NICL AO Interview pattern in last one week

18 march 2014

NICL AO Interviews are on full swing across various cities in India. After a small break of Holi in north India the process gets continued on Tuesday. In last one week thousands of candidates have been interviewed across India with the aim of finding the best among the lot. While the normal operating offices of NICL have been unaffected by the process, the Regional Offices Personnel Departments are fully mobilized exclusively for it. They are strictly instructed to keep an eye on the process in their regions. The Official of the Personnel Departments are instructed to make their presence in person throughout the day and are ordered to reach the interview venues one hour before the scheduled time for the candidates. Even the document verification work is to be done by the officers not the below the rank of AO.

As far as pattern for the interview is concerned, it is in line with what we have advised to our friends wherein we had suggested AO-generalists candidates to concentrate more on the GK and personal information aspects rather than the technical ones. For generalist candidates the focus is more on your personal achievements for last 2-3 years and previous work experience. Apart from that good amount of GK questions are also being asked with the present relevance. Chaining Questions like who is Anna Hazare, with which bill he is linked, what is Jan Lokpal bill are being asked. Similarly candidates were asked about in which state recently emergency was imposed, under which article the emergency can be imposed, who is Kejriwal, what is the name of the party which he has formed. Candidates with marketing backgrounds were asked to sell things similarly Pharma graduates were asked to advice the medicines for ailment with different symptoms. Candidates going for AO(IT) specialists were mainly asked the question related with their domain like defining and explaining WAN, LAN etc.

One of the most important development seen in this year’s interview process is inclusion of at least one female senior official in the interview panel to make sure that the female candidates feel more comfortable in facing interview. Another important trend of the interview is that the candidates are not given much time to think the answer and questions are bombarded on them like rapid fire round to see their quick decision making capacity. Hence all our friends are requested to be prepared in advance for some of the common question like introduction and reason for Gap after qualification. Soon we will upload the most frequent questions asked in this years interview.

Insurance Bharat wishes Best of Luck to all the candidates for their selection. Please note that Insurance Bharat is a small attempt to help our friends aspiring for administrative Officer Position in the GIC companies and is not linked with any organisation. Insurance Bharat is not a profit making body and it doesn’t ask for any kind of financial assistance from any individual/organisation. Students in their own interest are requested to contact the NICL office directly to get any clarification regarding NICL AO-2014 process.

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First Day experience of interview for NICL AO 2014

NICL has started the interviews to select the Administrative Officers for the four General Insurance Companies on Monday in New Delhi. The venue for the interview was at Hans Hotel, Barakhamba, Connaught Place. Candidates hardly have the problem to reach the venue as the venue is well connected with bus as well as metro. The nearest metro station is Barakhamba Metro Station. NICL has made the arrangements to conduct the interviews smoothly and has deployed the officers from its Delhi Regional Office to oversee the process. There were some of the students who have queries regarding how many copies of the certificates are to be brought and others were willing to know whether NOC is requires at the time of interview on not. 

The reaction of the candidates were mixed, Engineering candidates were happy for the fact that not much core technical questions were asked from them for example electronic engineers were not asked to draw the low band filters or transformers equivalent circuit; similarly computer Science engineers were also not asked to write the C++ codings etc. However questions like ‘which article deals with emergency in constitution’ or ‘who was the PM and President at the time of emergency’ has left the candidates puzzled. Questions regarding the reason for joining the insurance sector was asked to most of the candidates. Not much was asked from the core insurance sector.

The demography of the candidates was more than expected as the candidates from varied fields were called for the interview ranging from Engineers, Arts graduate, Science graduates and  Paramedical fields as well. Most of the candidates attending the interview had B.Tech as their education qualification. Quite a good amount of candidate also has previous work experience. Among the experienced candidates were the candidates already working in banks as PO, engineers working in MNCs etc. The process will continue for some more days at Delhi before the final list of selected candidate would be out.


Insurance Bharat wishes Best of Luck to all the candidates for their selection.  Please note that Insurance Bharat is a small attempt to help our friends aspiring for administrative Officer Position in the GIC companies and is not linked with any organisation. Insurance Bharat is not a profit making body and it doesn’t ask for any kind of financial assistance from any individual/organisation. Students in their own interest are requested to contact the NICL office directly to get any clarification regarding NICL AO-2014 process.

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Basic Insurance questions for selected NICL- AO 2014 aspirants

Since this is the time when most of our newly selected aspirants of NICL AO-2014 must be searching for some material to learn the basics of insurance. We at Insurance Bharat have tried our bit to help them with one of the simplest materials. We have dedicated a special section called ASK YOUR QUERY to help them further. We hope this could be of some help to them.Please note that Insurance Bharat is not a commercial site and it is specially designed  by young minds to help the people in the field without asking for anything in return. No need to say you all can always ask any doubt you have in mind with respect to NICL AO recruitment 2014, we will try to help you out. ..Best of luck to you all !!

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