Should GD be Part of Campus Placements?

This is the era of knowledge and as well presentation and considering this point, group discussion makes its significance. Today we want leaders who can motivate and guide others. When you are going in outside world to do a job, your technical knowledge matters but moreover it's important how to express and assimilate this knowledge and that is the main reason why it's so necessary. It gives you the confidence to put your views & also improves your logical and analytic power.

But mainly GD is held in English and there are many people who feel uncomfortable while giving their views in English other than Mother Tongue. That's why I am saying that GD is necessary but don't make it the final criteria for the selection. Include it but also check the technical and social knowledge of that person & then evaluate the all things honestly.

In my opinion GD is important to some extent to select a person. If a person having only good communication skill is not enough for any job. GD should always be known topics then only we know how is his point of view, how he take things in a better way. These days most of job seekers are mainly afraid of GD and JAM sessions in interviews because most of them graduate from regional language. It will definitely affect those guys who are pursuing graduation from regional language.

In my opinion if GD conducted at the final level of interview there is a chance company may not loose the skilled person. What companies did with the person only having communication skills without technical skills. No company in the history survived only having persons with communication skills. Finally what I want to say is GD should not filtering process.

My opinion is GD should not be a part of company process.

Aim of GD is to know whether a person communicates well or not? If the job profile is pure technical what is the need of communication skills there.

Suppose if we take an example of Abdul Kalam Sir, First time when he was searching for a job he got rejected for lack of communication skills this is written in wings of fire but he is missile man of India and president of India. It means if the profile is purely based on technical no need to search about communication skills.

Communication skills are required convey the information. However that comes with one or two years experience in the company. Why I am saying like this is in India many students are studied their elementary education in their mother tongue. Though they have talent they are poor in communication skills.

In my perspective GD should not be the part of the campus placement because instead of that extempore should be their for the students to check their communication skills as far as assessment concern.

Gd in the campus placement is some time barrier to the good technical knowledge student but unfortunately he lose the opportunity to get place in the dream company, fish market in the GD may results in the not selection of the any candidates.

2. GD is always based on the topic but the topic which is provided by the panelist may be come from various sectors so this may create the problem for the content which important for speaking fluently.

3. Extempore with the 3 options can create the great opportunity to speak out confidently after all communication and body language all these are the cover in it.

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G. D is a way to filter out candidates on a bulk basis.

GD should be made compulsory during placements.

I would like to strengthen my argument by providing the picture of the work culture in a company, M.N.C's in particular.

People don't work individually rather they work in groups as teams.

Now, if an HR recruiter hires a person without filtering the candidates via GD round.

He would bring a person who is not capable of understanding the strength of a team.

Now you may ask how this would affect the company?

At this point, I would like to mention that if a certain task is assigned to the person in the lime light, he might not be able to handle the social pressure or peer pressure.

SO, basically, GD is conducted in order to access a candidates team skills and to access his skills under pressure.

GD is a mean of checking how well an individual would be able to work in a team. Since every individual needs to work in a team in any Software Company, it is very important to know whether the candidate would be able to mingle and move along with the other members of his team.

Also group discussions are a part of the selection process because, it is a part of every employee in his work field to attend meetings, discuss brief ideas and showcase their project development, and GD's help in knowing the capacity of the individual to attend such meetings.

But when it comes to purely technical companies like electronic or chemical core companies group discussions should not be a part of the selection process as technical knowledge is not communication skills, instead it is subject knowledge.

First of all I am strongly agree with you. According to me GD must the be part of the recruitment process. Why because it is the best activity that not only reflects your knowledge but also the your communication skills much more. It will give the brief information regarding your leadership, how you convince someone. And how you present yourself in front of others that is when you are working with your teammates.

If the recruiting company is related to the management or marketing field then your command on the language is of more importance. If suppose the company is related to the technical field then technical related GD should be there. The technical subjects like "should all the automobiles have ABS (antilock braking system) or not".

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The topic for discussion is Should GD be Part of Campus Placements?

"Words have a lot of Power"- Using goods words is very important for to give an impression.

But much more important is how to use this good words in a proper manner and that's what we called COMMUNICATION SKILLS. Having good communication skills is very necessary.

So, I totally agree with GDs should be Part of Campus Placements. It really helps Company judging students who are having good communication and confidence.

The company obviously will be wanting the students having good communication skills, So that after joining.

That student can handle the company and the employees can communicate to their customers`and brings the project to the company.

Hello friend, according to my opinion, there should be GD in placement campus but it should be in proper manner so that everyone can get opportunities to use own thinking power. How he is deep and strong in thinking power? in technical round anyone can answered the question if he/she did studied well. But this is not important step for campus placement. For example : in sales/marketing/business, we need a high standard qualify student who is good in communication and can interact easily with customer.

In this case there is no importance of how much you strong in technical subject. This is fact for all it as well as core company. According to my opinion there should be aptitude test followed by Gd and interview for campus placement.

To be Frank That's Not A gd in placement Scenario. In My Entire life I never knew a professional group discussion to be ended with many people shouting. If GDs is what corporate world mean during recruiting process, they should allot some more time.

An Excellent gd comprises of sharing opinions and reaching Conclusions unanimously but in such competitive scenario all norms are broken and is turned to a quarrel. A debate is diff. Than a GD. The Real And appreciative GDs happens within the organisation for considering several points delivered in intellectual way not shouting! So I think GDs should be there but it should be judged by several traits of candidate, not the person eager to dominate or shout with any fallacies.