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Have you ever been
restless? Experienced that edgy, cold sweating feeling? The nervousness before
the exam, anxiety of result, 4 runs in 1 ball winning excitement or that shaky hands and jumpy thoughts while
going for the final interview.
Let me tell you what
happens when your all friends has jobs before you and being a good story
teller, they narrate the story of their hellish IT job life and how it sucks.
All these horror struck thoughts generally travel in your mind like a roller-coaster ride when your names call up for the final round for the job
interview. But before that all you're
prepared for the interview is 'Sell me a pen' task and where do you see
yourself in 5 years question. Suits and The Wolf of the Wall Street effect you know. I was clear that by
playing cards game in computer if Mike Ross can acquire the job. I surely can.
If not who cares? This is my last interview anyways. With the carefree mindset
and without being nervous I entered in that cabin full with 3 people and who
knew two of them going to change my life upside down.
As you read in the
first part, I left the whole paper blank, argued with HR for like 15 minutes
and the one person that stuck in my mind was the lady who was waiting for me in
the cabin, her existence had power to embrace her value. The minute I entered,
I got the gut feeling to crack the interview. As I had applied for the post of
content writer and digital marketing they asked me about my blog, engineering
and why I want to go in this field having very little knowledge about it.And I forgot the very same question, meaning of my name -_-
The round begin,
The Boss (Whom I
later started calling Captan for some reason) : Why do you want to work here?
ME: Because you
attract exact kind of people like you! (There was a poster saying the same line
over the couch area. I just memorized it as I was gazing that freaking quote
during their lunch time -_-)
Captan : What do you
know about Backlinking, digital marketing, SEO, Social Media and Twitter
All these questions
he asked one by one and I discussed replying back with the little knowledge I
had about it. Though I totally stumbled upon the backlinking, he explained and
then there was silence.
After few seconds,
reviewing my Resume he came up with the Google's recently launched messaging
platform Google Allo. What they asked me is their pros, cons and why after all
these years Google had to put a foot in chatting application all of a sudden. I
being a researched student about these AI and chatting thing cracked the
question with full marks like an easy cake walk.
There were some other series of question about
my hobby, passion and the future. The
only company that didn't ask me where I see myself in next 5 years or other
some stupid questions.Though they did ask me the meaning of Kemil 0_0
Then the captan
opened my blog on his MAC, and the first article was : "Life of a jobless
engineer", I was smiling over the irony, that was going to happen.
Captan : How's your
life then?
ME: Pretty
excitingly boring. These were my exact words. On one hand I was exploring things
I never had chance before, other hand I was miss being employed. Never knew the
boringness will excite me that time.
We discussed some
philosophical things here and there and then he asked that lady if she had any
questions for me.
The lady: Why do you
think you're best for this role.
ME: I don't, as I
have no knowledge about half of the things for the post. I only how to write
and I'm good at it. It's your own staff who believes that I am good for this
role and actually convinced me to come up for the interview.
I don’t know I was
too confident, blunt, honest or rude or may be all four at a same time. But
after that no one asked me anything. They just informed to give a task form
home to write some sort of blog and submit it and then they'll judge.
May be they were
preparing a backup. I later understand how the recruitment works. And trust me
there's no fun knowing that shit.
Do I submit the
article, I call off a job or come back again to meet them? To be continue in
the last part of 1 year of employment.
- Kemil Ghoghari
