Hello guys...so an avid reader of my blog submitted this post and i decided to add alittle touch to it in brackets,and with my helpful smileys...😊😊
In the course of job hunting, there are mistakes we may have made and felt had affected our chances of getting a job or at least an interview
Personally, I have made some mistakes in my job hunting story. For example, there was this one time I was forwarding an attached CV to several HR emails in about two months. That is, instead of attaching the same CV every time I applied for a similar job, I just ‘forward’ and delete the ‘forwarded message’. I however never failed to add a subject to the mail.
Well, how was this a mistake??
The CV I had happily been forwarding for like two months was a file with errors..(😲..awon aye!- life people...hehehehe)
One day, after zero replies from all companies i applied to, I downloaded the attachment and it refused to open. That was when it hit me, I had been sending messages to outer space for the last two months (am sure aliens recieved them 😢)
Mistake number two was when I missed an online test because of false conclusion. I had wrongly assumed I was ineligible to take the test and after a while forgot about it completely. The company didn’t hesitate to discontinue me from the process after the deadline had elapsed. I learned and moved on. As much as possible, try not to disqualify yourself from any job before the company does.
This brings me to mistake number three.... Giving up easily.
There was this time this company was conducting tests and NairaLanders were planning to gate crash(what the yorubas call'mo gbo,mo ya'...meaning..i heard,i branched 😀).... As a person, I don’t enjoy gate crashing, it’s like turning up at a party you weren’t invited to and hoping the bouncer doesn’t bounce you.
On the morning of the test, I was still in a dilemma and after thinking too much decided to sit it out.
The company allowed gate crashing and as I learnt later, the test was simple.(chai,this kind of thing can pain!😢)
I took my chances last week and gate crashed a test and this time I was allowed to write. Lesson learnt.
You see, number three is one mistake many job hunters still make today. We tend to give up or just don’t seem to care anymore. We stop giving our best to every job application.... sometimes things get so bad we even contemplate suicide(😯 if i hear!..when theres jollof??!). These are mistakes any one can make as we’re all humans. Things might not be rosy at the moment but it will be eventually.
Hang in there guys and keep pushing, there’s light at the end of the tunnel.
Partly Teedaniels....xoxo
