Indian Oil Corporation Interview Questions, Process, and Tips for Freshers

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Resume's were shortlisted based on CGPA.
Tips: Resume must contain only necessary information and must not exceed 2 pages for a fresher.
Do not write what you don't know in your resume.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: They were stressing more on technical.
They were cross checking my resume again and again.
Tips: Prepare your core subjects very well.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: This round is easy to clear if you can justify yourself with simple questions.
Tips: Prepare your resume well.

General Tips: Brush up all your core subjects.
Skills: Analyzing problems and finding a solution., Good communication skills.
College Name: NIT WARANGAL

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Resume's were shortlisted based on CGPA.
Tips: Resume must contain only necessary information and must not exceed 2 pages for a fresher.
Do not write what you don't know in your resume.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The questions are very challenging related to power systems, power system operation and control, power system protection, control systems, basics of electrical engineering.
Tips: Selection purely depends on the student performance.
Good technical skills are required by the students.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The HR questions are tricky.
Tips: One should answer with more attention.

General Tips: Brush up all the basics of core subjects.
Carefully listen to all the questions and then answer with confidence.
Skills: Good knowledge of all the basics., Analytical skills, problem solving skills.
College Name: NIT WARANGAL

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Resume's were shortlisted based on CGPA.
Tips: Resume must contain only necessary information and must not exceed 2 pages for a fresher.
Do not write what you don't know in your resume.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The questions are very challenging related to power systems, power system operation and control, power system
protection, control systems and basics of electrical engineering.
Tips: Basics of core subjects should be known very well.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: My interview time is about 35 minutes.
The interview experience is very nice.
Tips: The HR questions are tricky and one should answer with more attention.

General Tips: Brush up all your core subject basics.
Carefully listen to every question and then answer with confidence.
Skill Tips: Strong knowledge of basics in Electrical core subjects.
Skills: Basic Electronics, Good problem solving skills.
College Name: NIT WARANGAL

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: CPI, Projects, and academic achievements if any should be banked upon. If you have had an intern in the oil sector, make sure to highlight it.
Tips: Shortlisting was based on CPI, Category, Gender etc. (yeah… stop getting all judgmental! It's a PSU, what nelse do you expect?)

Round: Interview
Experience: My interview experience won't really help you, so I'll talk about those who made it. There is a great stress on technical skills. Typical topics asked were about distillation columns, cracking, separation processes, and basic thermodynamics. If you have done a course in Petroleum or have had an internship in a refinery, and if you can show you have enough knowledge on this topic, you are through.
Tips: IOCL was even offering a marketing profile. So I steered my interview that way, all my questions were about marketing and I answered them with gusto. (In retrospect this was a big mistake since they wanted IITians in technical roles alone. Most junta had technical interviews.)
After the interview I was sure I got through this time. I went straight to sleep. I woke up later that night to some loud noises (the gpl ones) only to find out that I hadn't been selected. I was heartbroken. I wondered all night if I made a big mistake by leaving all those companies which now seemed to be so good.

General Tips: Internship: (attention third year people!)
When it comes to the placement interview, internships play pivotal role. There are rarely any interviews where the interviewee isn't drilled on their internships. So, please don‟t treat an internship as a paid vacation. Good work done during the internship gives one the confidence that can very well bowl the interviewer over (as it did in my case :D). Believe me confidence does much more than get you a job; it determines success and failure in mostundertakings. Internship gives you the first chance to build that up … use it! 

Pre Placement Talks:
Please attend the ppts of at least those companies which fall into your sector of interest. At ppts you get to see a lot more things than the boring presentations and the pay package. Most companies bring along with them alumni who have spent a few years in the company. Observing or interacting with them will give you a good assessment of what you are going to be a few years from now if you join that company. For example I observed that alumni of XYZ Company were not as upbeat and confident as alumni of ABC Company (names have been hidden on request ;) ) even if XYZ was paying plenty more than ABC. I knew then and there that I would want to join ABC and never applied to XYZ. Be sure to utilize them and be sure to clear all your doubts and conceptions. Once you start attending presentations you will observe junta asking questions just to score brownie points with the speaker. Believe me it won't help one bit in landing them a job!

Resumes:
Making an appealing resume is the single most important step in the placement process and IITK is notorious for its bad resumes, so attend workshops. Like most IITK junta I sucked at making a resume (and still do), but whatever little skill I have, I got through workshops. One workshop I would advise everyone to attend is the resume making workshop of McKinsey. Get your resumes checked and edited by those who have been through placement especially by those from other IITs (I know this will hurt a lot of egos, but IITB's resumes are some of the best. Those dudes have mastered the art of making an impact with whatever little they've got, while we excel at doing exactly the opposite :P). Prepare an impactful resume and don't submit the same resume to every company, make changes based on the profile.

Prioritize. 
(For the first 14 days) During recession choose a sector if you must but not packages and companies. There's a whole life time left to fill your money bags. 
(Applicable after day 14): Don't choose too much. If you can live with that job for a year or two without hating yourself, take it! You can jump jobs later and purse higher education later to get into the right job.


Always take a calculated risk. 
Judge yourself based on the competition, your competencies etc and not on blind faith. And yes, remember when the stakes are high so are the losses.
College Name: IIT KANPUR