Head -Haunt

When you are hiring you better be tough or the tough gets you. Something of that sort happened to me recently only thing it left me melancholic. Sometimes we come across people who you really want to help, but are helpless. I interviewed 2 candidates and I will not forget their faces so easily.One was a girl who was academically brilliant. She got a double promotion and passed her SSC at the age of 11. She received the President's award for the same. She completed her intermediate at age 13 and her parents got her married soon after as they did not see the point of her studying further since she had already completed her basic education. Her husband died few years later leaving her with in-laws who didn't accept her and parents who didn't want her. She had a brother who encouraged her to study and she cleared her Engineering entrance and got admission in a good college and passed with distinction. She is now 24. Her only drawback- her communication skills. Unfortunately the hiring panel doesn't go by these stories and they just see the marketability of the resource and she doesn't fit into that.

Another youth who came to me looking for a job is the nephew of one of our important clients and I was only obliging him by meeting this candidate. It turned out that he scored 90% in his intermediate and wanted to join the defense and got enrolled in NDA. 6 months prior to his completion, his mother pressurized him to return home as she was really worried about his posting and did not want him away from family as he was the only son. He gave up trying to convince her and returned home. He had already spent 4 years in the entire process and finally joined a commerce course and pursued some computer courses alongside. Now job hunting and frustrated because he really can't figure out where he fits in all this demand and is ready to do any job just to support himself.

I am not sure if I can help these 2 people but definitely won't give up without a try. Question that I am being asked is how do you know if they are being honest. I can't, but I choose to believe them. I don't know if people are such good liars that they can lie with their eyes too. 

I hope parents learn to trust their children and to see the world as the child sees it rather than making the child see the world with their eyes. Here were 2 brilliant students who could have won the world that they aspired to be in, instead had it shattered because of one wrong decision the parents chose to make.

My sincere request to all the parents to allow their child to breathe. They are your children and if that doesn't make you proud, nothing else will.