I've just graduated abroad not so far from my home... I came back to my country two months ago, YAHOO... What am I now? Well, easy to describe : a young unemployed graduated seeking for a job...
Hey, it is not so bad as you imagine it! And this is the point! Many young people find this activity stressful, boring and causing a painful headache every five minutes... Ok, it is not far from the truth... I won't deny it, but it is not so dramatic as it is represented!
And to persuade you in this statement I will give you my example!
I turned back in Bulgaria /my origin country/ two months ago! Nice sun, wonderful sea waves, smiling friends and family! Almost the paradise! But soon I felt the hard weight of the reality : unemployed, society's stereotypes that taking a deep breath after the last job, it is equal to a lazy state of the spirit.... Ok, I started the preparation for the Cambridge certificate in advanced english examination... But it was not enough, society's moral wasn't fed up. Ok, i started seeking for job! Oooooh, said society's consciousness , you are a very serious young lady! Ok , but this is the point!
I am young and want to have fun! So when different employers started calling me for attending to some professional interviews, I said myself, I will have fun! How? Well... by being honest, frank and with a large smile on my face! Well, the smile is switched on if the situation allows it! Otherwise I put a "copy-paste" smile just not to appear badly educated! Social ethiquette is important to respect!
I am right now back from my last professional interview! It was the second one for this job! I met the agency's manager. He smiled! I smiled at him, too. He told me : "have a seat", I had a seat. He asked me "what does it mean being bilingual in English". Well, it was really funny to answer to the question : it always reminds that I am firm Francophone even if I try to distinguish both lingustic realities. Well, "c'est la vie" as French people repeat all the time without getting bored of saying it! Perhaps the manager didn't realize it , but I started to enjoy the interview thanks to this first question... Of course, I kept on being serious, but I was relaxed. I was straight in what I was saying, so many frontiers demolished themselves and permitted me to be myself for a good or a bad reason. This is me! "Je suis comme je suis" Baudelaire is repeating to us over the last centuries and tries to persuade us in! Don't worry dear friend, I like your poetry! It's well invented! Bravo!
The manager asked me some theoretical questions " What is the e-marking?" Oooooh, I said myself, this is a spy question. Ok, I am joking, this thought didn't come up to my mind. I was too busy to be concentrated on the questions he was asking me, so some kind of a mechanical brain switched on the lights and replied to all of them. But the important questions followed and followed like Niagara's falls. Well, I kept on replying to. "Would you tell me what the social networks are?" Oooh, the poor brain blocked for a while but then the mechanical one switched on and said "well... I really don't know"...Then he showed me "facebook"... Aaaah ok, but the brain replied " we call it mostly "networks of socialization" in sociology. However, I am a sociologist, and my brain is already adapted to the sociological brain... Actually, I realized that marketing or sociological specialists , we denominate the same phenomenon by different names.... It was funny to constate it during the interview. I didn't share it with the manager. But it doesn't bother to make your little conclusions during such a serious processus that the job interview represents. However, it is a good experience!Some more points for me! :)
When I tell you to have fun while seeking for job it doesn't mean to "play the monkey"! It's just a way to make to search for a job easier and hardless for yourself! After all, the search for a job is part of the so called processus of professional integration. It forms us as more independent and self-constructed individuals! And I want to show it to the employers! I am not bothered to pass three, five, ten or twenty job interviews! It is even funnier because I will meet different persons, different logics of thinking, different ideas and will permit me to choose myself or them to choose me! It's a two-way processus!
In the end, I would like to ask the Employer: "How do you see this experience?"
Do you enjoy interviewing me as I have fun replying to your questions?
Are you looking for an interesting and ready for the challenge employee or hiring a strict and peaceful employee is good enough?
After all, enjoying life, isn't it the most important thing to do? Seriously , not so seriously , strictly, not so strictly...
And, in address to all of you: It is easy to know "how to deal" if you know how to reveal ...
your real personality, your wide smile and your wild imagination that will drive crazy people around!
Show them what you are capable of!
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