The Hot Seat Season
The Campus season is yet to start and so, please your Resume ready. Go buy yourself professional clothes and start polishing your language skills! Now, I'm no big interviewer as such but here are a few tips.

Here I go:

• Do a thorough research about the company. Every interviewer likes it when you know what the company does.
• Keep your job profile in mind, that will help you tackle questions such as, "Why do you want this job?" Oh, but please don't sound desperate unless you have some sincere financial problems under which case, state it plainly as one of the reasons.
• Female candidates, don't be afraid to wear formals. I'm quite confident that it will give a better impression about you to the interviewer.
• Take your time to answer. Don't rush.
• If you don't know the answer, be honest. You can't fool the technical interviewer. He'd drag you to hell if you try to fool him.
• Know yourself! And I mean, inside-out. The HR might grill you by asking questions as vague as, "When was the last time you got angry?" [I was asked that]
• Ask questions. It's extremely essential in any interview because they get an insight into your thinking. [There are books like 201 Questions to be asked on your interview]
• In an aptitude if you don't find the right answer for any question, restrict the tick to a common option. It'll give you a higher probability of a score than ticking on random options.
• Smartness always takes precedence over technical abilities because anyway they'll train you on the technical ability.
• Very important: Don't discuss the answers of the interview or the questions. The answers might demoralize and stress you. The questions might bewilder or prepare you but remember, the man on the other side knows the discussion might happen and so you're preparation might be vain, striking surprise!
• Finally, luck and hard-work goes hand in hand. So, don't expect too much and disappoint yourself. There's always something big in store.

I'd like to make a statement now that I usually tell myself, "An interview is just a combat between you and the other guy wherein you compel him to make you say what you want to say. You need to take control." If you get what I am trying to say, use your instincts to guide you when you're at the hot seat and I'm sure when you come out, you'll know if you have that edge and the chance.
Good Luck!