Are you a fresher curious to know the psychology of a recruiter? Read on.

The recruiter’s aim in taking an interview is to filter candidates and choose the best fit candidates that are beneficial to the company.

To choose from, there are thousands of freshers holding the same degree, falling in a common range of academic score of 60-75% from all over the country.

How would a recruiter differentiate between one candidate and another? After all, the job applicants to an entry level position are fresh college pass-outs with no industrial experience.

How would a recruiter discern good candidate from a large crowd of students?

I had asked this question to couple of experienced recruiters. All of them consensually told that they looked for the following three qualities in students.

1.Fluent at Communication
2.​​​Reasonably good at Aptitude
3.Ability to apply logic in real life

Fluent communication in a team is an important pre-requisite for any employee. In many occasions employees would have to directly talk to the clients of the company. So, fluency in English communication is a key skill.

The Aptitude of the candidate is analyzed by recruiters by asking questions from competitive tests such as CAT, GRE, etc. Aptitude could be broadly divided into two sub-categories – Qualitative aptitude and Quantitative aptitude; the R.S Agarwal kind of questions.

Good at theory doesn’t mean good at practical. Recruiters know that very well. In their experience, they might have seen many freshers who were selected based on their theoretical knowledge, who later fail badly in putting theory to practice. Interviewers are going to present you real life scenarios and would ask you to suggest a solution.

For example, a recruiter could ask an electronics engineer to design an electronic device that could dynamically change the duration of traffic lights based on the traffic.

The interviewer could ask a computer science graduate to design a simple database for maintaining personal, salary and project information of employees in a company.

So, if you are a frehser trying for jobs, keep these three points in mind and be sure to prove the interviewer that you possess these qualities. If you succeed, the job is yours!

Yours 

N Pavan Kumar Rao