Everyone needs a helping hand

Where I left off, and where I’m taking you now are not situated at the same time. In fact, where I am leading you now started just a week or two before the time period that my last post covered. But in light of keeping things simple just imagine this post running in the time period simultaneous to where I have been leading you from the start.

Describing time shifts sure is complicated without actually having an actually date to ground oneself around. But that’s the nature of this blog; describing a time passed so that I can catch up with the present is in no need of specific dates.

At the same time that I decided to go about looking for internships and graduate opportunities of my own accord, one of my friends from college told me about how he secured a graduate job through an agency called Rare Recruitment. I had never heard of the agency, so he told me about it. They help people of ethnic background to look for employment, helping them to cater their CV’s toward the job as well as advise on application forms. Sounded all good to me, and helped my friend so I decided to look into it.

What he didn’t tell me was how much effort was needed to put into applying for Rare Recruitment. They only help those that have shown some ability or talent, therefore ask for all your previous grades, what you are currently studying, and so forth. I had to wrack my mind to make sure I put down the right grades but it was worth the effort… or at least it should have been.

I didn’t hear anything for quite a while, which pissed me off. I put the effort in an didn’t hear anything. So I took the initiative and sent another email following up my application. A day or two after that I got a response apologizing for the delay to responding to my application. From there I got another email telling me that my past credentials are good enough for them to help me find work. What they did initially was to organize a meeting with the lady who would be my helper, supervise all my future applications and essentially be my go to person. As I was still in Cardiff, this was done over the phone, they prepared me with questions they would ask in advance, such as what area of work I was interested in, why, what is important to me in a working environment, and so on and so forth.

The lady was extremely helpful, and seemed through this interview to be trying to get to know me personally as some of the questions ranged to my personal life and interests. My initial thoughts on Rare Recruitment was that I liked their approach, trying to know the candidate personally before going any further. After the interview, she said that she already had some ideas of opportunities I could apply for, and would get back to me. She did just that.