AN INEVITABLE INTRUDER

AN INEVITABLE INTRUDER - CHAPTER FOUR

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AN INEVITABLE INTRUDER

CHAPTER FOUR

NAINA

When Sameer opened the door, I stood rooted to the spot. There were three people on the interview panel in front of me. I took a deep breath & looked at Sameer for the last time. He wished me luck & I took a step inside his cabin. "May I come in?" One of the interviewers spoke, "Yes... Come in please..." I wished all of them a very good morning & one of them gestured me to take a seat.

"Good morning Miss Naina Agarwal... Let's start with the introductions first... I'm Rohan Kapoor, the Chief Operating Officer..." He pointed towards the other person who was sitting next to him on his left side, "He is Siddharth Sinha, the Chief Marketing Officer..." The two chairs next to his right side were vacant & he pointed towards the person who was sitting next to the vacant chairs, "And he is Rudra Sehgal, the Chief Technology Officer. And as you can see the other two chairs are vacant. They will be joining us in a while..."

He was just about to speak something, when the door opened again & two people walked in. I didn't turn around to see as I felt HIS presence in the cabin. I closed my eyes & took a deep breath again to face the person who made my heart beat at the fastest speed since my arrival in India...

I heard the sound of the chair being pulled & my eyes opened & met the one whom I wanted to see in here. My eyes moved to the other person & I almost wanted to dance in delight. Nanu was sitting in front of me. Rohan again started the introductions, "Yeh hai Mr Jayprakash Maheshwari, the President... And he is Mr Sameer Maheshwari, the Chief Executive Officer of Maheshwari Industries..."

I wished Nanu & Sameer good morning... They didn't greet me & just gave slight nods... Rohan spoke, "So, let's start the interview now." Most of the questions were asked by Rohan, Siddharth & Rudra... Nanu was just silently observing me while Sameer was making some notes...

I had already answered some questions from Siddharth, Rudra & Rohan. They asked me questions like, 'Tell me about yourself?', 'Why should we hire you?', 'What is your greatest strength & weakness?', 'Why you want to be a financial accountant?' & so on... Half an hour passed but I didn't hear anything from Nanu & Sameer...

After few more questions, I heard Nanu's voice, "Are you willing to fail Naina?" That was a tricky question... I thought for a while & replied confidently looking at Nanu, "While I don't enjoy failure, sometimes it happens – particularly when you're not sure which approach would be best for a project and you choose the wrong one. Not everything you try is going to work, and you just have to accept this and know when to change course. One should always have a "Plan B... There is no success without failure. Failure should be our teacher; we should use it as a stepping stone... There is a saying by Joseph Kennedy that do not ignore your failures, acknowledge them & use them as to motivate you. So, yes I will fail sometimes in my decisions & would like to learn from them..."

Nanu didn't react & the next question came from Rohan, "How would you handle it if your boss was wrong?" I thought about it & only one face appeared as my boss right now... SAMEER... Ahhhh... I shouldn't think about him at this moment... I replied calmly, "I won't correct my boss in front of other people as I respect him & the position, he's in. I would speak to my boss about the error in private, but only when I think that the error would negatively impact the company." He nodded...