Recruitment Season Revisited

My last post was about campus recruitment and I am at it again. Couple of incidents in the interim makes me keep thinking about the dilemma that faces the students. Should they take anything that comes along or wait for something meaningful to happen!

First of these incidents is about a delegation of boys who came to meet me and wanted to get the second class test postponed. They begin around the 22 Nov of this month and couple of them had a clash for tests to be conducted for some jobs they have applied for. On pushing hard they came out with the fact that these were a little higher level clerk jobs with the state owned State bank of India. usually these banks take a few engineering graduate at the level of probationary officers who help with loan application assessments for engineering projects. I had to tell them to make their own choices between these glorified pen-pushers and the vital second test that is towards fulfillment of their degree requirements.

The second incident is about one of the brighter boys in CSE (Computer Science & Engineering) boys being picked up by the Air Force recruiters. But, what a waste! This boy will go to the technical wing of the Air Force and will get chances to work with computers. On the flip side though he will have an agreement to serve the force for twenty years. The most difficult part, according to me personally, would be to sir the seniors. This includes the guy who graduated as an officer six months prior to him. Discipline demands that he'll have to do yes sir to just about everything event to such people and I would have gone crazy to keep doing that for twenty years at a stretch. I had a good mind to catch hold of that guy and advise him against the job. But, on second thoughts did not quite do that. I am just hoping some better alternative comes along for him before he commits to the Air Force!