7 Tips to Make an Impact in Group Discussions!
One important component of this process is the group discussion. You must have heard a lot about group discussions from your more experienced batch mates, friends and seniors. You may even have participated in one as part of a company’s recruitment process. So what does a GD measure? What ensures a high score in the GD or a rejection? Team Spirit? Knowledge? Communication Skills? Attitude? Ethics? These are a total of about 7, 8 parameters. You must have heard that the panel measures all these traits in a Group Discussion. That marks are allotted for each of these traits for each candidate. Now a Group Discussion is conducted for 8 to 12 candidates over a period of 15 minutes to even 1 hour (IIFT). Each person speaks on average about 3 to 5 times in a GD. So that makes more than a 100 points to measure for the panel in a short span of time assuming 5 parameters per person and 10 candidates and 3 entries per person. Is it possible, dear students, for a panel to do that? Definitely not!