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The Harder Right or the Easier Wrong ??

Published by
Bharat
1 month ago in Entry. 7 Comments

   As I had shared with you earlier, my earlier stint had been with the Indian Army. If you ever happen to drive down the road which leads into the sprawling 8000 acre valley of Khadakwasla, one comes across a small board hidden behind the bou·gain·vil·le·a bushes that says, “Welcome to the cradle of leadership”.

  While my article of my experiences at the National Defence Academy can run into thousands of pages, let me share with you the some words from our daily prayer “Oh God! Help us to do the harder right instead of the easier wrong” We used to recite these words day in and day out each day at 0500h and each day the value got ingrained into our minds.

   I am out of the army now and eking my livelihood by working with this distinguished company called Wipro Technologies. I interact with hundreds of young job aspirants each day and my experiences with them are rich and varied. I see a thirst for success in this generation which I did not see 15 yrs ago. I also notice a burning desire in them to create a niche for them selves. While the intentions are good, the methods that are adopted by some to gain employment often leave me pondering whether there is a moral and ethical degradation in the society. The fact cannot be generalized, but there is adequate evidence on record to substantiate such a claim. I notice a tremendous pressure on the young minds to make to the big three in the IT. Blessed are those who make it into these companies from their college campus and god help the rest who have to start seeking a job on completion of their graduation.

   This society has no place for the non-performers. The jabs from the immediate environment can often be sharp and torturous. As time passes, a combination of these facts develop into twin edged swords slowly cutting deep into the flesh of fresh graduates. Any Tier 1 company seeks experience and so is the case with Wipro Technologies. So If one has an aspiration to join a reputed company what are the choices. Gain experience in a genuine company over a period of two - three years or buy fake documents. The harder right or the easier wrong.  

  It’s easy to buy a fake experience these days, does not cost more than some thousands of rupees and a whole industry which manufactures custom made fake documents has come up in major towns to meet the demand of the job seekers and perhaps one can hood wink the recruiters too. But then how long ?

   No respectable company likes to start a relationship with an employee based on a lie and companies like Wipro design some deep audits to ascertain the nature of information provided by a job seeker. The fact finding may be delayed but the lie gets caught at some point of  time, if not today some time in future and the repercussions can be catastrophic. If an employee gets terminated on reasons of integrity, his career may get doomed for the balance of his life. He may get blacklisted by the NASSCOM and associated companies and the future prospects of getting employed in any Tier 1 company may be lost forever.

  There fore choosing the harder right seems an eminently safer choice rather the easier wrong of faking an experience.

Soft Skills

Published by
Bharat
5 months, 3 weeks ago in Fresher's Talk. 33 Comments

Hi Guys, Let me take the opportunity to introduce Saurabh Saxena. He is a 2007 passout from GGITS, Jabalpur. Like all others, Saurabh too has received a joining date which would be Mar 2008. Saurabh is a bit heavy on the positive side of life. He’s always cheerful and when I went to Jabalpur recently, He came down from Delhi to meet me. ( Call it the Spirit and Brotherhood of Wipro). So when I inquired as to what he was doing to fill in his days, he told me that he is running classes in soft skill training for the third year students at Jabalpur. Man! Talk about filling your time meaningfully. So I requested Saurabh to come on line and share some of his content. This is Saurabh’s first article. Saurabh! Thank You.

“Hi Wipro,

Am Saurabh Saxena a fellow joinee at Wipro, my joining will be in March 2008 and for the time being, am working as a Soft Skills Trainer at my hometown Jabalpur. I will try fillin up the space by what i teach and take sessions on.

I realised there are a number of students who are topping the universities and maintaining their Ranks in the class but still could not get the job of their choice during campus recruitment.

Reason: Blame it on their soft skills. Or rather the lack of them. These include communication, listening, negotiation, etiquette, language skills etc. Hence, they could not compete with their fellow students who got better jobs.

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A Tip For Your Safety

Published by
Bharat
5 months, 3 weeks ago in Health & Lifestyle. 5 Comments

We at Wipro Technologies are always looking for ways to invent new things, what more we also keep trying to find new meaning in old things.  What does this mean: Innovation.

We cannot keep dreaming of Innovation and then suddenly hit upon a million dollar idea. We continuously need to think of new meaning in the things that we do each day and in items that we use everyday.

Take for example, Business Cards: An exchange of Business cards is an age-old tradition in the corporate environment which started in the 20th century to enable our casual encounters in the society turn into regular contacts. Today we still see a lot of this activity in the business environment. I too exchange my business cards a lot during the course of my daily interactions and then suddenly I purchased this mobile telephone which had a function of sending business cards. This has got me thinking, Do we exchange business cards just because it is a habit with us? Do we still need to exchange cards in this new information age where, we can send our business cards at the press of a button? I might be thinking of an idea which may cause some people in the printing industry very uncomfortable. But It’s an IDEA and it’s INNOVATIVE. I need to put up this idea to my colleagues and try and find if it has any takers. I will not mind if I do not get a buy in, at least I made an effort to live up to the Wipro motto.

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A day of work at Wipro

Published by
Bharat
6 months, 2 weeks ago in Health & Lifestyle. 11 Comments

What is culture?

I am supposed to be the culture vulture of the campus outfit of Wipro Technologies. I had spent the first ten years of my  career with an organization that is steeped in culture, a culture that is unique and distinct in each of it’s flavours, I am speaking of the Indian Army of course.  And when I joined the campus team and was given the sobriquet of the Culture Vulture, I got down thinking. This article is born out of that thinking, ………The last ten years of my life was spent with the Indian Army. Ahh., those were heady days of adventure and fun. The work was hard of course but that ever present threat to one’s life was a drug which always had me on the high. Sweet was the aroma of adventure and sweeter the ache in my muscles after the long arduous treks in the mountains. How much ever the work, however hard the task, we always went about it with a cheer. Never did we cry, never did we crib. We always used to convert the work assigned into a challenge. 

     In the National Defence Academy,  our punishment for failing to get the weekly haircut was to be sent on a 20 KM trek with 20 kilos on  backs. Did we cry?  Did we crib?  Did we write to our parents crying our hearts out ? OH NO!!   We were bashful enough to engage ourselves in a competition with each other, for the closest time possible to complete the run. Oh! They were days. We were on a masochist trip.

 What challenges could the corporate environment throw for me. And then they told me to resource people for Wipro Technologies, I laughed to myself and thought “Yeh to baya haath ka khel hai ”.  And then the requirements started pouring in. 

My boss called me up early one day and said, Bharat, we have an urgent requirementand we need tons of resources, What are you doing about it? Hardly had I had the time to articulate a reply and my mobile phone started buzzing. This time it was the campus head: “ Bharat, Can you a draw a strategy for us for next year?”         

Even as I was trying to make a plan this task, I receive yet another call. Oh our operations manager:  “ Bharat, We want you to plan and conduct a drive  the  day after tomorrow”

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Swasth, Arogya, gesondheid, sundhed, gezondheid, sanitas, salus

Published by
Bharat
7 months, 1 week ago in Health & Lifestyle. 3 Comments

Gibberish…………….. what absolute nonsense……………………….. what is this ?????????????????……………Who posted this @#$…………..&*

What we are unaware of, we tend to pass away as gibberish. What we fail to understand, we ignore and brand as nonsensical !!!!!!!!!!!

Today, we are as unaware of health and healthy living as we are unaware of the words above. (Incidentally, they all mean health, in Hindi, Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch or Latin.)

These are the days when a half clad bearded man has taken the entire nation on breathing epidemic. ( Call it Kapal Bhati or Anulom Vilom, hey I just learnt some sanskrit)

These are the days when a bollywood protagonist in his middle ages shed 6 kgs and built a six pack to make a come back against the young turks like Shahid Kapoor and Hrithik Roshan.

These are yet again days when everybody, be it a granma in her deathbed marrying for a second time or a young damsel looking for a break through in the Indian Idol (I thought they were looking for singing talent) hits the exercycle to shed those love handles to get into tights and halters.

These are days when captains of gentlemanly games throw out their Ts to the crowd. (No great muscles there either, What were you up to Dhoni, trying to get married ?)

What is this CRAZE that is blowing in the wind ?????????? How do we join this Band Wagon.

What is health then ? And why such importance. There is not a newspaper without an article, nay an entire section on the subject, there is no television channel which does not broach the topic, not a lane without an advert on the good things come with health and hey when we go home, all we get to hear from dad and mom is ” Why don’t you get some exercise for yourself.

SO! For a beginning, let us try and define health. While the word and this blog site have a very broad outlook, we shall restrict the meaning to this.

The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain. (Brainy Quote)

Keep coming back and we shall see how we can achieve all the above and more. Keep coming back guys. You will enjoy the show !