Reaping Efforts

Manohar finds it difficult to calm his nerve and put his cent percent effort in clearing the initial rounds of interview. He is indeed in anger with his own performance. Over a period of time, he has approached different organizations for a job, still he could not taste the sweet of success.

Rejection after rejection went on disheartening him. He lost his confidence and this was driving him towards depression.

Manohar is a well-qualified engineer. After a couple of years of working with one of the renowned companies of IT, he thought of pursuing his PGDM course. He took Marketing as his key area of specialization and opted Information Technology as his Minor.

He had put his brain and soul while acquiring knowledge skills, but one main component that he had neglected was soft skills. Though he his physique was good, but he lacked confidence. Confidence while interacting with either the fellow mates or faculty members. He was never trained for these skills. 

A year and a half passed by where Manohar enhanced his knowledge skills pertained with Management studies. He started dreaming about big brands and a better position than on which he was posted earlier. He was keen to sit into the interview processes and was excited to get selected and wanted to kick start his career path once again.

To crack any interview processes, he thought will be the cake-walk for him.He was very confident that he can get through any such rounds of interview. His thought and expectations shattered when he saw his name in the category of rejected students list. And the similar saga continued with him over ten such interview processes. The companies that rejected him were all of the good brands and they were equally ready to hire the experienced candidates at handsome payout.

One fine Sunday afternoon, I was mentoring a student of mine at Coffee Cafe Day, Connaught Place. Incidentally, Manohar happened to be there, sipping a hot cup of coffee and listening to the conversation that I had with my student. Though with some hesitation, he approached and asked to have some discussion with me related to his career. 

With positive note when we started conversing about the problem that Manohar was facing, I told him that his knowledge skills were extremely good, but his body language and the way he portrays his answers, are so vague, that they fail to create the right impact on the listener. I gave him three tips and asked him to keep me updated and let me know about his improvement:

1. To do self-introspection, to identify the areas of development
2. To take few mock-interviews
3. To video record his performance so that he can re-check and correct self.

I received a call from Manohar last evening. He was damn excited and said that he successfully cleared the rounds of interview in two consecutive companies, and now he has double offers. 

Efforts never go in vain. You need to wait to reap its benefit.