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Opportunities are Plenty, Preparation is Empty

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Placement is one of my recent responsibilities. When I took over this assignment, one of my feelings was that students are not getting enough opportunities because a good number of companies are not for campus hiring.  When the placement activities started happening, I started getting new insights. One of the persistent objections by students is that " don't allow already selected students" for further campus hiring events. I went by the general wisdom that already selected students if allowed to appear for more companies, they are "snatching" jobs from others. To verify I did an experiment. For the last company that visited for campus hiring, I allowed only 80+ students who had not got single offer in previous events. In others words, this was chance to grab their first job. My thinking was that " since no selected student is in the race, many will get the job" When the written results were announced, only 16 of 80 students who appeared for the

Thoughts in abundance

I guess a person becomes wise the moment he realises that every thougt that erupts in mind is not worth capturing- he has to let many of them unnoticed- of many thoughts that he captures - not all them worth chasing- most them have to be discarded at once. Then when he realises that of the thoughts he chose to pursue further only few produce results. Then when he finally notices of all results obtained only few are considered as prized ones. Mind of a person produces about 50,000 thoughts a day.