Cover letter and shortlists...................

Past week gripped the campus with Placement buzz once again, with Bain's cover letter submission on 22nd Oct, everyone was using his/her creative writing skills (which most discovered only hours back) or was using skill of adaptation (of someone else's cover letter on an individual). Incidently everyone discovered that he/she is a leader who has solved every problem taking the initiative and have shown analytical skills of highest order. Bain asked us to adress three questions in the cover letter:-
1. Why Consulting: With the bank going bankrupted it is the obvious choice as there are hardly any other option available which matches the payout that consulting firms are offering moreover from the past years it has been a tradition that the best go to Consulting.
2.Why Bain: well it hardly matters whether it is bain, had any other company asked for a cover letter everthing would had remained same with Bain being replaced by the XYZ company. But since at present bain has asked for the cover letter hence it has to be bain
3.Why Me: Well truly speaking beacuse I want to be part of the company apart from it rest all arguments will be cliches slightly modified in terms of sentence presentation.


Finally the cover letters were submitted and everyone was free bee again but last day of the week ruined the festive season for many as BCG and Mckinsey bought out there shortlists. With this first shortlist the benchmarking has been done. The people who are shortlisted, every activity listed in their resume will from now on become the hottest thing in the college at least for one complete year and the people who were expecting their names on the shortlist and finally not making to it will rethink for few weeks whether what went wrong.
Well I dont belong to either of the categories (Neither I was shortlisted and for me it would have have been too optimistic to even think of getting shortlisted) but for me too, this shortlist has some implications. For me it has marked the beginning of placements (and subsequent rejections and accompanied dejection). Although I dont have a strong profile (as far as placements is concerned for rest of the things I have a different view) but still I was very complacent about it. Desires are high but inputs nowhere to be seen. Moreover targeting two things at a same time is not serving any good either. I have thought of focussing on single thing from now on but doubt my will to remain single focussed for long. Lets see what happens .....................