Placements...

Following are some of the important observations and outcomes from the about-to-end placement season...

1. I came to know the exact strength of students and Number of courses run in the college.
2. Psychometrics was the most favourite subject in PG-HR batch, even when we controlled for Gender, and individual differences :)
3. There were so many faces on campus whom i didnt know at all..not by look niether by names...oval shaped, disgruntled, confident, round, sparkling, intelligent, extremely pissed at life, thoughtful, careless, worried, and reflecting sooo many emotions at a time...
4. Due to huge time wastages in a day long process, my acquiantances increased exponentially as a result of variuos discussions with so many diff people to use those idle time slots..
5. God knows why but there were so many of those known and unknown ones who wished, counselled, supported and prayed for each other ...and the collective reassurance was really soothing for me in down times.
6. Frankly speaking, I dont know what research says, but i realised Self-belief is a great virtue to have during crisis.
7. i was seriously contending for the award of 'most continuously Networked Individual' by the altime and highest usage rate of cell phone and internet during this season.
8. The climate survey of G-Talk status messages acted as the general Mood indicator..ranging from ' wake me up when december ends...till impossible trinity of package,profile and shortlists' :D (people really get creative under pressure,ehh?)
9. For the first time in my life my mother actually started wondering whose messages i read while having dinner, before sleeping, in early mornings and also late in the night...and why do i run to my laptop at bizzare timings and why am i connected to Gmail in nocturnal hours...thanks to showering of WIMDRs announcing the deadline for CVs at some real inhuam timings...
10. According to many people accross specialisations, especially marketing , Group Discussion as a selection tool was suspected to have the least possible validity..
11. After attending some 30 odd corporate PPTs, i realised that India Inc has worked really hard to come out with diverse ways of saying 'we want to be world-class' and 'we care for our employees' which are termed as their distinct vision and mission statements :P
12. The most frequently asked questions (more or less by the same people) after corporate each presentation were-

• sir, can you throw some more light upon the mkt/HR/finance profile? (FGS, dont ask the same thing Upteenth time...)


• what would be the Location for HR? :D ( Miss Hetal M, who else?)


• can we get to choose the work profile at the end of training program? (Finance students open an account finally)


• are you considering Laterals? ( is it shankar raman by any chance??)


• ummm..actually sir, i am a bit confused..I am an HR student, so from that perspective, considering the fact that you will be offering three cross-functional Projects, do i assume that they are the projects wherein i get to play wholistic HR role in a Business project or would they be the projects giving me exposure to different verticals in HR itself spanning whole year, umm..actually..it would be great if you could just clarify that..( the guy is completely stumped, and considering the fact that {only other contender for the ability of longest sentence formation} Anu is not sitting for PPTs, we know without even a single doubt this is noone else than Pearl :)


• sir, what is the variable component of this compn package? (Invariably from E-biz/MMS students...Money is the great motivator..hehe)

13. atleast 768 times during this season we had following conversation on phone/chat/in- class:
(in the morn)
Hetal: Vot u doin?
Me: nm yaar..bit of IR, HRM concepts and general Reading...Vot u doin?
Hetal: vot yaar...getting bored...jus read upar se...

(In the night)

Hetal: vot u did?
Me: nm re.. general reading, IR, and HRM...Vot u did?
Hetal: shit man..am bored... :D :D :D

Jokes Apart, I might be writing all this stuff right now in a cool mood and several times i chuckled to myself while doing that.. but i will not forget one of the most peaceful feelings i had when i heard that India Inc had created a small space for me..and rather in its one of the very much respected entity...and am full of gratitude for that to all..all of them truely...

i again and again want to believe about conspiracy of nature strongly....