ThoughtMorph

Interviews are conversations between two people (maybe more) with the primary objective of judging an applicant by the recruiter.  The interview is a complex process where oral communication, persuasion, negotiation and storytelling work in tandem to help recruiter judge a candidature. The job of the candidate is to persuade the recruiter to judge in his/her favour. Storytelling has a wider use in today’s world whether it’s marketing a brand or marketing self to a Recruiter, storytelling can do the magic for you. My interactions with students just out of the interview room, at UPES as an employability coach, give me a sneak peek of what works and what does not. Those who come out smiling have a story to tell and those with a frown are lost for words. The emotional connections that stories make are engaging and move the audience. Storytelling persuades listeners to be more attentive. Those who understand the power of stories do their best to widen their outlook and those who wit...

  “Be open, be Impatient and Be Hopeful’ Listening to Sundar Pichai addressing the passing out batch of 2020 is magical, quintessential and evoke hope. No matter you are passing out this year or you graduated twenty years ago, it shows you light in despairing time. Trying to dissect the anatomy of his narrative, I faced the power of number three. Rule of 3 is a literary device used to make language come alive. Steve Job in his famous commencement speech at Stanford narrated three personal stories to evoke emotions (pathos) engage authentically (ethos) with his personal experiences and bring home the values of trust, faith and uncertainty of life as logical conclusions (logos). Mr Pichai too used personal experiences, powerful language and detailed description to give a message of hope to the youth. Information combined with emotion becomes a memory. “If you want something stuck in someone’s head, put it in a sequence of three,” Brian Clark, founder of Copyblogger said. Ru...

Che` Guevara said, ‘if our revolution does not have the goal of changing men, it doesn’t interest me.’ I do not know about the humankind but a virus is revolutionizing the world as it is changing the men. People are connecting, staying inside, practising music and playing with their kids. The old-age cultural traditions of greeting and eating once ridiculed are advocated. A wave is seen where the world is feeling ONE. The pandemic has given people time to self-reflect, plan their future course of action. What are you grateful about? Make a list of your blessings. List the name of people you love, you like and people who inspire you/encourage you. Walk away from negative media focus on positivity. Face time with the people you love. Have a virtual dance party with people you like.   Cook together. Pick up a book of person you idolize. Focus on yourself. Learn a new skill. Give someone a call. Reconnect with people you have lost touch with. We have choices. We can use this...

Scrolling the online shopping sites and piling the cart seemed her favourite pass time. A keen eye for beautiful things, admiring them, desiring them, adding them to cart, filing the delivery details and payment details too but immediately aborting the entire process in a flash. WHY? A thought flared, I can't have them. They are not for me. Good things are to be gifted. Givers are grand and celebrated. phewwwwwwwwww................... A beautiful silver chocolate box, carved with intricate lattice design embracing a sailor ship drawing in the centre as if supporting the ship on rough waters. The lid is little open and chocolates wrapped in shining paper are jeering out asking to be taken and savoured . A voice echoed," come on give it to your cousin, Go on...say Happy Diwali." She looked up to his huge fiery eyes, pleading in heart, "please papa, may I keep it, I want it, Its too beautiful to be given away, Its Diwali for me too." Come on, Good t...

Happiness is fleeting, it's here this moment and whoosh.....gone again. How can I make it stay? A recent training tripped me, tripped.....no, it pushed me, pushed hard in the trenches of sadness, into a pitch dark bottomless hole where the light is too far... I never enrolled in this training to feel miserable, it was meant to transform me,  empower me to lead better. But it did transform me. It echoed that to be empowered,  you need to liberate yourself of all bondage of the past. Whatever you were suppressing or avoiding you need to live it, live it to be free of the suffocation that can cloud your thinking while deciding for your future. Happiness does not mean the absence of sadness, it means living your sadness to appreciate the moments that give you contentment. The day I stifled my emotions of loss, sadness, grief, inadequacy, anxiety, remorse, insignificance, guilt, anger; they stayed, made a home in my body. They picked a corner in my body....not only my he...

If Sheryl Sandberg ,COO of Facebook can feel horrified to learn that she ranked fifth most powerful woman in the world by Forbes, as quoted by her in her book 'Lean In',who are we to own our successes? Its oddly observed that men can shamelessly brag and own successes which are not even their own ,whereas women fail to enjoy the fruits of their own hard work. They refrain the limelight and owe their successes to team and family when congratulated. This is not fair, not at all. What make women do this? Parenting and societal norms ask women to be more flexible,adaptable and require them to do more than boys, giving the lame excuse that boys will be boys after all...Who has divided these gender roles.... History! We can not hold past responsible for all the wrongs done for long.Paleolithic era is over long ago. Biology....women can't handle that tough world,really? In today's age of automation,is this the excuse we have? Work should not have a gender. A ccording ...

You will be there..... I mean it! Life may not follow the map you draw to reach your destination but you will be there,All in Time. The worst things in life turns out to be best! Bracing the detours....Misses are important than hits,all that matters is staying true to yourself. No matter what the crowd does or say....just keep playing. It took me 13 years to realize what I meant to be or to do. If telling my story can help others I am here to share. Getting married and having a child immediately after I graduated derailed me from my path of ambition and career. I never was keen on a job.A born entrepreneur failed and gave up too soon on my business.When I joined the workforce I was 6 years behind my contemporaries,but I was happy to be working.I slogged with a smile, kept on learning and picking new skills on my way. In college I was never sure of what I wanted to do, I just wanted to be successful. In which domain?which industry?..It was not known. On my journey people told ...