cv – Karthik Shashidhar

education, IIM, work accounting, campus recruitment, cv, disservice, fair share, few days, finance, football team, headache, hostel, iimb, job, pertinent observations, priorities, resume, shortlist, summer internship, wing football

A View From the Other Side

November 4, 2009

For the first time ever, a few days bck, I was involved in looking at resumes for campus recruitment, and helping people in coming up with a shortlist. These were resumes from IIMB and we were looking to recruit for the summer internship. Feeling slightly jobless, I ended up taking more than my fair share…

arbit, technology, work age, ctc, cv, due diligence, entertainment, evenings, expectation, face value, formal india, formalities, formality, formals, generality, headhunter, hometown, liking, linkedin, market, marketers, neting, orkut, peers, periods, profiles, rhetorical question, testimonials, work, writing

LinkedIn recos

September 16, 2009

LinkedIn in general is a useful site. It’s a good place to maintain an “online CV” and also track the careers of your peers and ex-peers and people you are interested in and people you are jealous of. If you are a headhunter, it is a good place to find heads to hunt, so that…

business, fundaes, personal, studs and fighters, work aggregation, ambition, continuous job, cv, discrete points, frenzy, good game, good job, ledley king, match, musician, performing artist, period of time, points in time, short period, sleep, spectacular performance, sportsman, train, weak knees

Discrete and continuous jobs

June 16, 2009

Earlier today, while contributing to a spectacular discussion about ambition on a mailing list that I’m part of, I realized that my CV basically translates to spectacular performance in entrance exams and certain other competitive exams, and not much otherwise. This made me think of the concept of a “discrete job” – where you are…