the first times..PART 1(the story of a resume)

They say u will never forget the first times. True.. the first love..the first kiss..these are indeed the sweetest of the memories to be cherished for a life time.

On a similar note i would like to share with you here my first job interview. Though not steamy or sexy as like the stories of first love or whatsoever..the story by itself is amusing and quite of a "WHAT NOT TO DO AT AT AN INTERVIEW" stuff. Just like the first faltering steps of a child learning to walk,the incident was quite a reminder for me!!



It was the campus recruitment season yet again i found myself articulating a resume for the purpose by unbashedly copying out typical templates from the numerous sites..After all there is the "ONE STOP SUPER MARKET" GOOGLE for all purpose mankind ever wished for. Once this done i had to fill it up with snippets of my mundane life and yet appear all glorious and paint myself out as an chivalrous unsung hero who was infact the 'jack of all trades'. I had to appease the weirdo who was gonna interview me and make sure he wont look further for the perfect employee once he had seen me. GOOGLE was my hero again..i came up with absolutely fantastic traits of mine hitherto unknown to me..

Then came the cumbersome task of chalking out my achievements and extra cirricular activities to further add color and sheen to my resume.. The cause was served bymy dear moms presence of mind,for she had carefully and diligently treasured away all those certificates i got and had throwed away without so much of a second thought. Phrasing out the certificates was all that was to be done on my part. The prizes i had won for totally bizzare and sophomoric games like the long forgotten 'lemon and spoon race' and the accolades i received for ' ice cream eating' contest came up to adorn my new resume..Crazy though it might sound is nothing compared to the sight of the aghast faces of my friends who chanced to get hold of a copy.

A slight redemption was offered by LAFEST(inter school cultural fest) back in my school days and also by CROSSROADS(inter collegiate fest) which offered something namesake to quote for my "DYNAMIC LEADERSHIP" and "HIGHLY DETERMINED" character!!

The rest of this endeavor went on without the slightest of glitches as i filled out my academic stats which stood apart for its total indifference to the rest of me as put forward by the darn'd resume. The percentages had hit rock bottom and the question
"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED WITH UR GRADES??"
was glaring at me from those sheets.. There was nothing now i could to salvage those queries and i decided it was best to let them be. Personal details took up the remaining space as the resume details lay scattered over two full pages.

I was contended with the effort and i felt proud as i held the print out up in my arms...There it was..22 long years of my life squeezed up and yet at the same bloated up into 2 whole pages. It was indeed a commendable effort on my part.

Thus the resume part was done with..for good.

At this point i realised the post had gone wayward and hav consumed more words than originally intended.Hence the decision to split up the story. As a reader myself,i feel obliged to spare u from more rounds of my heavy artillery of crazy humour for the time being.. So...till i am back with the rest of the story..happy reading!!