Let the verdicts be known

Okay, so here are some updates from the gurl who had been interviewed countless times.

So i met the director of company A who had done a review on my performance for the past 7 days. I sat with him for not less than an hour to discuss those reviews, one by one. I mean, i had to take a photograph to show evidence of the kind of scrutiny that i had to endure to get in. See, he made notes on everything that i do for every 10 minutes.

The evaluation process was totally insane. Even listening to the reading of the results was frustating. BUT, can't complain: I got the job eventually. YAY!

That's one down, and 3 more to go..!! I felt like i'm back in uni, doing 4 intensive courses, where the schedule is too tight and you have to run from one class to another, and your brain is forced to work overtime. I mean, after i finish listening to the one hour review, i jumped in to car and went to company B straightaway to do final preparation for my review tomorrow. I'm like: where's my caffeine?!

(Question: Why is that the most established british institution in Bandung does not serve coffee, they only have teas? English breakfast and Earl Grey, thank you very much. The british are too proud. Yet i love them, i want to work for them.)

Anyway, here's the thing with company A and B. A is very american, the culture, the people, the ways they conduct business, the work ethics and all that are so american. So carefree, so direct and straight foward like "In your face, man!", so alive and so fast paced. Whereas company B, which is the british institute is very cultured, very high society, people are so proper and well manered, the way they behave towards one another is very polished. Love, love, love being surrounded by English accents, since most of the employees are european, i wish to find jude law look alike, or hugh jackman, or christian bale, never mind. haha. Choosing between A and B is tough choice already.

Wait until you see the gallery where i'd been offered a job by my bro's boss. It's too DAMN FANTASTIC!!! I fall in love with the gallery the minute i step into the front door. True, the job wont be as stimulating as it would be when i work for A and B, it would be tedious and i would be required to do many many paperworks. But, how could one resist to manage such a beautiful, classy, milan/manhattan kind of gallery??

YEs, and i'm up to interview stage phase three with company D in jakarta, and AH! company E as well.

HELP!

coming back for more

so, i was back from the second part of my 1 week job interview, from jakarta that is. Because this is the first time i am doing interview for an executive job (yay!), i was surprised with the whole process that takes longer than what i expected. In the past, in all of the interview process that i had to through (i think i did 5 so far), i just went in with my CV, the employer would look at it, ask a few questions, had a little chit chat then they would tell me whether i would be accepted or not. The whole interview process have never gone longer than an hour.

Same thing when i first move to indo. I did an interview with harvard and panasia group. They just looked at the CV and the next minute i was given an employee ID. Therefore, i apply the same method when i am recruiting staff for my own company. One shot, one opportunity. Save time, save money, save energy. So, when these 4 companies that i am applying to keep sending me home and asking me back and forth, i am confused.

Alright, here's the story with the 4 companies. I was applying for a job at company A. I gave the resume and the employer did not even look at it and just said that she is going to call me if she's interested. Then i think, OK, i would not get the job. Because when i'm being the employer, that's what i said to the people i am not interested in.

So i send my CV to the next company, the competitor of company A, i'd say to myself that they are so going to regret it not even looking at my CV, i will work for their competitor!!. But then the same thing happened to company B. The people there just said that they are going to put my CV on the list and the director will contact me later.

So i thought, okay company A and B are way too established, too high standard, too international for me. 90% of their employees are native speakers and expatriates. Probably i'm still too young or too inexperienced for them. So i sent my resume to the third company, a local company that is. Yes, they have branches in surabaya and jakarta, and deal with international clients, but i think i can score this one.WELL, I cant believe my 3 times bad luck in a row. This one even did not say a basa basi for gucci sake. Just take my CV and sent me downstairs. I was like, "God did i do something wrong?" I am a good candidate for those 3 positions, at least give me a shot then reject me!"

SO i went home, disappointed and all that. I think to myself okay i'm just gonna find myself a good husband, be married and be a tante arisan. Nobody wants me to work for them! But that night at dinner, my brother told me that his boss wants me to work for him. Being highly desperate, i just said OK. Any job will do.

Miraculously, a few days after that, the three companies do call really call me and ask me to do interview with them. Scuzi moi! i'm just being a normal person here, being proud of my clumsy self, I think i would just go and do the three interviews just to prove that i can get the three jobs altogether.

Too happy too soon, because i thought when i got an interview, i have already been accepted. Interview is just a formality to talk about salary and working conditions. So i went to interview number one, for company A, where there were a board of directors, instead of one interviewer who were firing me with question after question. I was not prepared to answer them all, especially when i was also expected to answer the question in a correct format,in elaboration, in perfect english, perfect grammar, and no indonesian accents.In the end of the interview, i was like, DAMN i messed it up huge tymes! I did it badly!! Because i could see the interviewers doing "the face" when i answered the questions. They were like going "HUH??" and the "Where the HEW was that coming from??"

But thank Goodness, i met michael corleone for lunch after that bad interview at tomodachi. You all know what a girl needs in a bad day, right! a tiramisu, a straight doze of caffeine and a charming sweet talker in a suit. (HAHA! dont call me to edit this, babe!! not happening!!) But yes, being a person who has done a lot of recruitment, he gives me good interview advices over lunch. The thing is: IT is not about giving the right answer, it is all about giving the right impression. IT does not matter how bad your answer is, if the employers like you, they'll hire you.

To cut the long story short, that was exactly what i did in the next interview. I made the interviewer laughed, kept the answers precise and offer them "me" instead of "good answers". Actually the stories were much more complicated than that, because i had to do 3 stages of interview: doing written test, demo presentation, location visitation, meeting clients and all that. So much to endure for a job interview huh! It has been one week, and the four places (yes i'ms still doing 4 companies!) keep sending me home and calling me to come back for more and more interview sessions. I'm up to interview session stage 3 and we have not talked about salary yet!!!!

Honestly for me, that is the bottom line. I really want to drop my options to only one company. Doing interview after interview with 4 companies are frustating, and there's a fifth company that is offering me a job while i was doing visitation to company no:4. But none of them are telling me how much they are going to pay me. So i cant choose! So there goes my agenda for an upcoming week: more interviews

But like i've told some of my inner circles, i think i'm taking the 4th company, yes the one in kemang, jakarta. So all in all, if it goes well: Jakarta, here i come :) *Pay me a visit in the gallery, y'all!*

the sequel, page one

here's the first posting this year, i have forgotten to do this blog until someone recently msg me in friendster telling me that he does like to read my blog (yes, thank chris! it was you haha. )

the blog was jammin on me somehow, so i cud not write and do posting, but that's okay, i told anyone that my mood in the last 30 days was crap. My mood in the previous 30 before that was even a bigger crap. (what the hew am i talking about? new year and worse grammar) So yeap, it's a good thing that i did not post many writings lately, otherwise pastor D will kill me when he reads them.

Anyhow, there is nothing much that i cud do regarding the crappy mood in past 2 months. Bad things happen to normal people, Very very bad things could happen and there is nothing that you can do to prevent them for happening. Yes, i've told my inner circle, whom i have met in person (international girlfriends, i'll tell you later when we meet) about the very very very very bad things that happened to me and my friends do agree that anyone who has to go through such suffering is allowed to weep and grief.

But hey, as i said in my previous posting, no matter how stormy our lives can be, if we are eager to hold on long enough, God will indeed show that HE is faithful. I am testifying to that! if there is anyone who can be so terpuruk, terpelosok, terjeblos to the deepest mess and terjepit, tertimpa the biggest rock ever at the same time, that person is me two months ago. All i am saying is, if you lost everything that you hold dear to your heart, everything that gives you security and a sense of belonging, everything that matters in terms of surviving life in this world , is taken away from you. That really is the time when your heart is tested. That is the time when your characters, your faith, and your mentality are tested.

When there is nothing left, what do you have left?

When everything that you have fought for is lost, do you still have the courage to start all over again from zero?

When what you know you have is no longer yours, how certain are you about the future?

I almost pass the line of sanity and literally going insane.
Thank God, thank God that i have JC in my life. OTherwise i would have killed myself long time ago. Yes, all of unbelievers out there, here this gurlfriend preach today! This is not an airy fairy religion thing. Knowing God is having a rope that you can grap and prevent you from drawning.

And miraculously, in the blink of an eye, i did not know how and why, but everything seems to take care of themselves. It was not as hard as i imagine. I'm through it without even realising it. and today, i am standing in a better place before the storm. I have an even better life before it was all taken away from me. Just yesterday i was sitting and thinking, being in awe of what God has done in my life.

Everything, all the bad things had to happen so that He could give a better thing for me in the end. IF The bad thing did not take place, i would not have all the good things that i am enjoying at the moment.

So yes, here's my bottom line, here's what's niu with me this year:
i am moving to jakarta
i become a director of an international company
my short term goal is to be promoted for this exec job in manhattan,
the job that charlotte york is having (aaw!)

All of you who has known me must have known that i am dying to live in new york and know what, i am on my way to make my dream come true :)

ah.. yes and i'm single.
someone has thrown me back into the game
dont blame me, it aint my choice. (haha!) i was ready to settle down!
shame on me, the antagonist side is released out of shell
now, where's that little black book of mine?