It has been quite some time since I wrote a blog post, then I had been busy searching for the purpose I joined the B-School - Placements, thus please pardon me if my thought flow is a bit confused as I am myself.
To any person who joins the B-School, ask their reasons and the answers may vary from anywhere between career growth and to gather knowledge?!! , there might be a few people who answer with "Package" though that is primarily the reason the B-School business is the faster growing one in the nation next to real estate. Real estate is facing a slump now ( One of the important intels I gathered from MBA), making the "business of an Educationist" the most profitable one here. And throughout my childhood I believed that "Business of an Educationist" an oxymoron and now people think of me as a mere moron to have thought like that.
Stop- Beating around the bush , Begin- Topic why I started to write today. Any person joining a B-School , at least in India, will have the prospect of a fatter package at the back of his mind above all the knowledge, girlfriends and job profiles offered in a B-School.To further elaborate on that statement, knowledge you mostly gather in your first year is the companies and profiles offered to your seniors and in second year it is about what companies and profiles your friends are offered. Compared to that the knowledge you gather in the class rooms are minuscule. Coming to the point of Girlfriends, in a B-School the meaning of that word can lie anywhere inside the dictionary, zeroing down the sole purpose of an MBA degree to profiles and packages. When it comes to profiles, most people dont look at it if the package is good. Proving the fact that package is all the more important. (Phew I wrote this one big para to prove that point.)
From the above statements it is obviously making the placement season one of the biggest in the campuses, beginning from Placom and ending in a dharu party, whatever the outcome maybe. Got placed?? Enjoy with a beer. Not yet placed?? - Console with a beer. For us it is just another reason to drink. The placement seasons bring out the real grit and make of any person, it has the ability to break a person into tiny little pieces and if he is not able to hold himself up - it will wash him away. It can prove to be the best of times or the cruelest of times.
A placement day can bring up varied emotions and show the various people to us. Far too many people keep the greetings to the face and the bitching to the back. The fun in getting placed gets lost altogether after day 1 making the others just the unplaced ones. And that is the first sign of breaking a person in two. The ones that keep themselves up seeing the silver linings are the ones that escape the pressures.
Before coming into a B-School or even whilst doing the MBA degree people keep reading books like "The biggest innovators", or "Stay hungry Stay foolish" or a few autobiographies of the founders and CEO's of many companies. But when it comes to their lives people definitely stay foolish but not hungry. The hunger in them to take achieve big gets subdued to the bigger packages and brand names, and who is left over to take the risks?? The so called "un-placed group". And the primary lesson in finance put roughly means Risk is directly proportional to the returns. The people who never read most of these books are the ones that are left to write one of those in the future.
That makes us come to a conclusion that the B-School environment makes one to feel safer, that is not being the case. The one with the fire within will always have it but he was never aware of, given a situation to fight his war on his own, he became the Giant-slayer.
Just being a guy to not get placed in campus will not yield you the grit to take your risks, even if you are placed on day-1 you shall come forth if you have the mindset and attitude to believe in destiny. I believe in destiny, if thy believe in destiny come what may, stay put and thy shall write thy history.
It is the matter of whether one writes just his story or history, all that lies between is that small gap that is called courage and dare to take a leap of faith. As far as the pic that's here, it just matters which side of the table you wanna be sitting on. :)
Finally,
To those friends who got placed - Congrats,
To those who are yet to - Picture Abhi baaki hai mere dost!! :)
-Yours blogger .
To any person who joins the B-School, ask their reasons and the answers may vary from anywhere between career growth and to gather knowledge?!! , there might be a few people who answer with "Package" though that is primarily the reason the B-School business is the faster growing one in the nation next to real estate. Real estate is facing a slump now ( One of the important intels I gathered from MBA), making the "business of an Educationist" the most profitable one here. And throughout my childhood I believed that "Business of an Educationist" an oxymoron and now people think of me as a mere moron to have thought like that.
Stop- Beating around the bush , Begin- Topic why I started to write today. Any person joining a B-School , at least in India, will have the prospect of a fatter package at the back of his mind above all the knowledge, girlfriends and job profiles offered in a B-School.To further elaborate on that statement, knowledge you mostly gather in your first year is the companies and profiles offered to your seniors and in second year it is about what companies and profiles your friends are offered. Compared to that the knowledge you gather in the class rooms are minuscule. Coming to the point of Girlfriends, in a B-School the meaning of that word can lie anywhere inside the dictionary, zeroing down the sole purpose of an MBA degree to profiles and packages. When it comes to profiles, most people dont look at it if the package is good. Proving the fact that package is all the more important. (Phew I wrote this one big para to prove that point.)
From the above statements it is obviously making the placement season one of the biggest in the campuses, beginning from Placom and ending in a dharu party, whatever the outcome maybe. Got placed?? Enjoy with a beer. Not yet placed?? - Console with a beer. For us it is just another reason to drink. The placement seasons bring out the real grit and make of any person, it has the ability to break a person into tiny little pieces and if he is not able to hold himself up - it will wash him away. It can prove to be the best of times or the cruelest of times.
A placement day can bring up varied emotions and show the various people to us. Far too many people keep the greetings to the face and the bitching to the back. The fun in getting placed gets lost altogether after day 1 making the others just the unplaced ones. And that is the first sign of breaking a person in two. The ones that keep themselves up seeing the silver linings are the ones that escape the pressures.
Before coming into a B-School or even whilst doing the MBA degree people keep reading books like "The biggest innovators", or "Stay hungry Stay foolish" or a few autobiographies of the founders and CEO's of many companies. But when it comes to their lives people definitely stay foolish but not hungry. The hunger in them to take achieve big gets subdued to the bigger packages and brand names, and who is left over to take the risks?? The so called "un-placed group". And the primary lesson in finance put roughly means Risk is directly proportional to the returns. The people who never read most of these books are the ones that are left to write one of those in the future.
That makes us come to a conclusion that the B-School environment makes one to feel safer, that is not being the case. The one with the fire within will always have it but he was never aware of, given a situation to fight his war on his own, he became the Giant-slayer.
Just being a guy to not get placed in campus will not yield you the grit to take your risks, even if you are placed on day-1 you shall come forth if you have the mindset and attitude to believe in destiny. I believe in destiny, if thy believe in destiny come what may, stay put and thy shall write thy history.
It is the matter of whether one writes just his story or history, all that lies between is that small gap that is called courage and dare to take a leap of faith. As far as the pic that's here, it just matters which side of the table you wanna be sitting on. :)
Finally,
To those friends who got placed - Congrats,
To those who are yet to - Picture Abhi baaki hai mere dost!! :)
-Yours blogger .
