well....we just had our first chemical company turn up for campus interviews.
we knew a week in advance. but me being me prepared my resume the day before the actual event. i din't look through one book. din't read one jot. actually i went to sleep at nine, woke up at midnight..read a novel and then went to sleep at four. waking up the next morning at 7..i sure didn't feel like going..i mean really..what were my chances against the engineering bookworms? but i did..what did i have to lose..so i got there and like clockwork...everyone is revising..asking doubts..refreshing..and madam walks in like i have no care in the world..well yeah..
so ok..they give us a low down on their company and then take us through the procedure of how they'll pick less than five of us(not mentioned) from the 300 in attendance..so anyway..first the written..general aptitude and technical..verbal was a breeze..the numericals sucked and logic was ok..and technical..that which i did not prepare for..i actually did pretty well..and guess what..i got through that round..i mean everybody MUST have been worse than me!!
ok..so i go through to GD...a topic as mundane as automation in industries...really!!! how many points of view are there? and how many different points can you come up with? well whatever it was..four of us from that GD got called for the personal interviews..me included!!
ok the interview...i just walked in there again with not much prep at all..i know my basics but specifics of subjects...i'm pretty bad..and how many subjects can you revise overnight? so i just went ahead slept and got my beauty sleep...atleast i'd look fresh!! so i was there waiting to be called and grilled..and who comes and sits next to me???? this guy with an awesome voice and looks pretty good too..sorry..not naming him..ok what the hell..he was called tony..like the frosties tiger...and a nice too..so when your sitting next to a guy with an awesome voice and are discussing the refrigeration cycle with him..your butteflies just fly away...
so when my turn came...i walked in..four uncles..two of them smiling...and two a tad too serious..well they asked me to introduce myself..talk about what i like..din't like blah blah..when did i want to get married blah..why a chem company and blah...anyway that was the nice part..then came cooling towers..distillation columns..the number of plates you need..absorption and then NPSH and the types of pumps and how i determined the diameter of a distillation column...truly..i messed..i told the the basic process in each equipment..technically..i was blank...and no surprises..i didn't get through...
well i ain't in the least bit feeling bad..my dad actually thinks i didn't prepare for the interview..coz i didn't want soda ash manufacture and gujarat or fertilizers in UP..he's right.
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hmm...lol..:)
yeh!true one doesn't do well unless one tries really hard and perhaps your dad's true when he says you didn't get coz you didn't want to...my dad too keeps saying things i never wanna hear...this year had appeared for a host of interviews...some i made without any prep,some i didn't despite making all the efforts...anyways now that i'm doing a job of my liking is what matters...good you got your beauty sleep and i must agree that you did quite well without any prep for having qualified to the round of personal interview.:-)
ah, the placement grind...good luck for ur next one...
aha..the placements have started haan...all the best gal...rock on.
are u on orkut ???
anish..thanks man..but hey..i know i'm not landing reckitt benikser!! well..should get on orkut.. u on it?
and monk..thank you for the good wishes..i actually wanna up and do wildlife conservation now..my prof thinks i'm losing it but he humours me..
lol..... whenever i say stuff like this im subtly bragging :) but i dont do that on the blog... hmmmm.. or do i?... maybe i try differnt levels of subtlety :p
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