Job Interview

I’ve been looking for a new job for quite a while now. The reason behind the job hunt is sort of a long story which I have chosen to skip for the time being. Anyway, long story short, I have put myself into the job market. Again.

To make matters worse, Mum found out about my job situation. Now, I know she meant well when she tries to dish out advises on what to look out for for the next job but boy, do I feel thoroughly annoyed. It’s bad enough that I’m pretty stressed out about trying to secure a good paying job which I don’t mind doing for the next few years, especially in bad times like this, Mum has to add on the pressure with her constant nagging on my inability to strap myself down with a proper job for long. I know it is just Mum being Mum but frankly, her criticism or duty being a mother is gradually eroding my confidence.

Anyway, after job hunting for nearly a month, I finally secured an interview for myself yesterday. I did my best to prepare myself for it by researching on the company and the industry it belongs to. The bad news while doing my research? I cannot find much information about the company itself. Not from its own corporate website, not from any other links. All I knew about the company is its MSC-status and how they pride themselves in being the leaders of marketing research for mobile platform and websites.

Guess what? The answers I found on the company are pretty misleading. Firstly, they are looking for someone with a technical background, namely IT. As an Account Executive, the person they’re looking for should not only know client servicing and relationship management, but also be able to do html and stuff like that. I was told that my only advantage in securing the position was my PR background.

Next, I was asked if I had any questions for them. I did. They explained what their company actually does and almost immediately, I had a bad vibe about the synergy in that company. For one, they do not deal in marketing research, which they actually publicise in their website. Secondly, they pride themselves as the leading e-business solutions provider. Cut the jargon, what they actually do is help design websites for corporate companies from the beginning to the end. Thirdly, as a company whose main income lies mainly, if not solely on creating and maintaining pages and pages of websites for corporates, its own website is a flop.

I told my interviewers that before I came for the interview, I was doing research to help me understand the core business of the company and how I got a better idea after they had explained it to me. One of the interviewers actually laughed sheepishly and said that their company website does not contain a lot of information. The other interviewer quipped up saying that they were trying to assemble a group of people internally to handle their corporate website but all of them were caught up with work and sort of put the tweaking of their own website on hold. I came away feeling unimpressed with it.

Considering the basis of its business, one would have thought that they would have taken much time, energy and resources to ensure that their own website is at its tip top condition. But that is not the case. I came home feeling slightly demotivated about the whole thing.

At first, I thought I was a snob for feeling and thinking the way I did. However, after bringing it up with the bf, I realised that it was ok for me to feel the way I did. The bf even suggested that the company may actually be the main contractor for works like that and all other work i.e. designing team, etc, are actually sub-contracted out to other companies, which explains greatly about their own website. I’m not sure if the bf may be right about this but if, and that is a BIG if, the company decides to offer me the position, I doubt I’ll take on the position. I just do not see myself working there and doing the sort of work required of me for a long period of time.