Candidate’s ordeal
of a Job Interview – as narrated by candidate
It’s a bright
sunny morning and the day began with a positive mindset, a smile on the face
& roaring with full confidence to give best shot at a walk-in interview for
a job. You prepare yourself to outshine, competing against other candidates. You
really want this job. You are eager to learn something new, gain an experience.
But what happens in reality is totally different.
You reach the venue
of interview around 12:30 pm and find a herd of candidates, just like you. You
get anxious already but you’re not afraid. You are calm, composed, take a deep
breath and start off with regular Covid-19 precautionary protocols of
temperature check and sanitizing hands. You walk through the doors of institute.
You notice people are wearing masks but not following social distancing
protocol.
You fill up the
form, write in your details, answer questions asked and submit it. Once you
have done with this, you wait for your turn. It is 1:00 pm. You are observing
the surroundings, looking at your phone, whiling away your time. You see chaos;
the concerned teachers are running here and there, shouting names and carrying candidate’s
forms in not so orderly manner. There is no specific waiting room for
candidates. It is evident that nothing is managed properly.
Quietly sitting
unlike others who are constantly bickering about the system and life, you’re
patiently waiting for your turn. It is 2:00 pm. Feeling hungry and thirsty you
wonder what’s taking so long for your turn. You’re already bored of listening
to unnecessary rants of people around you, constantly criticising everything.
So you go for a walk in the corridor to talk about your ordeal to your parents.
They make you understand, tell you to remain at ease and just wait. It is 2:30
pm.
You’re finally
called and guess what you are told to sit in some another room. It is 3:30 pm; almost
every candidate’s turn is over, while you wait without asking anyone, another
hour of your patience test. Somehow you gather courage to inquire about your
turn since the organisers are least bothered whether you exist or not. A female
dominated area will obviously pay less attention to a male. Apparently your
form has been misplaced and the teacher totally unaware is roaming here and
there. The organiser, in this confusion gives
you a shock by telling you to fill up a new form. You question their responsibility, and somehow
in the meanwhile your lost form is found. You are relieved. It is 3:45 pm. Your
interview starts and some basic questions and you’re free in 5-7 minutes in the
1st round. Enter the second round, interaction with another person, principal
or someone else, gets over in exactly 2 minutes with the communication Quote “Thank you for coming,
shortlisted names will be called again, you may leave’’ Unquote. What a day? By the
way, few days ago, in some other previous job recruitment exercise, the
institute made you fill a form and charged a hefty amount for a single sheet of
paper and hasn’t called you yet for an interaction.