Tuesday, March 02, 2004
today was my interview with Deutsche bank.this was my first ever interview with a prospective employer. and guess wat... it went... oh so well. GRR.
hailing a cab to suntec tower 5, i got out of the cab half an hour early, straightened my blouse, dusted my skirt and walked towards the building. gosh. have i grown up already? it seemed so sureal that here i am in my business outfit, going up the elavator to one of the offices. have 20 yrs just passed like that?! damn.
so anyway, i was 15 mins early, waited in the board room (i think) for the interviewer to arrive. from where i was sitting, i could see the view of bras basah from the windows. is this going to be me in a year's time?! i marvel at how i didn't fit into the clothes i was wearing, the lingo i was going to be talking and the properness of this whole affair. it didn't seem real.
emma armstrong came in and intro-ed herself. a pretty pleasent lady i must say, set the tone for the interview nicely. turned out that she wasn't the one in charge of the interview, rather someone just briefing us abt it. GRR. there goes my thank you card, addressed to mdm. damn.
i was intro-ed to my interviewer, a gentleman called something. hey, my nerves were pounding so hard, i cld hardly remember anything. sigh...
firstly i was asked to introduced myself, tell him something abt me... i guess i did alright on that, i mean, how wrong cld i be right?! haha... then he asked me abt fiscal policies, which stunned me for a while, eh?
"anything that doesn't touch the money supply is fiscal policy. erm... yes. money supply? it's only affected by interest rates. erm... erm... and more erms" DIE
then i was asked a series of questions like what are my strengths, how much do i know about deutshe bank, singapore economy... the 2 of the latter were like, none, i know nothing. damn. he must be thinking here's another air head.
and then he asked me abt my mathematical skills, i said i was perfectly at ease with numbers, having scored As for maths all my life. and then i said that numbers don't scare me.
"really? gd, wat's the square root of 70?" EH. xi mi lan jiao...
"8. something...
8. wat? give me to 2 decimal place.
WTF. so there i am, trying to wreak my brains on the board (there was a white board behind) through trial and error... came up with 8.3 something. and then i just wack lar, 8.32, and he said it was close enough and i cld sit down, hiaz. that was stunning.
and then he asked me my weakness, and then my mind went blank, i cldn't think of anything to say that wld put me at a disadvantage, then i just said that, "i'm not that punctual". DAMN. stupid thing to say. and then i said that i'm not too precise. another nail in my coffin. SHIT
looking back i shld have said that i'm VERY pessimistic, VERY critical, and VERY honest for my own gd. DAMN DAMN DAMN. mum said that i shld have said that shopping was my weakness. hahahahahahaha...
anyway, at the end of it all, he asked whether i had any questions for him, and i asked what the company was actually looking for. an ideal candidate. he said that they were looking for someone with an attitude. haha. attitude... i also can man. damn it. and he did give me adivce that i shld look at the interviewer more, he said that my eyes were roaming around the room, and i cld probably tell him the number of lights and stuff. haha. DAMn.
nevermind, one interview down, hopefully more to come. the results will be out by thursday and i do hope that i'll make it to the second round, but i'm not really expecting anything. nevermind, positive outlook.
tom will be better. bien non?
