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!*