3rd week

Hello readers. This is the update for the 3^rd week of the program.

Monday (15/03/2010)- On the first day of the week we had a mock interview which is handle by Mr.Farizal who is the trainer for interview techniques and also Public speaking techniques. The day started with a brief and loaded with thoughtful explanations on how to attend an interview and tips on how to do well during the interview. H e also discussed some of the most common questions that we will face at a job interview and basic principal on how we should response to it and also the types of interview such as, one-on-one, by group, breakfast or lunch interview and a few more . After lunch break we started the mock interview session, by name listed I am the 5^Th candidate for the day. There are not much of clues of what the company or the position that was open to candidates (us), so I hoped its something that I am familiar with to make my self valuable for the position. As times goes by, we are called to enter the room. These times it was a group interview and it was my first time experiences. There were 4 candidates including myself to grab only one post of opportunity. About 30 minutes of time taken to discuss and convinced the employer why we should be the most perfect person for the job. Finally we ended it with the comments from the observer Mr.farizal in which area we need to polish or skill that we need to improve. As for me, I have got some good comments and only my voice projection need to be louder. I really found this topic was a good practice for future interview.

Wednesday (17/03/2010)

Today the class started with some nerves shocking morning. Due to some of the trainees were accidently made decisions to go home early regardless the fact that our working time has to end by 5 p.m. Due to this matters we were all remaindered by Mr.Najmi who is our head of the program to never again repeated such unprofessional behavior. Mr. Najmi expressed his frustration toward our group and lesson learned as we need to be punctual and more humble as well as to treat this program as our work and we work by participate in the program and we need to give 110% effort toward its, otherwise we might get expelled and there are a line of people who are much interested to join this program. Lessons learned.

Today we had Body Language technique, which is surprisingly handled by Ms.Fatimah Abu Bakar. She was a guess speaker for the day and I personally feel very lucky to have her as one of the trainer. As most of Malaysians knows her for being a wonderful and professional performance teacher for Astro entertainment show, Akademi Fantasia, she was natural in her own way in teaching us how to present our self when we were speaking with perfect gesture and body language. Body language is important, because we could give idea or assumption to people just by looking at their gestures and body movement, for instances, if someone was actually speaks to you or give information with their eyes wildered elsewhere its give a meaning that the fellow is not giving a reliable information or that person is actually lying. Other than that voice projection and using a right intonation is a main key to get people attention if we are about to give a speech.

Thursday (18/03/2010)

Grooming and Dining etiquette is the subject for the day. Yes, I know I should be wearing the best outfit I had, but then I just didn’t have that lot of choices due to the fact that I never had this kind of corporate attire collection in my wardrobe. Basically what I did today is being one of the models to run the runaway stage and shows what I have on my body to get some comments from the trainer. What I have actually was correct for the working attire except it would be better if my black pants were unattached of the back pocket because it shows semi casual outfit and more like a black jeans rather than black pants that suitable for work. Towards the end of the sessions we have make-up sessions. The trainer demonstrates on how to put proper make-up for work without overdoing it. Tasha and Kavitha was the model for this demo. They really look different after some make over done to their faces. It was an interesting class.

Friday (19/03/2010)

For the Advanced report writing, we were ask to think of the areas of the program that we think could be improves and prepare a survey paper for responds from the others. After discussing we agreed that the class volumes or population is the issue which can affects the effectiveness of the learning process throughout the program.

Class with Cikgu Fatimah Abu Bakar