PGDM Admission Interview Question Types and How to Tackle Them

 The two-year business management curriculum of PGDM (Post Graduate Diploma in Management) focuses more on the current industry requirements and helps business management aspirants build critical soft and hard skills to become successfully industry-ready managers. With the dream to reserve their spots in top management colleges in Odisha, thousands of aspirants prepare themselves intensively every year. The Admission Procedure included a Personal Interview Round includes some tough questions. To discourage plagiarism, the PGDM admission committee often masks the regular questions with their trickery of words in order to scrutinize the candidates the best way possible and offer them a seat in top business management schools in Bhubaneswar. Here are a few common yet most word-masked PGDM admission interview questions for your knowledge and some expert advice on how to successfully address them to your interviewer for a lasting impression.

Scenario – 1: Why PGDM? Past Career and Future Plans

Example Questions:

* How have you grown in the past, and how do you intend to grow with ODM Business School (college name used as an example)?

* Do you believe PGDM is the catalyst for your professional and personal growth?

Expert Suggestion:

The answer for "Why PGDM" should be crafted according to the intent of the interviewer. Candidates need to first recognize whether the question intends to answer more about their pasts or about their future with PGDM. To adequately answer the question, the candidates are required to explain to the interviewer how PGDM at that specific college will bridge the gap between their past, present, and future. They must portray a future that rests naturally on their past and present with the addition of a successful PGDM completion scenario from that specific school to which they are applying.

Scenario – 2: Explain Your Failures and weaknesses.

Example Questions:

* What did you learn from your biggest failure?

* Do you believe failure leads to success?

* How do you intend to grow from your weaknesses?

Expert Suggestion:

To succeed with this question, candidates need to first understand the interviewer's motto behind the question. As all of having failed in a certain scenario or have weaknesses, interviewers are usually not interested to know about the candidates' weaknesses or failures. Rather they intend to know the insight the candidate has gained from his/her failures and how he/she want to grow from there. What they are testing is whether the candidate has the self-insight to admit his own mistakes and discuss maturely about it and how he/she intend not to repeat the same in future.

Scenario – 3: Explain your leadership experience.

Example Questions:

* What does meaningful leadership term signify to you?

* Describe your most meaningful leadership experience and your role in it.

* Explain how your experience will contribute to your learning experience at our school.

Expert Suggestion:

Explaining the term leadership will probably be the most guiding theme in every candidates' application for top business schools in Odisha. PGDM admission committee questions candidates in this area to understand whether the candidate has the right skills for leadership, which will be further polished at their college. The interviewers also seek to know the candidates' understanding and attitude towards leadership and people management. Here candidates need to understand that just having experience in a leadership position doesn't necessarily mean he/she was good at it. They have to make the interviewer understand what good leadership is and how it impacts results, lives, success, environment, and most of all, an organization effectively. The candidates also have to demonstrate their personal leadership style and how it influences, motivates, and inspires others to follow and achieve. Just remember, if you think leadership is easy, then you have never really led.

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