Hi all,
Hope you all had a good weekend.
As I mentioned in the previous email, the trainee, Youzi has sent us her feedback to share her job searching experience with us. I attached it below this email. Thank you for her generous sharing.
Summarize her experience, you might consider the following points:
• The requirements of temporary job normally wouldn’t be that high. But you possibly have opportunity to access to ERP system, gain vivid picture of corporate culture and team work. Also they wouldn’t enquiry about your visa status. Most importantly, they might transfer you as permanent employee.
• Keep sending your resume out. It sounds easy but please customises your resume according to the job requirement.
• Before you go to interview, try to review the procedures we went through in the class.
• You need to accumulate your interview experience through interviews again and again. Please be patient. Like this girl, it took her a couple of months to secure a full time position at the end. You can tell her confidence through her email. You can only get to this stage with solid technical and interview experience.
Please summon up your energy if you have been so tired and sick of sending resume. Work hard is the only way for your career success.
Please let me know if you have any enquiries.
Cheers
Rachel
Hello Rachel,
How are you?
Here is some experience I would like to share with all other trainees. Hope can give them some ideas about job searching and interview.
Short term assignment is not a bad idea sometimes if you are too stressed about finance difficult. Temping work is usually paid well, and employer is more generals than others because they always know you are looking for a job. The best advantages for temping job include that you could have the opportunity to learn the good ERP system, have the idea about the team work of a company work, great working experience you can leave in your resume and the opportunity you can stay.
I had two job interviews a while ago. And I got an offer from a temping job by Thur, but I did not hear anything from the permanent job even agency had promised they would get back to me by Thursday. On the late Friday afternoon, the agency who offered me temping job convinced me to accept their offer and I would start this job on the upcoming Monday. This was the job I was after at all and it’s so far away from where I was living, but it’s a big company and its paid well. I didn’t feel so bad by having an offer in the mean while I lost another one. During my short term working, I sent my resume every night after I finished work, and I always got some interview calls during my work. Soon I had met Hays, Michael Page and other famous agencies. By the way, all my interviews were arranged after work, because most of their interviewee have job, they are supposed to interview them after they finish work, so please don’t feel bad to ask them to arrange an interview at 5pm or 6pm.
I work very hard and efficient for my temping job and got along very well with my co-workers, and hardly made any error. Before I finished my assignment, I was in the short lists of three jobs including AP, Accounts Assistant and Bookkeeper. On the last of my work
(Friday), my boss surprised me to offer me to stay with them because they like my personality, my great work and that they think I really fit their team. I was so happy to get such assessment which encouraged me to be confident, but I still asked to consider because it’s too far from home and the position is not what I was looking for.
On Monday morning I went for an interview to an environment company regarding an AP job. My interview question included that the process that AP I did before, the reasons why I resigned, and why the temping work did not keep me stay. The way I answered just according to what they want to listen. Here do you have to have the idea how AP does in a big company, which you can learnt from Rachel and google, so please get very familiar with what AP job duties are and fully understand the principle. They may ask you the biggest challenge when you were processing AP before, this is a test about your ability to solve problems. In the afternoon, I met a company who is in ASX list, but they didn’t ask me any question, and keep emphasise that the person they were looking for is very experience and more qualified. I had tried my best to convince them that I can do all these FAR and EOM, but I understood that it’s a very hard job. In the mean while I was told from morning interview that I have gone through and will be attending to second interview to meet the people from Mel head office. I was extremely relaxed because I would have another interview in the afternoon and my offer from my temping work were still waiting. The interviewer from yesterday helped me for making me look good, so I think impression is important. I was asked about the near future plan, my challenge, how I deal with conflicts with co-workers and clients. I also asked a few questions about the working hours, people in finance team, and the background of interviewers. I suggest that don’t ask strange questions during interview. You better don’t ask any questions if you cannot think of any, but remember a few essential ones. It doesn’t matter the number of the questions you asked. The whole process for my interview was happy and relaxed, and then I got offer from this company during interview. And I also decide to give up another offer to work here because the job duties I will have will help me more professional for the position I want to do in the future.
That’s pretty much I can remember now. Hope it’s helpful.
Keep in touch.
Youzi |