Innovative search

Finding a new job is now more complicated than the past. There used to be just newspaper advertisements or you could walk in a store when you see them advertising or possibly through word of mouth or a job agency.

But these days, with the internet, job postings on paper significantly decreased. I wonder what companies still use them, and are they still traditional in some ways? Then there are companies who used agencies, job portals and also direct advertising on their own website or through social media platforms. Sounds like they have a big budget for recruiting talents, don't they? Then there are some whom prefer to get referrals from their employees or on their intranet or quietly post on career section of their website. So secretive...

With these advancements, it is not easy to find a job anymore using the traditional ways. Besides putting myself on LinkedIn, other social media platforms (companies even created Twitter and Facebook for recruitment these days), job portals, sending in to job agencies, looking up companies website and check for vacancies (often unreliable with not up-to-date information)... I found an link article on how to locate the hidden jobs in the market. A clever google search really. It works but unfortunately I didn't find many jobs located in Singapore.

I have this new found method but it requires more effort and initiative, go to an area where you like to work and look up those directory of the companies in that building. It's often not difficult to find them, but getting the insider information if they are hiring is more tricky. Then you might need to look up their website, find connections (people you know or via LinkedIn or go to some upcoming events) or even initiate an email to the Human Resource department or the boss (this might not work most of the time, but you never know when you might get lucky!).

I am trying everything out at the moment... Haha. So you see job search can be really tedious and boring or it can be fun.

What the...

What the heck? I just spent the last 2-3 hours figuring out why my blog redirected to some random site up for sale (wtf is http://www.twit.org), and it got resolved miraculously! Are you playing a trick on me, blogger/google? I was almost going to write a feedback to blogger when I tested it again and now it works just fine! I even followed some tech guy's tutorial on resolving "Google redirecting virus", tried to look into others' cases, removed a widget or two to test it out, looked through the whole HTML code in the template coding and almost deleted some essential files from my Windows/System32. Man, what a joke you're trying on me tonight ;) But anyway thanks for fixing itself!

p.s: By the way, this annoying thing only happens on firefox (works fine in Chrome or IE). I even found out there was this firefox's blogger hack issue going around.

Update: It is happening again now I just published this post. What's going on?!???

First post in 2014

Happy New Year!

No new year resolution this year. But there is always a rule I live by and it will still not change.

My rule: Live outta your comfort zone.

So... go on. Make new friends, make some enemies. Travel to a new place, or revisit one and see something new. Travel alone or travel with someone new. If you have always been saying "yes", learn to say "no" and vice versa. Embrace change. Lend a helping hand to someone. Start a new hobby or pick up an old one you haven't had time for. Love yourself. Dump the assh*le if you're seeing one. Be happy but accept sadness as part of life, find strength for renewal. Spend more time with people whom you have been taking for granted (i.e. family). Don't forget your old friends, say Hello sometimes. Write a card. Start a journal or even something like #100happydays on Instagram. Don't follow the trends, start one. Do something you love instead for monetary gain (if we can!).