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“600 emails, 80 calls”: How a 23-year-old landed a job at World Bank
• He secured the job after many failed attempts
It is said that hard work never goes in vain, and there is no shortcut to success. Vatsal Nahata, an Ivy League graduate, proved it right.
The Yale University graduate kept trying for his dream job at World Bank, and got it after 600 email and 80 phone calls.
Mr Nahata has narrated his entire journey in a long post on LinkedIn, which has been liked by more than 15,000 people. His story has also been shared by nearly 100 people.
The young man’s inspiring journey started during COVID-19 in 2020 when he was about to graduate from the prestigious university.
“I did not have a job at hand and I was going to graduate in two months. I thought to myself: what was the point of coming to Yale when I can’t even secure a job here. It became harder to sound strong to my parents when they called and asked me how I was doing.
“But I was determined that returning to India was not an option, and that my first paycheck would only be in Dollars. I went all out on networking, and took the risk of completely avoiding job application forms or job portals,” he said.
Mr Nahata then added that in two months, he sent over 1,500 connection requests, wrote 600 cold-emails, got on 80 odd cold-calls and faced a large number of rejections.
“Ultimately, I had knocked on so many doors that my strategy paid off! I ended up with four job offers by the first week of May and chose the World Bank,” he said.
The Economics graduate from Delhi’s Sri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) said the difficult phase gave him the “confidence to survive in any situation.” — ndtv.com
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Message in bottle floats from Canada to Ireland in 13 years
A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.
Gay showed the bottle to members of Creative Ireland NeartnaMacharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.
The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.
There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.
The Maharees Heritage and Conservation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Monday, and within an hour group members were messaging with Anita.
Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com
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Woman earns world record for collection of 15,485 egg cups
A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.
María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.
Fuster’s collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the images of characters including Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield.
Fuster maintains two blogs related to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have donated egg cups to her collection.
Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
-upi.com
