Vanity Fair and City I (8)

To hire or not to hire? In companies, interviewers usually make their decisions by judging the past achievement of an interviewee.

Hence, certificates or something that can demonstrate your capability is very important. Hence, people take all kinds of exams to get a piece of paper that can be called certificates.

Managers, bosses, interviewers’ eyes will kindle with excitement if somebody carries a pile of certificates to their companies. However, they will be disappointed when that somebody really takes the job: certificates can’t demonstrate anything when coming to the real work, the real job.

My boss once hired a girl as an English editor. That girl had many certificates to demonstrate she could do the job well. But finally she was fired because, yes, her English was quite good but she couldn’t do her job well.

Most interviewers only focus on the certificates or something like that which can only demonstrate a person’s ability in the past, not at present or in the future…

I got this job easily in the financial tsunami in 2008, not because I had lots of certificates, but because I had other things that could demonstrate my ability. However, those “other things” belongs to the past, that “ability” belongs to the past too…Others might do the job better than me, but they were not hired just because they didn’t have those things to demonstrate.

For those who are capable but can’t be hired just because they don’t have anything to demonstrate themselves, it is unfair. However, city is another type of forest, Darwinian evolutionism still works here.

It is not a bad thing to achieve something in the past, but what about if your past is not so glorious?

If your past is not so good…That will be a terrible thing here, at least not many companies will hire those who have some stains in their past even though they have started their life with a clean slate.

However, I will never judge a person on the basis of his / her past. I met a friend here. He was just out of prison. I guess prison has cast a shadow over his life. He was afraid that I would never talk to him any more after knowing it, but I won’t…I thank him for his honesty…No deceit, only honesty.

Juliet has broken up with her rich boyfriend for a long time. I wanted to introduce my good friend to her…but when Juliet knew that my good friend has had four girlfriends in the past, she shook her head…because of his past…not many girls will feel secure if their boyfriends are playboys…

I feel sorry for him…He has grown up and he is no longer the womanizing bastard he used to be. Having experienced so much, he has learnt something…But his past will be a heavy burden for his next girlfriend…

But that’s fine at least he is still single…I always stumble over against this kinds of womanizing bastards. Maybe for me only those I can’t conquer can have an eternal charm…