job seeking
Trip to Kuching and job interview
I haven’t posted anything since late last week as I went on a short getaway to Kuching. It was a little boring but not too bad. I’ll work on posting the trip report as soon as I finish the TR for my China trip (for which I am just working on the Day 4 entry [...]
mrbiao is now unemployed
Finally, after 20 years of formal education… mrbiao has officially graduated into unemployment. Life is so unpredictable. I entered NUS with the goal of scoring a first-class honors so that I can get employment in a better position when I graduate. Who knows the recession would kick in and leave me sitting here now, wondering [...]
Updates
Just some updates on what’s been happening in my life, for those readers (if there are still any out there) who are wondering what happened to me.
I’ve been really busy finishing up my Final Year Project. I was assigned two very senior (i.e. full professors) evaluators for my project assessment. The presentation happened yesterday and [...]
Afraid to graduate
This is a terrible time to be a graduating student. Since last year I have been sending job applications and to date I estimate that I have sent at least a dozen (yup not a lot, because admittedly I am applying selectively and not a lot of good firms are hiring), but have yielded only [...]
Job seeking in a recession
These days jobs are hard to come by… even for someone with a GPA of 4.72/5 like myself. My CV isn’t that bad, with a mix of relatively good CCA records and track record in a business startup. I applied to probably a dozen places already, but only got one single interview and either got [...]
