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The MBA Placement Journey...through G-Talk Status messages! The placement process as at any institute always starts with the finalizing your resume. That is more difficult than it sounds, involving collecting all your achievements and projects, putting them in perfect words which are "crisp" and "concise". Further, it also involves getting it reviewed from other people who always come up with some mistake or the other. Their recommendation is to "quantify" whatever you do....so things like " Organized XYZ event " changes to " Organized XYZ event and helped increase sponsorship by 78% and participation by 110% "!!!. This is quite a skill, as people earlier wrote " Expert in C++ ", now some, I am sure would be writing this in their resumes: " Expert in quantifying achievements ". I for one, as reflected in the status message got really irritated by the whole process. sid "has frozen his resume and is sick ...

On the Last Day....15th March.... Vishnu did not want to say good bye... Neha was sentimental...that explains the touching good bye mail she sent to the group.. Manoj remembered his friends... and Saikat gave parting a touching, musical twist...ya...These "Seasons in the Sun" will be long cherished and remembered.... Coming to HR, Bhasin was confused...hota hai... and Shailesh Jha was looking for go back or move on quickly.... but Sid J was just sad... It took Prashant to quantify the achievement... and Ashutosh Modi to put it in perspective... What about Sid Saxena...he just knows something very precious is slipping away...and he can't do anything about it... :-(

The RED Tree and other related memories There is a tree, a tree with red flowers..standing and seeing what all the last 2 years have been...its now full with flowers...but everyday you look...the flowers keep falling...and the tree...standing like it has always been...saying goodbye to the flowers fallen...waiting for the wind to take them away and spread their fragnance...the tree stays the same...only the flowers keep coming and going. and then...one fine day...a time comes to recollect...to remember..to rejoice...to cry....sometimes you just don't want to move on....you would want time to stay....life's always like that...a set of moving images with no pause button...and then you just don't want to stay in that place...where every thing reminds you...of the time, the image, the moment...which just wouldn't stay! The tree in front of the mess at IMT, full of flowers two weeks ago, now when the time has come to depart, empty branches remind you of the the time t...

Placement to Placement...Engineering to MBA... Final year at Delhi College of Engineering to Final Year at IMT Ghaziabad . The same time of the year, the same dreaded 'P' word. P for placements. The same feelings, the same fears and aspirations. Seems nothing has changed. There is an economic meltdown and C/C++ and Quant practice has been replaced by Sub prime fundas and marketing gyan , but still, the essence of the placement time is the same. In 06, TCS was the first company, followed by Infy and Aricent . In our quest to quickly get a job under our belt, a majority of the 550 strong batch had applied for TCS . A simple objective MCQ paper, not doing all questions right intentionally, as from what we had learnt TCS rejects you as being "over qualified" if you do all the questions. :-) So, we having done just the right amount of questions right,were overconfident that we would qualify for the next stage and be home for Rakhi which was on the very next day...

Best of Gtalk Status Messages (MBA inspired, Micro Blogging at its Best! :D) I know there has been no post on confessions for some time. There are a couple of poems written somewhere in my 4th trimester note book and there is an idea of a post inspired by an amazing thought shared by one of our marketing faculty teachers in his last class. But, alas...till I and those poems and that "amazing thought" find a common time to get together in the form of a couple of posts, I am posting some of my favorite gtalk status messages. Stages come in life when you pass through the entire rainbow of emotions, in the same day. The MBA only further accentuates the whole “feeling” thing. Hoping some of these gtalk statuses capture what is going on around here. On Life · Connect the dots forward, you see hope...connect them backward, you see destiny... · It’s said that happiness is along the way, not at the end of the road. Once you realize that, the journey itself becomes the destination. · ...

Snapshots from Hell part2...Life at B School Its been a week now at B-School, and already it seems like it has been ages. After a year of working, going back to college has not been such a difficult transition to make, in the sense of adjusting to a college environment. It was only a year ago when I was sitting in the canteen of Delhi College of Engineering, remembering all four years of college life, and only eight months when, I was sitting in the classroom at the Mysore center of Infosys, learning the tricks of software. So, the office to classroom transition has been smooth. What new for me has been the jargon. "Networking" is now a key word, some say the most important word in the corporate world. Other key words include words from marketing jargon like "USP" or Unique Selling Proposition (whats your USP, is the first question seniors ask you here), or to the ubiquitous "value addition"(each and everything thing you do, has to have a value add ass...