Disciplinary complacency and insincerity disenchants an individual. Fearless expression of matters of fair play and parity in your struggle of tasting the humiliation of failure and fragile success gives you insight into mind of your own that critically engages with the need for reflection on the constant struggle with harsh reality. It enables you mellow down to appreciate the gratification associated with the simplicity and spontaneity of life. Individual adapt at articulating the significance of observation makes one self-assured.

 

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 1^st 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.