Sunday, December 21, 2008

First JOB


So finally I got "hired" and guess what, the people who have hired me are called "Headstrong".This is how it all happened. I gave the company's test and didn't expected anything out of it. Came back to hostel and was starting to watch a movie, suddenly I get a SMS - You have been shortlisted, come down immediately for the interview. As usual I was unshaven so had to shave,get printout of my CV and also think of the answers of the questions that might be asked in the interview .I had to do all this when I had been asked to be down there immediately. Like last time, this time too while shaving I got a Cut and this time some of it dripped on the collar of my white shirt that I was wearing for the interview. So I was ready for the interview with MY BLOOD ON. I runned to the IBM building where they conduct interviews but there was no excitement this time as I wasn't expecting anything. The interview lasted for 15-20 min, with me narrating incidents while answering virtually every question.It was a general HR interview with the difference being that the interviewer was the most humble person that you can get in an interview. Particularly when you have seen the interviewers of PWC, the person appears to be too humble to be an interviewer.
This interview was immediately followed by another interview which again was a HR but it became more informal as far as content was concerned. In this interview I told them what do I do on weekends, I publicised my blog too and gave my critical reviews over "Rab ne bana di jodi". Another good thing happened was that one of the interviewer had seen the picture of BAJA vehicle in newspaper, last year and so build brownie points because of it and explained him what its features were and that it took many nightouts in making it.With this interview lasting for another 10-15 min with me speaking 99% of the time, I got slight feel that may be I am very close to my first job. The verdict was out in another 1hr that I had been selected along with 7 other guys.
So I was finally employed. Though I was happy but didn't feel the burst that I had felt at the wait-list of PWC. I am still wondering what is the reason for this paradox. Is it because of the status of the two companies or is it because of something else I still don't know.
Once this feeling fully sunk inside me that I will be working at Headstrong, I realized that this is the end of the student phase of my life but I am still not able to figure out whether I am fully prepared for it or not. There would be no more prescribed syllabus and exams for which you can slog and prove your competency by cooperative efforts a night before. There will be a constant pressure to perform when the scope of performance is limited. These are the problems that I can think of at this stage, maybe more will surface as the joining date approaches but one thing is for sure that I am not that much prepared for the transition as I believed I was. Lets see how things turn out and what else is stored in this coming days