My trip to job fair!

Yeah, as the title say i did go to a job fair organized by our university and it was for the first time I had ever paid a visit to such an event 'coz I think it is for the first time that I'm in need and in search of a job.

There was also a job fair last year but it wasn't of any use to especially students like us who belong to the field of telecom & networking as told by one of my friends who was a witness of the last year activity.
But this time companies like Telenor, Wateen and Zong had their official presence there. So we thought that we should pay a visit as we had nothing to lose :P if not gaining anything ....

I was to leave with one of my friends around 11 am and so we did. Our university is out of city and it takes more then an hour to reach there provided no traffic jam and other stopages and just according to our daily routine of 4 years university life we took IB that took us to 9 Number which is at the half way mark from where we have had been catching the university shuttle that is available every half an hour.

We reached universtiy around 12:30 pm. First went to our department to freshup as it was saturday an offday university so there wasn't anybody there except the guarad uncle. Spent some time in checking the noticeboard for whats been going on in our department. Two of our classfellows arrived in the mean time and they were coming from the job fair, we asked whats the progress and they told that telenor was conducting interviews and asking things from the topics like GSM, CDMA etc ..... I was good at topics but hadn't revised them for some time then so something started to pressurise(depress a little) me by the time I listened to the interview thing as I've never been to an interview before.
We had our CVs in the quickdrive and got them printed. The print wala was charging 2 Rs extra for the occasion ( Typical Pakistani thinking ... kama lo kia pta kal ho na ho! :P )

Skipping the wait thing that we did for our friend and etc we reached there at around 1PM and I was really astonished by the number of people that had reached there for the job hunting. I never thought that there was that a bigger crowd waiting there .... Student from all types of field had reached .... There were students who had reached there by car, by bike and like us on Public transport (ek he suff mein kharhe ho gye mehmood o ayaz! :P) for a common goal that was job.

I had read and listened that the "berozgari" is one of the major problems but at that time i was watching sadly for the first time the biggest demonstration ....

I moved in the big covered place with a huge shamiana and started looking the different stalls...... Many different companies had their presence there ..... there were also consultancies and counselors there ..... I could see many different students giving interviews ...... I could see students' faces, few of them had really worried looks, few of them were confident and few of them were just there for enjoyment.

Some strange kind of depression started to prevail ...... shayad the situation was such ..... I moved on and witnessed the 3 mentioned companies' stalls that were of interest to me .
Telenor were having a break of an hour and zong people said just upload the CV to our website but we do have some "golden numbers" at ok price for you .. (:@) and the wateen people were doing don't know what! ......

Another thing that started to depress me was the way students were dressed ( most of them were is suit shuit .... yeh woh ...fit shit)...... i was just in my routine clothing with unshaved face :( ... Never thought i could be there for an interview.....

An hour passed by and telenor had again started cunducting interviews ... When i reached there there were 3 long lines waiting for us ..... one comprising of students for the marketing thing ... one with the IT and CS people and the 3rd having telecom and electrical people .

I also put myself in line ..... The time I was waiting for my turn somebody told that now wateen and zong are also receing CVs(dekha dekhi shayad) .... I thought first let this interview be over then give them the CV . I stood there for around half an hour and the lines then had become 4 as announced "Those people who are here on the reference should make a separate line" (:@)

I was depressed further when i met 3 of my university seniors who were jobless for more then a year now and they also put their selves in the line ..... I was standing there thiking ..... most of them were negative thoughts ..... A strange kind of anxiety took over me and I could stand there no more ..... I started to think that those people were there to make us fool and nothing else .... the line wasn't moving either ...... I left the line , went to zong and wateen .... droped the CV knowing that it was useless and left the university , took the university route(bus service) that could drop me to my home .

I was depressed and really feeling low that day ... don't know why (i guess i do know) ....Don't know whether i should have left or not but .......

Zong had also started cunducting interview around 5pm as told by my friend who was there almost till the last moment ... I think again dekha dekhi.

Learnt a lot from the event but few of my worries are still with me especially the overall condition economically ....

I think the account has lengthen too much ... :P