Should GD be Part of Campus Placements?

As per my experience or my point of view, companies should not rely on selecting candidates on the basis of GD's. I m not saying that GD's should be eliminated from selection process. What I m saying is that it should not be given much weightage. How can a person be wholly judged by his/her communication skills or on the basis of how he/ she is interacting with others. I t is not necessary that a person who is proficient in many working skills will be good in taking part in a discussion just to make others agree on his/her thoughts. Or if we see it from the side of a person who is good in Gd's then also it is not possible that every that candidate who has performed well in discussion will be good at working in the organization.

Before that, we must decide weather the company is selecting intelligent and hardworking people or those who are talkative and smart in discussions. Sometimes people do not get thoughts in mind while discussing and so not able to speak. And there are many people who are of reserved type and do not speak a lot or not social. Then also they get hesitated while speaking.

Same thing happens to me also that I can not speak well on a topic in 5 - 10 minutes. Rather I can write it (manually) in an excellent way. So it does not mean that I am bad at speaking part. Then how can I be judged on that criteria. If I would have given a chance to speak upon the same, then I could not have spoken in such an elaborated manner.

I have seen many people who are not good in studies but are performing very well on Gd part. In a working organization, working skills are more important. And to be good in speaking you do not need to face Gd's everyday. People who are good in speaking will speak well. For that his/ her communication skill can be judged personally also.

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Yes. Gd should be Part of Campus Placement because every company has some mission and vision. So During the time of GD company looks for the thinking power of person, Communication skill and ability to take leadership qualities. So that after requirements company can get better candidate who will be able to take responsibility of mission and vision.

Lastly, I would like to say that as we know in our life.

Everymoments has some learning things. So, GD is the way where we can learn the communication skill and leadership qualities by listening, speaking and participating.

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I think GD should not be part of campus placement because person with good communication skill may not be good in technical (Except Management placements) even if a company wants to have this as one of the filter in placement then it should be after technical round. People with good technical skill or analytical skill may not have command over speaking fluently.

Its actually depends on the company perspective what kind of talent they are looking for.

In my opinion every thing has positive & negative thoughts. As the same the useful of GD is checking the candidate's communication skills, thinking innovation skills and knowledge about the environment skills.

The negative of GD is someone is very talent in technical skills but that time their feeling uncomfortable. At that time they does not speak. So they are eliminate.

I think GD is not important for the selection of job because the company lose the good technician.

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I am Mayank as far as.

I concerned Gd must be the part of camps placement it helps to identify the leadership skills, communication skills as well as teamwork of the candidate. Nowadays every organisation works on the basis of a project which includes various members where it is most important to coordinate with the team members for which they require good communication skills as well as teamwork. Further I want to enlighten that GD shows the knowledge of the candidate about the current affairs as well as his/her opinion on that. It is true that in this process the candidates who have good technical skills get eliminated but in today scenario you cannot work without having good communication skills because in that if you are not good in communication so you can not explain your point to you juniors or superiors. So it should be part of campus placement.

No, it should not be a part of technical placement, I am totally disagree with is, a person is strong enough in web designing and he is not skilled enough in speaking, if company is searching for web designer, that what is need of searching a person who is skilled in oration it should be compulsory in marketing, as an anchor, n etc where speaking skills are needed.

In my opinion, GD should be a part of campus recruitment because is helps HR to know the confidence level of candidates, communication skills, knowledge about current affairs and how he can express his views!

As we all know nowadays we have to work on projects and teamwork! Good communication skills help us to make a good bond with our team workers, so we can explain them without any conflicts.

Although technical skills also very important! If a person does not have any knowledge! He/she cannot help the company so we should make a balance.

Hi friends,

I think GD is good process for recruitment but it should not be filtering process. It checks communication skills your attitude, confidence level, behavior, way of speaking etc. And these all things are important for good employee but in spite of all thee things some students are afraid of GD they can't speak well in front of people but technically they are superb so the interviewer should judge the student not only with GD but also also with his/her interview also.

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".

According to me, GD should be done because it will check several qualities of the candidates that make him/her different from the crowd.

Now there are also some candidates who are very good at technical as well as practical skills who do not have very good and fluent English so they are discarded in the very initial phase that is something hurting those candidates.

The companies have to check their views not their Grammer or fluency if his thoughts are good they have to consider those candidates.

May if he improves his/her English during the job he/she will be very beneficial for the company.