UIIC AO Interview Questions 2024, Know How to Prepare

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UIIC AO Interview Questions 2024

UIIC AO Interview Questions 2024: The United India Insurance Company (UIIC) will conduct the interview round for the recruitment of Administrative Officers 2024. The exam for the same was conducted on 13th February 2024. Candidates who qualify the exam will receive the call letter for the interview. This article guides candidates on how to prepare for the interview, including different types of questions and how to prepare for them.

UIIC AO Interview Questions – Important Dates

Candidates who have applied for the UIIC AO 2024 recruitment and appeared for the exam should keep an eye on the schedule of the same. The following table provides the schedule and important dates of UIIC AO Recruitment 2024.

Event	Date
UIIC AO Notification 2024	7th January 2024
UIIC AO Apply start	8 January 2024
UIIC AO Apply Last Date	23 January 2024
UIIC AO Written Exam Admit Card	2nd February 2024
UIIC AO Exam Date	13th February 2024
UIIC AO Result 2024	TBA
UIIC AO Interview Call Letter	TBA
UIIC AO Interview Result 2024	TBA

UIIC AO 2024 Interview Questions

Candidates preparing for the UIIC AO interview should anticipate and prepare the answer to the following questions:

Self-introduction
Extra-curricular
Personal Life (About parents/siblings)
Location preference
Why are you pursuing a career in Insurance as opposed to your field
Questions specific to your specialization/ work experience.
Current affairs particularly relating to Banking, Insurance, and Economy
Social Issues
Basics of Insurance- basic concepts, definitions, institutions, and trends in India
About UIIC

UIIC AO Interview Questions 2024 – Types of Questions

Now that we broadly know the categories of questions, let’s take a look at a few examples.

Self-Introductions

Name, education, work experience (if any)
Family’s occupation
About your native place and state
Your strengths and weaknesses
Difficulty situations you may have navigated before and how
Future plans
Hobbies and extracurricular activities
What makes you suitable for the role

Tips: Make sure to be honest. Interviewers can always tell when a candidate is lying. This section is about you so make sure you are certain of everything you’re saying.

Career-Based

Why Insurance
How dedicated are you to the career path of insurance
Why you aren’t pursuing a career in your specialisation
How does your specialisation help
What is the path you see for yourself in insurance

Tips: Be very clear and straightforward. Research about the field, talk to current/previous employees in the field, understand your skills and how you can apply them to this career.

About Specialisation/Work Experience

Basic definitions
How you can solve problems on the job with knowledge from your specialisation
Formulae
Basic concepts
Situations you faced at your previous workplace that you handled well/did not handle well.
Why do you wish to switch to insurance as a career from your previous occupation?

Tips: Try and relate your specialisation and work experience with how you can contribute to UIIC. Make them see how the knowledge and skills you bring will benefit them.

Current Affairs

Major financial, political, social, and economic issues.
Ex.-FDI in Insurance
Brexit
RBI’s Raghuram exit
Euro16
Copa America16
Tennis majors
Smart cities
Inflation
NPAs in banks
Competition in insurance
Innovations, etc
Major social issues like intolerance, communal unrest, women’s security

Tips: Alongwith knowing the basic facts, in cases like this, it is also important to form your own opinions. In particularly politically divisive questions, make sure to prepare a logically sound response, supported by your reasoning. Interviewers may not always like neutrality, so make sure that if you have a strong opinion, back it up with good reasoning. Do not argue with the interview ever, just state your points politely.

Basics of Insurance

General insurance underwriting
Insurance Penetration
Opportunities and Threats to Insurance sector
Total general insurance premiums
Market share of PSUs
Microinsurance
Life insurance v/s non-life insurance difference
Information on IRDAI (Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India)
- Establishment and history
- Chairman
- Head Office
- Features and Functions
- Acts
Reinsurance
Insurance trends in India

Tips: Visit websites of IRDAI and Indian Institute of Insurance (III) to gain more insight and knowledge into the latest rules, regulations, data, and trends in insurance in India. Make sure to read up the latest insurance journal/digest to know the news in insurance sector.

About UIIC

Establishment
Mission and Vision
Head Office
Chairman
Business model
Major profits and/or losses
What aspect of UIIC attracted you

Tips: Try and reach out to employees/ex-employees of the company to understant their working experiences and what they learnt. Speak about how you wish to add certain skills to your professional skillset, and how UIIC can help with that.

UIIC AO Interview Questions 2024 – Frequently Asked Questions

Q1. What questions are asked in UIIC AO Interview?

A1. UIIC AO Interviews test the candidate’s self awareness, general and current affairs knowledge, technical knowledge based on specialisation, insurance related theory and concepts.

Q2. How to prepare for UIIC AO Interview questions?

A2. Candidates can mainly prepare the HR questions sections themselves. Revise your college specialisation basic definitions and concepts, learn about insurance basics, read up on banking and insurance related news and affairs, etc.

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