Salam
its me once more! Thanks to God I am in a good health and shape, but the last couple of months have been testing. I have been job hunting in which I realised its very tyring. I really do take my hats off to people who is in this position at the moment and which them all the best. Honestly how many interviews do you really have to attend before you hear that yes. Frankly speaking sometimes I feel that the whole selection process can be a bot personal. I mean I always thought that people are selected for their experience, qualification and the contribution that they will bring to the postion on offer. However I have come to realise that it actually can be far away from this and based on alot of personality trait. I mean I will give and example to clarify; my intention is not to talk badly about anyone but I have come across people who cannot fulfill the postion given but will be choosen on the bases of being the loudest, rudest, argumentative and the most arrogant. Sadly saying these traits are sometimes seen as desireable. However these are the same traits that according to my stance is seen to be very uncharacteristic and should be avoided. I myself prefer going into an interview with bags of optimism, honesty, a wide vision of ones achiviement of the role on offer, focus but also compassion and motivation. These are the traits that I believe should be scrutinised and one accepted for offcourse together with ones previous experiences and achievements. I will just mention an incedence which when I heard I thought it was funny. I was watching this programme on TV regarding several contestant who where competing all for the one and same postion to become a "porducer" and so they were all given tasks and responsibilities to fulfill and then they were going to be judged by this a person who has been in the buisness for decades and who supposedly knew what was required/traits to become a producer. And so when all tasks were completed he began to sack one person after another and some of the reasons were that one was disorganised, made mistakes in their research regarding accuracy of information (big mistake I agree), and the inrony was that the person he choose to stay had also made mistakes in her editing, information giving, and direction given. However he chooce her to compete with the remaining contestent becasue he felt she had a spark in her! and I was like WHAT???? Since when was sparks a trait which others can feel and which can make me a successfull person??? I mean seriously if someone had said that to me: "We have chosen you because you have a spark". I would seriously feel offended and I would simple walk away from the opportunity simple becuase this person has diregarded my hard work, my all time achievements, my motivation to continuously strive for the better, my skills, practical work and knowledge and my dedication to my work and attitude and behaviour. Secondly how would I be able to workfor an organisation which has direspected all of this and has chosen me on the bases of something not quantifable and nothing that will add value to my work I mean I cant see how sparks will drive my work can you? Any ways I have rambled too much, hope I made my point clear. I just hope that people in so called an authorised position could just be abit more realisitic when it comes to filling posts and be clear as to who they want and what qualities the person should possess, and please do it in a sincere and quantifiable manner.
Hope I didnt sound to aggressive here.......but I am just talking from experience. And at the end of the day I sincerely belive that if one strives for the good then good will be found one way or the other!
peace
