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Life is a MartingaleFebruary 25 job huntting in londonRemember something about my job huntting story in london with my rubbish english.
The job hunting process is quite different to that in mainland. As i know, there are usually two ways to find a job in london, via agency or applying the job from employers' career websites. The graduate programme designed for the fresh men from universities is isolated from agency, usually via career website. To the people without working experience, graduate programme is the best choice, especailly when the unemployment rate is up since it is a bad idea for you to PK with the experienced via agency.
Before i went to london, i had already started my work application. Thanks to the staff in career office and my friend Tarek who help perfecting my CV and covering letter. After that, i attached them on a famouse website, efinancialcareers, and applied dozens of positions daily. It is an easy job, you just need to read the latest jobs' requirements then press the 'applying' button; your files will be sent to the corresponding agency. If the agency think you are a good candidate, he or she would like to send you some positions information to you and ask whether you are interested with the job. If right, the hunter company would test or interveiw you first. Only pass the interview in the agency, coud you be arranged to the further interview with the employer. Because they want to make sure that the candidates they introduce would satisfy the employers. As i remember, i had stupidly rejected one invitation from an agency; i replied to him, said 'sorry, i won't go back to IT if i could find a finance work'. Later, i found that i couldn't get a finance job indeed......
Applying graduate programme costs you much time. Generally, it includes such process, online application, online test, first round interview,second round(may no) , Accessment Center.
Every one dislike the long and damn application form which asks you personal information and some competency questions, like 'why do you choose Goldman Sach', ' Why do you choose the position? ', ' what is your advantage compared with other employees?' and so on. These questions are indeed annoying, but you have to finish them. Luckily, most of the questions from different companies are similiar, so you could save the answers and copy them to other companies' application form; BTW, make sure you have written the right name for the company and the position. At first few days, i had to spend a whole day on one form; later, i could finish one in an hour.
If hr likes your application form, she would allow you to do next step, online test, which usually combined by numerical test and verbal test, sometimes with something like character test. Before you start the test, you'd better practice them first. When you find you could finish the test in stated time, you could go. To verbal test, i always asked help from my friend.
There are much work to prepare for an interview. You should know what kind of questions the interviewers would ask, technical or competency questions. Fortunately, for graduate programme, most of the questions are the later. If you have experienced several such interview, you will find that most of questions are overlapped. Like 'why do you choose this company or the postion?' 'your motivation to this company or this job' 'how do you compare our company with other one?' 'Give me an example that shows your leadership' 'an example that you work under great pressure' ' are you flexible' 'Example that you can adapt to a wide variety of people, situations and environments' 'teamwork ability'. So you'd better prepare a short speech for each questions, about 2mins. BTW, some business quesions also should be prepared, like 'what is your opinion to current market', 'what is the recent exchange rate of derling pound to US dollar'. Finally, the hr may ask whether you have questions for her. If you are unsatisfied with your answers during the interview, now it is a very good chance for you to change the result. My friend Jennifer told me that during the interview, it is good if the interviewer could speak much not you, so you should do your best to make the interviewer speak as much as possible. There are several questions you may ask, like 'The position responsibilities: what task should to be accomplished and what the time for it', 'Resources available to accomplish the job responsibilities', 'Performance measurement: how you will be measured and evaluated', 'What’s the career path after three years?'...... I think the hr would like you ask such questions, cos they show that you are fairly interested with the positions.
AC varies from different companies. It may include interviews, case study, group discussion, presentation, even test; Before you go there, you must ask the hr more details; also you could search it on line, if lucky enough you may find some nice man with the offer would put his ac experience on website. Except face to face interview, i have nothing to say about all the activies in AC because of my terrible performance there. Shame! I just spoke three or four sentences in the group discussion of Sungard AC, haha......
Be patient. To get an offer, there is a long way to go. When failed, never give up, what should do is to find out your problem and upgrade youself.
Share with your friend. I got lots of information from friends, like the job source in various universities career websites and some application form samples. Further My roommates helped me practice interview. Without them, i could never reach the final success.
Just to memorize one of the projects i have come through, even i may give up the gain.
Almost finish, not check yet...................
December 30 My 2008按顺序说,想起多少说多少,
一月份忙乎那破考试,在图书馆里头待了整整半个多月,最后发现也就那么回事; BTW 特此宣传一个牛同学,中国人啊, 10天拿了个Financial Mathe Master degree, 温习4天easy 通过圣诞新年考期, 另用6天通过了4月份的考试,不上课学位就这么到手了, 神人啊; 考完后去了趟伦敦,就一天, 和老板少爷逛了下Green Park and British Museum,然后就去老刘那蹭饭了, 得出早期伦敦印象,公园漂亮交通方便,就tm太贵.
二月&三月 good good study day day up, 充实,常从图书馆出来坐半夜末班车回家,而且年纪大了,记性不好所以得多花时间看书,不然看了一晃眼又忘了; 除夕夜是在coventry里头姚遥家度过的, 喝酒吃饺子, 大厨董潇萍的手艺不错; 开始每周六踢足球了...
三月底, 和少爷,老板去了趟苏格兰, 格拉斯哥--爱丁堡--尼斯湖; 在爱丁堡住youth hotel的时候,一个可人的洋妞睡我下铺了, 害我一宿没睡好,那个热啊; 爱丁堡值得逛逛, 格拉斯哥就算了; 尼斯湖很漂亮, 没有湖怪也值得去...
四月, 好像没干什么事情,因为考试都在三月结束了,假期 & 准备五月的london business visit; 常和朋友去pub喝酒了, 学校的Graduate Bar...
五月, London Business Visit, 参观了BP, BOA 和Bloomberg, 可惜赶上啥休息日,没有看到那些traders交易时的疯狂场景, 开始憧憬canary wharlf; Business visit的最后一个晚上活动是在New Broad Street House的一个半地下室房间和一些financial institutions的员工交流, 机缘巧合, DB的AC的numerical test也是在同一个房间进行的, 而DB的office离这个地方仅一街之隔. visit结束后,老板和少爷再次前往london调研,于是又一起腐败了两天;同我睡了四年的臭虫结婚了, shock我了, 这个当初到处宣传'妻不如妾,妾不如偷, 偷不如偷不着'的家伙竟然第一个结婚了...
六月, 好像又去了一趟london,参加个Schroder的面试,语言严重不过关,唯一收获就是在伦敦好吃了一顿,然后带了根4胖子的苦瓜回来; 一大型活动, 欧洲杯, 因为英格拉没有入围, Pub里头看球的人不是那么多, 感谢harry 每天接我到teaching center看球, 一规律,好像在这半月中,我支持的球队都被输了比赛, 从小组赛到决赛, 无一例外; 月底从coventry的70 Westwood road搬到了学校的lakeside, 舍不得那几位house mates 幽默的琳琳 高挑的milosh 和泰国帅哥shine 以及那几位邻居 , 还得多谢harry帮我搬家, 多谢老板和公子,为我提供免费的lakeside住房, 106胖子/周,糜烂啊...
七月 开始论文, 导师跑去旅游不管我了, 自力更生啊, 记得常睡到半路爬起来写公式和code, 不然睡过头就忘了; 晚上从teaching center回来的路上,可以看到路边草地上满是兔子, 但是石头路上全是鼻涕虫, 英国潮湿气候所致; 夏天很爽, 晚上10点天还亮着, 这要是6点下了班,玩到天黑再回家,那日子多悠哉啊; 月底, 少爷突然回国了, 临前还请我们吃了顿牛排, 都没能实现和老板一起strip club的愿望, 哎, 可惜啊...
八月 开始投些简历,有些个中介给我电话说:"hi, there, thisi is from ***, i have read your CV and very interested in you. We have some positions form JP Morgan...hope you like it...i would contact with you later...", 后来接多这电话了才知道是些讲空话的agencies, tnn, 还每次都只是说JP Morgan, 换个公司名都不会; 月底去面试个hedge fund, 鬼佬说我英语很烂, 需要work hard, 但是还是给了我二面机会, 结果二面的时候两个教授不想总重复就直接把问题写纸上给我看, shame 啊; 看了北京开幕式, 那个兴奋啊, 老外开始说'你们真有钱啊!'...
九月, 完成了论文,结束了在warwick 的所有任务, 一大箱,一山地包,一背包&一电脑包,全部家当, 迁往伦敦, 依依不舍啊; 到伦敦的第二天,第一个周一, Lehman Brothers倒了, Merrill Lynch卖了,我走到canary wharlf地铁口,正对着lehman brothers的大门, 一堆记者在那拍照, 那个凄凉啊,那个惨淡啊, 那个无奈啊; 按很早的计划, 月底, 和老板老刘一起去了瑞士, 巨难吃的chess火锅, 少女峰, 阿尔卑斯山的美景, 洛桑&几内亚, 其实一开始大家心情都不大好,一个愁工作,一个想女人,一个缺男人的, 但瑞士风景确实美,当地人也特nice, 就tm没好吃,连个麦当劳都找不到...
十月, 日子很煎熬, 整天的填写application forms, 申请了200多份, 知道裁了很多人,估计通过agencies的途径更加艰难了, 就完全申请graduate programmes, 流程大概是 online application form-- online test-- interviews-- AC; 很惊喜获得了sungard的面试,通过室友Jeniffer的帮忙,顺利通过了first interview进到了AC, 包括三个competency interviews, case study, presentation, group discussion, 期望很大, 失望越大, 接到rejection phone那会, 心情无敌的低落; 在此感谢室友的鼓励和诸多建议, 让我重新投入了job application 的战斗并增长了不少的战斗力...
十一月,面试渐多, 记得有一周, 几乎每天都在面试; 感谢Anthony, kevin, yifei, 茜姐,老刘, Jeniffer等好友的支持, 互相交流申请经验共享信息, 获益颇多; 月底, 很lucky的拿到DB的offer...
十二月, 回国,吃好玩好...
2008, 很Lucky的一年, 颇多收获, 最重要的一条, 踏踏实实做好一件事情, 切忌一心多用...
感谢亲爱的女友西子对我的一路支持和家人的督促, Thanks...
祝福在2008支持过我的所有朋友, Best Wishes and Good luck to you...
November 08 fail again?someone told me that u haven't done one thing after your graduation from BHU.
Indeed!
This time, i will fail again?
Hope I have been doing my best this time.
A little tired of being here.
I may lose my word of 'see you in Hyder Park, Buddies'...
September 23 first week in london2008年9月18号, 流落荒岛一周年, 忘了纪念这个日子了.
这算是我在伦敦找工作的血泪史的第一篇吧.
搬来伦敦一周有余了, 同时做了郁闷的宅男一周有余...比起在校园里的日子可要压抑多了.
nnd, 接着apply了...
September 16 Sep 16,2008吼两嗓子:
邪门了. 01年进大学那会,IT专业是真火; 05年毕业那会,IT民工满大街是,IT行业薪水一降再降... 好不容易,07年来华威读个金融数学,读完出来,md,到处净裁人...
所以,结论: 我是神, 传说中的瘟神. 到哪个行业,哪个行业就倒霉. 所以...我绝对肯定不能回家种地去
这么说绝对太抬举自己了.
人还是有信仰的好: 塞翁失马, 焉知福祸.
日子总是越过越好的,只是不能跳过之间的各个辛酸波折...
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