I am a consultant

I have become a consultant today. Two of my friends have approached me, asked for my opinions in the dilemma they are facing now, both related to job hunting.

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SY who is in Singapore now was offered a job last week. The person-in-charge of the HR department told her that she will be informed about the date of start work. But, that person called her today telling her that the company is not offering her the job anymore. When she called back to that company again, she was told that the job is already offered to another person.

Definitely she feels angry. She has rejected the offer from another company, one interview session of a job, and she has also tendered her resignation to the employer of her temporary job now.

She emailed the HR of that company to voice out her dissatisfaction. And she was told that “they will look into it”. She was thinking of whether to email to the interviewer about this incident or not since she thinks that the HR is not that trustworthy. But she is worried that it might leave the company a bad impression about her.

Well, I think that she has actually decided on what to do but maybe just need confirmation of her action of a third party. I do agree that it is no harm to send another email to the interviewer to inform him about this incident. It is not to fight back for the job but just to voice out her dissatisfaction. Or at least, the company can reflect back on what they have done. If not, my friend will not feel good for being treated so unfair.

So, she finally decided to inform the interviewer about what has happened.

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Sukie is offered a job of management trainee. She has passed the first interview, and she will meet her manager and leader, and start her training tomorrow. But, she has just find out that the company is doing some related to sales of aromatherapy products.

(Direct sales? Aromatherapy? All these remind me of LB…)

Well, her experience reminds me of what YenLee experienced last time. She went to the first interview and was told to attend the second interview and started the training on the same day. But the training is actually some kind of selling product to people by the roadside. Just like any salesperson you can see on the road.

And she quickly ran away after lunch hour when realized that those are the job of the so-called “management trainee”.

So, I think that this company which offers Sukie a job with the title of “management trainee” is most likely to be the same thing too. She is worried too about the sales thing when she finds out that the company is doing sales of aromatherapy products.

I told her what happened to YenLee. Anyway, I encouraged her to try the second interview tomorrow. Things might not be that bad as we think. She stands a chance if she goes for a try tomorrow, but if she doesn’t go, there will be no chance at all.

She is still hesitating at the moment. I don’t know what will be her choice at last. Anyway, I do wish her for the best of luck.