Often this question arises whether a person has Officer Like Qualities in him to be an officer if a person is looking for a job in Indian Armed Forces. Most of the times the answer to this question is not found or the person gets discouraged at the very beginning of starting the hunt for the job, for the want of an apt answer to this question. Although SSB (Service Selection Board) looks for these qualities in an individual to select him in service, and these qualities are not the very extraordinary requirements that a person finds difficult to have but are some of the basic one’s which can be developed over the period or an art of presenting them is what matters the most if you have got them in you. Thus you must be able to showcase the Officer Like Qualities that you have in you in a systematic way so that you are selected in the forces to serve the country.

The utmost importance is given to leadership qualities of an individual in Indian Army, Navy or the Air Force. Only a successful leader has the capabilities to guide the group or the followers as and when they seek a proper guide for the task at hand mostly in the serving nation for betterment for saving the country’s pride. All these qualities are such that make him stand tall among all others. The Officer Like Qualities that they are looking for are as follows

The quality of Initiation:

The motivation others can get to work is with the quality of initiation their leader has in him to make others be part of the work their leader has initiated. There is a possibility of others getting a thought that they may be misleading if there is an absence of initiation by the leader itself. Therefore, an applicant going through the SSB interview needs to show his quality of initiation. This quality should be visible all throughout the 5 days interview program designed for selecting candidates into armed forces.

The quality of Resourcefulness:

The universal law being ‘all resources are limited’ an officer of Indian Armed Forces obviously gets very limited resources in many instances to accomplish his task and has to make the optimal use of resources available to him, thus he has to be resourceful. Thus a candidate needs to show his resourcefulness to the SSB board to crack the interview.