#Uni-Prep Job Guidance

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"If I could go back in time, I would have chosen to study with someone else."

"If I could go back in time, I would have chosen to study with someone else."

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I was really quite annoyed because I took the time to leave a review on the teflcoursereview website and I was asked to provide proof of course participation, which I did by providing a scanned copy of my course certificate, and I was subsequently notified that my review would not be published and the communication petered out.

I then decided to leave my…

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Hi bitches! I have a bit of a professionalism situation I was hoping you may be able to give me some guidance on. I've been speaking with a potential employer for a few weeks now. They have my resume, cover letter, etc. and they want me to come in for an interview. However, whenever I give them my availability like they ask (and I give *many* options of days and times I can do), they basically ignore my message and ask if I can come in at some other random time. This has happened twice now (1/?)

           The trouble is, I'm a full-time uni student (which they know). The first time they ignored my stated availability and asked for a different time, I had a class where attendance was mandatory (which they understood). Then they asked me to message them again in a few days with my availability. I gave them 3 completely free days with no time constraints. That message went unread by them until the end of the 3 days (they are very slow at reading messages which makes communication difficult) 2/? 

           I followed up *again* with another two days I could make work this week. They have just responded to me offering Tuesday, ignoring my previously stated availability. The trouble is, it's exam season and the time they gave me in is the afternoon before my 8:30am genetics exam on Wednesday (hence why I did not state that I was available that day). This interview will take up several hours and most of my mental capability for that day, taking a toll on my studying and stress for a huge exam 3/?     

           I have already declined their offer of an interview time once, would I be unreasonable if I asked to reschedule again? I don't want to seem unprofessional or not committed to the position, but at the same point they have completely dismissed my availability even after they asked for it. As well, they have not given me any options of times to choose from. They just throw a random one out into the air. I'm not quite sure how to go about this one. TY in advance for any advice you can give!            

At this point I want you to go in for that damn interview just to see if they’re as flaky, inconsiderate, and disorganized in person as they are via email.               

I’m sorry you’re dealing with this, but you’ve done everything right. You made it clear to them that you’re a full-time student and that your classes and exams MUST come first. It’s unreasonable for them to repeatedly ask you to interview during classes. You’re frustrated, and with good reason. But it won’t help you to show that frustration.

Instead, I recommend using humor to defuse the situation and just being as cordial and professional as possible. Also, take the initiative and throw a random date and time out at them (see how the fuckers like it). "Looks like we keep getting our wires crossed about scheduling! I can’t do an interview during the middle of an exam, but it sounds like you’re pretty free on Tuesdays. Why don’t I stop by at 10am this coming Tuesday?”

Keep trying. You’re not being unreasonable. If they really wanted to get you in for an interview as soon as possible, they would’ve paid more attention to the schedule you gave them.

Prep Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself: Getting Ready for a Job Interview

P.S. I have a friend who got a job interview scheduled during a final exam. She asked her professor if she could take the exam an hour early so she could make it to the interview. He said no. So she skipped the exam, which negatively affected her final grade... but she got the job, and is now a high-ranking employee in the company and it’s her dream career. So there’s that. 

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I was top of my class in highschool. My best friend followed havo with mbo (essentially a highschool prepping you for college and she went to trade school instead, which is considered an academic step down), which everyone thought was a good decision for her. For me, the school absolutely did not want me to do this. I was expected to go to college or I would be wasting my life. My mother raised me that you must never rely on a husband for income and thus need to have a carreer. So, I went to uni. I now have a useless degree, debt, and a fiance with whom I plan to be a homemaker where the family is my first priority and he the main breadwinner. My mom hates the idea and it took her 5 years and our official engagement to accept this, and my high school’s college guidance person would probably consider me insane.

Add to that that my country has a strong social system demanding the highest possible education for anyone, regardless of capability, meaning we have too many managers and not enough trash collectors. And the state has a shit ton of financial incentives to press this further, meaning that if you’re under 27 and the crisis nuked your job, even if you’ve been working since 16, you can’t make use of the safety net you spend years paying into in taxes, you either work or take a state loan to go to school, or perish.

Mind you, in my country, you can finish high school as young as 16 (I did at 17) a 16 year old isn’t allowed to vote, drink, or drive. But they are expected to choose their field of work for the rest of their life and take up massive debt to pay for school. Tell me again how it’s the literal child’s fault?

its their choice to attend an expensive university

>teachers and probably parents tell impressionable teens for years that they absolutely need college to get anywhere in life and not to worry about the debt

>colleges established themselves as gatekeepers to many professions that used to not require a degree

>usurious student loans are legal and you don’t even get to declare bankruptcy on them

>chances are an 18 year old has never been explained this

Yep totally her own fault and not the intended outcome of a system that is meant to set up young people as debt-bound revenue cattle for the rest of their lives

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Hi, longtime lurker here. I want to share some of my experience for you guys here. Hope it helps.​For those of you who start your ventures very early (While attending Uni, fresh from Uni, fresh from HS, etc), you might encounter a very common problem : Lack of reputation.​Imagine if two people pitch the exact same product (Say, a SaaS product or cleaning service) and the same price. One has 20+ experience in the field, one is 20 years old kid. Most of us instinctively tend to trust the former, especially since we are about to sink a huge sum of money into it. We have all seen time to time when big names win contracts over small names even if the big names gives shittier values in their products/deliverables.​Now the problem for young entrepreneurs is a chicken and egg problem: You need reputation to win big clients but you also need big clients to build reputation.​The conventional approach is to slowly build your portfolio starting from small works, then constantly rises up. This approach has its benefits but from my experience the true benefits from this approach is not building reputation, it's learning your operations. Meaning, this approach lets you do business from a small scale where you can learn and fail and then as the next bigger work comes up, you'd fuck up less and less. But it's a terrible way for building reputation as it's too slow.​The other approach is to 'lend' or 'acquire' reputation. The important thing to note is the reputation of your business does not revolve on you only, it revolves on the collective members of your business. If you do not have extensive experience in your field, add experienced people into your business. There are some ways to do this:​Hire experienced sales repHire experienced employeesApproach Experts to join as advisors​If you are just starting (1-3 years), option 1 and 2 could be bad from three angles : externally, internally, and financially.​Externally, if you are a prospective customer being approached even by experienced sales but led by an inexperienced management, they will still doubt you. A sales rep is an employee, whose sole existence is to sell. The one that's supposed to support and carry your service is your team, not your sales. Your employees and sales do not have skin in the game. That's why prospective clients judge you and not the sales.​Internally, experienced people tend to give less respect toward managers/leaders who are inexperienced. We all have had the "My fucking boss doesn't know shit how to do our job, I could do it way better than him/her" thoughts. This is bad for overall performance.​Financially, hiring experts costs a lot of money because you need to win them over more established companies that also want to hire them.​The better option is approach experts to become your 'advisors'. Offer them commision and advisory shares "X% of the value of each project you led us to". Experts have built decades of worth of network. The experts could invite the decision makers they already know personally over a dinner and then pitch your service whereas you would need to gather leads, cold approach them, pass through the gatekeepers, extensive proposal and pitching period, and convincing the decision maker of your prospect.​The advisors give you credibility as they have skin the game. Their title implies they are the one who guide you, the experienced guiding the inexperienced. Sales and employees on the other hand is the other way around, they are the experienced guided by the inexperienced you. That's why prospective clients tend to trust you more if you do it this way.​Now, why would seasoned experts want to become your advisors? ego and convenience.​Ego, because the role of an advisor implies they are your teachers who guide you through the dangerous waters of business. It strokes their ego, just like how it strokes all of our ego when someone comes to us to learn from us. It's human nature. That's why this thing doesn't emerge when you hire them as sales because you put them in a position where they are your underlings.​Convenience, because these experts usually are well into their 40s and 50s. They have less and less appetite for day-to-day grind but on the other hand they have highly valuable extensive network. They first led you to doors of opportunities, open them for you, then let you do all the hard work. They are your sales and mentors.​List all the experts you could possibly find. The closer their relations to you, the better (Friends of parents, parents of friends, friends of friends, etc). Contact them with humility, ask for a dinner or a cup of coffee because you have questions for them regarding business. You want guidance. You want mentorship.​Prep your meeting, don't prepare stupid easy to google questions. Study them. Study the industry. Dress appropriately. Borrow proper clothes and watches if you have to. Look the part.​Hope it helps.​I've been running a SaaS company for 2.5 years. I found myself doing this approach accidentally and didn't take long for me to realize the game and how useful this approach is. It's one of the reasons why mine has grown faster than other SaaS companies who are being started and ran by people my age.

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