Friday, September 08, 2006
Table flipping
Busy busy busy. Busy with what..? I myself cant ascertain it much. Ha. Oh busy trying to get back my employment status online.
I had an interview at Tuas this morning. Yes all the way at Tuas & on the way back, I was as usual talking to myself and trying to sooth and coax myself that all went well.
Oh from the morning chit chat, I have a small tip for all you other job seekers . Don't know if it will come in real handy or not but hey I found it amusing just now.
You know how sometimes interviewers tend to ask what is the assuarance that we can give to them, with regards to us not jumping ship a few months down the road. Yah, that one. K if its a contract employment, heres my take.
Chances are when you're being recruited directly by a firm, and not by a recruitment agency, and you're still being offered a contract employment. There's 2 main reasons that I've come to noticed. 1 - It is a project based task and the length of the contract is their estimated time the project will last. 2 - The company is cost cutting therefore contract staff would be cheaper in all the trivial sense should they decide to release you.
Back to the question.
"whats the assuarance that you're not going to job hop after we train you?"When I provided my answer, the look on the interviewers face were ermm stunned actually and I sensed a tinge of frowness from 1 of the interviewers too. But basically, who know it could work wonders for me.
"whats the assuarance that I can get from you're company that you're not going to release me earlier prior to the contractual agreement."Priceless man the look. Ha. & there they were trying to assure me that the company is profiting and expanding and blah blah. Coming from a large MNC mind you. Haha. Turn the tables around sometimes during interviews. Hey we still have a choice to join them or not ;)
By the way, the job I was being interviewed for today was a project based assignment for 1year. K now to do more reading on other companies to prepare myself for interviews. Even though its a bleaky rainy Friday. I feel abit cheerful today. Heh. And my eye is twitching abit. Signs of good things to come, InsyaAllah. ;)
