This is not a joke and I sure hope not classified as rubbish?
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Just wanted to share this with the Forum. This place has truly been helpful in so many ways. You guys are like family when I am 300km away from my family.
Very happy today. I made it into THE biggest giant of IT giants today on a direct permanent basis. Never in my wildest dreams could this have happened...
Out of the blue, this agency called about this prospect and the rest, as they always say, is history.
船到桥头自然直。Things fall into place on their own space and time?
This firm A has the unsightly policy of not helping EP holders with their PR applications. I took it on my own to apply with 6 months' payslips and made it! But you see, that in itself was a blessing in disguise. It reinforces my view that this place is not where I want to be...
Early this year the firm announced outsourcing its IT department to HP - which is in the trend this day and age. They are still trying their best to assuage us that we will be absorbed by HP, but as luck would have it:
#1 My sources in KL says HP has already started hiring for "A Operations".
#2 In an interview session a HP Manager told me A's account is going to India and KL.
That #2 is the last straw. Imagine the pants these people will burn just to prevent an exodus - at whose expense? The little potatoes like me - and those like me with personal and financial commitments back home will get more of the brunt.
Enough of the sad news hehe
My triumph lies in truly screwing over my competitors for this coveted role. If you were in Singapore IT market you would know that a direct permanent position with a Biggie is almost unheard of.
For one, the price of becoming a HP permanent staff is this - sign up for a 3-month contract (wowee) with another firm. This three months is your probation period. Fail it, and you are out. Pass it, and it gets renewed. The promise of conversion into a permanent position is an outright lie. I was told this by an ex-HP subcontractor.
My follow-up email to the interview consisted of two solutions of the problems he said he was facing at the moment. I adhered to the sacred rule of interviews "they have a problem they want the incumbent to fix."
The unenlightened ones (hehe) told me it was a suicide - with those solutions why should they hire you now?
Surely, a database environment with ONLY those two problems is not at all worth my time, I replied
The agent forwarded that email to the interviewer. Impressed, he was.
I bet my rivals didn't catch that email hehe
Now, it's history and I am about to embark on a career milestone for little me...
Thank you for listening!
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Goatboy will always cherish his former goatgirl.
But the world is full of fluffier ones.