Walk-in Interviews are a different ball game altogether and you will need all the extra preps you can lay your hands on. Unlike the normal interviews, here your interviewer would have no premonition about your potential or working style and would bank entirely on your resume to draw an image of you. However, the manner of your appeal and presence would act as your self-summary, pushing forth decisions in your favour. To paint the perfect strokes, I believe in 3Ls....

1. Listen

From the moment we read the ad till the moment we land there, we have to keep a keen ear. Collect as much as details about the organisation possible. The Internet and media can act as a 3rd, 2nd and 1st sources of information. Besides these it would be best to retrieve information from sources already working in the organisation. If I had an interview for a job at a bank, I could walk in as a customer and OBSERVE (only) or safer to ask a friend who has familiarity with the organisation. Provided the time, it's a solid groundwork that's worth every effort of it.

2. Learn

With all the information at hand, the next part is to understand and relate it to our current level or state. We can find a perfect place where we would fit in that scenario. Understand all the given challenges and strain your prospective position would carry. Imagine yourself being there and how would you conduct yourself.

Chart out the basic questions and ask yourself, how you suit them, as far as technicality goes which would answer your problem solving abilities and result orientation. Other than that most reviewers would be looking for your skills in Team Player or Leadership Qualities, Communication Skills and how you can handle yourself at any given situation, mostly tight spots. Though they may never ask you a direct answer, your responses would give them a pretty general picture.

With all these in head, you should be able to think clearly before answering questions. Abhor aimless rambling at all costs rather take a second or two before answering.

3. Lure

It also helps by understanding a fact that Employers look for talents as good as what they have already, but that's only their minimal expectation, in the obvious truth they prefer for the better. By making yourself look like one of their perfect employees your chances to snatch the seat are pretty slim especially at heavy competitions. I strongly believe "It's better to be overdressed than to be feeling naked", if you are lucky, people might treat you with compassion and kindliness only out of sympathy and that's just about it.

Luring your recruiter to choose you can be harder than proposing to someone you love. You aren't just walking forward to impress, you are going to make a mark leaving you as the last person where their search ends.

Fishing for the compliments isn't our goal; we are trying to catch the bigger one - The Opportunity. So, it makes no point flaunting what we have learnt to show "Yeah, I know that too..." But at the same time too much modesty can dig your own grave. Here's a little tip: Don't serve yourself completely. Walk-in interviews are very time stiff, so keep your answers precise to the point. But interestingly you can close a short description with a topic opening into another strength of yours. Let the interviewer probe into that point when you can explain about it, briefly. This way you will still be calm, delivering all your strengths at your interviewer's interests. You would have shifted the planes; they would be more interested in you, than you seem to be 'desperate' about the job, placing you in a very elite niche.