Saturday, June 26, 2004

So I'm a little anxious.

If you scroll down past Martin's book, you'll see that I made a post about a job... uh post that I found on hotjobs.com. Basically the post was "Looking for an 'bilingual' electrical engineer to do entry level car audio design" So I applied for it. It was actually the only result from searching for "electrical engineer entry level" keywords in/around Atlanta GA. Peachtree City actually, which is on the complete opposite side of town from my parents. But then I'd have to buy a golf cart.

Anyway, I sent in my resume, after getting about 4 people and a career services person to take a look at it (hopefully to improve my chances of getting an interview) and sent it in to the recruiter person. The company that actually did the posting to Hotjobs is a HR consulting company, one that keeps a database of potential employees. Its also a company that seems to do a lot of Japan-America headhunting. I talked to 3 people there, they were all Japanese. So they said they'd forward my resume to the company that was doing the actual hiring.

The job was posted on Monday, I sent my stuff in by Wednesday, the posting was gone by either today (Saturday) or yesterday. Thursday at the earliest.

So does that mean a) Somebody took one look at my resume and said "HIRE THIS MAN!" (or the Japanese equivalent) or b) Somebody took one look at my resume and said "Somebody get that posting down before some other nutjob tries to apply for this job", or c) They collected enough interview candidates (including me) in 3 - 5 days to take down the posting, or d) The HR consulting place didnt even send my resume in. I'd like to think that its a or c.

And another thing. What exactly does bilingual mean? Cause noone really defined it. All they really said was "Native level speaking is a big plus" Which is natural, cause if youre going to hire someone to do something, hopefully they'd be as good at that thing youre hiring them to do as possible. But I'm somewhere in between "Cant speak any Japanese" and "Native Speaker" and I'm not too sure where bilingual is on that scale

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