Not Hired by Campus Recruiters? Don't Get Disheartened Take Charge of Your Career

You Must Reflect on the Ground Realities, Work on Yourself and Take Charge of  Your Career

Improve Your Self Awareness

If you are not hired by the team of corporate recruiters that visited your campus, there is no need to get disheartened but to understand the reasons , why you were not shortlisted by the recruiters? This is an essential exercise in self awareness. 

Understand the Underlying Nuances
Not getting shortlisted by the campus recruiters doesn't necessarily mean that you are not good enough.Please do not register this notional opportunity loss

 on your psyche as a serious nondelible negative remark regarding your persona.You must understand the underlying nuances or else you may end up misconstruing the whole communication. Be aware of the various possibilities for the decision by the recruiters, these are a few of the likely scenarios. By being aware of these possibilities ,you need to intelligently reflect on the ground realities, work on yourself and take charge of your career

• You are Not a Best Cultural Fit for Hiring Organization

Based on your background information provided by you to the recruiters during the interview, the recruiters inferred that you are not a best cultural fit for their organization and there is a high probability of compatibility issues few months down the line, where the training & recruitment costs would go down the drain.The better option for them ,in this case, is to find a better suitable match having cultural compatibility with the organization under consideration. Considering this reasoning you need to appreciate that you are what you are and based on your background there are different but right kind of organizations suiting you, which are a better cultural fit for your background profile.

• You Exceed the Required Profile

You are an overkill, where you exceed the required profile and seem to be of a bigger size than the chair for the present role on offer. The recruiters assessed you to be far superior than the profile required for the role at hand and decide against hiring you. This decision of the recruiters is emanating from their act of drawing the balance between being fair with both the their organization, by keeping a check on their recruitment & training costs, as well as the candidate, by respecting the right of the high calibre candidate for better employment opportunities as suitable, than what is currently on offer. 

• You are More Suited to Different Industry or Job Profile

The personality traits of the required candidate profile may vary from one industry to the other. The job in banking sector may require different set of traits as compared to those required in a media organization. Therefore you need to keep trying with the your best efforts and may also take help of the experts in developing & mastering the traits required by the job profile in the industry of your choice.Going by this logic if your aptitude and competence are more suited to a different industry than the one for which the recruiters are hiring, then the recruiters might decide to leave you for the other industry.

• You are Out-Performed by Competition

Although you are a perfect match for the offered job role, you scored well enough to qualify the interview but due to limited available vacancies you could not make to the top few slots as you scored less than your competing colleagues.You are out performed by the competition, and you must utilize this failure as a learning experience for you to ensure that you are better prepared by finding out the best possible ways of keeping your best foot forward and delivering a stronger performance during the next interview.

• You Failed to Create a Positive Impact During Interview

You have the right mix of attributes required for the job role in discussion but you failed to create a positive impact during the interview. This could be due to incorrect etiquette, improper posture ,casual dressing, inadequate grooming, inappropriate communication, unfavorable first impression  or negative attitude inadvertently exhibited by you during the interview. You need to very closely & objectively reflect on the interview proceedings  to gather a clear understanding of what were the things you did right and also critically evaluate what went wrong, which you could have done better and ensuring these shortcomings are eliminated during the forthcoming interviews. 

• You May be Lacking Knowledge,  Skills,  Aptitude or Attitude

You may be lacking in either one or more of the knowledge, skills, aptitude and attitude required for the job role under consideration, If this is the case then you need to reflect on your self by conducting an in-depth SWOT analysis & identify your weaknesses to facilitate self improvement for ensuring that you are aware of your strengths and weaknesses. When you are aware of your strengths and weaknesses, you can draw great mileage by playing to your strengths ,chalking-out an action plan and working towards eliminating your weak areas so that you are better prepared for each progressive opportunity.

The author of this post is a Consultant & Trainer and in case of any assistance ,he may be reached at email ;sanjaysharma_delhincr@rediffmail.com , mobile; 9811578963
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Sanjay Sharma

Successful People Use Emotional Intelligence to their Advantage

It Is Essential To Also Know That Ignorance Is Not Bliss

Acquire Knowledge Regarding Emotional Intelligence

It is important for you to know that you are responsible for what  you do. Most of the time many people act without this self realization, which dawns on them only when they are actually facing the consequences of their actions. Therefore it is essential to also know that


 ignorance is not bliss but it can lead you into unexpected zones, which may not be very pleasant. Approach knowledge centers and professionals with knowledge , read relevant books to acquire the knowledge you need but do not cut a sorry figure in the end saying that you did not know about the theory of action and consequences.

 Three Stages of Action

Think about the possible consequences of your action before embarking

You do not even know who all are affected by your actions and how these actions come back to you in the form of consequences of these actions. So the golden rule is to seek wisdom from any authentic source and use your own judgment to think about the possible consequences of the action that you want to take. There are three stages in which action is taken by you, the first stage is when you direct your thought towards the objective you wish to accomplish and then look at the alternative courses of actions which can help you in achieving that particular objective, the second stage is when you evaluate all these possible options on the basis of the most likely outcome each one of them is going to produce once implemented, and the third stage is to implement the chosen option on the basis of the most likely outcome that would be achieved.

Emotional Intelligence Can Be Developed

The irony is that most people , most of the time jump to the third stage without considering the first two       stages, and they implement the action of the third stage still going just the action way without thinking about

Learn the right way to take the right action

the consequences of that action, the most likely outcome of that action. The point to be noted here is not that the people jumping to the third stage do not actually jump to the third stage but they lack awareness of the existence of the first two stages. Thus , what is important here is that these people need to get educated about making the correct and proper use of choosing the right action. And the people who have only action orientation without any regard to the consequences, completely lack knowledge about this decision process when taking action. These people are lacking in emotional intelligence, which can be developed through gaining self awareness and  by getting trained to the right way to go about taking action, with a clear focus on the consequences

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Successful People Use Emotional Intelligence to Their Advantage

If you happen to analyze a few successful people as well as a few not so successful people, you would find that the successful people are using their emotional intelligence to their advantage , whereas the not so

successful people have not been able to take advantage of this natural endowment,called emotional intelligence, lying dominant inside them. The irony continues beyond this point in the form of people failing to ascertain the consequences of their actions and taking such actions involving breach of the law or causing irreversible damage to their lives and careers by getting involved in actions with far reaching consequences sometimes leading them to severe legal penalties and imprisonment. All this happens because they lack,emotional intelligence,the awareness of the consequences of their actions.

Take The Right Action Towards Leading a Happy And Fulfilling Life

The difference lies in exposing a very large number of people to the awareness and training for developing their emotional intelligence because this can act as the one timely stitch which can save nine. At times , it can prevent most of the unwanted situations from the lives of most of the people. The challenge is to rate yourself on the development and application of emotional intelligence , this exercise may prompt you to take the right action towards leading  a happy and fulfilling life by developing your emotional intelligence.

God Bless

Success N Synergy