Some years back, I was posted at Goa. We were staying in the staff quarters and the land outside was an eyesore. I thought I must do something and there must be large plants if not trees. But to grow a plant was diificult as the land was rocky.
I thought of an easy alternative. I got big holes - the size of a typical flower pot dug in the rocky land surface outside our house - and filled them with garden soil and fertilisers. Then we planted fully grown plants taken out from flower pots. Overnight we had a beautiful garden outside our house. Every one appreciated and congratulated my ingenuity.
But as fate would have it, the garden just lasted just a month and started losing all the leaves and withered, even though we had taken care to water them regularly. When we uprooted the plants we found that the roots had rotted.
What we see above the ground in a plant is the equivalent of personality and what we do not see but which is present below the ground is character. You can uproot a plant from somewhere and use it to decorate your garden for some time, but if the roots are not healthy and strong, it would not be able to withstand the pressures of life. Same thing goes for interview success.
What preparing questionnaire for an interview can do is to look after the upper part - but if those are just prepared answers and have no bearing on what you really are from the inside, the interviewer can find out soon. So work on both - character and personality and there are no short cuts. As we can say in Hindi - "Bano andhar se strong" and success will be yours.
K Vijay Kumar
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