Archive for July, 2007

Relocation & Job

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

For many recent fresh graduates of college and university, the job hunting is just beginning. After the tests, papers and projects are completed, graduates must find a job, preferably in their chosen career fields, and make the transition from students to working professionals. To add more pressure to the job search, many graduates are finding that relocation is necessary to find jobs.
For decades, graduates have known that work in films or technology, they needed to live in California; to pursue theater or broadcast and print journalism, New York was the best bet. Now, more industries are following suit. A growing trend of industry-specific regional employment means that returning home or finding work where graduates went to school is unlikely.
Relocation is rarely an easy thing for even a seasoned veteran. Compound that with a lack of current income, fewer companies offering relocation costs, and more graduates competing for a handful of jobs, and you have a sticky relocation situation. There are some things you can do to improve your chances of finding the perfect job and successfully relocating to a new city.
Planning is key to a successful relocation job search. You must look at the job market to see where the jobs in your industry are concentrated, determine the cost of living in that area, explore the area to see what it has to offer someone in your age group with your likes and interests, and consider what would be involved in searching for a job and relocating to that area.
For advertising designer Tinna Jorge, relocation was the best option. “Being from a small city in Iowa, I knew I had to look for jobs in another city,” said Tinna. “Career opportunity was bigger in New York.”Tinna used the Internet and the career services office at her school to locate her job at an advertising firm.
“When quantifying the number of people who actually obtain their jobs through the Internet, one survey has placed the number as high as 40 percent, but most surveys say there are 4 and 6 percent graduates finding jobs by relatives or friends recommending,” Said Sandy Smith, a editor of the job seeker.
As you consider relocation, the Internet is a great place to start your job search. While it is highly unlikely that you will get the jobs you locate through Internet job searches, it offers a great opportunity for conducting research about the job market.

Once you have found some companies for possible future employment, use their Web sites to conduct research. Contact someone in the human resources departments to gather more information about the companies. Find out what relocation resources they provide new hires. For Sandy Smith, the relocation resource is a key for her applying a job.

The game’s not worth the candle

Friday, July 27th, 2007

May 7—I hadn’t wrote anything for yesterday, just spent a whole day on bed, I caught an awful cold. Today, I was doomed further unfavorable. Around 12 a m, while every body was on the phone content themselves with customers, another blackout occurred, in consequence with cutting out all the phone. It’s the third time in this morning. There is no further cheering voice anymore, we all started to bitch about blackout for effecting of lose business. Our manager asked me to call the superintendent for a fuse reconnecting. I followed his indication and called the superintendent, a man answered with sullen tone, on hearing me of room 3108, he replied to me rather testy. I didn’t even start mention what’s up with us, he said:” blackout again! ” “Yes, would you please help us with reconnecting the fuse” I politely requested. He answered, rather sharply:” you can’t ask us every time for your own problem, your company gotta do something. I realized he has been kept tiresome with reconnecting the fuse. “ all right, I’m sending a handyman to fix it, but you better solve your own problem soon” . 10 minutes later, the electricity back on.

In the noon, it’s lunch time. We switched off one of air-con for fear of blackout and ding our lunch through the microwave oven. The fourth blackout happened, and I was asked to call the superintendent again. I reluctantly dialed the phone then recognized it’s that sullen-toned man. Turns out he recognized me either, and said” please don’t tell me you blackout again!” . You can imagine how cold his words were. Finished the phone, I was so relieved. This time, it took 20 minutes to get the electricity back on.

We can’t withstand a string of blackout like this. The game’s not worth the candle!

For god’s sake

Friday, July 27th, 2007

May 5—Being Saturday, we work half day only. This morning, I got an urge call from

Canada, it was Mr. Leung

He told me our packing lists and invoices have some errors that brought on the cargo clearance problem in

Canada. It’s like a thunder-bolt heated on me. It’s fourth day on my job and I made such big careless mistake. I’m scared I would get fired by this incident, I only hope I can do something to make some change and avoid tragedy happening. Mr. Leung asked me to revises those forms and resend to him as soon as possible. I was so tense, and so concentrate on the revises thing, there were six forms needed to get done and to be mailed right away. While I was going to finish all the forms, the black out happened. That’s great!!! I hadn’t saved for the changing. I felt devastated!

However, I was blessed with the blackout wasn’t took that long and I saved myself from the trouble. But it was so close! Anyway, I sensed my work is hugely intimidated by blackout. If this blackout thing kept happening, I can’t imagine what can I deal with it the next time

We all took this as a good news

Friday, July 27th, 2007

May 4—The blackout thing happened three times again, I called the building handler to check out the hitch. It turns out our fuse blowout from an overload. It’s a problem seemed unsolvable for our company. We have 22 computers keep working during a day, and it’s impossible to work without them. The building superintendent informed us that the electricity is very tight for this peak season. Meanwhile, we were told the building fuse is getting old that triggers blackout, we all took this as good news. We considering the blackout would save us from boring work.

Cheer for the blackout

Friday, July 27th, 2007

May 3—As the biggest city in south city of

China, the weather in Shen Zhen is getting much hotter than other cities in this season. Our company has 120 square meters with three office rooms, one is for sales department, one is for engineer department and the third one is for boss, by the by, he just weekly come over on Friday. We have twenty-two staffs worked here and we all work in front of a third-hand-computer which much bothers me. Because it lumpish, radiate, ugly, and more importantly, it much consumed electricity.

Today is a good day for our sales. They sale on a telephone, our company installed a devise which is for taking a time record for sale’s call, they are supposed to delivery customers calling time at least 3 hours per day. It is a tolerance for such rule. This morning is quite hot than usual, we opened three air-cons, all of sudden, it occurred black out. We have no idea what’s going on, what a good pretext of unable to meet a 3 hours obligation. We all cheered for this occasion. It took long time to get electricity back on. So the time-record was halted for this accident

First day on the new job

Friday, July 27th, 2007

May 2—One of the most special days for me in this year, it’s my first day for a new job. I woke up quite early today and purposely spend little time on putting a makeup, I wanted to leave a good impression to my colleagues.

It is very convenient for me to go to work since my apartment building is located next to companies’. I was introduced to every colleague, most of them are sales and they’re much younger than me. They all seemed nice to me, I guess they treated me as a big sister.

I work as an administrator, but this so called title beautified my real job. Actually I feel I am a do-all. Except a normal office operate, my work extend to clean up office, bank errands, write some articles for engineer department and handle one of boss’ personal business. After all, I have no problem for taking care of those and I like to keep myself busy.