recently, i got a mail from the career transition office branch of my ex-employer. apart from asking me if i was interested in some of the possible career options, the officer also asked me if i would like to sign up for programme to help me transit. and as part of the deal, i would have to pay 10% of the total cost while my ex-employer would foot the remaining 90%. needless to say, i signed up for it. well, i must say i was thankful as this service was meant for in-service personnel and they had obtained special approval for me! and yesterday, i got a call from a person from this particular management consultancy. i was asked to attend a one-on-one session to allow the company to know me better and to allow them to design a programme for me.
i met them this morning.
when i arrived, i realized that the company vp himself had been assigned to handle my case. he told me that i was the first person to attend this programme following their recent success in winning of the bid to manage career transition for my ex-employer. and i was thinking - if this is the case, it would be in the interest of the company to make sure they succeed! heh heh... anyway, as briefed, there would 3 parts to this programme. firstly, i will be put thru a series of psychometric tests to help me understand myself better. secondly, a personal professional career coach would be assigned to help me understand which industry would better suit me and lastly, they would be organising networking sessions to allow me to interact and network with industry experts. of cos, through these networking session, i would hopefully land myself a job.
this morning's session was interesting. i realized that the process i had been put through and the homework (yes, there are homeworks to do!) that i had been asked to do, was very similar to the stuff i had done for my students in my last job! and now, i am on the receiving end. and i need to do the necessary reflections, surveys, homeworks, etc before i see the vp in a fortnights' time! when i told the vp about it, he was also very surprised and i half suspected that he felt it would also be rather challenging for him to go through this process with me! heh heh.... isn't it ironic? it is so easy to coach others and when it comes to oneself, it is so difficult.
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i met them this morning.
when i arrived, i realized that the company vp himself had been assigned to handle my case. he told me that i was the first person to attend this programme following their recent success in winning of the bid to manage career transition for my ex-employer. and i was thinking - if this is the case, it would be in the interest of the company to make sure they succeed! heh heh... anyway, as briefed, there would 3 parts to this programme. firstly, i will be put thru a series of psychometric tests to help me understand myself better. secondly, a personal professional career coach would be assigned to help me understand which industry would better suit me and lastly, they would be organising networking sessions to allow me to interact and network with industry experts. of cos, through these networking session, i would hopefully land myself a job.
this morning's session was interesting. i realized that the process i had been put through and the homework (yes, there are homeworks to do!) that i had been asked to do, was very similar to the stuff i had done for my students in my last job! and now, i am on the receiving end. and i need to do the necessary reflections, surveys, homeworks, etc before i see the vp in a fortnights' time! when i told the vp about it, he was also very surprised and i half suspected that he felt it would also be rather challenging for him to go through this process with me! heh heh.... isn't it ironic? it is so easy to coach others and when it comes to oneself, it is so difficult.
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