P@SHA Job Fair 2005

Today I went and witnessed the P@SHA Job Fair 2005. For those who dont know, it was a job fair organized by Rozee.com. Surprisingly the head of the event was Abidoon Nadeem , a B-8 Gikian and co-Founder of netronix(GIKIANS Lead the way eh?!).

Yesterday I was up all night playing GTA San Andreas so I thought I wouldnt be able to make it today, but somehow I slept at 7:00 am and woke up at 9:00 am, and reached JIT for the registeration. Well the companies at the job fair were, techlogix, trg, netsol, intel, Mentor Graphics, abacus consulting and many others but the information they dispersed was well known esp to GIKIANS. The Mentor Graphics and Abacus dudes had stuff that was new to me and we chatted for quite some time. Mentor Graphics deals in RTOS'es, Drivers, Interfaces all the techno geek C stuff. Abacus'es PAPI( Personality and Preference Inventory) is availible on the cubiks web site and it is what employers use to determine the needs and stff of people who they hire for potential employers (e.g. how much power hungry a person is). So it is a middle layer company that has a part to play in the Recruitment Process.

• The first workshop was at 10:30 but I missed that because I was 2 minutes late, but according to Rappie it sucked so I feel no remorse. After Rappie and I went out for Ice Cream and AFC( another SFC [FYI : SFC = "Sasta Fried Chicken"] ) for lunch and came back. It was then that Riz also joined us and we attended a couple of workshops. The time management one was a good introduction to the field.

• The second one titled, "Bridging the GAP between the workplace and the institution" was all about IT [FYI : Information Technology not Iqbal Talaat] in Banking and though informative, it made me feel woozy because of lack of sleep.

• The third one was about how to appear for an interview and it was stuff that you'd expect a 2nd grader to know, but some of the examples they gave were good about they experiences they had appearing for and taking interviews.

• The last workshop was the funniest one and it was about how to recruit a person. Half of what the person was saying was Punjabi and he seemed to turn everything into a joke. He was a favourite for the Masses. He gave good examples and had good stuff to say about the qualities companies look in an employee. His Slides were also hilarious and I quote : "No Atitude + No Skills = Shit Man" [Sounds like a super hero]

After that we ate dinner from Tarka and went off to our homes.

Before I leave I would like to finish this post praising Abidoon, P@SHA and Rozee for taking the initiative for P@SHA Job Fair 2005. Although GIK has a good recruitment process and collaborations with companies, but for people who are not so fortunate this was a golden oppurtunity. Hope next years Job Fair will be grander than this one.