By Blue Rose on Thursday, 6 of August , 2009 at 8:53 am
Jobs aren’t easy to come these days – even for some of the best and the brightest in your batch. Bad economy, downsizing, freeze hiring, stiffer competition among graduates – these are just some of the reasons. In fact, this is why the case for entrepreneurship is getting stronger by the day. But for those with no intention of pitting up their own enterprises, finding an ideal job that satisfies the head and the pocket is vital to their futures as well as the here and now.
Here are five top suggestions to give you the edge and that dream job.
Joining Organization – Being in an organization sends many positive signals. It shows you can balance your time and that you’re well-rounded. It gives the impression that you’ve gone above and beyond the minimums and that you value the importance of service.
Building up work experiences – This is more important if your academics aren’t exactly stellar. Having interned or volunteered for establishments similar to those you are applying in will be a definite edge. Work experience also shows you’re a go-getter and that your time is spent wisely.
Showing your competitive side – A resume attention grabber are contests or competitions. Sports, arts academics, even singing competition will stand out. Show you like winning, but show as well – that if you don’t win – you’re not easily discouraged. Be careful what you put through; you might be asked for a demo. So it’s important to not exaggerate or to fake anything. At the same time, don’t overdo it. (Don’t bring the minus one!)
Communication must be learned – All will be lost if you and your interviewer don’t understand each other. All the things sated here will be for nothing, if you can get your message across. And you message, in this case, is YOU. In an interview, you’re selling yourself. You want other person to appreciate you as you are, as well as your potential. So the art of getting YOU across, in a limited amount of time, to this, other person who doesn’t know you from Adam, is crucial. Moderation is the key. Don’t undersell yourself and more importantly, don’t be over bearing.
Become more interesting – Ok, I know easier said than done. Its not as if you can wake up one day and suddenly say to yourself, “Today I will become interesting!” To become interesting means to develop other facets of your personality. Have you traveled the 7,107 islands in Philippines? Do you have a collection of Nobokov’s short stories? Maybe you’re a surfer or you like creating mathematical proofs in your head when you day dream? Ewan! Whatever it is, just make sure that you have an answer when the interviewer asks, “So what else should we know about you?” My advice? Take that opportunity and show this person that you stand out in the crowd.
By Blue Rose on Sunday, 2 of August , 2009 at 4:46 pm
I had read this book that my husband bought in Bangkok, Thailand 3 days before we get back home.
This book is about the experiences of foreign teachers in Thailand. How they teach, interact, their life stories in Thailand, how they perform their teaching. It’s quite entertaining for some of the stories are funny and some are inspiring.
Establishing a teaching career to different parts of the world is interesting yet quite difficult, especially when you’re just starting to know the children you’re going to teach. In my experience as an English teacher of Korean children, it’s quite difficult if your students are beginners and doesn’t know how to speak even just a one word English, but you have to be patient, you are their guide and stepping stone in learning easy and fun English.
In some of the story written, as the title say experienced preferred…but not required, even if your not a graduate of any English courses but you have taken the TEFL you can teach with the starting of 30,000 baht. Lots of Western and American are there for this kind of job, and they doing quite well.
Some are just teaching to have an earnings while they are staying there, for them to have a work and pleasure, what I mean is they are receiving a salary of 40,000 baht/monthly, that’s quite a lot of money in Thailand and you can live happily and leisurely with that amount, and take note, for single male teachers having that kind of salary, they can have as many girls as they want every night. It’s true. Even if they don’t do their job very well they are still being paid, in one of the story, the lady is not really doing her job, just giving the students some paper works and she will go out to have a smoke then go back in the class to check, her reason for the new teachers that notice her is that the administrator doesn’t care, coz its not there to check if you are doing your job or not. Imagine the students paying big sum of money just to learn English…pity for them. This kind of teachers doesn’t belong in the honorable teachers list.
Some teachers are very keen on their work, they love their job, they devote some of their spare time to have a tutorial class to students that are willing and striving to learn the language. They are the best teachers that are giving importance to the students even if they belong to the high level of people in Thailand.
You see, teachers are really different, in the Philippines you have to devote your time, energy, mind and power to teach the students what they have to learn. You have to care for each of your students learning coz you are their teacher and second parent. You have to guide them, in every road that they want to take, you have to be there in every ups and downs of their studies, you have to praise them in every accomplishments they made; you have to support them when they fail.
These are the noble teachers doing noble deeds and we salute them, if not because of them we are not in our position.
