IIM ROHTAK TRANSCRIPT

BBA TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY

21st Feb 2026 Afternoon Slot

1 Male(32) 1 Female(40)

Me- May i come in sir

M1- Yes you may come in. Stand there and close the door

Me- Sure sir

M1 and F1 Discussing something in hindi about the previous candidate..”Isme isko zero do, isme 2 marks do, isme to bilkul zero do”

M1- Come here.

Me- Sure sir

M1- Please sit.

Me- How are you sir, how are you maam

F1- Good good, How was your day today,

Me:- It was a bit hectic and tiring day, laughed a bit

M1- Are you saying the interview process and waiting was hectic to you…(looked into my soul)

Me- No sir the interview process was smooth but coming to the premises was challenging for me as i changed different mode of transport including the iconic local trains…

M1F1 both laughed and agreed to me…

M1- But here it is written that you are from UP why you chose Kolkata instead of Delhi.

Me- There is a reason why i chose kolkata over delhi, Actually i come from a very low economic strata where to save some bucks i chose to come to kolkata because some of my relatives stay here…as well as i don’t have to worry about my food and electricity.

M1- Understandable….

F1- So you have done BBA TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY, haven’t you got placement?

Me- Actually i come from Covid batch and that time tourism and hospitality sector jobs were at lowest but i had internship in Jaipur, it was Offcampus…

M1- What was the name of the organisation?

Me- Misrii Home Food LLP

F1- What was your role?

Me- As an internship i had multiple roles in that company including data procurement, graphic designing and video editing and doing cold calls. I also helped them how to procure data properly and how you can use data scraper of different hotels and leisure places and copy them in excell sheet.

F1- Why only three months…why you went to kanpur?

Me:- At that time i was having good work in the company but due to mother’s health issue because she is a single mother as my father died in 2006 i had to go to kanpur…

F1- Sorry to hear that…any siblings?

Me- We are two siblings, my sister is 4 years older than me…

F1- What she is pursuing?

Me- She is studying Yoga and Psychology…

F1- Ohh!!! Which university…

Me- Kerala university…

M1- Gave an integration question and told me to draw a graph on that…

Me after 5 seconds:- I actually don’t know how to draw it sir…

M1- What??? Ye to class 10th ka question

F1- Are class 10th ka nhi class 8th ka question hai…

Me- So sorry i actually don’t know how to solve it but in future i will keep this in mind.

M1- Aap hi batao what should we ask you, which subject.(frustrated)

Me-BST, Micro economics, macro or marketing…

M1- What is Mashlow’s theory?

Me- It is a theory related to the ordering of needs a person would see

1- Psychological needs-roti kapda makaan

M1- Waah waah fir(excitedly)

Me- 2- Loved ones such as family need and 3-security…

M1- Interrupted…are you sure about that?

Me- (Pretty confident) as far as i remember it is loved ones and then security…

M1- Ruko abhi dikha raha hu…(showed me the chart on his phone)

Me- I was not aware of this fact…let me rephrase my answer…(chat gpt bangya bisi mai)

1- Psychological needs, 2-Security and safety, 3- Needs of loved ones, 4- Self Respect, 5-Self Actualization…

F1- What do you mean by Self Actualization…

Me- A person after attaining all the four factors will enter into self actualization focusing on development of society…

F1- Ok, We will give you a topic and you have to speak a minute in that…

Your topic is “Last one in the queue”.

Me:- Telling about my Interview experience because i was the second last in my panel…

F1- Interrupted….Last one in the queue any benefit…or negative points…i see you didn’t understood the topic properly…take 30 seconds more…

M1 whispering to F1:- Time ho raha hai bhot jyada, time waste ho raha hai…

Meanwhile me:- I am ready, no need of extra 30s seconds..

F1- Ohh okk please start…

Me:- Told a story from interview process(it was fake), how a person forgot to photocopy important documents while he was last in queue he got enough time to print the document…where i helped him by stating you can blinkit it…

F1- This is the cello tape, form a marketing strategy in it…

Me:- I would name it chipkooo as our target audience would relate the most from it…

I circulate it to retailers on consignment basis as well as to grow its goodwill we will use different marketing and branding strategy.

(i was not able to articulate it properly)

F1- Okk stop here…we get your point…what is FMCG…

Me- Fast moving cargo goods which relatively has low retail price and have a higher buying rate…

F1- Okk understood…

M1- Any certificates you have brought to show what you have done…

Me- I didn’t brought any certificates but i have a valid reason…

M1- No need to justify we know why you didn’t brought it…

M1- It’s nice meeting you…take this notepad..

F1- Take toffee “it was on the table” (nervous ass me didn’t picked it up) and Change your id and ask the other person to come…

Me- (i changed the id) after that i said Thank you so much maam thank you so much sir have a nice day…