The Hindu Group General Manager Interview Questions and Answers

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: General Talk about
Tips: Nothing need to develop to face the interview in this company

Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: Nothing great to share
Tips: No tips required

Round: FInal
Experience: Salary Negotiations

Round: FInal
Experience: meeting with the director

General Tips: The Board of Directors of CWC headed by their MD took my interview at their Corporate Head Quarter at New Delhi. I was amongst the 4 probable candidates. We discussed about the various pros and cons of current day corporate management etc. That asked me about my contributions in the field of Procurement of raw materials and their logistic planning, which was my earlier field of operation. As I have been made head of HR/Administration etc. later, they also asked me about how do I handle the IR issues in a labour oriented Paper manufacturing company like ours and manoeuvre the Administration and how do I address the Statutory bodies like ministry of Labour, EPFO, State Administration etc.

I submitted honestly before the committee about my performance without any camouflage.


Skills: Communication, Decision Making Skills, Body Language, Problem Solving, Analytical Skills
Duration: <1 week

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Due to having experiences for that post.

Round: Package Finalization
Experience: Finalize the CTC and issue offer letter.

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Well I don't know exactly on what basis they shortlisted my Resume but yeah I think it was good enough for them and called me for the next round
Tips: Well, it should be relevant and cater the job position requirements

Round: HR Interview
Experience: I told my story of how I love eating and everything irrelevant, because all the irrelevant things were already there in my Resume

Skills: Communication, Confidence, Presentation Skills, Presence Of Mind
College Name: Symbiosis college of arts and commerce

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Due to my long experience in General Administrative Department.

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Project construction management
Site management
Technical , engineering

General Tips: Interview for my technical. Skills
Leadership
Past experience achievement
Man Management capacity etc
Skills: Technical Skills, Communication, Problem Solving, Analytical Skills, Leadership, Presentation Skills, Body Language, Decision Making Skills
Duration: 1-3 Months

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Qualification and work experience.

General Tips: Few questens were general in nature but when the experts took over they started grilling throwing querries related specially to protection system of electrical relaying system deploed at the Thermal Power Stations and EHV substations. But you have to have good foothold, thorough and confident with clarity to answer such questens.
Skills: Communication, Problem Solving, Analytical Skills, Presentation Skills
Duration: 1-3 Months