Monday, October 25, 2010

Some Thoughts on Job-Hunting From The Country Manager of JobsDB

Interviewing Ms. Jayjay Viray, JobsDB Country Manager.
Unemployment is one of the greatest problems of our country. Most people think that it only affects a small portion of the working class. Unfortunately, unemployment affects us all. Even those people with extensive professional experience gets affected.

Ms. Jayjay Viray, the Country Manager of JobsDB,  had been in-between jobs for three months before she was hired by JobsDB. It was a very challenging and difficult time for her. But as she said, 'things happen for a reason. She needed to through the hardships of applying for a job to learn to empathize with the applicants."

The thought of being without a job was truly demoralizing and it ate up the self-confidence of a person. Because, she says, "whatever you have done in the past is nothing when you don't have a job."