interviewing the company

Today my group went to interview the Mahajaya company, a big public listed housing development company- is very big and got many shareholders. i met the other group members who consist of kingston, raynor and kong chian, another 2 members were busy and not free to attend the interview. i arrived at college at 12pm and we went to the steven corner to have lunch and chatting while waiting for kong chian's father to fetch us to the company.

We reached there by 2.15pm and the ms irina brought us up to the finance department. we were asked to have a seat while she informed her boss. while we were waiting at the administrative department, there were 2 ladies coming in and mistaken that we were the workers from the maxis company.at that time, there were 2 things pops up in my mind, either we were wearing very smart and mature looking and capable like a professional working adult or we looked mature and old.however, i assume that we were wearing very smart and mature looking and capable like a professional working adult.haha..XD for sure we answer them that we were not from the maxis and we state our purpose here was to interview the manager. recall back,it was quite funny when they asked us. maybe we were wearing formal and with our 'stuffs', juz like a working adult that time.

The first person we iterviewed was the general manager of the finance department, mr andy lau. the interview was quite good, not exactly bad or very good, but juz moderate good. the main problem with our questions were what we learned in the college through the ose module, we cannot juz ask it like that and using the terms, the working environment is different with what we learned in the college. we have to twist the question and make some examples to guide them in answering our questions and ask the qestions in a different way of the same meaning. we cant expect them to understand our theory, our words and terms that we studied in our module because they may not understand it. thus, the first interview was fairly good as there were some pausing and mistakes during the interview session and he cannot fully understand my questions and answer some of my questions, thus there were a little twisting and repeat. thus i try it in a DIFFERENT way asking it so that he can get my questions and i can get the answer for my questions. however, i dont think that i am persisting in it, i was just want a simple answer for the questions and thus, dont be too sensitive in this issues, u think like this doesnt mean others think the same way. my feeling are complicated after the first interview session with the general manager. thus, i ask for a 5 minutes rest before the next interview so that i am able to rearrange everything and try to check on my questions for the following interviewees.

The next person we intervied was the manager of the finance department, mr chew. he basically a nice and friendly person. i have the same opinion of him as his staffs also. he answer all our questions and suddenly make me felt that i was at the right track that time, not at lost. he gave us a clear explanation to us and it was elaborated well with some examples to enhance our understanding. we got many information from him and be able to throw out other relevan questions. we took a photo with him before leaving the meeting room.

After that, we interviewed the secretary and the accountant of the department, ms irina. she worked for the compay juz about 1 years and she was very nice to us. she also answer the questions that we prepared without any problems. when we asked whether she has any grouses, she answer no and she was quite easily satisfied for the working environment and there were no areas of improvement to be carried out(maybe she afraid heard by others as we are not in the meeting room that time as it is not available, somemore we were standing in front of the administrative department).she answer that she learn many things after joining the company and wish to work for the company for the next 5 years time. wow,she is a faithful employee. however, she juz not very happy to work at saturday as many of her friends were working for 5 days in other company. anyway, she is nice.

What i have learn today?actually i have gained valueble experience and expose myself to the workplace-a big company + public listed 1, not a restaurant or shops or shopping mall, whereas is a big company has procedure and high discipline and very organised and follow the system. the staffs in the department are busy with their own works, concentrating and 100% focus.all of them are working adults, carry out their tasks and responsibilities.their works are all related to the numbers as that is a finance department. wow, i cant imagine everyday they are dealing with so many digits and numbers and doing the same work everyday, although they are given opportunity to take more responsibilities when they have the ability to handle more task and trust by the manager. but i juz cant imagine myself sitting inside there to work.there is NO WAY.i can fairly feel the stress of the staffs as an employee in carry out their responsibilities. after the first experiences in carry out an interview with a companywhich consist of different management level, i really learn a lot and get experience. thus i say myself has exposed to the working environment, the outside world.after we are getting expose to it, we will be have a flashback on our past when we were small and we can enjoy freedom and do things and get what we want. however, after we expose to the working environment now, we will feel that we are already an adult and experience new stuffs and learning from the surrounding environment of us independently, cannot just depend on the books and the facts. Be an adult, take up responsibilities. thus, i very appreciate the opportunity of getting experience by exposing myself to the working environment through this interview.

The only failure that i think we done during the interview were having some pause and lack of communication between the team members(generally lack of some preparation), but overall is good. i forgive myself for making mistakes as everyone will make mistakes in the first time, the most important is we can determine our mistakes and work on it as the time we study in college is the time we are 'given te opportunity to make mistakes and try new things' because we cannot afford any mistakes to be made when we are joining the society and working in the workplace. however, i am happy that we finally done with the interview and tomorrow we are going to start doing the report.

Besides,through today interview, i become more sure on my option to go for the engineering field after exposing myself to the 'world of business'.

after the interview and back home..TIRED>>

cheer up..long distance to go>>>

At last,i think the word count of this article is about 1280 words.thus the minimum requirement of the report of at least 2000 words will not be a problem, somemore plus another 5 members in the group. come on guys, STRIVE HARD and get A+ in this assignment as well as in this module and done a great job in the coming up presentation of our assignment.