Aniruddha Acharya’s Blog…

After a due period of search time (4 months and 27 days) I thought it would be wise for me to find the reason what all steps I have tried and could not find a job that would get my career started. Honestly, I have done my engineering from an average institute and masters in a great interdisciplinary discipline i.e. Systems Management. Anyways, I am here not to discuss about the degrees that I have earned. Lets see what all ways I have tried for a job off campus.

1. Direct advertisement approach.
2. Human Resource/ Consultant approach.
3. Employee referral approach.

I don’t know if that was the correct approach but it is important that I should have been much prepared even more to anticipate the questions that were put up to me by the various designations of people who were interviewing me for it. Namely they were:

1. Managing Director
2. Chief Executive Officer
3. Human Resource Department Officer

Obviously, they were they people whom we don’t expect to interview a fresher but yeah I did get a chance to do it. I did prepare all about the following:

1. Job Description – Things I was suppose to know for sure
2. Company Details – Things I should know about the company and also the designation which shall come under the department and product I might possibly serve
3. Subject expertise regarding my major project at Masters.

After so many interviews, I was getting perfect at the art of the interview process and definitely I was prepared to clear any Aptitude Test and H.R. part of interview. I gave my best shot at it. Definitely, I was the best one at the end of fifth interview. The waiting period for the response for an interview has always been indefinite to me. But things in such process do take time (from 1 week to 3 weeks). Definitely its hard to hold on to nerves for a job you like or the desperation one develops when searching for a job. But the trick here is only patience that one needs to preach and practice. After even doing some masters I was looking forward to only an Entry Level position so that I can build a solid foundation.

I believe I did more than perfect to all plausible methods and combinations to attain a job. But it is definite that I have found this process to be even more difficult to achieve a job in cities like Mumbai, Pune. It is never the same but definitely that one has to undergo this learning and keep looking up high that one day the words we are looking forward would be heard finally by us “You’re hired!”

Would keep you posted if the search methods have been successful for me since I am also waiting for results as of now. Good luck if this post has been helpful for anyone.