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Month: September 2008

  • LinkedIn Reccos

    LinkedIn is a great professional networking tool. I have used it often to get answers to professional queries, and have also benefitted from the questions and answers posted by others.

    However, I was checking up something today when I saw this strange trend where people reccomend someone else, and the same set of people reccomend them back. I mean no harm done, but its wierd when a person has 20 odd reccomendations and you notice that a majority of them are from the same people they have reccomended. It’s like you scratch my back, and I will scratch your’s.

    Maybe LinkedIn should institute some method of highlighting such reccomendations. Any thoughts??

  • Apping Update

    The schools have been shortlisted, and the real work begins with some 25 odd essays to be written. I am applying at a mix of schools ranked between 10 and 40 by FT – and the ranking was not my criteria. Though required, I am amazed at the kind of questions that schools frame for the essays. Anyways – the deadlines are approaching fast with most round one deadlines falling in October. I hope I can apply to as many in R1 as possible.

    Meanwhile, the MBA apping process does give you some rude shocks. Explaining to someone else your achievements is a damn tough task. I thought I had a good profile, and yet when I got down to making my resume, I could not even fill a page!! [And I have heard of people who need to cut down :(]

    Hoping that the final result is better 🙂

  • Thanks..

    .. to all the teachers who ever taught me. You folks have made me what I am today.

    Some that deserve special mention (in no particular order) are Mrs. Gulati, Mrs. Das, Father VT Jose, Mr. Johnson, and Mrs. Francis (all from Don Bosco, Siliguri), Mr. Upadhyay (BPS, Pilani), and Dr. D (AKD) and Mrs. Sangeeta Sharma (BITS, Pilani).

    Thanks for teaching me so much – both inside and outside the classroom.

    Also, there are a lot of people from my workplace who would walk into this list, but that is saved for some other occasion 🙂