Follow-Up

Inspired from a more-or-less true story that actually happened to me. Well, the last frame is exaggerated, but I could feel the awkwardness of  talking to some employer after 5-6 weeks of nothing. Even now, I haven't called them back, partly because of time limitations.
Still, at least you made the effort to carry on through rather than collect *yet another* business card that inevitably ends up stuffed into your wallet/purse and forgotten evermore.

If I had a dollar...

$2,000,000 and counting! I don't know why people think it's so easy to get a job in I.T. Sure, there are lots of opportunities, but wouldn't that be an indicator of the difficulty of landing a job in the first place? Think about it: If a job is easy, lost of people will get that job, and there won't be many listings readily available.
So, if anything, the ease of getting a job is proportional to the number of listings for said job.

Also, if you're wondering where I got the statistics from:

Average weekly earning for full time adults, Australia 2016
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/6302.0?opendocument&ref=HPKI

Graduate Annual Earning for a graduate web developer in Redfern
(Obtained from the university Career Hub)

Atlassian Total Revenue, June 30 2016
https://investors.atlassian.com/financials-and-filings/financial-statements/default.aspx

No Longer Available

It happens more often than you think. And it's no less disappointing disqualifying for a job position before you've even applied for it. Although, I do admire the speed in which I'm informed about my failure instead of waiting 3 months just to be told I was *close* to qualifying. And that's if the employer even remembers to reply back about my application...

The Right Balance

Murphy's Law clearly states that "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong". Perhaps that's why I don't have a job yet (or ever); there are just so many things that can go wrong. Whether it's being too specialized, being under-skilled, not fitting in with the company culture or just simply not owning an Apple product (I lost a job interview because it was a requirement from an employer), it's no wonder why some people hate job hunting.

Career Plan leads to Dream Job

Inspired from a random pamphlet I obtained from the Careers Services at the university. Sadly, I don't have it anymore, but if there's anything I learned, it's that my career efforts were doomed from the moment I stepped foot onto the university premises.

Daily Motivation

I have a tendency to be particularly blunt, mostly at the worst of times. More so, I also have a habit of misinterpreting sentences in a weird way, especially when it comes to job interviews. I remember one time I was in an interview, and I was asked "So tell me about your background?" to which I replied "Are you referring to my ethnicity, or my technical background?" Not surprisingly, I didn't get that job.

Phone Call Frequency Graph

Sigh... I think you'd be surprised if you ever found out how many times I start my week with a rejection email from a job I applied for. And, quite frankly, it's getting real annoying. You know that job interview I was hinting at a while back (did I actually hint at it? Oh well, there was a job interview recently). They take me all the way to the second last interview and... I mess it all up.
So that experience will be comic-alised soon enough, but for now, here's a grim reminder to keep your phone with you, in the extremely slim chance that a company wants to interview you. I actually lost a job interview because they called me and I was in the toilet and, you know, farting and pooping isn't exactly professionally appealing to many employers.