Student of Rajagiri Centre for Business Studies shares his personal experience of GDPI

By: Bharat Debbarma

Advice from friends helps in learning about GD and PI. Also, taking their feedback positively and learning from experience often helps in clearing the GD and PI rounds during the placement process.

Group Discussion (GD) and Personal Interview (PI) are important tools to assess the capabilities of a student. Hence, it becomes crucial for every candidate in the placement process to clear GD and PI to get placement in a reputed company.

In this article, I am going to share my personal experience on GDPI of ICICI Prudential Placement Process.

ICICI Prudential had visited our campus, interacted with all the applicants, and conducted a pre-placement talk at the initial followed by GD & PI.

The topic we got in the panel was “Is Social Media Eliminating the Creativity of People”. There was a group of eight applicants in the panel and a judge. Three minutes were given to think on the topic and also, mobile was allowed to get the details if required. Once the three minutes were over the judge rang a bell and asked the participants to start the discussion. Eight minutes were given for the discussion. Some of the participants were against the motion while the others were in favour of the motion, including me. Few points that were discussed are listed below:

Against Points:

• Social Media gives us more ideas as it is connected with a huge base of people and ideas can be shared and nurtured
• Social Media is a platform that promotes and develops creativity through sharing of ideas
• Social Media could be used in a more creative and could help in increasing brand awareness. For e.g.: Instagram shopping

Favour Points:

• Social media is an addictive platform and due to which, the concentration power of the people decreases
• Children are not thinking creatively instead they copy other people’s ideas from social media thus, the authenticity of the owner is ambiguous
• People are devoted to mobile and social media this has weakened their creativity.

The participants who would clear GD round would proceed for the last round that is Personal Interview (PI). Personal Interview is face-to-face round and my interview lasted for 15 minutes. Some of the questions that were asked with my responses are given below:

1. Tell me about yourself?

Hi, Ma’am my name is Bharat Debbarma. I am pursuing MBA in Marketing as specialization. I completed my graduation in my home state Tripura. I have done two internships in UG and PG as of now in different organisations. During UG, I completed my internship in the KPO industry whereas the PG internship was in the Banking industry. Apart from this, my hobbies are travelling. I  always have keen interest in learning and exploring something new. This is how I landed in Kerala to pursue my MBA.

2. How did you choose this college?

I came to know about this college through the College Representative, they used to visit my UG College every year for the promotion and admission purposes. The details like the college curriculum and other activities attracted me and this is how I decided to take admission in this college..

3. What is your biggest achievement?

My biggest achievement till now is to get admission in such a good institution which gave me the opportunity to learn new culture, food and people in Kerala within a short period.

 4. How will your friend describe you when I will ask them about you?

My friends would describe me as a guy who always completes the task given before time and always try doing things on his own.

 5. What is your weakness and why you consider it as your weakness?

My weakness is not able to say no to others. I consider it as my weakness because of whatever maybe my situation and condition I am unable to refuse others when they asked me for any help.

6. What is your concept about marketing and sales?

My view on marketing and sales is Marketing is the technique of how we make sales whereas Sales is an act of how we increase the revenue and both are important for each other. Thus, Marketing is a technique and Sales is an act.

 7. Did you do an internship? If yes which company and what were the responsibilities?

Yes, I completed my internship with HDFC Bank.

My responsibilities were to complete a project given by the bank under the guidance of the Branch Manager. Also, meeting clients and gathering data for projects were part of my responsibilities.

 8. One learning in your Internship?

Be friendly and helpful to others and give centralisation to individuals.

9. Tell one objective of your project that you did during your internship?

The objective of my project was Market Scoping for Bank in IT Sector

 10. Any questions you have for me?

What is the retention rate of employees in your company?

This is how I cleared my interview.

About the Author:

Bharat Debbarma is a second-year student at Rajagiri Centre for Business Studies, pursuing MBA in Marketing Management and IB. He has completed live projects with  Ipos Business Consulting. He has also interned with HDFC Bank Limited.