Am off to Coimbatore and Erode today. That means 120 candidates to interview in just about two days. Well, I have to do my preparations / gearing ups too.
1. Make a bank of unique questions. Cannot repeat any question. My interviewer back then was so repetitive that I answered all questions.
2. Figure out answers to few questions. Its been ages now and I wouldn’t even know if someone answered Nyquist’s theorem is about how every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
3. Make a note of funny responses to my questions. Just love the laughter it evokes when I narrate them to my friends. An example
Me : What’s your ambition in life?
He : I want to become the youngest CEO.
Me : Do you know the youngest CEO is a 17 year old from Bangalore?
He : ummm errr… I still want to become the youngest CEO.
4. Be conscious as to not create any impression of gender bias. The last 7 candidates I recruited were women. Not that I was biased, but somehow that impression was created.
5. Ensure I stick to the number limitation. Or it would turn out that every other person I meet at work would be a fresher, every other person I talk to would be a trainee, and every other person I mail to would just be out of college.
6. Guard my lap top while traveling. Two recent thefts were reported and I don’t want to work without pay for three months.
7. Rehearse the pre-placement talk multiple times. Considering am doing it for the first time in front of 1000 students, I don’t want to fumble, stumble, mumble, stammer, falter, or splutter.
Well, though I would make an attempt, not sure if I can post before Friday. But that just means, loads and loads to blog about after I come back :o)
P.S. Cartoon courtesy by www.bc.edu
hey all the best for the interview... ofcourse u'll be at the other side of the table... so u need to be extra careful... and looking at ur points, it seems like u r doing ur bit of preparations :)
ReplyDeletehmmm...well best of luck! And enjoy your trip
ReplyDeleteAarthy, lotsa preparation infact. And yeah being on the other side of the table is fun too.
ReplyDeleteAshish, Thanks a lot. There would be no time for anything beyond just these interviews... :o(
Sigh! ! ! Best of luck to all those poor students whom u are going to address.bechare bacche.
ReplyDeletebachke rehna bachoo,somu arela hai{hoping u understand hindi}
Havefun and comeback with lots of news.Coimbatore..hmm,i have been there,Erode? no idea:D
Interviews itself are fun man,u have somnay scapegoats infront of u,so u sure can enjoy:)
ReplyDeleteok,i understood that u tagged me,but i will write it my way:) u can comeback and read it
hELLO Neelima, you are supposed to wish ME good luck... hmph !!! Now, am sooo angry.
ReplyDeleteI do understand a lil bit of Hindi. But sure did not grab what is mentioned above. I can however sense that its something naughty.
And sure write it your way, coz I always enjoy it that way. :o)
:D agree with neels, good luck to the poor interviewees! ;o)
ReplyDeletethanks for dropping by! it was a nice and detailed comment! :)
LOL@ ur last line in the post...imagine if your interviwer back then was thinking...ohh this one looks like a nice story for my blog when u walk in nervously thro the door! :)
Hellllllllloooooooo Soooooomu:D,sorry,i forgot that u too need goodwishes,obviously eggs and tomatoes thrown wont look good on u{u look smart without them} so Goodluck,all the best:))
ReplyDeleteOk,now seriously,goodluck,look like all those techis who come to my college for interviews,smart,young,dynamic,charming,
stylish and sigh! ! enough da,my goodwishes with u:)
What i wrote there in hindi means "play safe kids,somu is on prowl}
don't trouble them too much. remember the ordeals you went through.
ReplyDeleteNeelimaa, Now thats more like what i had expected ;o) I look smart without the eggs and tomatoes ? hmmm My friends tell me I look a lot better with my french beard, coz it covers most part of my face ;o)
ReplyDeleteAnd definitely will try to look like those charming interviewers.
Kaps... Your's is the last comment I am reading before I go offline. Will definitely etch your words in my memory :o)
Oops, my response to Shub and Falcon have disappeared. Did i not publish them ?
ReplyDeleteShub, in this mean world, its only quite natural that two mean women are joining hands in conspiring against me... lol .. As for my last line, trust me when I say the questions asked were the same and in the same order. I hit a jackpot with everyone of them... Thanks for dropping by.
Falcon,
Sometimes we get taken aback in such a situation right ? Best is to remain calm and cool which you did pretty well. U should have thrown back a paper weight at him and said "When enemies attack from behind, we shall retaliate from the front" ;o). Maybe you would have had a different story to talk about :p
he he he he...neelu u surely are a riot!!!!
ReplyDeleteme thinkin of somu, and the expression on his face when he must have read those comments of yours...
*ROFL*
Enjoy buddy.. poor intervieweeds :D
ReplyDeleteDon't trouble them much...anyway don't forget to make note of the funny answers :))
All the best :)
ReplyDeleteA question that can be repeated and yet put the interviewee in a fix is the typical "talk about urself". And keep asking the person to go on every time he/she stops.
ReplyDeleteHave Fun.
do write about the funny responses!!!!
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ReplyDeleteLooking for your log book, couldnt find any here, so am typing in my complain here only, "Long time no poems published??" Really bad. Yeah I gone thru what else is posted here But poems are still pending...
ReplyDeleteHi Somu!
ReplyDeleteHmmm read all the previous scribbles as a digest. Feels so good to see the increasing fan following :)) jus kidding. Hope you had fun there and made quite a few faces light up with smile (on either side of the table i mean) & Dont forget to mention the funny side (whether you were taken in or someone was your prey * waise in reality the player isnt playing the other person he is playing himself, wot say??) Take care.
(Blogging boon or bane) - You keep writing till the keypad gets really really fed up of you! And then you can ditch that one and start typing in on the other keypad. But dont you dare stop scribbling! There will be a riot! And of course doctors are always there to worry about your neck ache and the thickness of my spects.
(SOS) - Back at home we have a garden outside and inside too. So am really used to see green. Bangalore was really as u said 'green' I loved the quaint broad diameter trees there! I was really grieved when we had to fell our grandpa guava tree which was our childhood playmate. Will definitely forward the message up here to my friends
by the way, forgot to tell you something - Sonata is my fav car too!
ReplyDelete@Ashish,
ReplyDeleteHmph ! I was like a dead log when I read that comment. Its like sachin going on the field to save his country from the losing, and neelima wishing the Rawalpindi express.
@Arch
Sure thing Arch, I would love that. But do give me a feedback on my performance. That could help me hone my skills :o)
@Krish
Nah, i made sure I never troubled them. And as for the funny answers, am consolidating them. Maybe sometime this weekend, wud post them all
@Neha
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Neha. I needed that.
@Smyta
Naan onnum sollala. Enna yaarumey purinjuka maateenguraanga. Avalavuthaan. Yenna sollureenga ?
@Gangadhar Ambati
Thanks a lot Ganga. Those are really nice words.
@Tipsy Topsy
Ha ha ! True. Infact it is the most common question. Talk about yourself. And people come with such prepared answers that you can make out that its all mugged up stuff.
@falcon
ReplyDeleteAm glad you never did that. Interviewers normally expect the candidate to be smart. But if that's eating into his ego, that's a job lost forever. lol !!!And with the kind of physique that you described, am sure I wudn't have taken that risk either.
@kpowerinfinity
Definitely. Just gonna do that in a couple of days time.
And Thanks for dropping by.
@sonal said...
Hey Sonal. I know its been a long time. There's absolutely no time to write poems. and of late I seem to lack the inspiration too. Maybe I should just rotate poems from my already existing collections here.