Don’t Pick Your Next Job Without These 3 Essentials
Having left my previous job in June earlier this year, I began my job hunting and before I knew it, it turned out to be a 4 months-long journey. During these 4 months, it was a mundane process every single day of logging into LinkedIn, scrolling job vacancy websites (Jobstreet, MyCareersFuture, etc.), and waiting for my phone to ring hoping it’s a recruiter or company telling me I’m being shortlisted for a job. It was certainly a period of highs and lows because you can get 7 interviews in a single week and 0 interview throughout the whole month (due to the pandemic I guess).
It certainly didn’t help when I met up with my friends and they talked about how lucky it is to be still employed during this pandemic period when companies are retrenching or even closing down, and yet, I chose to reject the offers of companies. Yes, I was offered a contract of employment by 5 companies which I successfully passed all their interviews and technical tests but I rejected 4 of them solely because I know what are the things I am looking out for in my job.
1. Passion — Is it a job I don’t mind waking up on Monday mornings for?
I’m a data science postgraduate and both my previous two full-time employment revolved around data analytics where I got to play with numbers to…
