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My Target Service Selection Board (SSB)

3. The candidates who does not possess required officer like quality and has been brought up in the
surrounding which has suppressed the OLQ’s as an overcome by negative OLQ’s due to bad
environment factors.

The Personality Traits Necessary to be an Officers are

1. Effective Intelligence: Most of the jobs in armed forces are practical rather than analytic and the
main job of the officer is to follow the orders of his seniors’ orders. On the field all it requires is to be
practical, spontaneous and courageous.
2. Reasonability: To be reasonable means to be able to ask the question, i.e. why I am doing a
particular job.

3. Organizing: Use the resources to its maximum is one of the specialty of an armed force officer.

4. Power of Expression: Power of expression is a trait required for mobilizing people. Your orders
mean to the difference of life and death in war so it is very important for an officer to have a clear set
of vision.

5. Initiative: An officer is always enthusiastic, lively and optimistic. He has the courage to take
reasonable risk ion the field.

6. Self Confidence:

7. Progressive

8. Lerner
9. Confident of your abilities

10. Alert: To be Spontaneous, speed to make a decision, and adaptive as you never know what will
come across your way, so you always has to be prepared for any kind of situation.

11. Liveliness: Energetic, optimist about the future, always active and cool and relaxed person
always deal with a situation with a positive and an easy approach rather than a complex approach.

12. Influential: The best quality of a leader is that he has a clear vision and he motivates his followers
to move towards a bright future. He mobilize his team towards the objective and leave a positive
impact on them.