PLACEMENT PROCESS

The placement fever has started in my college immediately after my 7th semester exams got over.
Everywhere people started talking about placements. The first company to visit our college for campus recruitment this year (2010) is Tata Consultancy Services.
Our placement officer, a sincere and dedicated person in his job, wanted many of us to get placed.
So me created an oppurtunity for all the department toppers.
He prepared a list of students holding top-5 ranks in the departments of CSE, IT, EEE, ECE and MECH.
I was one among the top 5 in my department (CSE) and my rank was 4.
Test waiver was offered by TCS for these 25 students.
We are directly allowed to attend the HR & Technical interview.On one fine afternoon while i was checking my mails i got this rank list and the information in my inbox from the placement officer.
I found that the hardwork that i have put in panimalar engineering college in my first two academic years of  undergraduation did not get wasted. Those marks have really helped me out in boosting up my percentage and put me in the toppers list.
I was indeed very happy then. I was happy because i dont want to prepare for aptitude and i can spend more time in preparing for my interview.
I have already attended mock TCS interview conducted by the TCS people in a workshop held in my college on increasing the employability skills among the students.
This further gave me confidence to face interview. But i was weak in technical subjects in the 4th semester.
I waited for my semester exams to get over. As soon as the last exam was over, i started my preparation to face the interview with confidence.
I prepared answers for both technical and non-technical questions which they can ask us in the interview.
Meanwhile a three day brush up programme was conducted in our college for those students who are gonna take up aptitude. The TCS recruitment process is very simple. There were only two rounds.
1-Aptitude using TOUCH STONE software they have to answer some 35 questions in 80 minutes.Negative marking is there. 0.33 marks will be deducted for every wrong answer.
2-Interview--which included both HR and technical.
Our college placement officer instructed all of us (toppers) to submit the resume to him a week before the recruitment process. We did as we were instructed and he pointed out the corrections that has to be made in our resume.
My sister helped me a lot in preparing my curriculum vitae. She edited it and sent spent a lot of her precious time inspite of her busy schedule. I would like to thank her in this post. Thank u sis for spending ur time and energy for preparing my curriculum vitae. you also gave me confidence in the last moment.
After everything was prepared for the placement, we were instructed to attend the pre-placement talk on Sunday 12-12-2010 in our college auditorium. We were all instructed to come in formal wear. They have also strictly said that those who did not attend the pre-placement talk are not allowed to take up the aptitude test next day.
So we arrived early for the pre-placement talk which was supposed to be held on sunday by 2.30 pm. But the TCS people arrived only after 5.pm. We waited for such a long time in the auditorium. We were highly irritated by their punctuality.
The talk got over in half-an-hour. The next day was the most memorable day in my life.
i have written about it in my next post.
please read it and your comments are most welcome.
--hemapriya gopal