The blog Gods won’t forgive me for not penning down this last month or so of my life. It’s been very exciting roller coaster! I have had so many dings in applications for jobs at various stages of the recruitment process. Firstly, the consulting companies gave me a total pass except for one mistake. Marakon called me for an interview and I got disposed off in the very first round. Reason: well, you are not structured enough! A very pleasant way of saying, “Who the hell short-listed this guy?”. Then I get some calls which were very doable. American express interview went pretty well by any standards; but again the result was the same. Reason: Not known! Google was supposed to be dream company. I interviewed with them for 2 positions. I screwed up by telling the less glamourous role’s interviewer that it was my second choice. And the more glamorous role of a product manager was anyway too good to be true! Result: Ding again!!
In the meantime, there was process that was going in parallel that always looked promising. BT – British Telecom. The call for the final interview came – I flew to London to give the interview. There were 5 interviews in 7 hours of a day. The undoing of Prashant was again in a case interview! I got the ding there also – which was the most workable scenario for us – that one of us finds a job in the UK; and the other goes there and finds a job in a short duration. Anyway, some positives from the trip – I visited my uncle, aunt and cousin in Dartford, south east of London. I had a very relaxed time and for the first time in life, I played with a dog. Their pappion is a cute fellow called Oscar. I also really enjoyed walking around London. For some strange reasons which people call Global warming, London wasn’t cold!
Back to Singapore now and back in the grind. Back to sending zillions of applications. I am going to fight it out! Come what may, I shall not get bogged down and somehow go there and fight it out at each subsequent interview. I need to increase my aggression quotient – not possible in the short run, but the business world demands of me to become aggressive. How I can achieve that in the short term, I don’t know. This is the age by when people are trying to sober down, but I’m going to be trying the opposite direction. Only time will tell where the drift takes us … as of now it looks like the Sydney harbour bridge!
2 comments:
That is a lot of interviews! Sounds like my summer internship interviews many years ago. The key is to not let it get you down otherwise you go into a downward spiral of diminishing confidence with each interview
Absolutely! But somehow I feel that my heart is beating at a different rate right now. It's simply a function of ambiguity, insecurity and peer pressure. Thanks for the reminder, Rohini - so many times its the obvious that we forget!
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