Tale of a ‘Matka’ in IIM

Another time when my ‘Matka’ tag haunted me came just after 3 months in the institute. During my summer placements, I was hoping that my IIT tag would help me to get few shortlists. But all my hopes were shattered when I got just one shortlist in first 4 days of placement season. Later on, I came to know that generally HR personnel don’t have time to go through the resumes and therefore they use some filtered keywords such as ‘IIT’,’NIT’, ‘BITS’ etc . These filtered keywords are applied on your under graduation alma-mater and not on your post graduation alma-mater.  The lone interview, which I had with a consulting firm, was also revolved around my decision of pursuing MBA after M.Tech. Unfortunately, this time I couldn’t convince the interviewer about my decision and hence I was rejected in the first round of interview itself.

Back to our classroom, though there would be people who are older to you, but you would be considered more mature than others if you hold a postgraduate degree. 

Thanks and regards,
Rajnish Kumar
Student - First Year
IIM Kozhikode