This day i don't know wether should be considered as unlucky,or to learn something from.What i tink is it should be forgotten or buried deep somewhere deep in that place of my brain which i am either not using or not going to use ever. But why????????anyone who would read this will definitely feel like asking.So, let me tell you.Today i was called upon for an interview at chitkara educational trust sector25 chandigarh for "Mphasis an EDS company" established way back in 1973 in kolkata.It was scheduled to be a technical interview and then followed by the HR interview.But whatever is told and said is not meant to be done in most of the cases, as happened today. Moreover it is human nature to get the work simpler by an individual if it is to be done by him and not by anyone else, because in the latter case some people find saddistic pleasure by making others uncomfortable. So , what actually happened instea of direct interview they brought GD(group discussion) before interview.I was excited with the idea but should have not been so.I was assigned GD group no.5 unlucky for the timebeing.The topic was now the real bombshell "SABEER BHATIA".Now is this the topic for GD or extempore?I think as all of you must be thinking for extempore , but i was simply forced to do a GD on it.I didn't knew anything of this person . What could have i done ????
1. simply walked out of the GD that would have looked quite uncourteous and cowardly of me.
2.should have told the moderator that this is not a topic for GD but a question of G.K. it would have given a bad impression fo me and my college and even he would have written back to my college authorities aboout my being outspoken in negative terms and college would have barred me from sitting anykind of further placements.
Now i definitely feel while writing this that i should have gone for the second option if in case it would have saved other candidates from humiliation. Yes, definitely it was humiliating if not for the other candidates but for me it was , it was my first GD in life in which i was short of ideas or thoughts to speak or to contradict others. There was nothing to contradict as expect three fellow candidates there was nobody else speaking and these three defintely bigger losers than us who had nothing to speak expect blurting out one fact after another about him. I was feeling as some G.K. quiz is going on not a GD as GD is meant to discuss that topic not to give facts about the topic .They were giving fact after fact none of them daring to initiate talks about the work done by SABEER BHATIA as they knew gagan is sitting here and he can definitely take GD to another level if we speak anything which gave him the clue to speak.
Nevertheless , it was a good experience because i did not realised at that time. There is one more aspect to be taken care in a GD which is that if the group is going away from the topic we have to bring it back to the topic . I could have done this asking the group to switch back to the topic and ask them to discuss wether his selling out of hotmail to micorsoft was right decision or not, and hopefully i would have earned points for it and gone over to the next stage.Moreover even saved the grace of GD by preventing it to be a rapid fire round of a G.K. quiz.
I will never forget this day and this particular GD whole of my life as i have learnt the lesson harsher way.As i came to know later that the interview was just the HR interview which i would have definitely gone through.So, ending this post at a positive note prosperity and happiness at a cost which in today's case was presence of mind.I wish i always posses that in any other GD and interview which is to be in future.
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