‘Cultivating Career At Campus’
-Nikhil Joshi
(Lecturer in ‘Language & Communication Skills’, IT/CP Dept.-GCET)
“I always do what I cannot do
and this is how I get to do them”
(-Pablo Picasso)
The quotation aforementioned enthused me to write this article. I had read it in an article published in a leading English newspaper. It truly spreads lot of rays of optimism, doesn’t it? Here I would like to focus on some fear factors that generally people do possess. At large people know their drawbacks but they are not much sentient of those drawbacks and this is what they are missing perhaps and this is why very often they are at loss.
So let’s begin to find out certain drawbacks and not only that, but now ‘today’ is the right time to shape up our abilities by culturing our strong points, turning our weaknesses into strengths and to make our path ahead a smoother one. To begin with, the first required action is-‘awareness’, because I think this is the solution of major, almost all the difficulties we are facing in life. Just one question to ask oneself is-‘Am I aware enough about my strong points and weak points as well?’ What’s your answer? Keep it in your mind or write it down on a piece of paper. How much a piece of paper can help you that you will realize sooner!
After ‘awareness’, the next word to be focused on is-‘today’. Let me share a brief story here on this word. A youngman used to keep a stone on his table and there was only one word written on that stone. That word was-‘today’. He used to keep this stone on his table just to remind himself everyday not to postpone today’s work on tomorrow and one day he became the president of his nation. He was Abraham Lincoln. Think over it, how much a rubbish stone can help anybody! ‘It sounds so foolish’-if this is your reaction then you need not read further.
In this article, especially for students, by the term ‘campus’ I mean campus activities and campus interviews as well. Don’t you think that campus activities would shape and sharpen your talents to grab the golden opportunities in campus interviews? Majority of us would surely agree upon this. Now let’s go further in discussion of the same. Keeping two things in mind we can initiate the whole discussion and these two things are as following:
(1) ‘Dreams and Goals’
(2) ‘Honors and Achievements’
As it is said that one should always dream higher, adding a view point of keeping one’s feet down to earth, one should have aspiration and inspiration of achieving something in one’s life. It’s a process of moving from being to becoming throughout your existence. Millions of people get themselves resting upon some point of being only. The real journey begins when you start thinking about to take a move from being to becoming in life. For this journey obviously one’s dreams and goals would play an important role in choosing direction, enlightening path and of course getting closer to the winning point, passing by certain turning points of life. The starting point of the way towards achievement is to have some concrete action plan and it begins with self analysis on the basis of questions like who you are and what you are. Majority of the people around you would be less interested in the first question compared to the second one. ‘What you are’- that would be more considerable factor for them. On the basis of that they would like more to finger out your weak points, then why not to begin with our own weak points by ourselves. Try to focus on certain drawbacks of your personality and put forward your best efforts to turn out your weaknesses into strengths through the process of improvement because the word ‘improve’ itself contains I-M-PROVE. So you are to prove yourself. It will take some time and probably certain factors may emerge to you as something like ‘impossible’. But again here we can apply the same theory of looking at the terms positively and by breaking this term into three pieces; you will get I-M-POSSIBLE. It surely depends upon you; how you look at the things.
Now let’s move on the next phase of the topic. Whether it’s a campus activity or a campus interview, one should follow the direction as following:
- preparation and planning
- participation and achievements
- performance and domino effect
…and ultimately future plan
In this play, one should go for following things one after another specially for campus interviews:
- self analysis
- career analysis
- job analysis
- future scopes
Now taking a turn from campus activities to campus interviews, let’s see how the previously discussed points would help you. In this case your inter personal skill as well emotional intelligence may help you a lot by following certain ways as given below:
- Be open, don’t try to deceive.
- Show empathy.
- Don’t put on an air of superiority.
- Listen with an open mind.
- Perform with the best efficacy.
- Try to understand, monitor and control our emotions as well as those of others.
- A little care will surely lead to true success in work and maintaining relations as well.
- Don’t assume certain fear factors before you start doing your task.
- Update yourself everyday.
- Create your own opportunity, don’t miss it and enjoy success.
Campus activities may lead you to realization of traits of your personality along with a chance to come in face to face situation with your abilities, skills and talents. Unconsciously it will be shaping up your guts to come out. In the same way even the interviews are the chances to evaluate yourself and in that case also one should remain as a performer because SUCCESS is realization of the estimate you place upon yourself. But the last word here to sum up is that in every idea implementation is must. Unless you yourself utilize yourself, no one can help you and only bookish knowledge will lead you nowhere. Books are good friends but the real world is a better one and perhaps that’s why a British author William Steron says-“My knowledge of books has diminished my knowledge of the world.” So what are you waiting for? Make your action plan and start implementing it each day and keep one thing in your mind that the only place where success comes before work is dictionary.
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-Nikhil Joshi
(Cabin No.-A-302, IT/CP Dept.-GCET)
Cell No. – 98246 03013
Email address – nikhileshjoshi@yahoo.co.in
nikhiljoshi@gcet.ac.in
Website –
www.geocities.com/nikhiljoshi_saregama
Blogs:
www.nikhiljoshi2007.blogspot.com
www.gcet-languageclub.blogspot.com
(Responses are always welcome)
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