Wednesday, January 16, 2008

PPT

As of now, I m not sure whether it is a sign of maturity or death of a passionate angry young man..

But let me note this fact in this post.. I have stopped cribbing (Note: conditions apply :P..see the last line).

I do feel disappointed that things are not going my way but cribbing is a strict No-No these days.
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Life in a B-school comes with its own strings. The biggest pain in the ass are the pre-placement Talks of companies. A cliched PPT will have following slides
  1. why their company is a "hep" place to work(followed by few slides picturing people in the company playing innovative and thought provoking games like Hide and seek) .
  2. Some arbit Magazine rating them as the best place to work ( conveniently omitting the fact that magazine would have rated their US offices :P)
  3. Some Process flow in their company (with a font size of 8, No one would be able to read the slides)
  4. some jargons like competence,challenges thrown in.
Finally the PPT would be followed by a Tea session where bakras of tomorrow will interact with Bakras of yesteryears :P.

My dream PPT:
  1. Should end in 2 minutes
  2. The compensation slide should be the first
  3. The roles offered should be second slide
  4. Any questions ? should be the third slide
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Condition : I ll continue to crib in my blog :P

5 comments:

Gunjan Aylawadi said...

lol...dat was funny...
thr r sme who crib about not gettin an entry into a good b school!!
uve got a lot to b happy about!!:)

sandeip said...

idle dreams [:P]

lets hope by the next year tho someone reads it and learns his lesson and we have that "dream ppt [:)]

btw,were you there for the computer company PPT today evening?the video was all that was promised i heard,with the regulations guys and the regulation words!!

The Lonely Backpacker said...

@gunj

Ahem.. No comments :)

@sandeip

No .. I wasn't there.. But anyway that was predictable from my former Employers :P...

Craze Maze said...

Simplest of problems - You cant have the top management coming in for 2 slides in a B-school and if one doesnot bring them the B-school thinks we do not care.

The Lonely Backpacker said...

@crazemaze

A consult company gave such a PPT during my summers :)..

and I dont think that a B-school wants top management to come for PPTs..
and anyway if people are interested they would ask questions and keep you engaged for the rest of the time :)