part-3

I don’t know why people become so excited even if they are not involved at all . One person came to canteen and announced that the results would be announced shortly. Since it was my first interview, i thought its better to go to the placement cell. All shortlisted candidates were asked to assemble in the cell . I was the last person to enter the room.The environment inside the room was worse than GD room. All faces were tensed and deadscared. I don’t understand why people get tensed every time even after having the experience of getting rejected so many times. Finally one person from ING team came and repeated the same old lines that the performances of all the candidates were good but they had limited number of openings and so they were going to recruit only 5 students. We were 16 and everyone was wondering who would be those 5 lucky people.(except me, of course as i knew how my interview was). After a brief pause he started announcing the names . My friends were out, waiting for the result . Even theyhad the confidence that I would not be selected but as they were my friends , they had to stand beside me . Well… the names were being announced one by one and I was thinking why they can’t announce all names in one go . But human body has its own restrictions and a mouth can spell only one name at a time. I was pretty sure that ING people had wasted my whole day but my whole assumption went wrong when I heard my name … Fucking Deepak Khandelwal !!!! I was standing astonished and even my friends were astonished . How come my name !! . is It possible? “How come they announced my name” as if they had committed a crime .
All my friends ran towards me . After getting many GDL, our placement coordinator announced that we had to wait for some time as ING people were offering the joining dates and confirmation letter also. i was informed to join on June1,in Bangalore. After getting the joining latter I called my father and informed him about my placement. He didn’t know anything about the relationship manager post but after
hearing the package, he congratulated me, without knowing the fact that his son had been trapped in the net of selling illusion by the word marketing and I was on cloud no 9 without being aware of the upcoming disaster . I was happy that I became a relationship manager and at least I was a manager . But I realized later that it was not the "manager" part which plays a large role in my profile , but was "Relationship" and it was the first step of me being in sales

part-2

The climate of the GD was quite peculiar .The students who never used to speak a word in the classes or presentations, were roaring in the GD. Everyone had killing eyes and was ready to kill each other for a chance to speak. People didn’t want to leave even a single opportunity to speak . Even I used to be the same in the previous GDs,because that was what my colleagues had told me. But this time I didn’t feel like doing the same thing as I was pretty sure that I would be eliminated . But being a part of GD , you are supposed to speak something .Otherwise you would be asked to speak . So I thought it was better to speak by my own and I repeated the same words which were spoken by others. It lasted for 30 min. and everyone was happy because everyone got the opportunity to speak. I , one of them was thinking about new movie loaded in my treasure land i.e. my laptop . But I thought it would be ok to wait for the result. Then I would be able to watch movies, more relaxed. After half an hour , a volunteer appeared with a list and started announcing the shortlisted candidates' name one by one . Suddenly he called my name. I was confused whether he called out my name or someone else's . I checked the list again and found my name was really there. Well…. I who was from finance background, who never learnt anything about the selling was going to have a marketing interview. Moreover I was worried that my second half of the day was going to be wasted. But I was lucky as my no was 2 in the interview list. I felt more relaxed because it is always better to finish off the things early on which you don’t have any control. First interview lasted for 40 min and I was thinking what these ING people are asking because even if they ask me about my whole life , it would be finished in 30 min . Finally my No came and they asked me to sit down . My interview started with the most repeated question in the history of the interview. “ TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF” and I was thinking that when everything is there in my resume, why these guys are asking me. We engineers/ MBA people are so prepared with this question that even while sleeping we would be able to give the reply . So I vomited all the things from my native place to current education . They asked me about my area of interest . I don’t know what made me say that, but i said my area of interest is watching movie.. First he was shocked because you are supposed to say some thing heavy like reading novel or writing but then he asked about my latest movie. After hearing the story he asked me if I had any question to ask and again I repeated another blunder mistake by not asking any question because you are supposed to ask some hi – funda questions,if given a chance. I came out from the interview room and felt relaxed because I was sure that I am not going to be selected. How can a movie story get you a selection ! I went to my room and started watching movie. After 3-4 hours I woke up without knowing that I had got slept. I realized that I was supposed to go for the result . I woke-up half heartedly and moved towards the college. When I reached there , i got to know that still last candidate is giving the interview . Some one told me it would take another one hour for the result to come out . I went to the canteen and asked for tea . Suddenly I heard the voices .

part-1

I am wondering how I should start my story . The story of me becoming a salesman. Let me go into the past and find out the inception of my journey . I think all things started with my placement.
Somewhere in Oct., 2009
Placement season was on and even students like me who stood last in the so called CGPA parameter wanted to get placed in the most prestigious company. I suddenly started believing in god and visiting the temple became a part of my life. Many Companies visited but all left me asking "MERA NO KAB AYYEGA". But in spite of all these, my frequency of watching movies became intense as before I used to watch movies when I was happy or normal but during placement season I started watching movie when I was sad also. Placement season was a quite boring time for students like me because the same routine was being repeated every day . You need to get up on time, attend the PPT talk (you have to show the company that students are quite interested in them ). You need to clap during the PPT to show them that you were not sleeping and listening to them with much attention .After that they would conduct some written exam or Group decision. If you are fortunate, you would get eliminated in the first round only to enjoy the rest of day but if you are unfortunate, you would clear the first round and get eliminated in the second or third round . But some time students whom we used to think were equal to us , were able to crack the final round also.( Might be they visited the temple more often) . Well, for me every day was the same as I was being eliminated in the first round itself. It used to make me sad for a short span of time but finally the idea of watching new movies loaded in my laptop used to motivate me to start my laptop and once the movie is on, who gives a damn to the placement !
But everything got changed on 4^th Feb 2009. By that time I had made my mind for returning to home without a job. But I was not tensed as recession was on peak ( thanks to USA ) which gave me an excuse. So I was sitting on the last bench and listening to the PPT of ING Vysya bank . They wanted to recruit some students for relationship manager post and finally they announced that they needed students from marketing back ground only . Me having Finance background, felt relaxed as I didn’t need to waste half of my day either and I put off my blazer and tie. But some nurd students approached the ING Vysya people and convinced or begged ( don’t know which one is more suitable here) to allow Finance students also and after half an hour I found myself sitting with other students for group discussion

This is how my sale life started