There are certain phases in life when one feels like living an entire lifetime..It is those phases which make you do things you havent done ever, meet people you never imagined of meeting and finally help you evolve into a happier person who has so much to cherish.
My Initial Learning Period (ILP) at TCS Trivandrum has been such an experience..an experience of a lifetime.Kerala is truly god's own country, the beautiful weather, the omnipresent coconut trees, the golden beaches, the still backwaters and finally the hills and waterfalls.On the way to the Executive Hostel of TCS , I was looking outside the car window, the mild winds blowing, the markets, churches passing by , I had the same excitement in me that I used to have as a child. It is the typical feeling of heartbeats going for a break dance.
Finally we reached the TCS Executive hostel.You can mistake it to be a 3 star hotel.Unloading the baggage, we moved towards the building.Happily collecting the keys we moved to our rooms.The rooms were awesome.I felt special The journey had begun.
After a lot of Aaram , the time came to enter Peepul Park , the citadel of excellence of learning in TCS. It is the oldest training center of TCS and has created so many great Professionals who started their journey from there.It has an inherent sacred air in it.There are many feelings which cross one's mind at the dawn of one's Professional career.Carrying all these with me, I moved forward with a smile.
The induction began and we were introduced to LIREL, the core values of TCS. Leading Change, Integrity, Respect for Individual, Excellence and Learning and Sharing.As brand ambassadors of TCS where ever we go,we were expected to make these values inherent to us. It was the first time of my when I felt proud of being what I was. The main agenda of our induction was to make us aware that we were not just a big brand and the reason why we were ahead of others was because we lived our values.
It was a new beginning for me. A journey to develop a new insight towards life.Where coming late meant one was disrespecting the other individual by wasting their time, where being a master in anything was not enough as long as one didnt share the knowledge with others, where integrity and values was more than just doing business, where the aim was to elevate a customer's experience from satisfaction to delight.
There were also a lot of firsts, including having the very salary account, I Card which was our identity, stream of technology in which we would be trained and finally our base branch where we would be deputed after training.
It was a long day, but at the end, I had a sense of fulfillment and joy.The crimson hued sky of Trivandrum was embracing the evening sun but I realised I had just started with my new beginnings.
