Dragonzlad’s Blog

My job hunting seems to have improved somewhat of late. A friend of mine recently strongly recommended me to his boss. Although the issue of experience (lack of it actually) did crop up, my friend put up a strong argument for me and his boss agreed to meet me for a chat. Another friend, T, also recommended me to her friend in a IT company. Both of them have given me really positive feedback like some of my other mates. Everyone felt that I will certainly do well in the private sector. I remember once when we had to give anonymous feedback to one another on paper, T gave me such compliments that I felt “high” and confident that I could find a job easily. Of course, reality is that recruiters will not see that side of me, unlike my mates who have worked with me. It has gotten to the point that I don’t bother with Saturday’s Recruit papers by Straits Times anymore. It seems networking and getting my name out through personal endorsement worked far better than cold calling.

I read in today’s papers about how Blogger.com has incorporated a new feature that allows one’s blog entries to be made private. I thought finally here is a solution to maintain this blog without worry of family and friends reading certain entries. So I made a switch to the new beta version. Unfortunately, this new version only allows the “permission level” to be set for the entire blog and not for specific entries. Kinda disappointed.

“Sliding door” perspective of what my futures, in parallel existence, might be.

Yet another day in the office. I went about my administrative tasks and soon enough I found myself staring into my monitor. I wondered whether my career was confined to this uninteresting scope. The phone rang. I answered and my heart skipped a beat. I asked a few questions urgently and then place the phone back angrily. Just then, my boss walked in and asked if I was aware of the problem. I nodded and replied that I would update him on the findings and new developments. The boss left. I sat in my chair and stared into my monitor blankly. I wondered why I would continue with a seemingly uninteresting job that required one to pick up the pieces when something happen. Realising that time was running out, I scrambled to find out what went wrong.

“Hey Keith, how’s it going?”, I greeted my boss with a smile. It’s the start of a new week and I sat down with Keith to discuss the anaylsis and recommendations I had made for the business. I explained the Porter’s forces to him and the SWOT anaysis that I had done. But I could see that Keith was hesitant. Keith wasn’t too sure if the company had the resources to pursue the recommendations. The small-medium company wanted to expand and had enlisted my help but I wasn’t too sure how ready the company was in going regional. Keith’s mobile rang and he answered it. He looked up at me. He puts down his phone and told me of some complications that had occurred with the current job. I nodded and stood up to go to the job site. After all, in the small-medium company, one should expect to wear more than one hat. For now, I have to be the operations supervisor. My role as the business development manager will just have to wait.