All right, I joined this recruitment competition thing organized by the students' union. Yup, recruitment competition, as in mock interviews, presentations that mimic real life recruitment processes by top companies. Prizes do not include confirmed internships, sadly.
The short story is that I got into the finals. I didn't win, but that's not the point. I actually thought about what kind of attitude I should bring to the finals tonight; should I give the judges what I think they want and act like the perfect jobseeker? Or should I just be myself and do what I would normally do?
I didn't actually decide consciously to just be myself, it just required a lot less preparation (I have assignments and projects to do). But yeay, being myself actually can get me quite far.
I think I did well in the individual round, but I was relatively quiet and not as assertive as the others during the group presentations and Q&A round. I didn't feel like fighting over the mic, and there were also other people who didn't get to speak much as well. So I didn't try so hard to be this really assertive person and grab all the opportunities to impress the judges - not a good move for someone who actually wants to win the competition, surely - but I was who I am.
It didn't, of course, win me the competition, but I got pretty nice feedback from judges who liked how I sounded more genuine. With all those advice out there about how to act and what to speak during our jobsearch, tonight proved to me that who we actually are matters just as much.
So. I am happy because I did well, when I didn't try to be anyone else but who I am. Being quiet is not the end of the world after all.
(Haha, this sounds so self-centric. But damn, it makes me feel a bit less uptight, and more hopeful about the world, you know?)
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