Campus Placements : Ensure You Don't Remain Unplaced

190 CAMPUS PLACEMENTS: Ensure You Don’t Remain Unplaced

take o due to various other factors including lack of seriousness at

later stages, problems in managing studies and project work together

or sheer pressure from parents to seek a secured job and start repaying

the huge educational loan rather than getting into further uncertainty.

This is the time when the last minute change in their plan to take up a

campus job and shelve or postpone the idea of entrepreneurial venture

may land them into serious trouble as there is a sheer shortage of time

to catchup for preparations.

Since they were in a dierent mindset, their preparation level

shows in the final interview, and recruiters are sharp enough to gauge

it. A little prodding corners them, and they spill the beans that this

was not their first choice. Such students generally find themselves

at the receiving end where recruiters end up doubting their clarity

of thought and decision-making powers. They sometimes end up

questioning these students as to why they ditched their dreams? Why

couldn’t they carry on with their ambitious projects? Do they have

the required appetite of taking risks and decision making? Also, the

inability and, sometimes, the unwillingness of these students to give

a pleasing response, which any other student would have rehearsed to

get it right in the final round, makes them appear snob, high-headed,

and unfit for the corporate world. As a result, they end up getting

suggestions of rather not joining the corporate world since they are

anyway destined to fail there.

Therefore, the take away from this discussion is to dream big and

dare to tread on the entrepreneurial venture with a well-planned strat-

egy, but also be ready with a plan B by preparing well for a job.

Conclusion

Everyone plans to be a CEO in the shortest possible span of time, but

you need to have achievable targets set towards that journey and real-

istic game plan to walk that path. The planning requires you to build

a robust strategy to get your dream job and also create a plan B to get

the job oer closest to your targeted one.

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