The summery winters !

A Story of bitter truths

Summers placement process at a B-School is a wonderful eye opener. It usually goes on after the first term at B-School when the fledgling managers are tested for their flight which they would embark upon 6 months hence. It is fun to a great extent, till it becomes a P-I-T-A when you are asked to sit for a 10 minutes interview for hours together every other day, especially for companies for where you don't want to work. The process gives you an altogether new insight into the vagaries of life.

It is difficult for an outsider to believe that one (to be precise around 40% of the batch) can reach a situation where he could be left unplaced in a premium B-School of the country in the, so called, placement process that spans 4-5 days. With 350+ students it is a Herculean task for the school to place the entire batch in one go. But then you flaunt the "Premium B-School" tag for that. The greatest sin today before coming to a B-School is to have worked for an IT company. I mean you could have worked for across the street KIRANA shop but Lord ! you chose to work on a computer, you ain't fit to be a manager. Managers are people who go out and do things and not just sit around on some digital device pressing keys like couch "sweet" potatoes. So, with 300+ more Indian IT mortals( acronym -> IIMs :P) you plunge into the process. Since you're at a premium B-School you obviously have unbelievable CVs floating all around you. Your resume always seems less ornate and your life a mere waste of time till now. It seems you have just faffed your life away. Getting here was just "Luck By Chance"

So, you keep waiting for making it to a shortlist of some prestigious company. Now this is another interesting concept. It is not like the good ol' engineering(err.. sorry for presuming this but at these institutes close to 80 % of the junta are engineers) days where every company would test you and decide who to interview. It is ciao at the onset. You don't make it to the shortlist and your wait grows and likewise your worries. Well another FUN FACT: Avoid coming to a B-School with more than 2 years of work-ex else you have serious chances of suffering from "Summers Syndrome" which results due to deficiency of shortlists during the summers process. Mind you I said "avoid". As I told the longer you have to wait the worse your situation is. And then comes the P-I-T-A time where you are forced to attend interviews. And this loop works till you exit the cycle of "B-School Placement Karma" with a sign-out. Yeah that is the name of the coveted phenomena that just happens twice in a B-School if you're lucky, and only once if you're not. Once when you are vying for a summer placement and the next when it is the finals.

Unfortunately my Karmas till now have not permitted me to exit the cycle..but never agreeing more with Mr. Raj Kapoor I keep singing "Woh Subah kabhi to aayegi !"