On Jobhunting
I spent the last week jobhunting.
Apart from the usual bookmarking of pages in Jobstreet and JobsDB, Allan and I spent last Tuesday walking all over Ayala Ave., and Rockwell, going inside the nice looking buildings, looking like morons staring at the directories, trying to figure out which companies we wanted to apply to.
As expected, I didn't apply to a lot. I kinda figured early on that I wasn't for the corporate world. I printed out 11 resumes, and managed to only submit around 6. Let me see.. I think I submitted to Bloomberg, Ayala, Watson-Wyatt (just to spite Francis), HSBC... Okay, I don't remember the rest. Oh yeah, I also applied for a teaching position in CSA, but, the only opening they had was for a Chem teacher. Looks like that won't be happening anytime soon. I am really, really terrible at Chem. Seriously.
Today, I had an interview for the Daily Tribune (which I will turn down for so many reasons), tomorrow I have an interview for HSBC, and on Wednesday for IBM.
I can say so many things about how I hate waking up really early in the mornings, dressing up in business attire, walking everywhere in heels, waiting for my test/interview to actually start, and about how I hate having to boast about each and every skill I think I have, but I think I'm starting to enjoy it.
It makes me feel like a real grown-up. I may hate waking up early, having to borrow clothes from my sister, walking everywhere in heels, and talking about how I'm so much more than I really am, but in all honesty, walking along Ayala Ave looking like a real corporate person makes me feel better. Better because finally, I get to look good (after months of looking like a bum and being a bum), and I get to wear the clothes that I only dreamed of wearing when I was still a kid. Making the interviewers believe that I am more than I really am is also making me believe more in myself, that I can really do the things that I wrote in my resume really well.
I just hope I continue thinking this way. It looks like this jobhunting thing will go on for a couple of more weeks. That is, if I can stop thinking of the things I hate about each and every job offer I get.
Apart from the usual bookmarking of pages in Jobstreet and JobsDB, Allan and I spent last Tuesday walking all over Ayala Ave., and Rockwell, going inside the nice looking buildings, looking like morons staring at the directories, trying to figure out which companies we wanted to apply to.
As expected, I didn't apply to a lot. I kinda figured early on that I wasn't for the corporate world. I printed out 11 resumes, and managed to only submit around 6. Let me see.. I think I submitted to Bloomberg, Ayala, Watson-Wyatt (just to spite Francis), HSBC... Okay, I don't remember the rest. Oh yeah, I also applied for a teaching position in CSA, but, the only opening they had was for a Chem teacher. Looks like that won't be happening anytime soon. I am really, really terrible at Chem. Seriously.
Today, I had an interview for the Daily Tribune (which I will turn down for so many reasons), tomorrow I have an interview for HSBC, and on Wednesday for IBM.
I can say so many things about how I hate waking up really early in the mornings, dressing up in business attire, walking everywhere in heels, waiting for my test/interview to actually start, and about how I hate having to boast about each and every skill I think I have, but I think I'm starting to enjoy it.
It makes me feel like a real grown-up. I may hate waking up early, having to borrow clothes from my sister, walking everywhere in heels, and talking about how I'm so much more than I really am, but in all honesty, walking along Ayala Ave looking like a real corporate person makes me feel better. Better because finally, I get to look good (after months of looking like a bum and being a bum), and I get to wear the clothes that I only dreamed of wearing when I was still a kid. Making the interviewers believe that I am more than I really am is also making me believe more in myself, that I can really do the things that I wrote in my resume really well.
I just hope I continue thinking this way. It looks like this jobhunting thing will go on for a couple of more weeks. That is, if I can stop thinking of the things I hate about each and every job offer I get.
posted by Leigh Villegas at
6:01 PM
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