I was speaking to a phirangi professor recently. The conversation meandered invariably into academia and he started…
One should learn how to prepare resume from Indian students. Especially those resumes based on which decisions are made in absentia such as admissions to research degrees to students of foreign origin.
On paper these Indians look superlative. They would know all languages including those used to converse with men and machines East of the West and West of the East, would have already published in three International Conferences held in various colleges located at places yet to be marked in the map of India, their skill-set is such that the renowned academician who peruses their resume would, instead of recruiting them, contemplate a change of job out of shame.
In short, these students are paper supermen who doesn’t require air travel – but can fly by themselves – to reach the USA.
And in between they usually pass the GRE and TOEFL with reasonable success. They also clear their Visa interviews at the embassy mostly through another set of lies like they would return to India in the next flight once they finish their degrees; that they are rich enough in India itself – by showing humonguous “bank balance” – so there is no necessity for them to earn in US $.
And when they land in flesh and blood in their respective research institutes, they shred their superman clothes and become Clerk Spent again. And it usually is a bit too late in most cases, for the university or the unfortunate prof. who chose their resume, to chuck these WAlk on Water Indians out totally.
And so most of these WAWIs transmogrify to PIGS – Poor Indian Graduate Students.
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I am not interested in you « Unruled Notebook // March 19, 2009 at 9:55 pm |
[...] Senior undergrads from reputed engineering colleges, taking up internships with me, promising to finish up certain modules of work assigned to them based on what they claimed in their resume as their qualifications, turning out nothing at the end of the internship – because the guy just lied about his non-existent skill-set in his resume – but unabashedly demanding a signature in a self-made certificate that proclaims Mr. Brilliant Senior Undergrad has successfully completed a research project with the undersigned (and ’stamped’ as the same) and hence is an asset whose services can only be put to good use ‘elsewhere’ in a foreign land as WAWIs. [...]