Well, beginning with a lazy Tom's Tuesday, the day was well filled up with lots of activities at the workplace. The next few weeks are going to be technically challenging and the challenges are on our radars already. As they say: work will teach you how to do it.
Dear work, I am at your service!
Due to a rapid expansion this year, our company is recruiting many engineers. My seniors view me as a useful resource for conducting interviews and appreciate my views on the candidates. This is a great appreciation in itself because I am still far less skilled than my senior colleagues are at judging people in a 15-20 minute discussion. In the process getting a lot to learn during those on-and-off tips by my respected seniors slash mentors slash guides slash gurus.
What is particularly interesting is that you are trying to read the mind of a person and infer something about him that he/she does not wants you to know about. And this has to be achieved as much discretely as possible in that short sprint of a discussion. It is here that I, up to some extent, am able to understand why some people have to struggle more to get into a dream job than some others. I am about to tell the reason now.
Because they simply are not fit for it! Seems strange? It is not as much as it seems to be.
The fact is that however hard one tries to hide, pretension of a fallacy can never be concealed. It always comes across. Not as a concrete statement, a gesture, or a number. But as a feeling in the guts of the persons facing you at the moment. Somehow, there seems to be something like a sixth sense that is ambient in the interview room at that moment. Result, I think is favorable to both. A person at a wrong place wont do good to any of the two, himself or the place.
(First) Moral of the story, don't pretend.
That apart, this principle applies in our lives as well. we, sometimes, just cannot get to trust some people no matter what they promise. This is the same gut feeling at work on your side.
So lets be honest to all as this is going to help both, the person, that's us as well as the place where we belong, this world!
Good Night
