My Career Story - Change My 1st Job

Finally back to my blog again, it's been long time since last post. When you keep on engaging with your never end work load, It takes extra effort for you to continue keeping your blog update.

1st of March was the day I officially end my career with Public Bank after 2 and a half year service at Taman Maluri HP Centre. I had decided to resign although salary and bonus seems so attractive to outsider compare to my peers. Reason is, this job is only speciallize in hire purchase, and I keep on doing the same work, talking same things, facing same problems and frankly speaking, I did not feel any value added in myself since after one year in hire purchase centre when I had learned up almost everything inside there.

Furthermore, the workload keep on increasing month by month, since I am officer who dealing with post disbursement matters, you may imagine when marketing people bringing in 4-5 million business volume per month, and customer who fully settle the loan never catch up with the figure bringing in, and lots of things may still need to follow up even an account had been fully settled. Then it comes up with the challenge on how you going to handle such large accounts on hand and work on it till 10-11pm daily to clear up all the shit. Also imagine that, you keep on picking up non-stop phone calls, attend numerous walk in customers, tons of reports, paperworks, collaborate lots of things with different department from HQ, own branch and other branch and lots more to be mentioned but I am not going to elaborate more, just a statement in summary, the workload here is pressure like hell!

Hence, I take the courage to left my previous job so that I can have the opportunity to explore different field before I enter 30 years old, which it is way too challenge for someone to change career in such stage. Well, luckily is, after I had tender my resignation letter on early of January, a banking solution IT company namely Infopro Sdn Bhd had approached me via jobstreet for a position as banking consultant. 1st interview was scheduled on early of February, and interview conducted by the department head, and frankly I did not feel that I good enough in that interview, and I did not put much hope on it, and I attend that interview just like to find out what value in me as for now which had draw their attention.

Well, the head mentiond that they need to expand business in China, and my advantage in applying this position is merely on my mastering of Mandarin language and also some experience in banking. following that, the head had asked various question about banking knowledge, sadly, except hire purchase, I had no idea how to answer the other questions. And the interview ended up with they need around 2 weeks to reply my application status.

When it come to early of March, and no response yet from them and I also did not expect they will call me back again due to reason mentioned above. Suprisingly, they called me up on last Friday to attend 2nd interview on yesterday. When I reach there, I thought I will be interviewed by the head of department again, but when the secretary lead me untill front of a door, I stunned, beacause I saw 3 words carve on the door, which is "Chief Executive Officer", wow, honestly, I never meet up with any corporate leader before, therefore I felt so tension and pressure on that moment especially when the door opened up and I had stepped into it.

Well, after greeting each other, we sat down to start the interview session, the CEO had asked similar questions like the department head done before, and when he found out that my banking knowledge is so limited, he hesitate for a while which I can read it via his face expression. But when interview going on, he told me they will train me up starting from zero and expect me to catch up fast with extra effort, and he need time to think before he potentially offer me the position, and out of my expectation again, at final stage of interview, he suddenly asked my avaibility and requested me to report to work next week and printed out offer letter on the spot for me to read and sign, I just can't describe the feeling at the moment, happy? suprise? cannot response?

After reading the offer letter, I am satisfied with the terms, although some benefits may not as good as Public Bank, but overall, I think I earn because in Public Bank, you will feel that you actually no much different than a labour, only difference is higher salary and equiped with some knowledge. But for the Infopro, as per conversation between me and the CEO, aside from working, he expect everyone of us update our knowledge in this field frequently and training is the main focused of this company, and they do not encourage long working hours which reinstate by both the head of department and CEO as well.

I had decided the accept the offer and I hope that I can do well and of course a better future in this company, lets cheers~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!