav been a lot worseFEBRUARY 12, 2008 11:23 PM

"tHe bAla$" said...

Nice to see ur post mate...well...quite possibly I dint get a chance to be careful with mywords..lol

FEBRUARY 14, 2008 9:07 PM

Tejas Mankar said...

he he u should hav sung teri deewani everyone would hav shutup

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Pooja said...

thanks , your interview was good rather the beauty of yourinterview story is that you were pefect in potraying the true
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picture or the scenario of the interview .......am going tofoward your story to my brother who is in engg and desperateto know that how interviews are conducted ....your write upwould be very helpful to him to picturise the interview sceneand also to understand that GK is equally important asfocussing on classroom study is ...

NOVEMBER 4, 2008 10:04 PM

NAL'I'n'I' said...

nice post...i have my interview coming up... i am a fresherand have been busy with my semester long training...i wasquite tensed because i haven't studied any one thing in greatdetail... but your post has instilled in me the confidence thatmy reading done over the course of several years wont gowaste :)

MARCH 20, 2009 6:16 AM

atletico said...

Hi

I read this post 2 times. It is very useful.

Pls try to keep posting.

Let me show other source that may be good for community.

Source: Marketing interview questions

Best regardsJonathan.

JANUARY 9, 2011 10:54 PM

Chitvan said...

Hi Tejas,

Nice post. Question- did you finally make it?

Thanks

Chitvan

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