Final Judgement

I recently interviewed at a company for a contract position. After a brief 15-20 minute interview, the manager approved my selection for the job. My consulting company got the Purchase Order (called PO in consulting circles) in a couple days. Apparently, this PO thing is a big thing. Until you get your PO you can't be assured of the contract. Anyway I got mine without many hassles and was mentally preparing for the new job. Then the hiring company asked me to take a Predictive Index (PI) review. I had never heard of it before and was wondering what it could be.


Could the results of the review still jeopardize my job? The answer came from an American colleague of mine who told me that PI review is a simple HR process to try and find the best fit for a potential employee. It seems the Management uses it to find out a person's attitudes and traits to be able to place him/her better in managerial/supervisory/team member role.

I took the PI review today evening and have some screen shots am attaching some screen shots below. I'm hoping the company provides me the results of the review. Here are some links about the Predictive Index Review:

link1, link2, link3 (link to the thread I started on echarcha.com to discuss PI review)

Picture 1: Instructions













Picture 2: Question 1 with the list of words.


































Note carefully the difference in 1st and 2nd questions

Picture 3: Question 2 with the same list of words.

lost ground...

It has been a tough few months...

didn't get the job I wanted...

had to change my field of work...

my laptop was stolen two months back...

and now day before yesterday I wrecked my car... a silly teenage girl was driving in front of me... she changed lanes and came back to my lane suddenly... I didn't have enough time to brake... so now my car is a total loss... woh bolte hain naa ki saala bad luck hi kharab hai... the only positive thing is that neither me nor she was hurt at all... jaan bachi to lakho paaye laut ke buddhu ghar ko aaye... financial losses are running into thousands... indian rupees mein lakhs... damn if only I could rewind the clock back to at least a few days...

I can still hear the loud metallic clang and the skidding screeching of my brakes... I could hardly sleep the last two nights... jaane kya soch kar nahi guzara... ek pal raat bhar nahi guzara...

who moved my cheese?

Day before yesterday I went to Barnes and Noble to read some books but soon I bot bored of them and ended up reading 'Who moved my cheese'.

Here are my thoughts about it.

I just finished reading this book Who moved my cheese by Dr. Spencer Johnson. Its a simple book, well-written with easy language which makes for good reading. Using mice and little people as characters, the author builds an engaging, straight forward story of how different people react to changes around them and how he hopes we all, by that I mean all the readers, can take a lesson or two from this magically successful book. The author later came up with many versions applicable to teens and kids etc.

I definitely recommend anybody to read this book. Even though I found the book inspiring with all those insights and anecdotes in it, I also have a disclaimer which goes like this, read and try to enjoy the book in one sitting because its a little cheesy. The book really has few pages and I completed it in 2 hours.

the words hurt man...

A friend made a sarcastic comment at me today. It hurts so badly. It felt like a dagger piercing through my heart. I could almost hear my mind yelp. I wanted to react back with a 'piece of my mind' but better sense prevailed and I held back. I dont know if its good to hold back and most times I would give the person something spontaneously with some vocabulary and presence of mind.

hunting for jobs & my life in general on 25th Jan 07 - 11 pm CST

Disclaimer: Presently this is more of a mental note or a daily diary kinda thing.

I am out in the job market since a few months but nothing much seems to be happening. Right now, I'm working as an intern in a big company. I was hoping things might work out here but the position I interviewed for went to some son-of-a-*%@^! (son of an employee). I guess I've lost to favoritism. It'll be interesting where I end up.

Its the helplessness that hurts me the most. I am reminded of my favorite Urdu couplet (sher):

ज्ञिन्दगी तुझ से हर इक बात पे समझौता करूँ,
शौक जीने का है मुझको मगर इतना तो नहीं।
- मुज्ञफ्फर वारसी

[Written by Muzaffar Warsi this couplet can be loosely transliterated as:
I make compromises with life at every step, I have a desire to live but no so much.]

I usually go with the attitude of 'taking the bull by it horns' but its not bearing fruitful results yet. May be I need to do some soul searching needs to be done.

Everything seems very stale and still right now. Nothing seems to excite me nowadays.