The fun of interviewing

Foreword: Interviewing and officiating can be immense fun, as I found out at IMS Achievers Workshop 2009. To all the students who I screwed, my friends, remember even a fool can ask a question which the wisest of men cannot answer. So there! no points for guessing who was the fool around :-)

Amusement 1: I and another panellist were moderating and evaluating a GD whose topic was 'Black and White'. Abstract thinking required types. One smart alec took abstract to a new level altogether. He said with confidence ' Bipasha Basu is black'!!. He looked at me for approval. I replied with greater confidence, "If Bipasha Basu is black, I am very very fair". (plenty of giggles from female students)

Amusement 2: We were asked to conduct these stress interviews. License to rape types. So during one such grilling session, I had managed to ruffle a candidate to a fair degree. Then I asked him, "Ok, tell me how many hair are there on your head". He thought for 2 secs and replied "Billions". I exclaimed 'Billions!!'. On hindsight, I should have screamed 'Billions of blue bilious blistering barnacles'.

Amusement 3: This one had me cracking, literally. Again during those stress sessions, one candidate with IIM B,L,K,I calls came to us. A super guy.. sharp and intelligent.. however a tad conceited. So I went about my routine of bringing him down to dear terra firma. After quite a lot of grilling, I finally asked him in a rather screwing voice "Go to the board, take the chalk and write asshole". Point was to check his response to this unwarranted diktat. But the guy, confidently strode to the board, took the chalk and without hesistation wrote 'Arsehole'. Oh my god.. I actually started laughing aloud. Ha ha 'Arsehole'. When he came back, we grilled him on British v/s American spellings of Arse/Asshole. Poor chap, replied this is the only spelling he knew of. Ha ha it was damn funny.

Anyways, my best wishes to all those very very worthy candidates. I sincerely hope I could contribute to their preparations. Amen.

King of the worrrrlld :-)

Dear Manish
Greetings from IMS!

We would like to invite you to officiate as Facilitator at our Achievers' Workshop, 2009, to be conducted on 25 January 2009 and 26 January 2009. If you accept this invitation, you will be required to orient and observe students who have received calls from the IIM's or Premier B Schools of India, in the preparatory GD & PI exercises that they will be taken through with the objective of enhancing their chances at the selection processes of the B Schools.

You will be expected to participate in the proceedings for the duration of 9 hours on each day of the 2 day workshop. Lunch and refreshments will be provided by us. Remuneration for the services of Facilitators for the 2 day workshop has been fixed at a consolidated amount of ___

Members of the Faculty team are requested to arrive at the venue, St. Joseph’s Commerce College (Map attached) by 9.30 am on both days of the Workshop (the 25th and 26th of January,2009) so that they may be directed to their respective classrooms.

Please note that while our students need to be provided with an honest and comprehensive assessment of their performance in the GD and PI, they should also be motivated to face the real challenge. Faculty members are humbly requested to desist from making any statements or comments that may accrue as damaging to the self-esteem of students.

Looking forward to a fruitful interaction on Jan 25th and 26th,

Regards,
IMS Team

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Thank you so much Nilya for recommending me. You are THE BEST.. :-)