Campus Care Program

News to share with BDTians. Two days workshop will be organized in UBDTCE, Davangere for pre-final and final year students. You may refer the below link for more details.

https://sites.google.com/site/campuscareubdtce/

Hats off to Shridhar Hegde and Guruprasad Hegde for creating website in less than a day :)

Why so?

When a kid asks "why sky is blue?" everyone love it and when same question is asked by me, either it will be treated as PJ or they feel as if I am from Dharwad (can be replaced by Agra as well)!

I have to something to say about activities conducted either in campus recruitment or off campus recruitment. I never had a chance to ask why I have to pass aptitude test or why should I attend GD. In fact, I didn't even think about them and I had only one goal - get a job! When I felt that it’s too blur for me to reach this goal, I turned around to see what’s happening with me; but it was too late! I wasted six opportunities but still luck/bad luck was with me.

Learning from others mistake is better as we wont get chance to do all mistakes in our life :) when you are getting something for free why can't use it wisely? I know It is easy said than done.

OK, let’s talk about Aptitude test. Why so? Why is it necessary to have aptitude test? I am very good I studies or I can do designing very well (you name it as PCB, program, plan/elevation or a machine design). Most of the companies have few mandatory rounds for recruitment like aptitude and group discussion. Oh! We didn't think of minimum criteria of marks!

If I want to rent a house, it is not possible for me to visit every house and check if it is vacant! First I have to choose where I can stay and what kind of house I need and then I start hunting. Narrowing search to get potential good results! May be I have very good house which is about 50 KM away from my home; you want to go for it? Minimum criteria whatever is set in many cases is to narrow the no. of candidates. Depending on no. of people recruiter want to hire and how competitive job is, minimum criteria is set. I may answer if you people have any more questions on this. 

Remember your childhood days? When your parents were so proud to announce that my son/daughter is studying in 1st standard and can sing songs, say no’s in reverse order! Oh:) what a moment! Especially when rewarded with some coins/sweets or fruits, it is like we are on the top of world. Believe me, our parents enjoyed these moments more than us. This is what we call as an aptitude! When a child start learning new things and explore it more and more aptitude rates moves on and on just like the food price now a days :) Many cases it happens to be your living environment, which stimulates you to learn/understand more. I stopped my studies from 3rd STD and rejoined for 6th STD. I was null by all means! It is my name in fact which made me popular for the first time (still it’s my name which keeps me high always) and I started learning things quick just because I like to be in limelight. My teacher's sir was a champ, he could say table of numbers in reverse order as well! Sometimes when children are compared to each other, they get demotivated; that’s true in every stage of life! It is all about how you want to see world. It is very common to be demotivated, but it is not common to be a failure. Just like home far away, if you are too good in what you studied but not in aptitude may not be good! I didn’t mean that you are not good rather there is a probability of you being exceptionally intelligent or some kind of fraud. Obviously recruiters don’t take much risk.

Think of a child, who is good at studies! This gives more confidence and gives an opportunity to think rationally. His/hers society always motivated for speeches in public events or sing a song. Think of a child who could read English news paper in the age of 7! (Which is common now, but I am saying about 1990's) Stimulation to these people is so high that ideally all such lucky people can be gems of a country! Isn't these qualities sound good for any kind of job? No matter that job is only about punching pins but such a nice person could change the way work is done itself! Wait a minute, I am telling about what was there in past or partially what is there now! Why industry thought of aptitude at first step is high aptitude may be stimulated by sound society and healthy brain, which could help them in their business.

Now, what trend do we have? A month of hard work with R S Agarwal and couple of weeks with Shakuntala Devi or few others (I mean books written by these authors), you are the champ! I spent less than a month in fact and few of my friends didn't read them at all (off course they had very good backbone from childhood) At any moment, sound aptitude and attitude makes life easier. It is not expected that you spend couple of days thinking how to solve the problem which can be solved in an hour or so on an average. Recruiter expects that you should be one among those who can take quick decisions in less time although which is not easy every time but such a potential can be present with people who have good aptitude.

And the wondering part is we all have aptitude, in fact very good aptitude which we don't know at all! It is very easy for us to decide whether to cross the signal or not, considering that only 4 seconds left! It is our aptitude! It is our aptitude which says is it right time to propose her or not! (I think in this example, boys always fail, no matter answer is yes or no:)

There is nothing wrong in preparing for aptitude when we are not lucky to get it in our childhood or when we neglected it. This also gives a strong reason to recruiter that, even if you are not too smart at least you are a hard worker! Being good in aptitude in any manner is good for you. But just don't think of only numbers! Or forget it once you get a job. Puzzles are into place along with aptitude so that one can think little more than just numbers. Think of real scenario happening in our life and use your aptitude knowingly. Unknowingly we always use. And it doesn’t mean that if you pass aptitude you are smart! It might be your luck too (which is true in my case!).

Now, when we did mistake just in case, how can we help others not to do it? As a citizen it is our responsibility to think and act! How our children of 20th century are being treated? How good their aptitude can be after 10-15 years? May be we should post questions like "what is the length of Harry Potter's groom stick?", "In which AVATAR ben10 can create electricity?", "When did you see your parents recently?" Sound very funny but it is going to happen soon! Human is a social animal. We cannot be happy alone. Just don't train your brain! TACT-Think And aCT. It is in the youth of present we have future. Yesterday is past, tomorrow yet to come but today is a gift, that’s why it is called as Present!

We don't have to think too bug and start changing the education system of India or start another marathon, campaign etc! Make a difference to your juniors! Make a difference to your society! To your family! You will feel the difference only when you do it!

I know I write lot :) I simply can't avoid it!

-PC 

Forwarding resume? Read me once

I was happy to see a mail from HR stating recruiting freshers. Its been long time, I couldn't give any sweet news to our college alumni . It took me 5 minutes to read and understand the requirement and another 5 minutes to forward it to groups.

Next day morning, as expected there were hundreds of resumes. I smiled. Forgot to mention, requirement also said to give resume in hard copy! that makes me to choose and print selected resumes and submit to HR dept. Early morning, I had some other important mails from my pizza-lover friends and few more important work; so decided to check them later. Like any other work, once you postpone, you will forget it :) Same thing happened with me too, and next day evening I could find time to read them. Believe me by that time, my mail box was full 3 times which has an approx capacity of 100 MB.

It was beginning of my bad day when I started reading these emails. It was mentioned in English clearly that minimum 60%. I requested to mention something in subject line, because outlook can identify and separate it from other mails. I felt bad by checking only 30-40 resumes. I was forced to select only few as I had more than 2000 resume. When i decided to do so, it took me hardly 10 seconds to reject each one :(

It took me lot of time to digest that people are loosing opportunity which was very rare in recession period. I come-up with list of few points, which are off-course my own opinion about what not to do when you are composing an email for job.

• Never Use CAPITAL letters: Got a question why? in corporate world, CAPITAL letter mean you are shouting to the receiver of email :). I hope you don't wanna shout on me to give an opportunity :). Same applies to RED text color.
  
  
• Beware while addressing: Do you know to whom you are addressing? Doesn't matter, it this era, you will talk to many people whom you don't know. But if you don't know his/her name don't spell it wrong! People like me get irritated to see our name in different transformations. On the other hand, you never need to address everyone as HR manager, Senior Manager or blah blah. You don't know me, that's the fact. Be honest. Dint mess with something which you don't know.
  
  
• Well, this was something which I never expected. "Dear ..... hereby I attached my resume. let me know the dates for interview." Mr. TDH, You are ordering me to give dates for you. What special reason I should find to choose you?
  
  
• There were few points mentioned in the resume like criteria to send an email. Who cares? there are requirement in XYZ company forward resume!! Isn't it irritating?
  
  
• Well, email IDs... ChocolateChweety@XYZ.com, DaringDanush@..., #$%@#.com, oh, how serious you are! Well this point doesn't make any difference honestly, but when I have to choose 100 out of 2000 I need one silly reason to reject :)
  
  
• Few people send mass emails. Moment they get to know that there are openings in certain firm and get email ID for reference contacts will be updated and every other day, there will be mail to everyone. People don't even use BCC option, just send it to everyone. If you are not specific, why should I be specific to choose you?
  
  
• When there are openings, like you many other people will be applying. Most of we update our resume with names like resume, updated resume, latest resume... looking at the resume, if I select two people and if resume name is same you know what will happen when I save them to my disk? Just like you, your resume is also unique so should be the name of resume.
  
  
• Some people attach resume and send.What we can say it as FULLY empty apart from resume. This space is an opportunity to state if you have basic minimum criteria mentioned in requirement or not. utilize it properly. Few good fellows, i should in fact appreciate them, wrote a mail for two pages describing how hard they can work and bring organization to no. 1. My dear friend, when I don't have enough time to read my girlfriend's mail how can I ....
  
  
• One last thing to mention, requirement was on Java and i struggled hard to see any word similar to Java in resumes. at most 40% of rejections were because they didn't mention anything about Java when they were expected to work on Java. And few fellows, sent two resumes with different technical background, Mr. Raj and Mr.Rajesh!
  
  
• If it was mentioned to write something in subject line, it is to categorize you into particular group. Never ever skip this step. Most of email clients have facility where in if subject contains specific word then categorize them into certain group. HR would be dealing with recruitment always. He/she will never feel short of resumes. But if they are not categorized then they are useless.
  
  

As I mentioned, its my opinion and (bad)experience! Nobody approved it and if you got a job after doing all such mistakes, please don't complain on me, surely I dint select your resume.

Its too difficult to get an opportunity at this time. Also you never get a second chance to give first impression. Other way around is to create an opportunity :) but its not that simple! You may have to put your parents' money and your effort with lots of expectations. Remember the statement from old Spice telecom, Never miss an opportunity.