Shankar IAS Interview Questions HR

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STANDARD HR QUESTIONS

(SOURCE: PUBLICLY AVAILABLE UPSC INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS 2017-2020)


# QUESTION

1 please Introduce yourself.


2 Why civil services?
3 Why do you want to be an IAS .
4 You are earning very well, why IAS? (Follow up)
5 Why civils? You are in a good place in your life (follow up)
6 Why do you want to be an IAS apart from the traditional reasons ?
7 Is there anything like glamour and Status.
8 Why everyone wants to be an IAS? Despite the fact that Authority of IAS is diluting.
9 Is the supremacy of IAS in the bureaucracy is the reason?
10 Why IAS and not doctor.
11 Why not pursue a career in btech? why IAS?
12 Why u want to come to monotonous civil services?
13 Why we take you in civil services?
14 Why work for government?
15 Why you going to join Civils services and not R &D??
16 Will u join any service:
17 Will u join IDAS?
18 You have worked so and so place Are you overqualified for civil services?
19 You have completed your graduation in 2015 , what are you doing since then?
You wish to serve the nation. You could have done it through armed forces. Why not armed forces but civil
20 services?
21 Are not the people working in construction sector serving the nation?
22 aren't all citizens serving the country in one form or the other?
23 You might have faced some difficulties growing up. Tell me 3 such issues and how you overcame?
24 Why preparing at Delhi?
25 Why not at home?
26 why do you think extra curricular activities are important in child’s education??
27 Who is more inspirational - your mother or father?
28 Who is ur ideal person
29 Who is you fav political leader anand why??
30 You have shaved in the morning ?
31 Who invented razor ?
32 You are in your twenties, so tell me about the challenges Youth face today?
33 What qualities r needed for an IAS?
34 What the qualities a leader should have?
35 Aim of administration.
36 What u have learned in life in these years. ?
37 What were you doing after leaving job?
38 What were you doing after your graduation?
39 What were you thinking when sitting outside the room.
40 What would u do if in any service,u r not given good assignments.
41 Where do you see yourself 20 years from now.
42 What is purpose of your life, why u are living?
43 What is the influence of your mother on you? (Mother is a teacher)
44 what is your back up plan?
45 What is your weakness?
46 How r u going to work in administration with these?
47 When did you receive the intimation about the interview?
48 Where would you like to be posted? Told Home state
49 What motivated you to do civil service
50 What qualities of a good administrator do you posses?
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51 What do you understand by ethical dilemma? Give me an example


52 What guarantee do we have that you won't be a corrupt person once you join the services?
53 What have you learnt from your preparation ?
54 Why is there such huge gap between people and bureaucracy?
55 So, In which area you want to work in civil services?
56 why people want government jobs?
57 who is the most remarkable person you have met ?
58 if we remove the security and permanent nature from govt job, will people prefer govt. Jobs?
59 people like baba amte have done so much good work being outside government. Is that better?
60 who should come first family or society in carrying out responsibility.
61 5 success and failures of your lyf.
62 5 strong points about me
63 Based my strong and weakness I told, he asked do u have dual personality?( I had to justify my stance)
64 Being a women can you handle political interference and how?
65 Are you deadline sticking person or let it goes as routine type person ? Example
66 Are you very sure of your career choice? have you made that decision?
67 Civil Services has so many challenges, still why u want to come ?
68 How will you be able to stand up against these challenges?
69 convince us...your logic of civils services joining
70 Can you live in Delhi where you have to travel by bus and pick you files yourself..??
71 Did you have humanities subjects in engineering?
72 Difference between Civil services and Defence Jobs
73 Difference between Older and Younger generation?
74 how have u come here
75 Did u get stuck in jam
76 So, how will reduce traffic problem?
77 What did you observe today while coming here?
78 How did you feel entering upsc building for the first time?

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79 How do you handle such situations when you get nervous?


80 Have you cleared any other exam? Did you join?
Nowdays, young people like you move out of their homes at an early age. What impact does it have on the family as
81 a whole ?
82 Ok you have one minute convince me why should we hire you for this job?
83 Preparation vs attempt ( and related cross questions)
Many students are not working in their graduation subject? Many of them also coming in civil services? Why so?
84 Don't you think is it failure of our education system?
85 Do you think you would be a good administrator?
86 Does honesty only relates to not being corrupt.
87 How significant emotional intelligence is for you?
88 What makes you calm and poised?
89 govt wasted money on you in education. now why are you coming here?
90 Can we say that this is the case of technocratic sanskritisation?
91 Tell me in recent past what sensitivity you have shown towards others problem?
92 Tell me what was the most difficult decision you had to make in your life?
93 The problem & challenges of Civil services.
94 Tell me the three key qualities of a public servant.
95 Tell me what a technical sector leadership should be?
96 If we assign you as administrator of a technical sector what changes you should suggest to reform it.
97 Unique quality about urself
We need to appear again and again for getting into desired service..what do you think...do we need to change the
98 existing patter or is it ok?
99 So, what options you are left with?
100 What about this gap for civils and changing technology in industry, how can you manage?
101 Then he asked how would I feel if they finish my interview within 20 minutes. Will you be happy and if yes why?
102 how you decided on civil service? A lot of people come here for an illusion of what it is
103 What about civil services? Are you doing it due to family, friends or peer pressure?

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104 What are all the preparations you made for the interview after receiving the call letter?
105 What are the other prospects of diversity of the job?
106 What are your qualities?
107 What did you find interesting in the UPSC examination process?
108 What did your father say about your preparation as you are preparing since 2015?
109 What do you do in your free time other than preparation?
110 What do you expect from this interview and IAS ?
111 Was 20th Century good, or 21st Century?
112 What are the incidences of happiness in your life?
113 What are the problems a civil servant faces while in office?
114 Sitauational question..Should dm use his popularity to counter politicians illegitimate pressure/threat.
115 Skill, Knowledge and Attitude - which is most important as per you for a leader?
116 Don't you think bureaucracy needs innovation?
117 What kind of innovation needed?
118 what innovation is needed in the structure and processes?
119 Should civil servants speak in public?
120 Do you mean that restrain should be there from allowing civil servants from going to public domain
121 Ethics in administration.
122 Do you think there is corruption in public life in India?
123 Give one most important v value need for civil servant as per you?
124 How will you use graduation knowledge in administration?
125 Name the three sectors that will be your priority in civil services
126 If you become an IFS officer, which language will you choose to learn and why?
127 Have have joined any educational institution after 2010.
128 Engibeers doing so good outside, wht are you here?
Govt spending so much on IITs thinking that they need engineers. Don't u think u'll waste resources of govt by
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I generally see that if mother is a teacher children turn out be good. Do you agree? Give me a general answer for
130 the reasons not personal experiences?
131 How will you ensure honesty and proper implementation of tasks amongst your subordinates.
132 How will you manage the workload ensuring problems of public is solved in a time bound manner…
133 If there is a situation where you have to deal with duty and your personal life how you handle?
134 If you know such situation where personal beliefs conflicts with duty how you handle?
135 How does empathy towards women get created?
136 How long IAS will serve as DM and in the field?
137 From what other sources you have learnt things in your life ?
138 Have we asked questions as you expected or anything different?
139 What plans do you have for the evening today?
140 Is there something you prepared and we have not asked?
141 Is there anything else you want us to ask?
142 Is there anything you want to ask us?

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