Man sits for job interview during chemo session in hospital. His story is viral
India Today
Arsh Nandan Prasad, whose profile picture has the #OpenToWork badge on the networking site, may be fighting cancer, but he sure is not caged by it.
Looking for motivation at the start of the week? This post on LinkedIn, more often than not seen as a melting pot of inspiring posts from professionals globally, is just the kind of positivity you need. Arsh Nandan Prasad, whose profile picture has the #OpenToWork badge on the networking site, may be fighting cancer, but he sure is not caged by it.
In the post, which has amassed over 88,000 “likes” and over 3,000 comments in just three days, a man is seen attending an interview call, sitting legs folded on a bed with a laptop on a bed table. Seems normal, right? Only, the bed is in a hospital and the man in the frame is going through a session of chemotherapy on the side during the call.
“When you give your best in the interviews but are not selected for the mere fact that you are going through a rough patch in life certainly shows how generous these companies are. As the recruiters come to know that I'm fighting Cancer, I see the change in their expressions,” Prasad writes.
“I don't need your sympathy!! I'm here to prove myself. Just a recent pic of me giving an interview during my Chemotherapy sessions,” he adds.
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The post, which got hundreds rallying behind the “warrior”, soon saw a job offer come in from Nilesh Satpute, the CEO and founder of Applied Cloud Computing.
“Hi Arsh! You are a warrior. Please stop attending interviews during your treatment. I checked your credentials, they are very strong. You can join us whenever you want. There will be no interview,” Satpute wrote.
