So sad! So sad! It’s a sad sad situation!!! Grrrrrrr…
Oh well, apparently it’s the cover print from the States. So, most unfortunately for me, I shall continue sulking for the rest of the hour before going to class.
Just recently, I received a mail from a friend and read her whimperings from home. Ho ho!
So there she was complaining about how her brother was recruiting staff into their new office and all, and I couldn’t stop thinking the next morning to blog about that issue. What happened was when both of the siblings were recruiting new staff into their company, she had had different opinions on some of the candidates from of her brother’s.
As I was once told - a degree tells employers that the candidate has the brains he or she was born with; work experience tells them that he/she’s ready be put to use. So what other factor(s) that will get a person a job rightaway? I don’t know the the exact answer to that but what my friend had been bitching about was that at some point of time, appearance does matter. There were two candidates applying for the secretary post, J and K. What was mentioned was J has this sharp tone of voice and she has this manja (corny?) attitude and she was overshowing this particular personality of hers over to the employers/interviewers. Then, there was K, a mere ordinary down-to-earth looking lady who did not put as much make-up as J, but a good resume attached to her (as was described). When the evaluaters discussed with the rest, apparently most of them voted to get J employed, rather than K. One of the ladies mentioned that J has a more distinguish appearance and she knows how to make herself look good compared to plain K. Just that? A plain Jane and that already kicks the idea of employing someone who has more experience and useful resources. It’s not that J did not have the experience totally. Unfortunately, despite the resourcefulness that K exhibit through her resume and recommendations from previous employers, with a “less distinguish” looks for a secretary, she did not get her desired job. Also, that’s how a company had to put in more money to train a less experienced employee.
So when looks and appearance matter as much as experience and a degree, just in time, who knows… employers will just have to click on the mouse and that’ll automatically transfer the information to contact the potential candidate at his bed with a buzz in the morning to say “Congratulations, you are academically qualified, experienced enough and passed the handsome limit test to work in our company. You may come in to start your job immediately.”
The next time, selecting a proper employee will be in a standard format as such that it’s hassle-free, paperless and conveniently just with a click on the mouse.
Recently I came across comments when a person was judged “educated” and “not-educated”. We all know that we grow up having parents on our back to nag at us, to guide us and most importantly, to make sure we are all “educated”. This branding term is so extensively used to brand a person, that it’s like comparing a “Adidas” and a “Asadi”. It’s like almost without a doubt, majority just likes the sound (and the originality) of Adidas over the local Asadi. Similarly, people would rather choose to know that the person s/he’s having contact with is educated, rather to not-so/non/not very educated.
Sometime ago, after a few incidents someone made a point to ask “How come an educated person like this exhibit such behaviour?” A shot came from me immediately was, “Oh, and you think all educated people are actually very humble and all nice, yada-yada?”
This post is not to side on whoever who have had, or did not, or currently still undergoing his or her education. Think about it, who actually, other than the generation before us really care right now? Because of the abundance of undergraduates, graduates and whatever status of a person who’d had at least some academic history, the “brand” of educated people had long depreciated.
There was once I overheard a girl claiming that she and her group of friends are educated people because they’ve gone through so much till tertiary level. Anyway, a group of undergrads were doing a tutorial session where everyone has their turns to ask questions to the tutorial. This girl that I’ve mentioned came about and she went asking her list of questions non-stopping… without having to pause for a moment to allow other students to have a go to get their questions delivered. And since she’d labelled herself once she was an educated person, it’s well enough she took the every(one’s) single opportunity to ask the questions, enlightening herself and everyone else would have agreed it’s a right thing that a student does that. Her parents would probably be freaking proud they had such a bright and opportunity-snatching daughter. So, as to describe her whether she is educated or otherwise, could she have actually displayed a general criteria for a term of “educated person”? Hmmm…
I think many have came across this sentence, “haih… don’t interact with this person too much. I don’t trust this person. This person doesn’t seem highly educated.” Now, I’m sure some of you have heard this line or similarly ones before, and often enough, many will immediately go check out the status of the mentioned person… of his or her education background. OR… the respond could have been… to simply think again. Could this person who had said that be educated enough to have labelled another person non-educated? What if the person who was regarded “not seem highly educated” in fact is some super intelligent and smart person who had the highest of high education?
The Cambridge dictionary states education mean “having learned a lot at school or university and having a good level of knowledge”. So let’s have an “educated” branded person vs a “non-educated”(eg natives, drop-outs, whoever) basic scenario. Simply have the “educated” not knowing how to clean after him/herself because dad and mom had oversupply of dollar notes to buy a maid for him/her but a drop-out who had no choice but to take care of his/her siblings for years cleans up for everyone. One day these two are casted in a remote house that’s all filthy and dusty and what-not, and they’ve to clean up their space? Who would have done a better job? And which tag is actually… really appalling?
On other say, the past two weeks never looked any brighter. i mean there’s still “the” sun, but there are tests as well. As you can see, the books and piles of notes have been sucking the colours of yours truly for the whole week then…
Haha, and to know there are my friends back home who misses my presence is such a warm feeling.*tee hee* —->