CEO Hires Intern After Interview In Regional Language, Gets Praises From Twitterati
Amrita Bhalla
Pune, 9th June 2021: Language is needed for any kind of communication. Communication becomes difficult in situations where people don’t understand each others’ language.
In this growing hi-tech and modern India, we as a society are obsessed with English. Some people are great at breaking those linguistic barriers to communication.
Recently, Arun Krishnan, Founder and CEO at nFactorialAnalytics, a Bengaluru-based startup company for workforce analytics, tweeted on the same which gathered a lot of appreciation on Twitter.
“Interviewing an intern from a small town in MH. We asked him a question and after struggling to answer, the young man suddenly said, can I please speak in Hindi? I had no issues. He explained things beautifully. Knew his stuff. Hired him. Told him, am hiring for coding skills,” Krishnan tweeted.
Interviewing an intern from a small town in MH. We asked him a question and after struggling to answer, the young man suddenly said, can I please speak in Hindi? I had no issues. He explained things beautifully. Knew his stuff. Hired him.
Told him, am hiring for coding skills.— Arun Krishnan 🇮🇳 (@ArunKrishnan_) June 8, 2021
Many users also expressed their experiences and relief at Krishnan’s tweet.
“Reminds me of case study from TV Subramanian of TVS Motors. He had huge success with campus interviews in 90s while other companies couldn’t even make offers. His reply to those cos ‘You are evaluating Engineers on their English Speaking Skills’,” Vradraj Adya tweeted.
“I am in the corporate sector and belongs to the Hindi medium. I struggled a lot while giving interviews because I don’t know English they refused to hire me though they want an English speaking person to handle Hindi customers. I know the feeling of rejection on the basis of language,” Praveen Yadav recalled on Twitter.
“This is so good sir! We need to eliminate the language barriers in order to bring out more talent from within the country. We have so much talent in the country and it is people like you who are helping in identifying them and giving them a chance… Kudos to you sir!” said Nehal Agrawal.
“The sigh of relief and how comfortable they get during the interview is worth noticing,” Rahil tweeted.
India is a land of diversity with thousands of regional languages, but there is a group in the country from a certain sect of society that looks down on everyone who doesn’t speak English fluently.
We live in a country where resumes are rejected if you can’t speak English fluently over your qualification and expertise. This obsession has created the feeling that only speaking English is your passport to leading a prosperous lifestyle.
The English language is a tool of great power but we should not have closed gates towards our regional languages. We need more such people to eliminate such linguistic barriers present in today’s world.
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