Campus Recruitment

I have been working for Meta i Technologies for more than 7 years as a part timer. Niether i know them properly or they know me well. It keeps coming occasionally, i am with them, as a blue moon.

This meta - i technologies, is in Bangalore and they are into a niche business. They help the open universities conduct exams and some top companies in their recruitment process.

I have worked for them in their recruitment division for companies. I remember having variety of experiences, working with them.But could never forget the campus recruitment, which we had with the Dhanlakshmi college of Engineering, chennai.

We were representing a No.1 company in India on that particular Day. The HR Anchor, was little late and i am the only lady (apart from the HR) in the team, to reach the college first.

Received in red carpet, the chairman and his team was waiting to receive us,with bouquets and chocolates. I stopped getting down from the traveller, merely looking at the way they stood there. I managed to get down, thinking in mind, to respect them the least i can.

Two girls, fully dressed in sarees, followed me, wherever, i went; the entire day. Gosh, could never forget the breakfast we had, started with kesari, idly, poori, dosai and pongal, with its side dishes; same with a Big Great lunch...

I was supposed go report to the control room, while they requested me to come to the auditorium, when i entered, they started playing the music, while the entire student crowd stood up..

Second time in life, this is happening to me, after my wedding march.

Though i tried the lectuerers to stop honouring me, since the HR wuld be the actual person to be honoured this way. They made me sit, and the HR followed me with the music.

It all looked like a wedding, where the groom and their communities were honoured to the core, for the sake of the bride. The way they kept on honouring the HR looked, how the mother in law is honoured on a wedding day.

Corporates, Cultures, Recruitment, College, Student, everything was kind of good mess that day, though all of us enjoyed... I still could not digest that a campus recruitment happened that day...

Leadership

Everytime, I come through the word "Leader / Leadership Quality" my mind travels to my past and have made me happy.

When i finished my Graduation/ Post Graduation, I seldom see people coming forward to do new things. May be that would have given me all the chances to show off my strengths and qualities to the world I know. I could call myself lucky to project me that way, since all opportunties knocked the way i passed through. Yet the thirst for Leadership still within me.

Its been 5 years, since i post Graduated, 7 Years, since i Graduated and 10 years, since i finished school. So many changes have occured, in everyway i know. My entire world has changed from the North pole to the South. Infact,now i love the way i am...

It happened to me to visit one of the institution, where i was working some 5 years ago. There, they have called me, based on my old records and achievements for a short assignment. Though i cannot take up some serious careers, the offer looked attractive, since i can use my comfortable timings,being an old person, i have become a priority and i had a comfort zone of not developing a new reputaion.

Everything in the institution was changed though, the seniors remained the same, that is why a second chance was given to me. I; before 5 years, was demanding attention and was the centre of attraction, with my attitudes. While a lot of new and fresh people have joined and now, they wanted to proove themselves, and dying to demand attention of the institution.

Now the Question is, should i still compete with them and behave the same as i was before 5 years or Should i let the new ones feel that they are important to the institution. It a kind of a confusion in the beginning.Adding to fire, one of the young chap told me, "Lady, times have changed, Process have been modernized, why now you suffer with all this stuff, we will manage, and we will give you the easiest ones. You can stay relaxed and do it, by taking your time". I know nothing has chnaged in the process, expect for a new implementation, which would hardly take few minutes for me brush through.

But then, Now i am supposed to behave matured, for they age i am in, I will have to accept the fact, i am no more a college girl or a trainee, to prove everyone; that i am capable of doing those small things which i have proved myself earlier.
Also, i remembered, my seniors, who actually let my ground free, when i felt i wish to proove myself and i was lucky enough to make everyone have a look at me.

I have tasted it before, now its time for me, to lay the ground for the young chaps to have varities of career satisfaction, which i had when i was at the beginning of my career.

Leaving way, is also one important thing i learnt these days, and i believe, this is again a form a Leadership, which is rarely recognized, yet understood.

Me, as a Mother

Being a Mother is always difficult. Numberless poetry that praises a mother; Large number of stories, highlighting the sacrifices of a Mother; Beautiful songs, in various Langugaes praising Motherhood - Yes, Motherhood is worthy to be Praised.

But Being a Mother is so stupid as well. All your senses are alarmed to protect the baby, all the time. You keep looking for chances, to improve the kid's health, IQ and the Body. You keep on thinking new ways to improve everything, You are into Innovation.

But However, good you are, However caring you are, However the world's best mother you are - The child cries. The only weapon the Child has in its hand to let the world know, that it is feeling uncomfortable.

With all intensions, being excellent, we tend to handle the baby. But does the baby really needs that??? We dont know. Everytime, we give the best food - does the baby likes it? we dont know. Every 3- 4 hours, we tend to feed the baby every day; but if it skips one meal, we get a heart attack... we fail to understand the child's Heart. Doesn't it seem like a dictatorship????

See, I wish to understand, who a Parent is. The child should be grown well, with Education and Good Health. Thoughts, Actions, Habits and Intensions of the kids has to be streamlined. A moral, Physical and emotional support had to be given to them, until they can stand on their own.

For these causes alone, Parents are required for the child. Not to give them, what we didnt taste in our childhood, yet was longing to have- when we were a child. Not to give them an Education, which we were unable to do- Yet Dreaming about it. Kids are not a continuation of Ourselves. They are different individuals, who will have different likes and Dislikes.

Being a True Parent is very difficult, Listening to the child's feel and balancing them to grow;with the resources we have, with all goodness and smartness; and above all their likes and preferences had to be given importance.

Well, all these lines are just because i felt i was feeding my little daughter and she wanted to skip it, while i was keen with my intension to make her finish her food and she cried with a look, that made me feel ashamed of myself for being atrocious.

Finally i have let her free to play and now sleep at Peace, Yet having a grave feeling inside, for being a dictator, and i know i cannot leave my dictatorship all of a sudden...

I am Learning many things from my kids these days...
Growing as a Mother... Should grow as a Good Mother.