Sunday, March 06, 2011
Job seeking...
The past few months was indeed filled with uncertainly, especially for final year students like me who are looking for a career. This is especially so if we are being turned down after every single interview, one by one. Once the outlook is uncertain, it can be very frustrating as we dont even know where are are heading towards.
I first started of my job search with an open mind. Anything will be fine as long as the package is good but eventually got turned down one after another as there isn't a perfect match. Nonetheless, every rejection made me even more certain which field I am not suited in and made me even more prepared for the next one till a point I do not freak out...easily.
What I found it most ridiculous is those situational questions. "What will you do if your colleagues..." I perfer to think that it is a " See how fast and good can you smoke your way through" type of questions. But for people who prepared this type of question, it will be how good can you cook up your story kind of questions. oh well... this is the type of questions I got during my very first career interview last yr.
My job offer was more or less confirmed last friday with a phone call saying congrats and wanted me to go down to do some routine medical checkup. Ironically, I told myself this job is out of the question during the career fair last year when I spoke to their representatives.
It all link back when I wanted to meet up with Yan so we can go jurong swimming one evening. She wanted to attend the career talk and I was late for that as I had a late lesson. The career talk ended with a dinner reception and together with Alan and SQ, we talked to their representatives. I was just too concerned over the passing shuttle bus and wasn't showing much interest in the conversation. We ended off by saying "Lets apply together!"...
It was months later when they called me down for an Assessment, then a port tour and subsequently 2 interviews... ...All these while, I didn't really prepare myself and wasn't too excited over it. Perhaps that is why I wasn't as anxious as I thought I would ba...With that, they offered the job.
For the past hrs, I was looking into forum to see if anyone talks abt this job online and found a tread. Was quite amuse to see that there is someone who view it as a dream job and will work and study very hard to get into this position. This sets me thinking of what is a Dream job? I never had much though about it as there is no point doing so. This is simply because there are somethings that we can't really choose and whatever choices that are presented in front of us may not be the ones we have been hoping for all our lifes. Therefore, isn't better to be more open minded and just work hard in whatever we do so there will be much more opportunities ahead of us?
This is exactly how the militry works, I rmbed hearing people who hope to be in this field and talking about how good it will be to be there, but eventually where they were assigned were a totally different thing... on the other hand, at least they have fun fantasizing... Strange to suddenly remember that I used to fantasize alot, on how I would climb up to sleep on the trees if I ever go for those jungle survival if I ever become a ranger of sort.
Speaking of which, yan loves to do so as well... ... 心想事成 ... but this is good if we do imaginary for good things.
Another thing, research have shown two situations where people purchase the same goods (sofa). One of which have a no exchange policy and the other is that the goods can be change within 7 days if it is not like. IT was found out that those users who bought the unexchangble goods are more happy with their stuff compare to those who can choose to change it. This is because as they knew the goods bought cannot be change, they will self justified their purchase, adding more cognitive to their decision made, making them more certain that their choice is correct. Which the other group have no reason to do so as their goods can be exchange, hence did not have any additional justification. I guess, this is the same for applying a job and even for relationship.... Perhaps there are much less problem in the past where people match make than now where people can choose to exchange if they dont like it..
Choices...
The past few months was indeed filled with uncertainly, especially for final year students like me who are looking for a career. This is especially so if we are being turned down after every single interview, one by one. Once the outlook is uncertain, it can be very frustrating as we dont even know where are are heading towards.
I first started of my job search with an open mind. Anything will be fine as long as the package is good but eventually got turned down one after another as there isn't a perfect match. Nonetheless, every rejection made me even more certain which field I am not suited in and made me even more prepared for the next one till a point I do not freak out...easily.
What I found it most ridiculous is those situational questions. "What will you do if your colleagues..." I perfer to think that it is a " See how fast and good can you smoke your way through" type of questions. But for people who prepared this type of question, it will be how good can you cook up your story kind of questions. oh well... this is the type of questions I got during my very first career interview last yr.
My job offer was more or less confirmed last friday with a phone call saying congrats and wanted me to go down to do some routine medical checkup. Ironically, I told myself this job is out of the question during the career fair last year when I spoke to their representatives.
It all link back when I wanted to meet up with Yan so we can go jurong swimming one evening. She wanted to attend the career talk and I was late for that as I had a late lesson. The career talk ended with a dinner reception and together with Alan and SQ, we talked to their representatives. I was just too concerned over the passing shuttle bus and wasn't showing much interest in the conversation. We ended off by saying "Lets apply together!"...
It was months later when they called me down for an Assessment, then a port tour and subsequently 2 interviews... ...All these while, I didn't really prepare myself and wasn't too excited over it. Perhaps that is why I wasn't as anxious as I thought I would ba...With that, they offered the job.
For the past hrs, I was looking into forum to see if anyone talks abt this job online and found a tread. Was quite amuse to see that there is someone who view it as a dream job and will work and study very hard to get into this position. This sets me thinking of what is a Dream job? I never had much though about it as there is no point doing so. This is simply because there are somethings that we can't really choose and whatever choices that are presented in front of us may not be the ones we have been hoping for all our lifes. Therefore, isn't better to be more open minded and just work hard in whatever we do so there will be much more opportunities ahead of us?
This is exactly how the militry works, I rmbed hearing people who hope to be in this field and talking about how good it will be to be there, but eventually where they were assigned were a totally different thing... on the other hand, at least they have fun fantasizing... Strange to suddenly remember that I used to fantasize alot, on how I would climb up to sleep on the trees if I ever go for those jungle survival if I ever become a ranger of sort.
Speaking of which, yan loves to do so as well... ... 心想事成 ... but this is good if we do imaginary for good things.
Another thing, research have shown two situations where people purchase the same goods (sofa). One of which have a no exchange policy and the other is that the goods can be change within 7 days if it is not like. IT was found out that those users who bought the unexchangble goods are more happy with their stuff compare to those who can choose to change it. This is because as they knew the goods bought cannot be change, they will self justified their purchase, adding more cognitive to their decision made, making them more certain that their choice is correct. Which the other group have no reason to do so as their goods can be exchange, hence did not have any additional justification. I guess, this is the same for applying a job and even for relationship.... Perhaps there are much less problem in the past where people match make than now where people can choose to exchange if they dont like it..
Choices...
Catching the falling leaves ...[10:23 PM]
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Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Power = Strength x Speed
Endurance I have...
Power, i really need to put more work into it...
Sometimes, I even forgotten that I had that in me...
Need to build up more of it.
Endurance I have...
Power, i really need to put more work into it...
Sometimes, I even forgotten that I had that in me...
Need to build up more of it.
Catching the falling leaves ...[11:06 PM]
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