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DOUBLE DHAMAKA? Job offers poured in as candidates watched soccer
You have seen the ad of an IT company where a bunch of guys lounge around and rush in to hustle out a newbie from a college into a waiting SUV and zip away. You have seen the billboards of appointment ads opening the car doors wide.
But on Sunday night, as the world was riveted by the on field goings on in a Berlin soccer field, about 75 professionals from IIT and BITS, Pilani drank in the soccer excitement at Taj Krishna and waited to know who invited them to the party at the ungodly hour. Though the invite was there and the details were right, the host's name was kept a secret. The same excitement unfolded for dozens of IITians in Bangalore, the added twist for the Bangloreans were the radio jingles keeping alive the guessing game.
To capture the spirit of the occasion, the venue was decked up with exhortations on the banners — Relive Your IIT days. The connection, as the guests soon realised, went beyond recalling the carefree days. Call it a tease, a flirtation or a head hunting exercise with a twist, but when the audience was asked to take a guess about the hosts during the half time; most of them got it wrong. It was Ivy Comptech, which is riding the crest of a success wave that threw in this gambit to wangle experienced techies into its fold. As the guests learnt about Ivy Comptech's parent company PartyGaming, promoted by two former IITians along with a foreigner, they also got to know about the big ventures in the pipeline.
Incidentally, Anurag Dikshit and Vikrant Bhargav have turned billionnaires within three years of the launch of PartyGaming that owns Ivy Comptech.
Most of the guests were in the age group of 25 - 30, and were asked to fill up a form, that sought, beside personal data, their choice of world cup winner.
Not surprisingly, about 60 per cent of them wagered on the eventual winner, Italy.
SERISH NANISETTI
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