
Showcasing the Right Skills in a Group Discussion 119
Underperforming or Ill-Performing:
What is at Stake?
Let us first understand the term ‘underperforming’. When a candidate
deliberately does not perform well with an objective to get rejected,
it is called underperforming. You must be wondering why anyone
would do that! It is observed that some students appear for GD only
because they have been asked by the placement committee but they
are not interested in the job profile or company, or they have some
other career goal in mind. In such cases, these students deliberately
underperform so that they don’t get selected without realizing that it ...