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My Target Service Selection Board (SSB)

Here are a few questions that you can ask yourself that may help you put yourself in a better position

to achieve your goals, be it for a job promotion or anything you wish to achieve in life. These are all
questions that sport coaches ask players to think about:

o Can I improve upon my individual skills?
o Can I improve communication with other people?
o Do I have enough strength to beat my opponents?
o Am I able to tackle the situations that make me panic?

o Am I associating with the right people?
o Am I confident in my skills?

If the answer for these questions is YES, then reinforce those actions and don’t let them go. But if
the answer is NO, then there is a chance for you to work on yourself and keep on growing and get
into a good position.

Always remember, if you create zero opportunities to score, you will never win. And you can still win
the game even if you are not in full control of it as long as you are effective. So, focus on increasing
your odds of scoring, create chances and succeed!

Essential Pre Interview Preparations at SSB

Interview is an important process and a sort of compulsory process everywhere in every organization
selection process. This process is assumed to be a fool proof process and it is believed that it would
capture and help in judgment of all what an assessor is looking in a candidate for his particular
needs as per organization specifications. For SSB also the same process has been kept to assess
the aspirants and judge their OLQ’s and in this way the interview at SSB becomes slightly different
from the other organizations. Here things are judged psychologically and the intention is the search
of OLQ’s.

My other articles have clearly defined what should be the dos and don’ts for the PI and what are the
various OLQ’s that are being looked in the candidate. So it’s better to go with a little bit of
preparation which can save and make the day of aspirant. Many aspirants requested to share this
hence writing this article. The following tips could be useful before entering the Interview hall:

1. Winning SSB has simple mantra of revealing yourself truthfully and this mantra applies here
as well. Just go through your resume to see what have been your achievements and keep it
in your mind.
2. PIQ filling is an art. I ensure in my mentorship program and always tell my mentees also that
filling PIQ is something that should be done with utmost care and needs full attention so that
you don’t miss on any important points. Revise your PIQ also as this would form the very
base of the questions that could most probably be asked to you.
3. General awareness should be descent if not good and it is expected that a future officer
would know what is happening in his/her surroundings.
4. Officers that assess aspirants at SSB have a habit of cross verifying things so just remember
that everything matches. What you fill in SD test of Psychology should have similar qualities
as you want to reveal in PI because the same person cannot have different images.
5. Your dress will cast the very first impression on officer so it should be proper.