Basic Questions for all departments

Q1) Introduce yourself briefly. What are your hobbies and interests? (Icebreaker question so this
is compulsory)

Q2) What societies are you in? What core positions do you have/are hoping to get? Rank all
societies in your order of priority.

Q3) Anything ideas/suggestions for the department? What things can we improve on? What new
things do you wanna start?

Q4) Any ideas for other departments?

Q5) What makes you fit for this role?

Q6) Any other interests apart from content writing? If yes, then why did you choose the content
department and not that department ?

Q7) Tell us 2 of your strengths.

Q8) Tell is one reason why we shouldn’t take you.

Q9) If the interview is bad give them 2-3 minutes at the end to share whatever they wanna share.

Q10) NSS facts (Motto/ ministry it is under)

Q11) How do you manage criticism?

Social Change

Q1) Give a topic and give them 2-5 minutes to think. Then ask them to pitch an idea for a reel or
IGTV (script/basic plot of the skit)
Topic ideas (ask them to choose from 3 options)
1) women’s day
2) consumer protection
3) mental health
4) pride
5) swachh bharat
6) save electricity
7) international day of disabled persons
Q2) Are you comfortable in front of the camera?

Q3) Do you have any social media accounts for content creation? Reels/IGTVs/YouTube
anything

Q4) Do they know video editing? (Inshot, imovie, any other software)

Marketing

Q1) Do you have any prior experience using any designing software/app? If yes, then how
much?

Q2) Have you used these skills for any society/organisation before?

Q3) How good do you think you are as a designer? Are there any particular things that you
wanna improve on?

Q4) Assignment- 4 hours to complete

Choose from these 5 options:
Kargil Vijay Diwas

(We’ll know if you copy or ask some other member to help)

Q5) How do you manage criticism? (Compulsory for marketing people)

Kaabil

Q1) Do you have any prior experience in teaching?

Q2) How good do you think you are at teaching? Are there any particular things that you wanna
improve on?

Q3) What classes would you be able to teach?

Give situation-based questions according to their preferences.
Situations:

Q4) Will you be able to speak in front of 100 children if we have zoom classes?

Q5) Do you know how to make PPTs? What platform do you use?
Q6) How can you make your teaching more effective?

Q7) Give content and ask them to teach. (Nouns or poem or maths)
(Share docs w everyone)

Content

Q1) What do you think makes content good?

Expected answers can be

- Usefulness
- Engagement i.e. types of headlines, stats, important data, dialogues etc. are added in the content
- Credibility/Authenticity (i.e.
with proofs)
- Individuality/Originality i.e. no plagiarism

Q2) What do you not like seeing in content? When does content become bad?

Q3) How do you ensure the authenticity of the information?

Q4) What kind of writing style do you prefer/tend to stick to? For example, do you write poetry,
prose, freestyle poetry, lyrical prose or nothing in particular?

Q5) How do you manage criticism? (Compulsory for content people)

Q6) What language are you most comfortable with?

Q7) Task- write 200-300 words on a topic in 2 hours.

Topic ideas (give them 3 options to choose from)

Q8) Prior experience as a content writer? Any society or organisation or personal writing

ER

Q1) What do you think your responsibility would be as a member of ER?

Q2) How will you search for sponsors?

Q3) Situation based questions:

-Suppose Neha is your sponsor and she is offering you 10 rupees per download, negotiate the
rates with her.

Q4) What platforms will you use to search for speakers?

Q5) What is the significance of the ER department for NSS?

Q6) Do you have contacts of any sponsors or speakers?

Q7) In 1 hour, send a mock mail to NSS’ PR id, same as you would send to someone inviting
them to be the speaker at a webinar (you don’t have to choose the speaker)
Topics ideas for the webinar (give them 2 to choose from)
Women safety
Mental health
Yoga

Think Tank

Q1) Give a project idea - online

Q2) Give a project idea- offline

Q3) State one problem (each) we can face in your online and offline project ideas.

Q4) If we turn these ideas into a fundraiser, would they be successful? How?

Q5) Ideas for other departments (compulsory for think thank people)

Q6) Situation based questions

Q7) How do you manage criticism? (Compulsory for think tank people)