Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Looking for a job

So this week, I went on a quest to look for a job.
I am willing to those almost anything. But still, I cant find one.

So after sending a few resume, a restaurant asked me down for an interview for a waiter position. I definitely can take the standing and hardship and I can speak 3 fluent languages. I thought the interview is going to be easy.

But there is no interview....instead, there is a test.
Personality, maths, english and chinese were all tested.

Well, my heart started to beat faster as I heard that they were going to give me a test. But I dont think a waiter test is going to be that difficult.....

I started to panic when I flipped through the questions. They were all written in chinese. Long maths questions in chinese. Personality test in chinese.

The english test......they gave me a chinese sentence and then in the middle of the sentence is a english word. I am supposed to replace that english word with a chinese word to complete the sentence. Althought it is multiple choice, I still find it difficult.

And so, I took too much time reading the traditional chinese questions ( I think I took more time than the time allocated for the test because the manager kept coming back to see if I had finished).
I didnt expect them to call me to hire me after the test.
But at least this is a wake up call for me.
I need to improve my chinese and start reading traditional chinese books if I want my future to be in HK.

What if the next time I apply for a chemical engineering job and they give me a thermodynamic test in chinese?!!

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