“I moved to New-Zealand more than 15 years ago. It wasnât that I really wanted to go. One of my friends who had gone there encouraged me to come telling me Iâd love it over there. Indeed, I never came back! It all happened by chance. Like a lot of things actually.
I think Iâll eventually move back here in India. Tourism is high in my region, so Iâm considering more and more opening my own hotel.
I pursued an hĂ´tellerie degree in India and again in New-Zealand. Thatâs where I learned some French *laughs*. I worked for a while in a hotel and then shifted to banking.
I just didnât feel like I was learning or doing anything new for a while. So I decided to go away
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I started low and slowly moved my way up the ladder. Now Iâm a business manager. I specialise in startups, thatâs why Iâm considering the next step as opening my own!
And ⌠do I like what I do today? âŚ. I mean⌠I donât know. I think so yes. Itâs hard to tell
Iâve always been a peopleâs person. I think this is what makes my strength. I like talking to people, helping them develop themselves. Itâs a bit what I do right now. People tell me about their projects, whether itâs a house to build or a startup to open. I like to think I can help around by lending them some money and reflecting on the future of their creation, whatever it might be. So yes, I think I like my occupation. For now.
 I truly think experience is what matters now
I mean if you have to hire someone nowadays, who will you consider? The guy who has the right degree but who doesnât know how the field works? Or the guy who doesnât have the proper degree but who proved himself on the field? All you have to do when you go for a job out of your original field is trust yourself. If you think youâre the right person for the job, then your interviewer donât have any reason to think otherwise. Tell yourself youâre the best and itâll be ok.
Of course I know India is big on diplomas. But I trust the country to change its mind. Itâs not going to happen overnight, but it will. You only have to look at IT to understand. People educate themselves and try.Â
What you have to understand is that for each job interview questions youâre asked, you have to answer according to a special model called âSTARâ –
Situation, Task, Action, Result
Itâs quite simple actually, what I really want to know when I am asking you a question is how you react and what kind of concrete results you can get from your reaction. So for instance if I say âhow do you do this?â You have to say âwell the situation was like this, so I had this this this task to perform, which I did by doing this, and it ended up like thisâ. Simple. Remember the STAR model.”
The plane neighbor,
March 2019
note: current
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