Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Miraculous Help At My Job Interview!

Despite still being ill on Monday, I went to work. After rushing through the morning, I had to rush to a job interview at Ubi Techlink. That's near where Uncle Robert & Evelyn (Rebecca's sister) are working!

I reached the place in a flustered state coz my heart was pounding hard from the mad rush of work in the morning, plus I had to take a taxi to Ubi becoz I had overshot the time to leave office. I was rushing this last minute funding disbursement form for HSBC.

Jessie Lim (the lady who called to arrange the interview) saw me at the door & directed me to come in, as I walked past the office because the name of the company (stated at the top of the wall) isn't the same as the company that I was going for this interview.

Walking into the office, I met with this rather young-looking interviewer by a unique name of 'Elmer'. He looks a bit like my ex-colleague from SNEF, John Quek who was working on the work-life balance 'WOW! Fund'. For a moment, my heart tickled inside, as his name sounded close to the name of 'Elmo' - a red coloured 'dunno-what-kind-of-animal' from Sesame Street (what kind of name is that, given to a kids' show anyway?)

Elmer asked me the typical questions that interviewers normally ask, followed by sharing with me a bit about what this company is about, what it does & what kind of staff they are looking for. It kind-of 'shocked' me when he openly said that the people working in this organization are all Christians & they are also hoping to hire a Christian. Elmer also said that since this is a Christian organization, they don't believe in politics & anything such as wanting to climb the career ladder. That being said, it pleased my heart coz I'm not such a person myself & neither was I interested in climbing the corporate ladder.

This training consultancy company plans & carry out leadership & character development programs for schools both at primary & secondary level. That sounds meaningful & I thought that it was probably what I was looking for in a career, though I am not yet certain how the pay structure would be like. It was later partially revealed that there is a basic pay & the rest was on commission-basis. Either way, they also offer part-time opportunity, so I could still keep this option open, for either a full-time or part-time job.

Elmer tested me on a few scenarios like what I would do, if students get roudy & do not wish to listen to what was being shared with them, etc. He also gave me a surprise presentation on a teamwork program shown in his plastic file. All thanks to my experience in making adhoc presentations in my job at SNEF, I was able to do it reasonably well. Honestly, Elmer gave me a few minutes to read through & prepare to present it to him, but I was ready to present in just 1 min because I am used to doing such things in my job.

Overall, I would say that the interview went well... really thank God for that. And surprisingly, I didn't struggle with the persistent cough throughout the 40 min interview! It was astonishing! It was odd! Right after I walked out of the building, breathing normally again after rushing down in a flustered state for the interview, suddenly the coughing came back! It was like it was on a 'game-pause' mode during my entire interview at this training consultancy company! Its just so amazing how God works! Thank you, God! Please lead me to the right job!

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