It’s been a long week. Seriously, it feels like the week’s dragged on forever. Boy, am I glad tomorrow’s a Friday. And to make our days longer, we have placement training classes after college hours.
This isn’t as bad as you’d expect it to be. We just sit around and figure out a few aptitude questions except when people come and talk to us about soft skills. Now, this is hilarious.
They always start off with how important communication is. Then they ask us to define communication. You have to remember that there is no right answer to this question. So even the best answer you can think of will earn a ‘Good answer, but what I was looking for was...’ Usually what they are looking for is to look like they know what they’re talking about.
The last person who talked to us actually told us that efficiency is perception-based. As in, you don’t have to do much work. You just have to look like you do it, suck up to the boss and make sure you’re in his good books. Enlightening.
The body language talk is just as bad. I understand that we shouldn’t disgust the interviewer by wearing neon pink to the interview or slouch in our chairs in the hopes that we’ll disappear under the table, but to actually suggest that a little flirting will not go amiss is a little too much. What if my interviewer is a misogynist? Or a woman. Or a half-way decent human being? Didn’t think of that, did you Mr. Girls-have-an-advantage?
The other part of it is the group discussion or GD which apparently assesses how we work in a group. It’s better than the other two, because in this one we get to talk while they have to listen. These people however, have no concept of having a discussion about something which is interesting.
By the way, why is ‘love marriage vs.arranged marriage’ still such a popular topic in group discussions? I swear. There are like, a million other topics to choose from but no…they have to pick lousy stuff like this.
And it’s a big thing, mind you because my college is supposed to be strict and all. So the ‘love’ word is a big form of rebellion apparently. Only it falls totally flat because no one has anything of interest to say about it anyway.
The next one is ‘professionalism vs. family life’. Oh and ‘Do working women make bad mothers.’ Is this really the kind of stuff they’re going to ask us to discuss in an interview? Somehow, I’m very skeptical.
But some of these guys are good. For example, we had one dude come in today and talk to us about soft skills and he was pretty decent. He summed up his presentation with these seven points:
1. Find your passion
2. Dare to be different
3. Practice/ work towards it at every opportunity
4. If you feel like quitting – Don’t!
5. Never give excuses
6. Have fun – everyday
7. Be humble, be kind, be strong
I say, Amen.
This week wasn’t a complete waste of time, after all.
This isn’t as bad as you’d expect it to be. We just sit around and figure out a few aptitude questions except when people come and talk to us about soft skills. Now, this is hilarious.
They always start off with how important communication is. Then they ask us to define communication. You have to remember that there is no right answer to this question. So even the best answer you can think of will earn a ‘Good answer, but what I was looking for was...’ Usually what they are looking for is to look like they know what they’re talking about.
The last person who talked to us actually told us that efficiency is perception-based. As in, you don’t have to do much work. You just have to look like you do it, suck up to the boss and make sure you’re in his good books. Enlightening.
The body language talk is just as bad. I understand that we shouldn’t disgust the interviewer by wearing neon pink to the interview or slouch in our chairs in the hopes that we’ll disappear under the table, but to actually suggest that a little flirting will not go amiss is a little too much. What if my interviewer is a misogynist? Or a woman. Or a half-way decent human being? Didn’t think of that, did you Mr. Girls-have-an-advantage?
The other part of it is the group discussion or GD which apparently assesses how we work in a group. It’s better than the other two, because in this one we get to talk while they have to listen. These people however, have no concept of having a discussion about something which is interesting.
By the way, why is ‘love marriage vs.arranged marriage’ still such a popular topic in group discussions? I swear. There are like, a million other topics to choose from but no…they have to pick lousy stuff like this.
And it’s a big thing, mind you because my college is supposed to be strict and all. So the ‘love’ word is a big form of rebellion apparently. Only it falls totally flat because no one has anything of interest to say about it anyway.
The next one is ‘professionalism vs. family life’. Oh and ‘Do working women make bad mothers.’ Is this really the kind of stuff they’re going to ask us to discuss in an interview? Somehow, I’m very skeptical.
But some of these guys are good. For example, we had one dude come in today and talk to us about soft skills and he was pretty decent. He summed up his presentation with these seven points:
1. Find your passion
2. Dare to be different
3. Practice/ work towards it at every opportunity
4. If you feel like quitting – Don’t!
5. Never give excuses
6. Have fun – everyday
7. Be humble, be kind, be strong
I say, Amen.
This week wasn’t a complete waste of time, after all.
1 comments:
Welcome to the club Maia :D we've been doing this right from first year! and yeah, we had GD yesterday and I dint know GD's were this much fun.. especially when they let you choose your group mates ;)
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