Job-hunting-I

This is the season of knocking at the door of the Job Market (mostly gloomy,empty this year :( ). With one and a half foot still firmly back in innocent and fun (slightly evil and boring this year) College-World, and half a hand still clutching at the all important and coveted Degree that will stay elusive for at least (and hopefully no more) half a year more, we beg with half a hand (with a CV in the other hand, obviously) and down on one knee (and a half too, if you wish) to get a job. Yeah, that would be ten days from now.

So this is what is the graduating class of '09, IITD, can be found doing these days:

• Curse your luck for graduating in a recession
• Wonder why your GPA isn't better
• Curse the toppers for existing with better CVs than yours
• Wonder what the professor taught in your fundamentals class in Second year about your engineering discipline and how you reached final year without knowing that
  
• Curse Training and Placement cell for posting yet another "Company XXX will not be visiting this year" notice
• Wonder why do I want to join this company
• Curse inflation for the heavy bill of your Interview-Day gear: Blazer, shirts, shoes, folder, accessories, perfume, bathing soap...
• Wonder why people who tell me to be honest in interviews frown at me when I tell them my biggest weaknesses are chocolate, sleeping, dislike for bathing and sheer inability to work without a deadline hanging over at my head
  
• Curse companies with GPA cutoffs
• Wonder how the hell to tell someone "about yourself"
• Curse companies that did not shortlist you, every single time after that initial cray buzz goes in the campus whenever one is out
  
• Wonder just what is my greatest strength
  
• Curse your department, your profs, your project guide
  
• Wonder why do we need to know how to estimates the number of tissue papers thrown in dustbins every year and the number of lamp-posts in Stockholm
• Curse seniors who did not tell you in first year that you still needed to slog out after clearing JEE and getting into IIT
• Wonder how to put together that brilliant crisp, polite, true answer for every question that gets you a tick on Creativity, Leadership, Team-work, Communication, Analytical abilities, Relationship building, Fun-loving, Impact, Substance.............
  
• Curse all the TV series, movies and LAN gaming you did
• Wonder just how did that senior of mine manage that job last year
• Curse everytime a company has a huge 8 page form to be filled up in addition to the CV that says When did you put Mind over Matter and One weakness that you have overcome and how
  
• Wonder how did that person get that shortlist this year
  
• Curse yourself for not giving CAT seriously
  
• Wonder if going for a PhD is an option
  
• Curse
• Wonder
  
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