This is my final simester of my BA and that means that it is time to start looking for a job!!!
Where to start from? What kind of job do i want? How much money to ask for? These are all questions that are sitting in the minds of all my class mates. Unlike most of my class mates i have work experience in the field that i want to find a job in, but this does not mean i can have any job i want.
For the last couple of weeks i have been in and out of dozens of internet sites looking for different jobs that i might want to do.I could easily stay at my current job where everything is nice and cozy but i would be cheating myself. I want to working in a new field that i dont have any experience in and so i feel like all my other class mates. Every job opening i see requires experience for that particular job. How am i supposed to get experience in a certain field if in order to get a job i need experience. It is a "Catch 22".
So i have sent out around 20 resumes and signed up for about 5 different job web sites and i am hoping to start getting some telephone calls back. Other than that i have also filled out forms on various government web sites applying for certain jobs.
I am very lucky that i worked for two years at a real company and had a real job before starting school. I hear all my classmates talking and see how difficult it is to get even the smallest amount of work experience. I know that it will be hard for me to change fields but at least i know that i can get a good job in the field that i have 5 years experience in.
The big question is how much money to ask for. This was a big problem for me when i first started going on job interviews right after the army. I would always get to that point in the interview and have a small internal panic attack. Now that i am starting this process over again it brings back all those memories. At the job i had before i started school i was making X amount each month. Now when i go to an interview and they ask me what are my expectations for salary i want to say X+4000. I obviously dont want to make the same as i did before school and i for sure do not want to make less. I need to somehow convey to the new company that i now have 5 years experience (2 years full time and 3 years part time) and i also have a degree for the university. But i also know that if i want to start in a new field that i might have to take a pay cut in the first year or two.
So these are all dilemma that i have to deal with while i am looking for a job. And on top of all of that i have to consider staying at my current job where i am very happy and enjoy my work.
So wish me luck on my hunt and if you hear of any good jobs please let me know.
Bye for now :-)
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
The GMAT
So i have decided to try and get accepted to the MBA program at Ben Gurion University. In order to get accepted i either have to have a certain average or get a certain grade on the GMAT test (either way i have to have above an 80 average to be eligible). So what is the GMAT test?
Well this week i started the course that is supposed to tell me what the GMAT is and help me get a good grade. The GMAT is a standardized test not unlike the "Psychometric" test that people in Israel take in order to get into the various Universities. The test is made up of three parts:
1. Essay writing - You have to write 2 different essays on two different subjects (30 min)
2. Math - Various math problems like algebra and geometry (no calculator) (75 min)
3. Verbal - English questions such as reading comprehension and sentence re structure (75 min)
Luckily the only part that matters to get excepted into the MBA program in Beer Sheva is the Math part. I say "luckily" with sarcasm obviously because if it was the English then i would for sure get a good grade. Math is defiantly not my field.
So the course is 10 weeks with each class being almost 5 hours!!! This week we had our first class and i am a bit scared about my chances of success. The math questions a re really hard and i don't know if i will have enough time to do all the homework in the course. They recommend to take the GMAT test 1 week after you finish the course. The course finishes on the 6 of July which is 2 weeks before my first test of the Semester at the University. The course cost 2,600 shekels and the test itself cost 250$ !!!!!!!!!
I am taking the test as a backup plan because i hope that my grades will be enough to get me into the MBA program. As of now i have an average of about 83 and i really hope that this semester will bring my average up to 84 at least.
Yesterday i took the opening test in order to help them determine in my level. I found the questions on the test to be really hard. I got a 33 with is like a 60 on a scale of 0-100. i was really bummed out about the grade i got and thought that i was in better shape then i actually was. So at least i know that signing up for the prep course was not a bad idea :-).
The place that i am doing the course in called "Kidum" which belongs to an american company called "Kaplan". I am really happy with the instructor and think he can really help get a good grade on the test. The course comes with lots of online materials which are great because it means that i do not have to carry around heavy books. Also the real GMAT test is on the computer so taking the practice tests on the computer helps to simulate the real thing.
I will keep you posted on how the course goes and of course the grade that i get on my final test.
Bye for now...
Well this week i started the course that is supposed to tell me what the GMAT is and help me get a good grade. The GMAT is a standardized test not unlike the "Psychometric" test that people in Israel take in order to get into the various Universities. The test is made up of three parts:
1. Essay writing - You have to write 2 different essays on two different subjects (30 min)
2. Math - Various math problems like algebra and geometry (no calculator) (75 min)
3. Verbal - English questions such as reading comprehension and sentence re structure (75 min)
Luckily the only part that matters to get excepted into the MBA program in Beer Sheva is the Math part. I say "luckily" with sarcasm obviously because if it was the English then i would for sure get a good grade. Math is defiantly not my field.
So the course is 10 weeks with each class being almost 5 hours!!! This week we had our first class and i am a bit scared about my chances of success. The math questions a re really hard and i don't know if i will have enough time to do all the homework in the course. They recommend to take the GMAT test 1 week after you finish the course. The course finishes on the 6 of July which is 2 weeks before my first test of the Semester at the University. The course cost 2,600 shekels and the test itself cost 250$ !!!!!!!!!
I am taking the test as a backup plan because i hope that my grades will be enough to get me into the MBA program. As of now i have an average of about 83 and i really hope that this semester will bring my average up to 84 at least.
Yesterday i took the opening test in order to help them determine in my level. I found the questions on the test to be really hard. I got a 33 with is like a 60 on a scale of 0-100. i was really bummed out about the grade i got and thought that i was in better shape then i actually was. So at least i know that signing up for the prep course was not a bad idea :-).
The place that i am doing the course in called "Kidum" which belongs to an american company called "Kaplan". I am really happy with the instructor and think he can really help get a good grade on the test. The course comes with lots of online materials which are great because it means that i do not have to carry around heavy books. Also the real GMAT test is on the computer so taking the practice tests on the computer helps to simulate the real thing.
I will keep you posted on how the course goes and of course the grade that i get on my final test.
Bye for now...
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