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Paradise Lost !!!

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Boy! This is becoming really depressing. Did I come to this Institute for this humiliation? I am glad that Institute closes after Placement! But where has the placecom gone? Where are their pompous predictions of 'placement will be over in two days'. Again dinner is not in mess but in city. I never thought that the last days at the Institute would be like this. Tried to sleep but can I sleep when I am one of the last six people "unplaced on Campus"???

Day Five:
Another humiliating walk to placement room. Interview with CLB, Indian Airlines. CLB is non-starter as I have no creativity. CLB takes 2. 4 more to go. With only IA left and last placement day, it's back to the wall. Fortunately, IA picks all the remaining four guys. Congratulations from few people who came to support us. Yes, there are humans after all! My faith in humanity is restored.

But congratulations like "Congratulations, it's not a bad job after all!" made me wonder whether it's a compliment or a comment! Rather than happiness, it's the feeling of huge relief that everything is over now. At last!

So long-awaited Dorm party, which seniors gave to dorm juniors on 100% dorm placement, will be held at last!

Paradise Regained!
Is that the bottom?
Certainly no! Once you get one-two years experience, you become valuable and get in demand. And the companies which did not found you worth-recruiting, are suddenly looking towards you. Headhunters e-mail you with interview calls for these Day-One companies. One such student got to PwC, other to Marico and another to Morgan Stanley. A few went to Harvard and Wharton to do Ph.D. and MBA.

"Just believe in yourself," advises one student. "Because a hero lies in you, and you have faced the worst." So cheer up if you were "an unfortunate one". Life will turn a full circle after a year or so and you will be in demand with corporates chasing you. And boy, it sure does feel nice, to be wanted!

Read "RainMaker" by John Grisham to get over placement blues. Do as Rudy Baylour did as "rainmaker".

Concluded.

By CoolAvenues Research Team