Reflections Of Life

No end to a long day... 36 to go

Friday, January 13, 2006

Long days and short nights are not a surprise anyways, so jus taking a break… Placement temperature is soaring new heights this week as EDS made its unofficial offers for positions at Dallas & Mumbai… some happy faces around the campus and some sad... it’s just the first few ones... people should not lose heart!

Everyday we have 2-3 companies making their pre-placement talks... started with Satyam, Mckinsey & Motorola on Monday. This has been followed by Amazon, NIIT, Infotech, Virtusa, BT One IT and Convergys till today. Lots of companies lined up for ppts till the end of this month.

I seem to have lost track of who are my groupmates in some of the courses this term and in some I have no track of the assignments to submit... that’s unlike me!! Seems like the fever is not far from me! The consulting club has been conducting ‘perspective building sessions’ on various sectors and topics... students with varied experience have come up to share their knowledge... a good initiative that has made us understand at least the ABCDs of many practical things in the day-to-day business world!

Opinions are the rulers of humankind… everyone loves to have their share... there is no dearth to what can be talked about every company that makes a ppt, every company that shortlists students, kinda of students shortlisted, the interview process, the interview offers... anything n everything under the sun should have 350 opinions in the campus... okie, if not 350, atleast 35!! My pick of this week would be the story of men getting the kicks by blaming their sex for their loss in the interview ;-) (Wise people need to think wiser)

There is something called the Recruiter Handbook which we wrote sometime in the initial terms (don’t remember exactly when, but just remember that it was long long time ago!)... We were asked to write about our previous work experience in 25 words... some people were allowed to exceed this limit, but some weren’t!!! the important part was this book was supposed to be used to sell ISB (& not individual students) to the recruiters... we were specifically told not to project our post-mba interests in this... many didn’t bother to concentrate too much on what went into this book... now some companies have short listed students based on these profiles!! (even the ones who didn’t bother to apply to the company… this I find the weirdest!)… now who is to blame for this and what can be done about this are frequently asked questions with unexplored answers!!

The placement fever would be seeing even higher peaks in the coming weeks... shall update this space as much as I can with my perspectives!

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