Lost but not Defeated!

As expected, the interview today was really hard.

Especially when i need to face a Senior VP, who interviewed me with a long face and doesn't smile.

He asked me questions that i don't know how to answer. Straight away he condemned me for not be able to tackle such basic questions. According to him, the difficulty of that question is graded an undergraduate level. And i should have what it takes for the job that he is offering.

I can still remember vividly his posture throughout the whole interview - looking at me with his eyes half closed and shaking his head. From the way he reacted to my answer, he must be thinking this fella is hopeless. To further add the heat to the conversation, he turned to me and ask me how many times have i been to the interview. I told him that time was my 3rd time. Without even giving me a chance to explain, he started to raise his tone questioning why i am giving such poor presentation after attending 2 interviews. He furthered his question asking me why i didn't put effort in studying more about the topic that we wanted to discuss. But hey, nobody told me beforehand about what he wanted to ask me.

Before I could defend myself, he interrupted my speech. More and more anger were poured into this conversation which leads us no where. His final question to me was why should he hire me since I couldn't answer his technical questions, which he thought were simple rhyme that most of the engineers will know how to recite. I took courage to ask him to try me because I am a fast learner. But he refuted me by saying that if I am a fast learner, I would have gone to the websites to look for solutions regarding the EASY BASIC technical knowledge.

I didn't even have a chance to finish my talking and he stopped the whole interview. The next thing he did was making a call to the HR officer to escort me out of his office.

Basically, this was my INTERVIEW!!!

Luckily I didn't burst out crying. I have repressed my feeling until the interview was called to stop. Sad ending for the application of this job but I didn't know what's turning up next.

Inside the lift on the way down to the lobby, the HR officer asked me the progress of the interview. So i told her that i did badly and received a lot of scolding and humiliation.
The HR officer smiled a bit and in the next second, she broke a good news to me.

There was this engineer who first thought I wasn't sincere enough for the work, has requested to meet me for the second time. So unexpectedly, another chance is given for me to perform my best. He brought along a Taiwanese engineer and we did the interview in 2 languages.

The interview only lasted 10 minutes as there were only 2 questions being asked. Praise the LORD, these 2 questions fell into the subject that i studied in my masters. I got the question solved so fast that the two interviewers were so impressed with me and they decided to HIRE ME!!!

They even gave me a feedback that out of the 10 candidates that he had interviewed, I am the only person who can answer both of the questions correctly without fault.

I was depressed at the first hour, but GOD came in the RIGHT TIME for me - closing one door and opening another.

That ends the 9 month unemployment. I hope that this will be the greatest testimony ever witnessed by me. Trust in the LORD and work along HIS way and HE will add to you the necessities. Praise GOD that even in this time of economic crisis, HE still shines. And HE has delivered to me the job when i least expect it.

GOD has done it again, way ahead of me, to claim "Jericho". Hallelujah!