Living for a new tomorrow.

New Job!

Monday, August 06, 2007

Praise the LORD! I got a new job. This new job is so different from what I do in Xerox.

This company is the second one that I went for. The first one I don't want to go after they called me up for second interview. Cause I don't want to be account assistant. That time that agent called me and recommend me this job. But after going for first interview, I changed my mind. Being an accountant is not what I want. I prefer something more project based.

After that I have one week break. Then I anyhow send resume again.

Another agent called me, she said that she got one lobang to offer me. Is business development officer. The location is quite nearby MRT station. I went for the first interview.

Supposed to meet a lady named Trini.

Reached the place at 9am. I'm on time. I sat at the reception area to wait. Then don't know how come I start to chat with the receptionist. She was crying at that day, cause she just got to know that one of her ex-colleague just passed away. She always wanted to contact him when he was still around but they have lost contact. She got to know the info from the newspaper. She told me how great that man was. From what she told me, her ex-colleague is really a nice guy. But His family will suffer as he was the sole breadwinner in the family.

Anyway, after that another lady brought me to another room. She passed me a piece of paper. I'm supposed to do a role play. I need to act like I'm already a staff there, and I'm supposed to call a customer to pursuate them to switch over to use their services. Phew...that senerio is a Taiwan firm, so that means I need to converse in Mandarin too. I was given 20mins to look through the case and to memorize the technical terms that I need to use later.

After that I was being brought to another room. Trini, Ella and David is there. And David and Ella are the 'Customers'. David converse with me in English and Ella converse with me in Mandarin. Phew.. It's really challenging. But thank God that I have one year of phone training in Xerox, I'm able to speak more confidently. Think they are quite impressed with the role play session.

After the role play, I need to go through the normal interview questions. Like what are my strength and weaknesses, my hobbies, how will my skills contribute to the company, what do I see myself in the future, etc etc.

The interview ended at around 11am. Before I left the company, I passby the reception area again. The receptionist is really nice, she said hopefully I could see her again real soon.

Few hours later, they called me again and ask me to go back tomorrow for the second interview. I told Bb about it, he don't quite like the idea of me taking this job. He suggest that I should go for the job that I like, cause this concern of my careerpath in future. I shouldn't anyhow looking for jobs. Thinking through, I think I should go for event management firms, cause this is one of the sector and I like.

That night, I prayed through. I don't feel like going for the second interview anymore, but I keep feeling that I should go for it.

The next day, I called up that agent. That time I was thinking how should I tell her that I'm not going, should I tell the truth or I should just give her any fake excuses. I decided to tell her the truth, I told her I don't want to go cause I want to go to a job that I like. She talked to me about it, and she managed to pursuate me to go for it. She said that the day before got quite a number of interviewees, I am one of the two who are selected for second round of interview. I was quite surprised about it.

I told Bb I'm going for the second interview, he asked me why. Actually I also don't know why I want to go for second interview, but I felt that I should go for it.

I went there, sitting at the reception area again. The receptionist was a lot better that day, managed to know her name too. She said she will go to her ex-colleague's wake on saturday morning. While waiting, saw Ella walking by. She said I'll be meeting the GM and DGM later. I was really shocked. Huh? Need to meet GM and DGM? Serious? OMG! The receptionist, Samantha, told me that Ella is a very busy and nice lady. She said Ella will sometimes buy her chocolates to eat.

Trini brought me to the GM office. Met GM and DGM, both of them are really young. The interview questions are more difficult than what I had in the first round. GM asked questions like, 'why you want to leave the previous company? Since the previous company sound so good, why don't you want to go back to the company and work? etc etc'

I told myself to be more careful in answering, felt that the GM is not a simple man. He like to talk between the lines. But he was really nice, likes to smile and also got summarize what the company is about and many other things.

Second interview was shorter, only about 15mins.

Then on fri evening, the agent called me again. She said that most prob I can get the job. She said HR side will calculate how much can they offer me and will get back to me again. I still not sure about it, then on fri, I consult some of my CG members also. One of them is Jia Hui, she encourage me to take the job, she felt that it's a good opportunity for me to learn many things. And in future if I need to switch over to another firm, it'll be much easier.

On sat, I went for the interview of an event management firm. Although I most prob can secure the job in that firm, but I still wanna to go for another interview to make myself sure that the company that I'll be going to is a really nice place. I don't like the office in that event management firm, it looked shabby. But the manager there said that the company have over 800 offices worldwide, it's a UK based firm. But after the first interview, I feel that I shouldn't go for any second interviews if there is.

On sat, I consult Valor too regarding the job, he also encourage me to go for it. hmmm...

Today, the firm called me again, she told me that they offically offering me the job. She also got explain to me the benefit details. I told her I accept the job. I'll go over tomorrow to get medical form and also sign contract. Woohoo!

Not sure how would my life be, but I still wanna thank God that I believe that He provided this job for me. I believe that I can learn alot from this firm too! Thank God! :D

&lovin' Bb at 4:09 PM♥

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