College kids have a reality shock waiting for them
Recently set out to hire interns and had a really strange experience Went through about 170 CVs. Most were shabbily formatted - which is okay, I understand most people aren’t that serious in college. But then after shortlisting and setting up interviews: - Multiple kids just did not show up for the interview. They did not even write a mail excusing themselves. Or reply to any mail from me about them missing the call. - Some of them literally turned up for the call on their phone. They’re mostly well to do, and definitely have laptops. But just casual. - This reduced my selection pool to literally 8-9 interns from 180. Of these too, generally saw most of them had too much overconfidence and arrogance about them. Barely went into the depth of the answers, and would over-portray their contribution in past projects/internships, without being able to explain what they really did I am genuinely shocked and taken aback. These were all Tier 1 college kids, and I just did not expect it to be so bad. A shock for me, and a future shock for many of these kids when they get into the workforce!
It is due to pay I think
Tier 1 companies are paying above 1 L per month during internship.
This wasn’t a dev role. Was marketing. Offer was 40k/mo, which was higher than any other internship at the college.
In tier 1 college, 40k/month for internship is lowZ those kids probably didn’t want to sit for the company but the placement committee forced them to, thus they tried to purposely be bad in the interviews, ( i did the same thing in college for company which duped us) i was purposely so bad in the interview that i was laughing internally 😂😂😂. Find colleges where students are eager to join u.
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TheOatmeal
Stealth
4 months ago
Bhai saab the arrogance they are carrying after solving few leetcodes.
I have stopped communicating with them.
Well , I think that's okay. It's similar to what HRs and recuriters do with these folks. A Balance should be there.
BiryaniEnthu
Stealth
4 months ago
They give one word answers 🤦♀️
Turning down "low paying" roles because doesn't match expectations- which is exorbitant for YOE
1st line I agree, 2nd line not so sure.
Everyone has a different definition of a low paying job
BiryaniEnthu
Stealth
4 months ago
YOE & Tier of college*
Does that make more sense?
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DiracDelta
Student
4 months ago
Tier 1 college kids usually get 1-4L / mo in internships, I don't know how much CityMall is offering but they probably see their peers getting these high internship offers and when interviewers demand any effort from them for a 20k internship they feel it's not worth it. Also some insider news from IITs, if we get a good offer and we're in the process for another company we're asked to underperform in that interview by the Placement office so y'all would select another candidate who hasn't received any offers.
They don't need money as all are rich, will rather live on their parents' money and will not work for 2-3 lakhs per annum. Previous generation had no option as majority of parents were not that rich.
Yes, they didn;t need the money. But to see the lack in wanting to hustle was painful.
Umadbro
Stealth
4 months ago
It’s not the money. Don’t take this the wrong way, but somehow you were realistic in your jd and didn’t communicate that they would be changing the world. They want to be coddled into doing basic stuff but get a feeling that they are changing the world that they can brag about. They are far more status oriented than people realize.
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The arrogance is still less than the HRs which they show in the office
Tier 1 college students know that there are many recruiters lined up so they don't care if they offend one.
Tier 3 college students think if you're hiring from their college, then there is something wrong with you or your budget, so they don't mind offending you.
HR tries to act like they're doing some kind of favor by giving a job in all places, so Fck HR. I've seen noticeable differences in people speaking with function managers rather than HR.
BunMuska
Student
4 months ago
Tit for tat. After hearing thousands of stories of tier 3 grads on how they were ghosted and even ill behaved in interviews, it's fine if a little goes back to get a taste of ur own medicine.
I can refer you two good interns who worked with me . They are from DU
Looking for a hr and marketing internship respectively
Hey @BriefBasis. Have closed the role for now, but would be happy to help share in my network if that is okay. Have few friends in other NCR startups who may hire?
I am pretty sure, either you job profile pay is not good, or you were expecting much skills from them in comparison to pay,
they applied more than atleast 20-30 places and got no response, literally ghosting or they just want very underpaid interns, wasting their so much time in hiring process and then end up giving shitty response to candidates
So, don't take it as ego if interns simply reject your companies, may be they find it not the worth as of now, may be in future they will find worth
Wow, that’s strange!
Btw, is it possible for you to share info on the process for someone to intern at CG (Engg. Student and not from Tier 1 or 2 college)? Tried the chat option however it seems I do not have enough points aka grapes to be able to do that.
Hiring interns is a painful task. Interns don’t work properly neither they come on time over the calls that’s why most of them aren’t getting converted to FTEs
You have to continuously monitor what they are doing and they don’t even come and ask upfront questions about the doubts rather they will wait for the thousand years for the mentor or senior to ask them why they haven’t done it properly.
TalkNinja
Student
4 months ago
on the other hand job aspirants from tier 2,3 colleges are looking for the opportunities willing to learn and contribute but recruiters won't turn up.
Normix
Stealth
4 months ago
Interns waste of time and energy.
NeatCoffin3
Student
4 months ago
I'm really happy to get to know this actually 😂😂
Momo_chutney
Stealth
4 months ago
Now i get it why are founders taking 2-3 years industry experience folks as a intern in their companies.
Job roles would sound like
Product manager - founders office (intern)
Growth manager (intern)
Product analyst (intern)
There’s one thing we all need to understand. Those who are from tier 1 institutes are the ones that come from comfortable homes. Second this it that all these are the Gen Z category obviously. They don’t know toiling, they don’t know the value of anything. They were handed everything on a platter. They didn’t have to work hard like previous generations. You can still rely on the tier 3 and tier 4 folk because they were probably grounded by the fact that they couldn’t qualify or afford to be in a tier 1 or tier 2. They will be glad to have an internship somewhere (let alone job) at the right time. But in general they will all still have a problem with authorities. You can bank on the fact that they’ll value their job. Stop hiring from tier 1 & 2 - those folks have already planned for the next ten years of their life!
