May 2017
First Job
Soon after my college, my eagerness to get a job got me into HSBC as customer service executive. I was just giving it a try and luck favoured me. It was a bank working in shifts for different parts of the world. I got into the US shift, hence I used to work night shifts of 09 hours. The working principles of the company was inspired from foreign standards therefore there was a good friendly and approachable culture. The best part was the month end prize distribution events wherein I got the opportunity to perform and show my talent. I was appreciated a lot for it and was the favourite of all. However that was not all, I won the best customer service executive for the year 2008 and was awarded a sum of Rs. 1 lakh for it. A huge amount for a young lady, although most of it was spent in shopping and buying gifts for family. I started loving my job a lot and treasured talking to customers in helping them solve their issues, and finally bring a smile on their faces. End of the day it was a total satisfying job. In 2009 the world’s market was effected by recession and there were lot of changes happening around. A lot of my peers were forced to quit their jobs as the company demanded.
It was during this time that one fine day my father asked me to fill forms for Airforce and Navy. Thinking that I would never get through and just for my father’s happiness I signed the forms. Unfortunately or fortunately somehow I could not appear for the SSB of Indian Airforce.