SUMMARYInterviews involve two parties – the interviewer and the interviewee. Of the several types of interviews, selection and placement interviews are most common place. In these interviews, candidates are matched with job requirements and then select them. It involves giving them details of nature of work, duty hours, location etc, creating mutual understanding / confidence and promoting firms’ goodwill among the candidates. Different skills are required by interviewers and interviewees. However, interviewees benefit a great deal if they are aware of the mindsets of the interviewers. Interviewers need to prepare for the interaction by acquiring good knowledge of the job requirements – duties, responsibilities, qualifications, training, work experience, technical requirements, acquired knowledge / skills, working conditions etc. They should be mature, objective and good listeners. They should have experience of conducting placement / selection interviews, poise, sincerity, sound judgement and ability to conduct good interactions with persons of target age group. During the interviews, they should make the candidates comfortable, let them do most of the talking, pay attention to their body language and remain silent so that candidates speak more. They should respect interviewees’ feeling even when they are wrong, avoid impulsive change of topic of discussion, not argue with candidates, be informal and empathetic. They should give all the required details about the company before candidates’ departing and should always end with formal thanks. Interviewers must evaluate the candidates to format agreed among the members of the interviewing panel and selection criteria should include appearance, poise, communication skills, self confidence, integrity, inter-personal skills besides experience, maturity, sense of responsibility and leadership potential. Based on traits exhibited by interviewers, they can be classified as sympathetic, bully, psycho, techno or professional.On the other hand, interviewees should, besides knowing details of future employer, prepare for the interview by knowing own strengths / weaknesses, being thorough with own resume, details of job profile for which he is being interviewed, knowing venue, date and time of interview, salary ranges applicable etc. Candidates should also be aware of own appearance, first impression, true nature of body language, and importance of oral communication skills. They should also be ready with answers to frequently asked questions. Interviewees should also be familiar with the process of interview including the steps involved and be aware of the reasons why people fail to get hired. They should adopt positive behaviour during interviews and curb negative attitude. In general, there are five types of candidate – shy, talkative, nervous, cunning and centipede. Every candidate should become aware of own type and work hard to overcome those deficiencies.KEYWORDS(1)Selection – It is the process of discrimination, determination or nomination of winners among several options available.(2)Placement – It is positioning, installing and seating of selected candidates in to the organizations.(3)Job description – It is writing down giving full details of the job in words that make a picture and highlights the kind, variety of the requirements of the job.(4)Job analysis – It is an incisive break up of a job description in to its parts and components that highlight its physical / mental needs, acquired knowledge, skill, education and experience, working condition / environment as objectively as possible.(5)Hobbies – These are those activities that persons love to do in their spare time and are their favourite pastime, avocation or sideline.(6)Contradiction – It is the denial, disagreement, rebuttal, countering of a thing or position. (7)Jargon – It is the dialect that is outlandish, somewhat derogatory and use of slang.(8)Cynical – It is being skeptical, pessimistic, sarcastic and scornful.(9)Rehearsing – It is practicing, running / going through over and again, training by repeating / drilling, perfecting and polishing some thing.(10)Arrogance – It is being haughty, proud, conceited, snobbish, assuming and overbearing.