Interviewer: "So tell me, why did you opt for an MBA?"
Interviewee: I had to broaden my perspective and learn the aspects of Project Management. Like budgeting, scheduling ... umm... planning, risk management
Interviewer: But we don't do it over here. We don't have the kind of profile you are looking for
Interviewee: (THINKING: Yeah you were getting bored alone and I had all the time in this world to entertain you, which is exactly why I am here #*@%^$)
Me: Well it's not really (did I just say that). Every team has deadlines, certain associated costs (and all the crap usually repeated at every interview) .....
---------------8<-----------------
This was one of the recent interview sessions at one of the esteemed organizations. I had decided to retrospect the whole incident and every related event in the past (of course on a friend's suggestion). So what was it? What was it that I was actually lacking with every attempt to succeed? (An attempt and not a sure win. There is a subtle deviation in the two, which is an absolute error.)
Give a thought to the last interview you did not crack (I won't say could not crack and there is a reason to it - read on). Some more thought and it would not take a genius to crack the nut. Your story wasn't convincing. It was simply not your day. I have been almost knocked off my wits, when at the end of the entire interviewing session (which usually is non-productive even if the candidate is selected and we shall keep it for a separate blog), you are encounter the perfectly brilliant inference. The job description has completely no relevance to the entire interview process you've just been through.
Let's flip sides for a moment. I have also come across an edified beings, who reasoned the inability in the art of deception with the actor's line, "I was not well prepared for this interview" or "I didn't have sufficient time to prepare".
Enough of whining! (say it loud if its on ya mind)
And there is absolute pause. Like a placid pond. And then the first ripple. The second, the third. But wait there something. Something unusual. There is a strange bedlam. Seems to makes no sense, but still has a perfect meaning. What is this strangeness?
It's no wonder is unfamiliar. Even I didn't, I swear. The last time I remember such strangeness was in my primary school. Everything around me was chaotic and I was enjoying it. It made perfect sense to me.
What has changed is not what's around. Nope nor have we changed. What's changed are the aspirations, b'coz the perceptions aren't the same anymore. I don't enjoy a sparrow hopping across the tracks these days. But am surely saddened with one disfavoring incident.
Let me take you back to where we started. The interview now, is no more disappointing. It's no more a report card grading my qualities. It's fun. I get to meet at-least 3 new people. For that creepy bug in your mind - the HR, who is orchestrating, the gentle interviewer and of course your competitor (you forgot the poor thing). My experience says the competing candidates are your best source of information, especially post interview, like after a week (don't make the perennial mistake trying to crack the interview pattern). Usually in my view each of his failures is a potential opportunity posing before you. Grab it!
And for that aspiring attitude. Get rid of the error as I mentioned somewhere before. Do not attempt. Know what you want, picturize it and go for it. Don't aspire to win, Win!
;-)
Interviewee: I had to broaden my perspective and learn the aspects of Project Management. Like budgeting, scheduling ... umm... planning, risk management
Interviewer: But we don't do it over here. We don't have the kind of profile you are looking forInterviewee: (THINKING: Yeah you were getting bored alone and I had all the time in this world to entertain you, which is exactly why I am here #*@%^$)
Me: Well it's not really (did I just say that). Every team has deadlines, certain associated costs (and all the crap usually repeated at every interview) .....
---------------8<-----------------
This was one of the recent interview sessions at one of the esteemed organizations. I had decided to retrospect the whole incident and every related event in the past (of course on a friend's suggestion). So what was it? What was it that I was actually lacking with every attempt to succeed? (An attempt and not a sure win. There is a subtle deviation in the two, which is an absolute error.)
Give a thought to the last interview you did not crack (I won't say could not crack and there is a reason to it - read on). Some more thought and it would not take a genius to crack the nut. Your story wasn't convincing. It was simply not your day. I have been almost knocked off my wits, when at the end of the entire interviewing session (which usually is non-productive even if the candidate is selected and we shall keep it for a separate blog), you are encounter the perfectly brilliant inference. The job description has completely no relevance to the entire interview process you've just been through.
Let's flip sides for a moment. I have also come across an edified beings, who reasoned the inability in the art of deception with the actor's line, "I was not well prepared for this interview" or "I didn't have sufficient time to prepare".
Enough of whining! (say it loud if its on ya mind)
And there is absolute pause. Like a placid pond. And then the first ripple. The second, the third. But wait there something. Something unusual. There is a strange bedlam. Seems to makes no sense, but still has a perfect meaning. What is this strangeness?
It's no wonder is unfamiliar. Even I didn't, I swear. The last time I remember such strangeness was in my primary school. Everything around me was chaotic and I was enjoying it. It made perfect sense to me.
What has changed is not what's around. Nope nor have we changed. What's changed are the aspirations, b'coz the perceptions aren't the same anymore. I don't enjoy a sparrow hopping across the tracks these days. But am surely saddened with one disfavoring incident.
Let me take you back to where we started. The interview now, is no more disappointing. It's no more a report card grading my qualities. It's fun. I get to meet at-least 3 new people. For that creepy bug in your mind - the HR, who is orchestrating, the gentle interviewer and of course your competitor (you forgot the poor thing). My experience says the competing candidates are your best source of information, especially post interview, like after a week (don't make the perennial mistake trying to crack the interview pattern). Usually in my view each of his failures is a potential opportunity posing before you. Grab it!
And for that aspiring attitude. Get rid of the error as I mentioned somewhere before. Do not attempt. Know what you want, picturize it and go for it. Don't aspire to win, Win!
;-)
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