A Job Fair Experience

Last saturday, rafi and i embarked on an adventure that any fresh graduate is likely to undergo --> job hunting.ours is thorugh job fair.

i heard about this job fair sponsored by the foreign chamber of commerce (if i'm not mistaken) through my mom.as you know, my parents are so eager that i find a job (although, i'm currently employed already. they know i want to get out of this office asap, i'm just waiting for a much better opportunity and better timing).and so, despite having already scheduled to meet my friends in Bulacan (joy was throwing a post-birthday lunch treat for her close friends),i decided to spare the morning and the afternoon going to the job fair in glorietta, with rafi of course.

well, i actually never thought i'd be able to go there. i woke up saturday morning prepared, excited and in the mood to go to the job fair.but with some twist of fate, or maybe because of my feminine nature, my mood abruptly change.blame that to mood swing, but admit it girls, our moods really change no matter how shallow the reason can be.that's just how we really are, sometimes. but not to worry, i'm trying to get over that weakness.anyway, i'm not going to talk here about the reason for my sudden mood swing. let's just say, we've got over it already and i'm trying to be more patient and understanding now.

going back to the topic of the job fair in glorietta, i just remembered that my friend told me the night before that a lot of people went to the job fair that day.i think, "a lot" is an understatement. rafi's mom went to describe it as resembling a queue for NFA rice. well, i guess, it was still an understatement.at first glance, you may think it really is not that long. picture playing snake II game in your Nokia handset. the longer you played, the longer you stayed alive,the more you ate the food, the longer the snake becomes. that's how it is with the queue. you may think that at one turn it's already the end of it. but nah, look around, there are more people waiting for their turn just to get near the registration booth. i only see one registration booth in the area, so that might be one of the reasons for the long queue.but of course, the underlying reason for that is the growing number of the unemployed. with the unprecedented rising inflation, people need to find job all the more. plus, the fact that it was broadcast in media, whew, you really should expect that people would swarm in there.

for my part, i am not really part of the unemployed. i am currently employed and is earning a decent income, enough to satisfy my simple needs and wants.but, i'm dissatisfied with my job now. most of us actually in the office are dissatisfied already. some blame it to mismanagement, disillusionment, etc.i blame mine to the undying urge to fulfill my personal legend. oh no! hahah.
so, to get to that personal legend, i feel i need to have professional and personal growth. and i feel i'm not getting that in my current job.don't get me wrong, my colleagues here are bunch of nice and lovable people. it's just that, i feel i'm cut to do something else.i've been teaching english to foreigners for almost a year now, and i'm aching to try a new job. something related to my college education of course. or something where i can learn a new skill. computer perhaps. foreign language probably. anything cerebral. anything that will sharpen my mind, in preparation to my plan of going to law school.

anyway, enough of that.

i noted three things that i learned/wonder about going to job fairs:

1. expect to see multitude of people in the place. there's always a loadful of unemployed people waiting for that one chance to grab a job. (of course, not all of them are unemployed,some could be just like me, dissatisfied with their current job.)

2. i realized that it's better not to queue with the big swarm of people and wait for your turn until you get to the registartion booth. it's better to just wait until the closing time is nearing and go close to the booth, once the long queue is gone. that's exactly what rafi and i did. we watched movie first (Jackie Chan's and Jet Li's Forbidden Kingdom), ate lunch, then went to Powerbooks to look for econ books, which sadly, they don't have there. nevertheless, we read berlitz and had a fun moment reading Dr. Dups.

3. i wonder how effective job fairs could be. i heard they will be calling potential candidates for the position within two weeks. well then, i still have two weeks to figure that out and they have twoweeks to prove to me that indeed, job fairs are (not) effective.

in my next entry, i will be updating you about the result of the job affair, if there is any. heheh. and perhaps, will also be posting something about Forbidden Kingdom.