In today's cut throat competitive world, an enhanced personality, excellent communication and GDPI skills are essential facets of job seeking candidates to land the best jobs. I'm Not Afraid of GDPI, 2e comprehensively deals with every aspect of the hiring process and personal grooming required to be successful. Divided in two parts, part one guides the reader through the entire ion sequence starting with strong pre-preparation to group discussions and through to the final interview. Part two helps in laying a solid foundation for an attractive personality which will be yours for life, right from a confident mindset to a winning attitude, polished body-language to acquiring 'officer-like qualities'.

Salient Features
• Step-by-step guide to acing the selection process
• Discusses different ways to hone the career management skills
• Offers several valuable sutras to aid an all-round development of one's professional personality including etiquettes

Table of Content

Part 1 - Acing the Selection Procedures

1. Let's Begin

• But, what is personality?
• The other challenges
• Understanding Life Skills
• How to create magic in your life
• Faith in Self
• How to get the maximum from this book

2. Pre-Preparation

• Changing your mindset
• Enhancing English and improving General Knowledge as a Bonus!
• A Note on ';Indianisms' in English language
• Improving your speech
• Comprehension skills
• Improving your trade knowledge
• Typing skills
• Understanding your own priorities
• Selecting and applying to companies
• Reading up on the companies applied to
• Preparing the Portfolio

3. Writing a Powerful Biodata

• Understanding the Document
• Structure of a biodata
• Personal Details
• Photograph
• Career objective
• Professional section
• Work Experience
• Industrial Training Experience
• Educational qualifications
• Achievements
• Extra-curricular activities
• Hobbies and Interests
• Languages Known
• Formatting
• Common Mistakes Made
• A note on Applications and Covering letters
• For young professionals who are changing jobs
• Sending biodata via email
• Examples of bad and good biodata



4. Grooming For The Big Day

• Personal Hygiene
• Clothing and attire
• The Briefcase and the Portfolio

5. Group Discussions

• Types of Group Discussions
• Various roles in a GD and how to perform them
• Understanding the GD topic
• Types of GD topics and how to handle them
• A note on jargon and details
• How selectors evaluate you
• Practical application of all this knowledge
• Some additional dos and don'ts of group discussions
• When you don't know anything about the topic
• After the discussion
• Practice Group Discussion topics

6. Interviews

• Types of Interviews
• One on One
• Panel interview
• Telephonic interview
• Meal time interview
• Stress interview
• Internet interviews
• Practice interviews
• Entering the interview room and settling
• During the interview
• At the end of the interview
• The Questions
• Some more questions
• New, Emerging trends in Job Interviews

7. Feedback

• Getting the feedback
• Exit Interviews

Part 2 - Personality Development





8. Understanding and Cultivating a Polished Personality for Success

• Clarity of vision and goals
• Establishing priorities
• Time management
• Stress management and Work-Life balance
• Constantly upgrading yourself
• Emotional Stability
• Health
• A Myth buster

9. Manners, Etiquettes and OLQ's

• Pointers for candidates going through a job selection
procedure
• Pointers of general behavior for young professionals
• Etiquettes for formal situations
• Dining Etiquettes
• Telephone etiquettes
• Officer Like Qualities
• Political Correctness
• A note on People Skills

10. Body Language

• Understanding Body Language
• How body language helps
• Head movement
• Our Windows - The Eyes
• Using your Hands
• The Restless Legs
• The Magic of a Smile
• The Hows of Handshakes
• Etiquettes of shaking hands
• Types of Handshakes
• Body Language simplified for the Interview

11. Good Communication Made Easy

• Types of Communication
• Difference between written and spoken language
• Written (verbal) communication
• Spoken (verbal) communication
• Understanding good speech
• The elements of communication
• Putting the ';knowing' to work
• Effective listening
• Effective listening made easy
• Aides to effective listening