My co-worker took out a
second round interview today. Before we headed out to the field, in the car
ride out, the interviewee ranked three things according to his priority. The first one was career advancement then work
environment, and he put compensation the last. He explained that he was looking
for some priceless opportunity and career advancement, and he really didn’t
care about compensation at this moment because money will come alone with
advancement eventually. I didn’t spend the whole day with that interviewee, but
from my co-worker’s reaction the end of the day when I picked them up, he
seemed not a right candidate. When we were back to the office, my co-worker
told me that when they went through career advancement and compensation at the
lunchtime, he said that our business had great opportunity but he wanted to
make some fast money. This sounded funny to me. So why did he even bother to
put advancement first in the beginning of the day? We all know success takes
time because it needs a lot of hard
work, passion, sacrifices, dedication, determination, and well preparation.
Therefore, advancement is step by step and yet an over night thing.
When I
got back home tonight, my boyfriend showed me a photo of Christian Bale’s
different physique on his eight movies from 2000 to 2012. He went from 81kg at
American Psycho to 55kg at movie the Machinist, then went back to 86kg at
Batman Begins in 2005. In the next 7 years, his weight was up and
down depending on the character he played in the movie. However, audience probably only see how much money he is making and how charming he looks in
front of the camera, but not many people really think of how much sweat, tear, and blood
he has given behind the screen.
Work ethic and
professionalism apply on everyone including celebrities. Now let’s go back to
that interviewee. On the car ride back to the office from the field, he said he loved trying different food. He monologuised “maybe I should find a job at
those travel channel, so I can travel around the world and try different food.”
Sounds awesome! I believe everyone would love to have this job. Who doesn’t
like traveling and eating delicious food all the time? But ask one question to yourself: do you just like eating food or
you actually have great passion on food culture? These two are totally
different. Traveling and trying food are the attractive side of the job. Learning the tradition, culture, history about food and its country is the part people like that interviewee ignored.
Work ethic and
professionalism are the key words I want to talk about. Christian Bale’s case is not a unique instance, but has its counterpart. I was
reading an article about an actor from Taiwan. He remembered all the history
details when the movie was history document; he passed PADI diving certificate
when the movie was taken under the sea; he learned martial arts and reached a
very high level when the movie was about kungfu. Examples like this are countless on a lot of actors and actress. It shows that they respect their occupations
and they want to make their projects perfect.
I’m not saying anything bad about that
interviewee. I wish him the best luck on his job searching. Just a little bit
thoughts I had today. What do you think?