Monday, July 19, 2010

The psychology of a recruiter

The greatest ironies of the Indian education system - one that so beautifully and painstakingly explains game theory to us using the Cournot Nash theory and what-have-you; is that it effortlessly plays candidates into the hands of wily recruiters. Recruiters know our strength is academic knowledge and that our game-plan would be to steer interview accordingly, so why would a recruiter not drive the conversation down the road of business practice and current events - which is subject matter the recruiter is comfortable with? And then why is it that we're given so much to do academically that there is precious little time left to pursue extra-curricular reading and learning? By God the world needs more doer-managers and fewer management theory-spewing lemmings.

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