Campus to Corporate

“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.”
~H. Jackson Brown

It was 5th June 2011, packed up with new dreams, exhilarations, thrill, vigor and the zeal to perform, the freshly recruited GET’s of Tata Power made their way out to National Power Training Institute (NPTI) – Faridabad. It was time to step into the new world - a world which has become obsessed about information, speed of delivery and efficiency by multitasking.

When we stepped out of our school, we were cautious about the career but not that much really, thinking that life would be much easier and free, as it was the college time, free from all stringent school rules and daily punishments. Neither homework, nor a bulky bags just a thin notebook and pen. Fewer lectures and more bunks, and having fun all the day with the fellow peers. 4 years passed with the same thoughts and enthusiasm. Now it was time to step into the arena where real people fight it out with their skills, knowledge and experience. Like any person, whether sighted or visually disabled, we all were both nervous and excited about the day. It was very important for each one of us to ensure that we be at par with everyone, that each one of us could do what the others could.

Reporting ourselves to the concerned authorities at NPTI and getting ourselves allotted a room at the premises of NPTI was amusing. Each one us was happy with the accommodation and the food which was served to us. The excitement level kept on rising as and how we started meeting the other GET’s from various colleges across the country. The Corporate HR team was there on the first two days to complete the initial job induction formalities. We were briefed about the 1st year of our association with India’s oldest and largest private sector power company – Tata Power.

Joining an organization which has huge scope to grow and expand and is a company which provides a utopian talent to its employees to augment the vigor with several kinds of exhilarating features, was an important decision and a significant milestone in our life. The work life started off on a very elevated note with a first lecture of training on ‘Coal to Electricity’. The batch comprised of few sparkling electrical engineers, some dazzling civil engineers, a number of gleaming mechanical engineers and also a few bright control and instrumentation engineers. It represented a mixed culture of India because we had people from diverse corners of the nation.

Muddled up with these feelings, the journey to become Power Engineers started, keeping the fortitude of the great ‘Tata Pariwar’ alive forever and ever. The morning and afternoon was spent in the class which the evening was passed in the sports ground. Saturdays were fun, because top management spokespersons of Tata Power would come down to Faridabad to broaden the horizon of knowledge of young GET’s. The sessions always reminded us that Learning is a continuous process and we should crave for learning with application of our knowledge in upliftment of down trodden and betterment of society.

Apart from those classroom lectures we also had some fun filled trips including an amazing trip of one of the 7 wonders of the world – The Taj Mahal. This was followed by a cultural evening which provided an admirable platform to the freshly recruited GET’s of Tata Power to showcase their talent and creativity through a diverse set of cultural performances. But at the end of the day each of us realized that during these 8 weeks at NPTI, we gained more friends than knowledge.

The 8 weeks that we spent at NPTI as an employee of Tata Power made us comprehend that we are the stewards of this company and custodian of a very rich tradition of antiquity with modernization. As we march towards becoming a 25, 000 MW Company by 2017, our role as that of a young GET of Tata Power becomes increasingly important. Now then we have entered into our realistic life, when the Indian economy is growing at a rate of 8.9%, which means a lot of opportunities opening up in Business and Industry. However it’s a big challenge to sustain this economic growth that doesn’t adversely affect the natural assets of our company and our country.

I remember all this vividly because, as it was my first training at Tata Power, it was a challenge for me. The first exercise was a success, however, I presume that this training would help me maintain comfort levels on the subsequent days to come and be successful as a employee of Tata Power.