Mon, 2008-03-17 12:23
January to March is a good period for hiring managers in Thailand. It's time for campus inverview, career fairs, and many fresh graduates to fill in the void after a quiet 2nd half of previous year. In my career, I have made many of the best hires during this golden quarter. But even in these buzzing months, a lot of peoples still come to interviews so unprepared, uninsipred, and aimless. And these are the 1st honors from Chulalongkorn / Thammasart / Kasetsart / etc. Really, you are better than that!
I really want to tell 80% of the new graduates I interview to stop:Read more
- answering to "please introduce yourself" by telling me how many brothers & sisters you have.
- saying "hard working" is your best quality.
- saying you're not sure what to do yet, and you want this job so you can figure out if you like it.
- saying half-assedly the job is "interesting" when you still have no idea what it is. Ask questions!
- saying you want to do "whatever you want me to do" in the job. We have computers for that.
- saying you're good with computers, when you've never written a line of code or script. "Computer literate" is ok.
- putting "to have good career in a good organization where I can grow in my career" or something to that effect as your "Objective". These are the first lines after your name and address, and you want to make it count!