Placement Mania

May be I am a bit late in writing on this topic, but better late then never. As I enter this last year of my college, the very first question everyone used to ask was oye placement hui kya?? . I never realised when this question started haunting me so much that even in my dreams i saw myself giving Interviews.

The first company turned up in Oct, & without much hopes & positve thoughts I sat for that company w/o much preparation, & then (as predicted), I wasnt able to make for it. Months passed on & I started getting really nervous about the bad placement scene in the college. Our discussions in the college changed from food, outings, movies , guys etc to placements :P. Around the end of 2009, news came that companies will be coming & everyone started gearing for them again.

The first one was a pool campus & there were sooo many students. May be this was the only time I saw so many students together after anugoonj. Anyways, so many students all dressed up in formals, it was a completely different experience to be a part of pool campus. Then started the preplacment talk, which I believe is meant to make you believe that this is the best company which ever existed & you would be the luckiest person on Earth if you get the job. I am sure every student sitting in that was just waiting to give the exam & know the result rather then listening to what they were saying. The presentation ended & we were directed to a room for the test. The test to my surprise was very easy & went very well. This followed a longgggggggggggg wait, a wait which was actually causing butterflies in your stomach. After 3 long hrs they came out with the results, 4 sheets of selected students and started announcing the names. With every name the heartbeat went up & down as if you were sitting on spacejump in an amusement park. 3 lists went by, & I started getting more & more negative with me actually shivering. Finally, my name came & that relief expression cant be described in words. Anyways, we were asked to report for the interviews the next day.

The next day started with a heavy fog, the reporting time was supposed to be 8:30 but due to fog I reached at 8:45 & there we were told that interviews will start from 10:00. A team of 10 h.r. people came for the interviews & the first 10 students were called. Everyone except a very few came happy out of the interviews, saying that it was a friendly interview, they will make you comfortable, don't go into that panel the hr is very rude.....so on were the statements being heard. Then came my turn & I was directed to my panel along with one more candidate. Already 3 girls were waiting before me. The best part of that last waiting line was that everyone there was shivering not because of tension but because of cold.

Finally after another 1 hr, I went for my interview. Trying to be formal, I wished him Good Afternoon & he politely asked me it was a long wait na??? I suppose he must have known what I wanted to say :P. I gave him my resume & took the seat. Then followed the first question, what did you do in your trainings & I replied. Then the second question "What is your final year project & immediately after my answer next followed "Do you think that company will accept your proposal?" I was assuming it to be a very serious kind of interview, but then came the best part "How a hybrid car works, did you watch 3 idiots?" yes sir I did. Can you tell me if we can drive all day long & then use the energy stored in the battery to power our house." A strange question But it went nice. And lastly followed "Do you want to ask something". Yes Sir, How will the environment be different for a person coming from Delhi, after throwing the question I thought why did I ask this silly question. A very friendly reply came from his side "You will have to eat idli. Do you like it" & I said "No Sir, not at all" & he replied "Then develop a habit of eating it". This was the best thing I could have expected before the result. I was 99% sure that I was selected. Relieved from the tension I finally ate something at 4:00 in the evening. The results were announced & hence I got my first job.

For me the experience of my first job interview was good, because I finally got selected. I thought I would be very happy & indeed I was, but for few friends of mine who were not selected I felt very bad. At such moments one find really difficult to console others because we know that we cant do it. This is I suppose friendship or may be the very basic human nature, that we want everyone around us to be happy only then we get the real joy. Anyways I wish all my friends get placed soon & then we will surely party hard. :D I also want to write about my second job should I ???? :P