How to prepare for IBPS PO/Clerk/Specialist Officer Common Interview

After completion of common written examination (CWE) IBPS conducts common interview for the post of IBPS PO/Clerk/Specialist Officer. Every successful candidate in CWE has to pass the common interview in order to be eligible for further process of selection. All the 21 banks participate in the process of common interview. It means candidate can be sent at any bank for the common interview. In the common interview, there are many panels of interviewers. In each panel there are 4 to 5 interviewers. These people are

from HR department and in case of specialist officer interview one person is from technical background who asks technical questions in the interview.

 How to prepare for the IBPS common interview:

Don’t need to bother for the common interview. They are going to ask you very simple questions. One advice I will give you is to be confident in interview panel. They are going to ask current affairs questions. Therefore it is necessary for you to read the newspaper 2 months prior to the interview. If you already read the newspaper then there is no problem with you. Don’t read just local newspaper instead read some national newspaper for the interview preparations.

If your interview is for the post of non-technical posts such as IBPS PO or Clerk then study all the banking terms. Interviewers will definitely ask you some of the banking terms such as SLR, what is NEFT, RTGS, types of account, role of RBI, types of loans, what is banana public, financial inclusion etc. therefore it is necessary for you to have knowledge of these banking terms. Search the Google for these banking sector terms. You will find many with solutions. And if your interview is for the technical post such as specialist officer post study basics of your core subjects such as in case of IT officer interview prepare questions from C/C++, java, DBMS, networking. They will answer simple questions so don’t bother for the technical interview.

In addition to this they will ask simple interview questions like your introduction, family background, why banking, your role model, your hobbies etc. besides these questions they can ask some hypothetical questions such as why banking sector not IT (if you are from engineering background), will you leave our bank on better job offer etc. so you should also practice how to handle these questions.

So these were the questions that will be asked in the IBPS interviews. Nothing will be asked other than this. So follow the above tips, don’t waste time and prepare for interview. You will definitely get good marks if you follow the above tips. If you have any queries or want to share something please comment below. I have provided some of the IBPS interviews of candidates. Please go through these interviews and have an idea of questions.