Go, Job Hunting Go!

It had been a good time going job hunting!

Here I wanna share some interesting findings and perhaps some useful tips that I had discovered throughout my time being a job hunter (roar!). Is all of my personal experience and my own accounts being a fresh graduate looking for a job. Some of you might agree with me and some of you might not. But let hope it do become a good read for anyone that were recently graduated, soon to be graduating, or had graduated since god-know-when but still haven't get a job (like me).

A brief introduction about me. I am a food science graduate of one of Malaysia public university. Been taking a 'long leave' since I graduated last November only recently beef myself up to go job hunting.

Here goes...

1. Take The Time.
Most of the graduates 'oven' freshly out of their study life, will be eager to hastily get into the job market. Most of their reason being wanting an income, being the family breadwinner, hastily stocking up experience, and most predominantly, doing what they 'suppose-to-do' like what most graduates did. I will say, take your time. In Malaysian public university scene, I can daringly say that most of us do not get the courses that we wanted. So there is no wrong in taking the time to figure out what you ultimately want to do.

In the long run, taking that time, will be better than spending 1-2 year in some job that ultimately you will quit because you did not enjoy it. Go travel, go do volunteer, go do some peacekeeping project, or go do whatever you been longing to do. Take that time to do some self discovery, in the meantime, reward yourself of the long study life you had been committing for years. Take that rest that you thoroughly deserve, that you would not regret, before braving into having a job, your life.

2. Open Doors.
My first interviewer said to me. 'Shian, life is about opening doors, not closing them.' These few words was the pivotal point during my job hunting days. That I decided to go look for more, rather than sticking to one opportunity. Do not put barriers in yourself, but go explore every opportunities. Don't limit yourself with your own understanding, but go broaden that understanding.