I cannot deny
that Lady N was the source of my confidence for the day. With that warm
approach and welcome to the interview room, I would not have acted like a
chameleon on a feeble twig. I had planned…”Hello, I am Wycliffe. How are you?”
But, this did not work because I was directed to a seat before I would speak
anything.
Had I known
earlier, I would have researched whether bank charges are among the entries
that are corrected during the bank reconciliation process. These are things I did and learnt several
years. Psychologically, the human memory is divided into three parts: long-tem,
medium-term and short-term. Anything that is read for examinations usually
hides somewhere in the medium-term memory where it can easily escape out of the
system after examinations, courtesy of the Kenyan education systems.
I walk down
through Uhuru Park. Here, I recall Wangari Maathai, whose books were a hot cake
in the international arena like US. she was even recognized by the so-called
superpower president, but you know what? Prophets are never accepted in their hometown.
Leave alone these men peeping trough thighs of high school girls riding boats in
Uhuru Park dams. Leave alone these pedestrians closing roads amid vehicles when
the street lights means stop. Ignore the line of unending supermarkets along
Ronald Ngala Street.
Leave alone them all, even these people on phones while
crossing roads and they are the first to say “tafadhali serikalini saidieni” after they are knocked down by their
fellow careless drivers. These aside.
The greatest
mistakes we job seekers do is to enter the interview room before we cram our
CVs. A question comes from it, “Tell about yourself” and you cannot answer. Fortunate
enough, the answer to these are somewhere down there in your CV where you have
written “profile.” Additionally, failure to know the company is worst of all;
at least this I was able to answer “one day” when I was asked. At least I learnt
this today.
I am not a money
seeker, but an experience seeker. There is a tiny difference between getting the job and not getting it; however, working with people is the greatest
opportunity the company would offer to me. I would like to be diversified and
work in other departments to know what goes on elsewhere. After all, what is an
internship? It is the process of learning. I need to advance my marketing
skills, management skills, public relations skills and other organizational functions.
When the internship is offer, then I will comfortably settle down to one
department, but this does not mean I stop being diversified.
Interviewees
lose great opportunities of showing their capabilities when answering questions.
In fact, I will never be too brief and straight to the point when asked
questions. I will answer all the questions through life experiences and
illustrations of what I did. For example, I could not be creative enough to
reveal that I am committed to total quality management, and I write a blog on
the same topic.
It is of less
significance to extend a negative attitude towards the company if they fail to
offer you a job. I will love always love it because of the great experience it
offered me to learn additional interview skills. If I receive regret message, I
will compensate my passion for the company by being a customer. This will
enable me to interact with these nice people at British-American Insurance Company
in order to observe total quality management cases, which I will transmit to
future generations.
