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Life is not always Beautiful
Three months ago, I l declined a full-time position in a prestigious financial company and my friends thought that I was crazy. I never regretted it as I knew by heart that working in public sector is my real passion; however, I either overestimate my ability or the job market is really down right now. Therefore, tragically, I did not even get an entry level position in public sector after sending hundreds of resumes out and have been unemployed for the past three months.
After counting down for the coming year on New Year's Eve, I decided to broaden my options on job searching given the situation that the money in my banking account became less and less and I also noticed a few syndromes of unemployment started to show on myself, such as being negative about things around me, becoming reluctant of seeing old friends or making new friends and eating as much as I could, etc. All in all, I do not want to be both unemployed and overweight in months.
Thus, I took the action and started to send resumes to non-for-profit organizations as well and finally I got a phone interview for a customer service representative position in this field this afternoon.
As always, I like phone interviews better than the face-to-face ones. Because the interviewer cannot tell if I am nervous or trying to hard to please them. Moreover, I can always have the relevant information in hand to help me answer the questions better.
I only had two hours to prepare for the interview as they gave me a short notice. During the time, I prepared a few answers of the interview questions that I could think about relates to Customer Service. As expected, the interviewer asked some of the questions that I had prepared beforehand and my answers were articulate and coherent as I basically just looked at the answers on my computer screen directly and read them. Thus I got the job and will start tomorrow. This is such a relief after a three months unemployment.
Of course, I will continue my search of work opportunities in public sector.
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Behavioral Questions (3)
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Give us an example of a difficult problem at work that you have solved. Include your understanding of the causes of the problem, the actions that you took and why, and the results that you achieved.
- When I was working as a Staffing Coordinator at ABC Employment Agency, there was one occasion that one of our clients - a soup factory - requested 1 part-time palletizer to work in their Re-cart department every Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday on a long term basis. My co-worker and I contacted lots of our temp employees who were qualified for the workload of the position; however, nobody wanted to take a position that was scheduled like this. Most of them preferred go for either a full-time position during weekdays or part-time for the weekends only. I realized that Tuesday was the obstacle for us to find a suitable candidate. We had already placed some palletizers in another department of the same company, the work schedule in this department called ‘ continental shift’, Meaning, temp employees who worked in this department had to work every Mon, Tue, Fri, sat, sun for the first week; and wed and Thursday only for the second week. The schedule of the third week would be the same as the first week, the fouth week would be the same as the second one. It was a two weeks circle. Then an idea came to my mind, instead of having 1 part-time palletizer work on tue, sat and sun in the Re-cart department, maybe we could advise the client to dispatch the assignment to two employees with different schedules from the continental shift, who would like to take three extra shifts every other week. They have already worked in the company, familiar with work environment and reliable. The only problem is, in this case, these employees would go over time and the client would have to pay extra. So I adjusted my plan, we could find someone to work every weekend, then found two employees from continental shift to take turns to work every other Tuesday if they were only scheduled to work on wed and Thursday that week. In this case, nobody would go over time; the client wouldn’t have to pay extra. I spoke with the client about my plan and they were OK with it. After getting their approval, I easily found the three good candidates with this new arrangement. The client said to me,’ thank you for all the effort that you made to get this done.’
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answers of behavioral questions for job interviews (2)
and once we finished, we would both make phone calls out to qualified candidates and we would keep each other updated with the progress constantly to avoid making phone calls to the same candidate and whoever found someone would place this candidate in the system and send him or her the job information. My co-worker liked the idea and chose to send the email to the manager. So I started to enter the job order, and when we finished, we started to make phone calls out to qualified candidates and we got all placements done 15 minutes before we finished work that day. Both my manager and the two clients were happy about the result.
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Hi Everyone! I have come up with some answers of behavioral questions for job interviews (1)
Please let me know if you think the expression is neither clear nor coherent and of course, be critic with the grammar. I appreciate it!
Tell us about a situation that demonstrates your ability to work co-operatively in a team environment.
- When I was working as a Staffing Coordinator at ABC Employment Agency, there was once that two of our clients requested 7 temporary employees to go to work the next day and they wanted the names before the end of the day. According to the company policy, we had to send an email to notify our manager as soon as we receive the employee requests from the clients and also put these orders in our HR system. There were only another co-worker with me in the office at that moment and it was an hour before we finished work that day, to get the job done as soon as possible, I proposed to my co-worker that one of us could send the email to the manager while the other one started to make 7 job orders in the system;
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answers of behavioral questions for job interviews (2)
and once we finished, we would both make phone calls out to qualified candidates and we would keep each other updated with the progress constantly to avoid making phone calls to the same candidate and whoever found someone would place this candidate in the system and send him or her the job information. My co-worker liked the idea and chose to send the email to the manager. So I started to enter the job order, and when we finished, we started to make phone calls out to qualified candidates and we got all placements done 15 minutes before we finished work that day. Both my manager and the two clients were happy about the result.
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Hi Everyone! I have come up with some answers of behavioral questions for job interviews (1)
Please let me know if you think the expression is neither clear nor coherent and of course, be critic with the grammar. I appreciate it!
Tell us about a situation that demonstrates your ability to work co-operatively in a team environment.
- When I was working as a Staffing Coordinator at ABC Employment Agency, there was once that two of our clients requested 7 temporary employees to go to work the next day and they wanted the names before the end of the day. According to the company policy, we had to send an email to notify our manager as soon as we receive the employee requests from the clients and also put these orders in our HR system. There were only another co-worker with me in the office at that moment and it was an hour before we finished work that day, to get the job done as soon as possible, I proposed to my co-worker that one of us could send the email to the manager while the other one started to make 7 job orders in the system;
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I want to find out if the following two expressions are out of date in modern English world.
I want to find out if the following two expressions are out of date in modern English world:
1. ' We continually wage war on the insects, for they contaminate our food, carry diseases, or devour our crops. '
-- Do people still state a reason by starting with 'for' in a sentence as above? I
saw most of people use ' as ' or simply 'because (of)' in articles or essays.
2. 'For a long time, I watched them scurrying around the base of the trees in bewilderment. '
-- Do people still use 'in bewilderment' in essays nowadays? Is it more commonly to say ' For a long time, I watched them scurrying around the base of the trees with confusion.' or ' For a long time, I watched them scurrying around the base of the trees with bewilderment.'?
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