Communication ???

The placement season is finally set in motion. Last day it was Porta Enterprises which came to the campus short listing 80 odd students after the GD for the subsequent rounds. Here I really don’t want to give my observations on the company’s credibility as I guess I do not have the rights to comment on a company which found me worthless for its operations. See even the CEO of the company can be really dim-witted.  J

Placement is the time wherein you actually showcase your worth & flair. I am really happy for some of my friends who performed luminously as expected & who took everyone by sheer surprise by cracking the initial companies. Congrats to all who got selected & all they very best to the rest.

Anyway let’s get started with my reality check now.

GDs are what I am talking about. I know GD was never my muscle & can never be. Ask me for a presentation with no groundwork, I will take you to the cloud 9. I don’t know what exactly the thing with GDs is, but I get all edgy. There was this GD of Porta wherein I had all my friends in my group but even that did not enable me to speak well. I don’t know but my voice got chocked up & words could barely make their way out of my mouth.  It’s not that I did not have points or I was nervous but it’s just a like a mental block that I have with GDs.

Now this is a situation that I have been facing since my school days. Communication skill is a word that baffles me the most. I get this awe-inspiring appreciation from a communication faculty one day & the next day I am being pounded by some other faculty for not having adequate skills in it. When I was studying in the state board, I had never featured on the toppers list in English but when I showed the same skills in an English medium school, I became the unquestionable frontrunner. This mystification chased me to the campus placements after my graduation also. I remember having quite a time discussing this thing with my parents then. On a fine Saturday, TCS visits the campus and after the interviews asks me whether I would be interested in joining the company’s PR team apart from the boring software job as I had brilliant communication skills.Two days later Wipro (Satyam may be, I am not sure) comes & discards me saying my communication skills are not good enough. The latest addition to this is even more bewildering. My father reads my blog (thank god he did not take those love posts too seriously) & the first response that I get is “what pathetic skills! No direction, no synergy. Writing is not only about putting words in order. It should be meaningful & soulful” Guess what the next day I get a mail from the Associate Editor of OUTLOOK magazine asking me to write an article for them. See how puzzling a simple word can be.

Guys please let me know if you have any solution to this. Tadaaaa…