My First Job....Times of India

As I promised in my last blog.....here goes the continuation :)

After completion of Post Graduation, (specialised in HR which was my area of interest), I was in a scurry like any other graduate to get a job of my dreams. When i entered in my last Sem, the college i studied had some affliation problems which made all the students worry but by gods grace we conceeded it. Due to this issue our placements were not happening properly through college. Then we as a student formed a group of placement cordinators and with the lots of help from diff sources started contacting the Corporates. Surprisingly students had voted me also from HR as a placement cordinator. I remember, during vacation, we placement cordinators used to go to college and slog somehow to find good companies....yeah sorry to miss out...that we also had hell lot of fun together. Slowly we started becoming good friends.

We could attract good corporates to our college like Sahara, ICICI, HCL, some MNc's....etc. I dunno how, but somehow our names used 2 b always there in the selectees list.The students started feeling that...we were bribing the Corporates...hahah. Anyways to be faithful none of us opted for any of these and finally all of them got placed except we cordinators. Somehow my other team members got a job through references and I was the only me remaining.

Then came those tough days to get a job. Lately I was not getting offers from good companies(most of the offers were from HR consultancy) and my dream was to get into a Corporate. Being a fresher, to get into a Corporate u shud be extraordinary and i knew i was an average student. I cried to god a lot about it when i saw that i was getting unsuccessful. My parents started telling me that u get into a consultancy and then from there u can go forward. But i was adamant as I had got a verse from one of my friend, Jenny one day(a friend who has been like an angel in most of my difficult times even without knowing my difficult situation) " God gives the best and not the second best". It touched me and i decided to wait. Everybody lost hope and thought that i was arrogant, including my parents.

Anyways, gods appointed time came.....I was in Bandra that day with one of my very dearest friend, Remya. I was roaming with her and also was sharing about my agony, pain....lot of other expressions(difficult 2 put in words). She asked me to just keep praying and trusting in god. Suddenly i got a call from another good friend, Binil(one among those placement cordinators and was working with Times of India) that i need to call my college Dean immediately. I called him up and he asked me 2 call this Recruitment Head, TOI . This person had called up my dean as he had 2 requirements for HR. Surprisingly, dean proposed my name and i called him up. He asked me to come for the interview and also told me if i knew somebody like my profile as he had 2 requirements. I said, yes i know and i'l bring her also along with me.She was my classmate who was not in town during placements, I called her up and asked her 2 send the CV and come along with me for the interview. I told this to my friends and there wasn't anybody to support me. It was my interview day and all my friends yelled at me saying how can you do that! This was what they had told me "Its your career and you should not promote anybody else until you clear the interview"(In bold 'She was a person with HR exp in the past and smarter than me anytime').They also asked me to stop her coming for the interview and i knew I had to take decision.Hearing these statements, Tears started rolling from my eyes so much as if i had never cried in my life

Again a a decision moment in my life............

(For the rest of the story and about what i decided.....In My Next Blog)

Have a great Weekend........:)