“MUST HAVE BEEN A MISTAKE...!”, my first thoughts when recruiters chose a Non-IT guy like me over my friends from IT industry. It seemed illogical, unreasonable…!
When I boarded that aircraft to Mumbai, I was under the impression (from what I had read online and gathered from my seniors) that I was going to an out-and-out digital media agency, but one week with SoCheers Infotech Pvt. Ltd. and I realized the agency was now offering 360 degree marketing solutions (a phenomenal growth for a startup which started off as a social network), even if they were through vendors and contacts. An exemplary way of “clawing” into the industry. A textbook example of how to build your competency: become the Jack of all trades (along with being the Master of one: building Digital Strategy). The agency provides digital media services such as – social media marketing, web development, content management, digital advertising, e-commerce, ad film production and digital analytics.
The summer internship is usually considered by PGP1s as a 2-month break off curriculum lectures, assignments with a stringent deadline, surprise quizzes and all the similar events at a typical b-school that keep us on our toes. Happy with the same thought, I was waiting for my summer internship to start at ICICI Lombard, in one of the most happening cities in India, Mumbai, the place I had never been to. All packed bags, and a super excited me, arrived at the hotel where I had to spend my two months in Mumbai. Appreciating the warm welcome by ICICI Lombard in terms of paid accommodation in a hotel for two months, I was excited for the first day at the company (especially after almost a year break from my last corporate experience).
Not many job hunters know that they have less than 30 seconds to make the first impression and get noticed by a prospective recruiter. This short period of time is usually enough for a hiring manager to look through your resume and decide whether they will put it in the interview pile or not. Unless your application document is persuasive and impressive enough, it may end up in the reject pile and, as a result, you won’t get a chance to market yourself in person. In this article, we are going to share with you some of the useful advice on how to get noticed by a hiring manager in the first 30 seconds and win the job interview.
Welcome to the 4th edition of the Ultimate Reading List. In this edition, we talk about a lot of things such as how social media has changed our lives, also about managing underperformers in the team and various other interesting things I found on net this week.
Whether you’re a freelance writer, a student, or even a poet, content quality is crucial to making your work attractive. Even though we spend much time on deciding on the topic of discussion, research and writing the final content, we mostly spend less time on proofreading.
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”
