So, I completely finished college studies a couple weeks back. Now that I'm out, the focus has been to get me some work so I can pay to live while I try rectify all the non-learning I did during college so I can make decent games. To that end, I've been throwing out about 250+ resumes every week to every sales, IT and games job I could find.
For the past week, I had been receiving mystery calls at auspicious hours; since I was busy I could never pick up, and since I had no money to buy credit, I could never call back. Today, the mystery caller got lucky and rang me just as soon as I had gotten home from doing some shopping for my Dad's birthday.
Turns out I had sent off my new shiny resume to a V-E-R-Y large Australian company that prides itself on finding the best graduates and getting them work in marketing/sales areas. This company gets 500 resumes every week; I was one of the lucky 250 to get the phone interview.
Then, after a good 30 - 60 minute chat, I'm now one of the luck 25 who get to go to the "Education Day"; it's a day designed to let us meet face-to-face, get acquainted with the other 24 candidates, learn more about making a good CV and some team-building/management exercises, and then we give some speeches and get assessed on how well they went. For most candidates, they have weeks to prepare their speeches. I had this afternoon only, as it's tomorrow. I also had to arrange for a suit (apparently the big companies who hire people on the day are extremely picky about appearances), transport, and start thinking up possible questions and answers because apparently the in-person interviews are TOUGH.
I sent my draft to the guy handling my case; he said it was great, but a bit too long (I need to aim for 450 - 500 words for a 3 minute speech, but mine is sitting in at just over 600 words). I've been working quickly to trim the fat and compress it down; I've been told to forget memorising it; people with palm-cards or just a straight up script tend to do better.
According to the information I received, only 15 candidates of the 25 will get jobs (not all of the 15 get jobs on the day; you're placed into a 7-day waiting list period as they find an appropriate client for you). The good news is that this work is full-time, paying between $50,000 to $120,000 a year, and you're expected to gain promotions VERY quickly. As you might imagine, I'm stuffting myself. I want this badly.
Some of the clients they have work for include LEGO, Microsoft, Newscorp, Dell and so forth.
Wish me luck.
