i speak...
i'm an open type of person. i speak out my emotions
usually pero i can be very private at times. i love to
dance and to sing
and i love the company of my friends and my family.
i'm an overly talkative, compassionate dreamer, a
romantic at heart.
i'm a writer too.
words i'd love to live by/tara-inspired
i will create my day
i will create my reality, moment to moment
i will change my mind
i will open myself to the infinite realm of possibility
i will leave room for auspicious coincidence
i will not decide what is next
i will not decide what is real
i will not expect
i will have confidence
i will boycott self-doubt
i will have confidence to go beyond hesitation
i will not be afraid to be afraid
i will remember who I am
oh, yeah. i will also have fun...
i love...
GOD
my family
net-surfing
reading young adult books
music
movies and tv
too weird for a first ever job interview
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
got that right, i had my first ever formal (which in the end turned out to be not formal, but abnormal) job interview a few short hours ago.
on my last post i told you that my friend told me about this research assistant job a professor at school posted. the job, after i went to school last friday, i learned, was not of a research lab assistant but more of an all around "executive assistant" for the environmental consulting firm SAGIP-Environment. i won't dwell to much on the details of the company but i what i can tell you is that it's not (at least not yet) a bigtime company.
last friday i went to dr. espino's office to inquire/apply for the job. she told me that she had yet to talk to the one who asked her help in finding the R.A. and she phoned him. it turns out that dr. marle cardenas, the chairman and ceo of SAGIP was confined for heart complications at the philippine heart center and that he wanted to interview me right away. right, by his hospital bed.
consequently, i went, and finally learned about what i was getting myself into. it was really rash, not to mention stupid of me not to even ask what sort of job i was applying for, let alone look at the ad tipe saw just to see what was written on it.
dr. cardenas is a really nice man. he was huge, and i learned later on that he had almost died 3 times due to diabetes, hypertension and the works. he was also already a bionic man, pacemaker and all. after my very light and friendly chat/interview with him, he told me to call the vice chair, dr. villegas to set another interview. he told me i could discuss money business with this guy. which just means i didn't get to learn then how much i'm getting paid if ever i accept the job.
the dr. villegas i called turned out to be a fellow batangueno and surprise, surprise, he's from malvar, the town next to where i live. he even speaks with our hardcore accent, and he was so friendly too. he told me to call him by tuesday morning to finalize the appointment.
which i did, only i texted him first instead of calling him, which was atypical and even unethical for a job applicant to do, i realized. he said that i come to the office at 4pm and that i should meet the general manager of the firm too.
unexpectedly, my mom and dad gave me more than a ride to the office building. they were supposed to leave and pick up my laptop at buendia but instead they came inside the SAGIP office with me! it was embarassing. imagine having both your parents at your side during your first ever formal job interview. i couldn't believe it myself! but that was not all.
during my interview, the manager told dr. villegas that i had some people with me and i admitted yes, they are my parents, so dr. pabs (feeling close na), being the jolly, friendly and sabik sa kababayan person that he is went outside his office and invited my parents in! they almost forgot about little old me, the applicant, as they raved about how my dad and him were schoolmates in highschool and that my tita nessy was his classmate. talk about a microscale world.
anyways, after all the excitement we were led outside the office and even ushered into the elevator by dr. pabs, with him assuring my parents that the company is like a big family and that they should not worry about a thing. my parents, who were initially a bit appalled of my plan to join the workforce as i was reviewing for the board exam, suddenly became like the marketers of SAGIP. they said my bosses were nice so it would be okay.
i on the other hand also felt a bit attached to the really small office at that short span of time. and though michael and i discussed that an 8 thousand salary wouldn't be worth it, i really didn't mind that much when i was told my pay would be between 8-10 gran. well at least for my first 3months there i hope.
what i'm hoping for though is that i get hired because they saw something in me worth hiring. not because i was obviously the first applicant who came to them (my friends just texted me this afternoon asking if i already got the job because mam espino told them as they inquired about the job too) or just because i was the fresh graduate who knew nothing but can be trained nonetheless. and definitely not also because my dad and dr. villegas were schoolmates and that we're kababayans. that would be just sickening and depressing.
i don't yet if they would hire me, but if they didn't they really were great actors leading me on. i'm hoping too that i will get it, because by now i don't know how i would deal with rejection.
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