Group Discussion or GD, the short way we call, is a common practice of recruiting candidates. It is usually an elimination round and it is conducted because of the huge number of applicants or time constraint for interviewing all the candidates. It can never assess the capability of a person. Recruiters may say that we can gauge the person’s team playing ability but at the end of the day, people who dominate others,who never let others voice out their opinions, who possess high pitch voices clear the GD.
Is it really worth? People who are really good in their thought process, team playing ability but little soft spoken, are they not fit to be selected in an organisation? Does an organisation want people who are commanding? Being assertive is acceptable but being over dominant is not at all a desirable quality and recruiters easily fall in the trap of the candidates.
GD is mostly conducted as a custom rather than a real selection process. Even if some recruiters know about the cons of the GD, they conduct it just as a practice to show that they are not violating the traditions! But the whole point is that, whom should we prove by doing so? Neither the candidates are happy nor recruiters are happy as they land up recruiting dominant people.
Although these are facts one can never avoid them. So while in a GD, don’t follow ethics, just be over assertive and shoot out good points. Barge in unconditionally and ‘shout’ at the top of your voice, because finally what matters is your bread and butter.
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Good effort!
It’s a well thought process if it’s adopted all over the world. Don’t you think?
@Divya- First of all a ‘wrong’ wont be ‘right’ if its done by majority of the people.
Second of all, this method is being eliminated in majority of the selection processes. Eg: New selection process of IIMs, replacing GD with WAT.
By the way the above post is written based on my personal experience and thought process and I do agree that you may not perceive the same.
great article
I don’t completely agree.. GD is still effective… A natural leader will be evolved in any group, also a person’s communication, presentation skills, how a person react to a point he don’t agree, all these matters in corporate world. And it is well evaluated in GDs
Nice!!!
Well written. Though its not always just ‘shouting’ that matters, allowing others to speak and taking the team together also matters. One may lead the team but not destroy the essence of a ‘group’ discussion. This is what i have personally observed always.
Good 🙂
informative
nice…
It lets out the confidence and the leadership qualities of the interviewee in a GD which makes the recruiters’s job easier.
Well written but I beg to differ my friend. Our etiquettes count and so does our behaviour! We shall put up iur point with firmness but not by shouting and creating a chaos. 🙂
nice work and ice topic for the article.