What are the Officer Like Qualities ? How these are checked in ISSB ?

Pakistan defence searches the candidates who have the maximum of the Officers like qualities in them.
There are 15 OLQ’s , Officers like quality that are needed to become the officer in the Pakistan Defence.

OLQ is divided into 4 factors which are described below.

Factor 1 : PLANNING AND ORGANISING

1 : Effective Intelligence :- It includes intelligently solving the problem by answering “WHAT”,”WHY” and “HOW” with “WHEN ” and “WHERE”.

2 : Reasoning Ability :- Everything you do should have a reason.

3 : Organising Ability :- It includes organising anything within the limited time with available resources for successful result .

4 : Power of Expression :- One should express himself accurately and clearly.

Factor 2 : SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT

5 : Social Adaptability :- It includes ” How to deal with people to make environment stable “.

6 : Co-Operation :- Give and take policy .

7 : Sense of Responsibility :- To do everything with discipline and sense of duty.

Factor 3 : SOCIAL EFFECTIVENESS

8 : Initiative :- It requires an gut feeling .

9 : Self Confidence :- Always ready to speak in group .

10 : Speed of Decision :- Take any decision quickly and stick to it .

11 : Ability to Influence an Group :- It includes self belief , power of expression and knowledge .

12 : Liveliness :- Create peaceful waves in mind .

Factor 4 : DYNAMICS

13 : Determination :- Just do it ,no matter what .

14 : Courage :- Take the risk without fear .

15 : Stamina :- Physical and mental stamina .

These qualities are checked in ISSB Test in three ways. These three ways include different tests under three different categories. These include the following;

• Psychology Test

In psychology, different tests are arranged to test the personality of a candidate. These tests include, Sentence Completion Test, Picture story writing, and pointer stories writing tests etc.

In these tests, a psychologist observes and examine the thoughts and behavior of a candidates through the personality written tests of a candidates and imagine a personality of a candidates and arrange a interview with candidate to check whether the things which he have imagine about the candidate is true or false.

• GTO Task

GTO Tasks are taken by Group Testing Officer (Simple we called GTO), He observes the candidate practically. He observes the candidates for two days. GTO Tasks include Command Task, Half Group Task, Individual Obstacles and Indoor Tasks ( Group Discussion, Lecturer Topics and Group Planning ).

• Interview

In ISSB, candidate have a interview with the deputy. Deputy may ask different type of questions to you. These questions may be related to your personal bio-data, family, education and different type of conditioning questions.