Psychometric Analysis

Note: If your an HR and you use tools to actually shortlist profiles, good job. Now go away!! coz the shit is about to get heavy.

Psychometric tools makes it easier for companies to get the perfect guy for a job. But, usually automation is never automatic just like common sense ain't common at all, it always requires some or the other manual intervention (wow! what a Psycho proof line ;-P).

HR Psychometric tools, "Shit happens" moment

• It compares you with the stereotypes who are fit for the job, individuality and the differential ingredient in you plays no freaking role. It means you need to under perform if your this smart guy who knows all.
  
• These tools confuse you with the silly questions. As, there is no right or wrong answer, you usually make wrong choices and your analysis is based on those choices. How fair!! (sarcasm dripping)
  
• They judge you on your interests, expertise, blah blah.... and mainly stability. If that were to be the case, there should be a lie detector, just like what we see in "The moment of truth". I am sure, that is less prone to error than the usual process.
  

No offense!! I just wrote what I heard from a chit-chat group in my tea break, it did made some sense.

PS: Also, I am trying to see whether the ads on the top and right of this article are on Psychometric tools (High pay per clicks ;-)). Test it for yourself, and rate the Google ad placement engine. Even as I write this post, I think the ads on the right of the article are going to be about Jobs or charity (Low pay per clicks).
PS: If not the post, at least the last "PS" was good enough to give you an idea that the writer is just trying to make some money and the article is really not credible to the extent you were thinking.

You know what, If the above 2 lines apply to your case...It's a bingo here, coz the experiment was on "how readers react to marketing gimmicks and get pissed with promotions/sales and add ons". Lessons learnt: Give good content & don't beg for leads...

Finally, your psychoanalysed and YES!! these psychometric tools make total sense ;-).

Solitary Struck v.1

It's Solitude to the core and I am so intensely struck by its beauty. It does bother me at times but the solitary essence pulls me back to itself. I am willingly being in solitude and only god knows why, there has got be something to it.

Going on my bike alone when I can actually give someone a ride, going for lunch alone with truck loads of friends in my office who might want me to join them, having a monthly phone bill of less than 15 rupees with hundreds of people to talk to and a lot in those lines which is actually a part of my day to day solitary life.

Everything burns, you just need to accept that fact...No one's responsible

How it all started
I was this guy who gels with people and gets social in a matter of minutes, life is not to be taken seriously is whats written on my face, speech, dressing & blah blah blah but suddenly, a few months back I got into this self-improvement reading marathon, I just couldn't let myself be a part of anything around, even those "talk shit about others" groups, which I liked before ;-). I eventually got sucked into this enlightened world where everything which looks intense to others looks very trivial to my eyes & without a doubt I just belittled all that is actually crucial to life (in others perspective) like job, project , health etc; I still believe there is nothing to worry coz there are people doing worse than I am (not at all positive rite, it's just for you, I usually don't talk negative ;-)).


Today after a long time, I could sense that I am in solitude...when I was scanning my journal/dairy, I noticed I had written more about the daily activities with people around and other stuff like "why I like her, which part ;-), how was that place, the food which sucked, I dint like when she said that" etc etc, but now my journal pages have things like "take it easy, I am doing great, my day at the office was just perfect, my lunch was superb, the book had kick-ass strategy, FM was playing bullshit tracks, the movie is good etc etc", there is no trace of manual activities (that's what they call in software industry for "Interaction" ;-)).


One other incident- I had more than 40 unread messages (all forwards) and around 20-25 miss calls, I just couldn't believe myself coz I carry it everywhere and there is no way I can miss all this, sad but true. So, I just took my cellphone buzzed everyone with my dirty forwards and an unprecedented 15-20 people called/messaged asking a spree of questions like "where are you, in Chennai?"," What happened, now messaging is free or what", "I don't have your number, lost all my contacts", "Howz wipro training going on", "y? today in good mood or what" etc etc.

What I derived is,

People miss you if
your gone for a short time but if you just ignore their importance and be
all by yourself, they don't miss you instead they forget
you.

That's exactly what happened in my case, some of my very close friends ask me things like "If I can come out for a movie or If I am free", "If your not doing anything you can join us", "If you want you can come along", "how about going for an outing, what do you say" etc etc. before it used to be like "come for a movie, I am waiting", "saturday, is my treat, c u there". A change in comfort levels is what is the crux of the matter, thats how I see it.


Saying, things have changed is totally wrong, it's actually I who has changed. Be it for the good or bad, things really drift along with time (that's the freaking lesson). Sometimes there is nobody to rescue but sometimes it gets too awarkward to actually break the ice, accept that you screwed up & try getting back the social loss. Humans really are confusing, just like I am.

Bachelor housing

The house is good & the 6 of us do whatever we wanna do. Sometimes, the freedom goes way beyond the expected exploitation. There is nothing stopping me and I am damn vulnerable ;-)

I just shifted to a place in Thiruvanmayur , near RTO a month back & it's a bliss there, its basically the Indian IT bachelor housing- 2 guys from Wipro Tech, 3 guys from Cognizant Tech. & one poor chap doing his M-tech in Sathyabama University (sad but true..lolz). I have become this "happily ever after" type of guy after shifting here.

Just a random day at home

• Mornings I rise early and am game for a good 'SP Tea' (Special Tea) at a nearby outlet with a smoker buddy ;-)
• Then back home to some half an hour of uninterrupted shower, coz everyone else is sleeping and I am doing what I do best- singing my metal tracks in the bathroom (what did you think? ;-P). Sometimes, I take a newspaper and my player while I take a shit coz that's a good environment to read, really you need to try ;-)
• Head to a place I hate (so called office); not by choice but by force, actually life cant be perfect, gotta kill some time and who knows, I might like it as time passes by.
• Back home after a hour of Table Tennis with my colleague. Good 14km ECR (East Coast Road) biking with my earphones playing the random radio tracks.Sometimes, I stop by for a good 'Aruna soup counter' for a vegetable soup.
• Again a quick shower and ready for dinner, walk to a place nearby and have fabulous food (I never think of money when it comes to food). Then we take a sit out at a nearby park, have a 15min chat and another 'SP Tea'. Tired back home with enough time to do whatever we wanna do. We usually listen to music, read books, pull someones legs (not literally) and finally crash at around 12 or 1 am.
• On weekends- sure shot movies, shopping, outing, family visits & other 'have to dos', our life is not mechanical at all, things are going good and hope this just gets better

Cheers to all that I'm experiencing and all that is nothing but bachelor like. Be spoilt and just take everything as an experience.

Bulls eye.

PS: off course, being in relatives house was too much fun...I miss the fights with my cousins & the TV time with Air Conditioned rooms & not to forget the homely, nutrient rich food. But you gotta loose some to have some.