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Fresh Grad, how much of your work is mundane?

moneygod — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:05:21 +0800

My current job involves all kinda admin tasks, like filing, faxing, copying...just feel like not learning anything, a foreign labor without education also can do that.

I'm not saying that because I'm a degree holder I'm more superior than others, but if my daily tasks are all about these, I don't see any future...

The thing is, if I don't do these things, not much things left for me in the office too. My whole day would be idle....

My housemate often bumps into my room...

moneygod — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:39:05 +0800

Anyone of you encouter these things before?

When I am away to work, my housemate would go inside my room and use my lappy for her personal use. Her reason is because she cannot access the internet so have to use mine...somemore she would use that to view DVD... Have passworded my computer so my personal files wouldn't be accessed by 3rd party...but then she would use the "general" user to log in my lappy.

As I have only the master key of the main door, I don't have the key to lock my room. I am very private person and I don't like ppl using my things without asking my permission....

Any suggestions on that?

Experienced ppl, teach fresh grad!

moneygod — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:41:44 +0800

So if the scenario is, just started out at a new company, say just a few months.
but then feel like not so like the job, so looking for many other opportunities.

Applying a lot through jobstreet, so maybe a few companies wanna interview. say Co A wanna interview you this week, B maybe 2 weeks later,
C maybe a month later, so on and so on So if wanna attend all, how to take leave huh? (gracefully....)

and this seems very petty....if working in office job, cubicle very close to each other. What you talked in the phone might be overheard. So if someone called up for interview, how ah? If say like ,"XXX time and XXX place, c you", then sure ppl know liao....

2008 grads, are you still working in 1st job?

moneygod — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:52:27 +0800

Some might find their cup of tea after coming out from school for a while and some maybe still searching for their ground.
Mind to share your experience?

Jobsdb Singapore career fair

moneygod — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:19:41 +0800

Just saw the career fair advertisement by Jobsdb Singapore.
Anybody been to this kind of career fair before? How they conduct that? Is it similar to that of jobstreet where most companies ask you to go online to apply?

I've been to the Jobstreet one in MidValley, but didn't get much out of it.
So now i'm thinking is it worthwhile to go all the way to Singapore and give it a try.

Working in Hong Kong

moneygod — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:33:12 +0800

Any Malaysians are working in Hong Kong now?
I'm interested in working there and can anybody shed some light on their experience?
For eg, the living cost in HK.
If I were to receive a HK15,000/month, can I survive there? the way I survive in KL with RM 2000?

Thanks.

How to take MC?

moneygod — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:46:57 +0800

If you don't feel like going to work, but you wanna pretend that you are sick and take MC, how would you tell your doctor?
What kind of sickness is easily to be faked?

Internship after graduation?

moneygod — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:20:37 +0800

Anyone tried that before?

Mind to share?

Interview question: Why do you wana switch job?

moneygod — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:58:14 +0800

Let's say you plan to attend an interview for a position which the job nature is very similar to your previous position.
How do you handle this kind of question: Why do you quit your previous company?
I know that you shouldn't say sth negative about your ex-employer rite?

Beside just telling I want to seek new challenges, change to a different environment, what else can be said?
(Since i've been working not so long in current job....)

Job hopper, please help me!!!
I want a new job badly!

Appraisal form for probationary period

moneygod — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:12:25 +0800

Anyone got idea about what's it about?
I'm getting one very soon...
I'm have a bad feeling that I will screw it up. So if I'm not confirmed, how? Would that make me look very bad in resume if i didn't pass the probationary period?

Do you ask your interviewer how you'd perform?

moneygod — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:58:58 +0800

So I have these 2 interviews, let's call it interview with company A & B. I'd prefer joining company B because I believe it's a better company.

The thing is, Co. A's interview comes before Co.B. I had interview with Co. A last week now pending their decision. I'm going to have another interview wiht Co. B.

Co. A told me that they are going to get back to me within 2 weeks. I'm now afraid that Co. A might get back to me too soon and I need to make decision.

If that's the case, I'd probably tell Co.A that I need some days to think about it, but for sure that there's going to be a dateline.

I believe that Co. B might be telling me the same thing: waiting for results within 2 weeks.
So do you think it'd b wise to ask Co. B about my interview performance after the interview?

Big four Are they going to check references?

moneygod — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:41:27 +0800

I'm interested in working big four. Anyone knows do they check reference for entry-level positions?
Most of the time I'll leave my application form blank for the references section. Does that hurt the chance?
Thanks for sharing.

How long is the notice period during probationary?

moneygod — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:15:12 +0800

For those probationers, how long is your notice period for termination of contract? My company has relatively long notice period for executive level.

Please share and state your position (exe, manager...etc)

If you're unhappy with your job, should you quit?

moneygod — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:42:20 +0800

In this time of economy, should you quit your job if you're unhappy about it?

Tendering resignation secretly. How?

moneygod — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:33:05 +0800

I'm planning to resign from current job. How can I tender my resignation to my boss without the knowledge of others?
Any suggestions?

How to say this out if I had a future interview?

moneygod — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:45:09 +0800

I'm looking for a job switching and trying to apply as many as postions as I can (in this kind of economy, you know lah).

I'm so damned unhappy with my current job now. The thing is most of the time I am so pointless in the office and my boss just through some really random and unimportant stuff for me. For eg, when he tell you to complete task X by certain dateline, before then he would say "you can proceed with other thing, so ignore task X". After that, he will tell you proceed with task X. Then ok, he say is quite satisfied with task X, so now on, forget task X, concentrate on new task. After a while (probably a week or so), he would say "What's wrong with task X? bla bla bla...."

I don't want to comment much on his leadership style. Just I don't like this kind of way. So thinking of switching to a new environment. At least I would be motivated to learn new things instead of feeling so pointless and useless every day.

I know that in most of the companies within same industry, my position is supposed to be very busy. (I'm quite idle and thrown only random stuff). So if I ever had a future interview with similar kind of position, i'm sure they will ask why would you want to switch? What should I say then? Shouldn't say sth negative rite?

How do you know what your boss wants?

moneygod — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:27:02 +0800

How would you know what your boss want if he/she doesn't give clear instruction?

Approach the same company again?

moneygod — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:39:47 +0800

Because of getting frustrated of my current job, I am looking for other opportunities.

I'm thinking of approaching the same company I've interviewed with before, is it a wise choice?
Actually this was the first offer I got, but later i didn't take up because by that time i thought that the offer by my current company is better.
(actually i hold their offer for quite long time.....but after that decline that)

The time was about half year ago, I shouldn't be blacklisted because of that rite?

Transition from university to working. How?

moneygod — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:11:19 +0800

so i'm so unhappy with my current job. Don't feel like i can survive the "adult" world...my future is so blurry. I can see myself as a kid crying silently in my own corner...lolz....

this is my first office job after university. How I wish i could be that kind very sociable, outgoing person, or at least a very witty one. The fact is, i'm the opposite of it. It's quite hard for me to mingle with the people in my department. Worse thing is, my whole department are all female (goddamn, this is not an audit firm or account department...), you can imagine lah... I can feel the unfriendliness towards me at the moment.

I was advised that as a fresh grad you should know the ways to get others to teach you sth new. But not every person are really willing to help. So I do ask question, they do answer, but not the very friendly response. Since I'm not so confident and too fluent in speaking English and my department is basically a very English-speaking environment, I don't know how many times i got response like "What ya talking about?" or that kind of face.

So have this girl join into my department same day with me. Goddamn, she is what my opposite is. Outspoken, sociable, speak perfect accented English because of her foreign education. She knows many people in the company even from different departments, connections here and there. She is the kind you will remember her name even you have lunched only once with her. Can you imagine she is also a fresh grad? I'm feeling so inferior and pathetic.

Since we come in together, some of the jobs assigned to us require us to pair up to work together. Hey, she is really good at snaking and yet looks so enthusiastic in work. . Sitting beside her desk, you can feel how unpassionate and unethusiastic she is towards her work. She basically staring at the computer screen whole day, talking on the phone, disappearing from desk.... Basically she doesn't do anything and I end up do all stuff. I try to say how can we split the workload but you know what, she pretends to don't know a single things in front of me. Should the thing go wrong after we submit the task, she is the one really good at defending herself, pointing finger and say "don't you check?" sth like that blah blah blah....Otherwise, she will pretend to be really enthusiastic and ask this ask that. The way she talks and asks are really smart. She can mix well with all the ppl so basically ppl just perceive her positively. Tell me, how can I be like her? (other than job attitude)

Goddamn...I just feel very stupid every day. Probably I would face the very same kind of ppl throughout my working life. I feel like quitting my current job now cause I don't feel motivated working in this kind of environment.

Any suggestions for me? Should I look for another job?

Resign during probationary period?

moneygod — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:41:33 +0800

I'm now in my new job about 4 months. This is the first full-time job I ever had and I'm quite unhappy with my job. (working environment and the job scope). I'm so unmotivated to learn new things given my current job.

I'm planning to look for a new job after new year but I'm told that the economic now is really bad and it's not easy to find a job now + terminating employment within probationary period looks bad in the resume.

Anyone can give any suggestions on that?