Last week was a time for e-cell junior team selection and it was both fun as well as a tiring exercise.
It all started with a presentation to the juniors about the entrepreneurship cell. All the cells which are a part of the council went together. We were the last ones to present amongst them and as we were taking queries, suddenly, a girl fainted :D.
We decided to hold a 3 stage process. But before that the students had to sign up for different cells and clearly state their preferences. e-cell was in for a pleasant a surprise when we found that we were the second highest with 75 sign ups beating the placements team. Doesn't this say something about this batch.
Stage 1 was a questionnaire which had to be filled. My team spent its Sunday night, evaluating the questionnaire as we came up with a shortlist. Then we decided to divide the prospects into groups of 5 and see how well they work together as a team. A lot of planning had to go into both these stages and so we thought the hardest part was over as the next stage was interviews....
But sadly (as I later realised) I was mistaken....
Once, we announced shortlist, the ordeal started. The next two nights (Mon and Tues) I had spent awake and was awarded the pleasure of the sun rise after a long long time....On Tuesday, we started with the interviews in the evening. We had a lot of fun taking people's cases, unsettling them....I'm sure they had a easier time getting into SCMHRD rather than into one of the many committees (this stands true for all the cells). But, I got a chance to meet many different people, knew some of my juniors a lot better, etc. I was also amazed at some of the plans.
The last interview got over at 4 am and we especially enjoyed this one as the prospect was completely zonked and I am sure left without any hope of getting selected. But then the actually ordeal started. The next 3 hours we spent on coming down to the final list from 11 and that also unanimously. Not did anyone of us ever imagined that this would be easy. When I look back I'm amazed at the issues we discussed before we came up with the final seven.
But then, I guess it was worth the effort. I have got a great junior team, which has been appreciated by the diro as well.
It all started with a presentation to the juniors about the entrepreneurship cell. All the cells which are a part of the council went together. We were the last ones to present amongst them and as we were taking queries, suddenly, a girl fainted :D.
We decided to hold a 3 stage process. But before that the students had to sign up for different cells and clearly state their preferences. e-cell was in for a pleasant a surprise when we found that we were the second highest with 75 sign ups beating the placements team. Doesn't this say something about this batch.
Stage 1 was a questionnaire which had to be filled. My team spent its Sunday night, evaluating the questionnaire as we came up with a shortlist. Then we decided to divide the prospects into groups of 5 and see how well they work together as a team. A lot of planning had to go into both these stages and so we thought the hardest part was over as the next stage was interviews....
But sadly (as I later realised) I was mistaken....
Once, we announced shortlist, the ordeal started. The next two nights (Mon and Tues) I had spent awake and was awarded the pleasure of the sun rise after a long long time....On Tuesday, we started with the interviews in the evening. We had a lot of fun taking people's cases, unsettling them....I'm sure they had a easier time getting into SCMHRD rather than into one of the many committees (this stands true for all the cells). But, I got a chance to meet many different people, knew some of my juniors a lot better, etc. I was also amazed at some of the plans.
The last interview got over at 4 am and we especially enjoyed this one as the prospect was completely zonked and I am sure left without any hope of getting selected. But then the actually ordeal started. The next 3 hours we spent on coming down to the final list from 11 and that also unanimously. Not did anyone of us ever imagined that this would be easy. When I look back I'm amazed at the issues we discussed before we came up with the final seven.
But then, I guess it was worth the effort. I have got a great junior team, which has been appreciated by the diro as well.
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