It's been long time since I wrote here. Reasons are many to be precise the SAREGAMAPA that happened in my career. Will start in a Redbull way and end with the enlightenment phase.
Interned with PepsiCo and ING in winters and summers, normally any human being on this world tries to imagine himself up and above the world ... forget about comparing with your fellow batch-mates. And the placement season started and being part of the placecom gives you an extra advantage
And comes the first "Sa" in life ...
Interview with Gallup
Recruitment consulting profile - a dream ( at least for me ) .. not to forget none of my seniors could clear the first round .. attended it and cleared psychometric test and first round and second round .. flying on cloud 9 .. and third round completed - Result rejected and myself dejected. Came back to ground of reality - happiness is no one else in the batch got selected too.
Next comes " Re " in placement season
Jaipur Rugs Group
HR Leadership associate profile - change management - wow but location is Jaipur - and my Hindi is just picking up its phase, so gave a thought and applied and to my wonder only one profile got shortlisted - that's me .. wow thanks to my internships and detailed resume ... attended interview .. result came - selected - first one in the batch - 8 LPA package - 60000 in hand salary at Jaipur .. wat else needed .. back to the cloud 9 square ...
Here comes " Ga "
Strategic Asia consulting - General management profile - I'm allowed to sit in to it as it is international location ... Applied and surprised again ... only one profile got shortlisted -- It's me again - attended interview - result got selected - Location Bali - the honeymoon spot ... Indonesia .. ( not actually a great international placement ) but who cares even Pakistan is foreign dude ...
And when the course completed and placement season was bad really bad .. people struggled to get a job .. But I left the course with two offers ... Having options in hands is always lucky with me say its internhsips or placements or b-schools or jobs .. some real luck that's been sticking to me
Not a great lover of leaving India . rejected the Strategic Asia offer and joined Jaipur
Life went well for one month ... But a family business has its own disadvantages - and the worst happens when you directly report to the founder - who doesn't believe in his own son and keeps a track of the xerox papers also. Life slowly moved from best to better to good to bad to worse to worst .. Wat happened here would definitely require a new blog post ( soon to come ) .. started loosing sleep ... loosing weight for no reasons.. mentally stressed ... disturbed personal life for no reasons ... and finally in August ... decided bas ... now cant sustain any more ... kept down the papers and left the job without any options in hand
Here comes the miracle "Ma" of life ..
Immediately next week landed in two offers with two start ups .. thanks to LinkedIn again - Freshersworld.com and Trusanga. Staying near to family stood as first priority and took the offer of freshersworld.com and came down to Namma Bangalore ... Joined as consultant - Online recruitment product consultant .. enjoyed the work of designing the online platform. But somewhere deep in heart a question raised - what am I doing .. IIT masters in HR .. and what am I doing .. But always consoled myself saying life is gonna be good ...
One interview call that changed the course of mindset - Google
Suddenly Google calls me for interview for their campus recruitment program .. took my resume from Naukri ... who will not attend ? ... Interview went for 2 hours ... and result came after 2 days ..
" Its wonderful meeting you krishna .. But regret to say that you are over qualified for the job "
Donno whether to feel happy or sad ... Happy because I'm over qualified sad because I'm rejected .. Took it positive and moved on happily with my job
The lucky Sunday - "Pa" in the life
All of a sudden one Sunday received call from Head - Resourcing HDFC bank asking are you looking out for the job ? Then I said not with a full hearted but yes ... And after 3 hours here gets a call from Head - TA ING Vysya - Hi krishna how are you need to speak to you. can you come down to office ( Guess Wat ? Its a job opening ) .. Then the profile which is being referred at Deloitte gets triggered .. And to make Sunday more delighted one more call from Aegis Global BPO ... Interview call ... Thanks a lot to LinkedIn .. none of the above jobs were tried but the fruit for being active on LinkedIn and networking ... wow four parallel interviews ... Attended all .. Results are as below
HDFC - Selected - Mumbai Management trainee HR
AEGIS GLOBAL - Bangalore Rejected
Deloittee - Selected - Hyderabad - HR Consulting
ING - Selected - Bangalore Talent acquisition Partner ( campus and fresher hiring pan India )
Took a call based on profile and comfort levels with the company I interned in summers - ING Vysya Bangalore
Today finally settled after all the SAREGAMAPA in career ... Working at ING handling the campus recruitment Pan India and Fresher hiring added to it Social Media Branding with wonderful managers and co-workers ..
I take this chance to thank LinkedIn a lot that drove my career right from internships to my settled career life ... And the story didn't end there .. even after joining ING got two calls .. one from again Gallup and other from JP Morgan ... But boss Bas ab nahin hai -- Looking forward for a long career at ING - Happy and settled
And advice out to all the others put there - Don't listen to any advises learn yourself
