Ihatemylife

Hey, today I wanted to talk about the job interview that I had on last Thursday. Actually, I got the agent’s number from a friend of mine, who I met during the ptd’s exam. Her name is Nurul, and she is still working at the streamyx’s branch in TTDI. So, on that morning (Thursday), I did try to call the agent, Mr. Zul, asking him if there are any vacancies available for fresh graduates in the streamyx’s company. As fast as I remember, he immediately told me that I need to attend the interview at 11am (did I mentioned that the time I was calling was around 9am? Just woke up, to be exact) at the building opposite KFC in TTDI. Ergh, I feel like throwing up since I am not that really prepared. I didn’t expect that he’s gonna arrange me the interview like on-the-spot! I haven’t done any research on that company; I haven’t been practicing the common question that they are going to ask in the interview. I seriously feel like wanna puke. After I took shower, I immediately went to kak ah’s room to grab her formal trousers since I don’t have any (need to wear formal attire) to match it with my blue ~PINK~ shirt that buaya bought me. Afterward, without having any breakfast, I rushed to my car, and drove straight to TTDI. Reached there around 10.45, and as I entered the building, I saw plenty of people wearing the formal attire were standing right in front of the office that I was going to. And when I asked them, I was surprised when we are all here looking for the same job. Crap. I felt so tiny, because most of them were engineering graduates. Shit, all of the sudden, I felt incredibly stupid. How am I supposed to compete with all these smart-kicking-ass-students? When I went inside the office, everybody was looking at me like I’m an alien or something (Seriously uncomfortable). Then they gave us a form to be filled in, and to be honest, I was kinda lost. Mine was almost blank. Working experience-blank, SOCSO number-blank, highest achievement-blank, reference-blank, skills-blank (oh, I did wrote Microsoft office, but still, other skills-blank), club-blank.. Well, most of it was seriously blank. Afterward, they separated all of us into four groups to complete a test consists of English and Bahasa Melayu subjects. The one who made it was transferred into another room for briefing about the job. Seriously, I had no idea that the interview is going to involve a lot of stage. In the briefing room, the agent people explain to us about the job (technical service provider, I fucking don’t know what was really it until they explained it to me when I was the only girl who put up my hand when the guy asked “any of you did not have a clue about this job?”). And the guy named Jason was so nice to give the whole candidates a lecture (as if I’m in an IT class or something) since I was the only one who totally don’t know the IT term. And seriously, I was completely blurred. And the guy (seating in front of me, near the door), who I thought was one of us who is applying for the job (turns out to be the agent guy) was giving me the sarcasm smile every time Jason asked me to list down all the operating systems, how to delete cookies, how to see the IP address and so on. I was mortified. Because I seriously don’t know any of those terms, and judging by the lecture that he gave me, I was 100% confident that I was going to fail the IT test and all the 3hours that I spent there before this will be a complete waste. SHIT. Luckily, I was seating next to an IT graduate, named nisha (she’s an Indian). She did help me to pass the exam by giving me some answers on few questions (thanks though, and I started to like the 1 Malaysia concept, hehe). After those who passed the exam was announced (*cough*I was selected of course), we had been asked to move into another room for an interview in GROUP. I KNOW!! IN GROUP. How embarrassing would it be if you screw it up?? Erghhh. A while later, the guy who was watching me over the IT class came into the room, and gave us a little speech on how lucky we were to be at this stage. And he said to the class “I am worried about you, Syafinaz, you looked kinda lost, and I am scared that you are not getting the job because you looked so shy. You need to relax, a bit, don’t get too nervous, I know that this is your first interview (I lied of course, so that they won’t put too much pressure on me, haha), I know you can do this, ok? Good luck to you and to the rest of the class too”. OK. That was ODD. How did he know my name? And why he need to say that like in front of everybody, which make me sounds obviously stupid. And why did he even care? I was pissed. Afterward, the interviewer came in, and I was surprised how many kelantanese people were in the same room as the process of interviewing was held. I was like wth? It’s a good thing, though. They hardly can speak English and the way the spoke was totally one of those typical-klantanese-accent which I always imitate! (ok, by saying these, its kinda bad, but hello, I need to compete with them before I can actually get the job!). The three girls (including me) and few boys were selected to the last stage- typing test. And all of us passed and were hired. YEAAH.. The most ODD thing about this whole thing was, the agent guy, text me later on, introducing what his name was and so on..and so on…  Err, resolution year 2010 number 11 (decided to add-up another one), find somebody to flirt with- remark as done :P  –GULP-