When Challenge Comes, The Time to Prepare is Over

This past week I learn the importance of not just be prepare, but to be EXTREMELY prepare for everything. As most of you know this past Thursday was the STEM Fair. I past the whole week preparing my resume and my "pitch" to see if I could get an interview for an internship. Thursday morning I woke up and dress up for the fair. I was feeling very confident about myself during the fair until I went to talk with Walmart. I start talking to them about my qualities and skills that I have and how I could add values to the internship. But suddenly he cut me and asked with I could do some computer coding. I was surprise with his offer and I accept. He gave me a simple task to just create a code to reverse the word WALMART. When a grab the pencil and mind blanked. I tried to do but I could not remember how to do it. After I few minutes he stop me, I thanking him and left. I felt super disappointed with me the whole day.

 

What? I learned that we need to prepare for everything, I never think “This will not happen to me.”

So What?  As we prepare for career fairs, test, interview, and hard moment in life we will be ready for everything and we will not feel disappointed with ourselves.

Now What? I will prepare more for interview, presentation and test because you never know that they can ask you to do.

Job Interview

Job interview was always a big challenge for me and still is. Since, I came to the US the thing that always made me nervous was to talk in English. I now that to learn a language you need to talk but for me it is a challenge. After a few months in the US my English start to improve and I started to feel confident with it, until I went to my first job interview. It was on Pizza Pie Cafe, I was super prepared, confident and happy for the opportunity. When a sat down with the manager and he start speaking, I felt that he was speaking another language. Even though my interview was super bad I got the job. The next interview that I had was not different, I felt nervous, unprepared, and incompetent for the job.

Today I learn in one of my class how to prepare for a job interview in less than 20 minutes and was super helpful. I did not try those techniques yet but I will try them in my next interview. I know that those technique will not change how I am. However, it will help me and those that get super nervous during a job interview.

1. 1  Already know Your Resume and Me in 30 Seconds
2. 2 Already understand how to answer Behavior-Based Interview Questions
3. 3  Go to Employer’s Web-site -- Do the homework
4. 4  Download the job description, place it side by side with your resume and check for your strengths and weaknesses
5. 5  Find your Inside Contact and ask question about the company and position.
6. 6  Interviewer questions – Asking them for advice
7. 7  Pray Always and Be Believing (Thank You Notes)

I will post how my experience was in a next post so you know if works or not.

What You Reap is What You Sow

I watched this video this week and was really inspiring. One thing that this video teach us is the importance of hard work. Some times when we see people that are relatively successful to us we think that he got there by merely luck. However, we can learn though this video that if we want to be successful in life we need to work hard. Just go to school and do what everybody is doing is not going to makes us special. We need to do different things to be successful like: Student during the time that everyone is going to parties, plan when everyone is watching TV and wake up learn when every one is sleeping. Therefore, success comes with a lot of hard work and discipline

To follow the advice of Michael Jordan I will stop creating excuses. The beginning of this semester a start thinking that the junior core of Information System was super hard. I was planning in dropping the major. However, I notice that it is all excuse to avoid hard work. Therefore, this week and the rest of the semester I will stop complaining and start doing the hard work. Because What You Reap is what you sow.