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MY JOURNEY INTO ADULTHOOD - Part 1

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It has been a pretty busy time of my life in the past years 2016-2021. I was busy with work, trying to find what works for me in this new life. I've been through so many crossroads and choices that I had to make over these few years outside of my comfy parents laps. Here's a bit of reflection over those years (If I can remember correctly). OCTOBER 2016  After I left university, I decided not to go home, but to pursue employment in PNG's most densely populated city of Port Moresby - the city of the filthy rich, the struggling middle-class, thugs and cultural and societal misfits. For me, it was a place to find a decent job. It wasn't too long before I figured it's not as easy as it was presented to us in the comforts of a lecture room. I bet all under-grads had the same dream as I had, thinking we've made it in life going into a University and it should be all downhill from there, getting a good job owning a house a car. Well that is not the case, as soon as you ...

Interview Cheat Sheet

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When I had my first interview with BeMobile back in 2016, I went without any preparation. I thought it was just basic questions and whatever comes to mind should be sufficient to get me through the next step because I am qualified - I was just too confident! You know when you just came out fresh from university and you think you know everything. Well this is not the case. My interview was unsuccessful and I began to wonder why - I am qualified, was my resume persuasive enough? Then I thought, my resume was persuasive - that was what got me an interview at the first place. This got me thinking about how I can improve my answers at interviews. I soon found through little research online and offline that it is important to prepare before an interview. Think of it as the first step of an interview. When the time came for my second interview, I was ready. I researched all the possible questions, studied each question requires and what the interviewee wants to hear from me. After bein...