More than a year ago I described my life here, life as a jobless computer engineer. And soon after that I was employed. Life was pretty boring during the stage of unemployment. All I was friend with were some English TV Series, Quora and Books. You must be thinking, that I'm gonna brag about that phase, that how good that phase was and how much I hate my job now. But uhh ha, I'm gonna tell how I landed to the job which pays me for doing what I love the most.
So here's some precap, after getting successfully rejected from so many interviews I convinced my parents to let me learn Photography while giving my last interview. I'm from small town and since adulthood; wanted to move to bigger one so I can pursue my dreams. So, that day I came here for the 'last interview' which didn't go good and there I was, so done with the whole 'job' thing. I planned my day to spend reading books and then visiting crossword. I was all set with the book in my hand and a cup of coffee when my beloved friend called me to appear at interview. There were two companies whose detail he sent me over email and bugged my head until I forwarded my resume. I forwarded the resume to the only one from the list and turned off my internet for some quality reading. (FYI : I was reading 'the last lecture' by Randy Pausch at 'my last interview' time.) Suddenly cell rang again, the girl on the other side introduced herself from WebMob Technologies. I was blank as I didn't even read the name of company before forwarding the resume, we talked like 5 minutes and she informed me that she has replied my mail. I cut the phone, opened the Gmail and there was one unread mail from her. She had sent me two-three job profile that fits in my resume, none of the title made sense though. I called her again to inform that I might not be coming but she was a git, she convinced me to travel downtown of this city. (Point to be noted by my friends : she convinced me) (Later when I observed her job as an HR, I feel sorry for her to face the candidates like me who didn't even read the name of company)
After an hour or so I reached there, the girl on the phone; being very nice and humble handed me the question paper for the post of 'Digital Marketing'. I spent 15 minutes or so and left the paper whole blank as I had no idea about back linking, keywords and many other stuff written in it. I was called to wait on the couch for the final round, there was already a girl next to me, experienced one! The though stroked my mind :
"One more rejection it's gonna be as I've left the paper blank, don't even know what I have to do in Digital Marketing and the girl is having an experience. Give me one good reason these people will hire me. Forget it MS, on the ground floor there's Dominos, let's sneak out of here, have some lunch and visit crossword."
I opened Google Map and entered the nearest crossword from here. But then they call my name, asked me to go inside. And the final round began.
Stay tuned to know what exactly happened in the final round, thanks to Google's new product Allo how I got the job!
- Kemil Ghoghari
