You’re too close, get away from me.
Pressured in almost all directions, I huddled my shoulders together while typing in the keywords that came to mind. Numerous search results immediately displayed onscreen.
“A job hunting site with a job hunting bulletin board… Ohh, a prep school for job searching in publication… They have all sorts of stuff, huh?”
“Oh Hikki, how about this one?”
As I scanned several notable links, Yuigahama leaned forward with her body and pointed at the screen. Then, Yukinoshita also inclined her head this way and read the entry that Yuigahama had indicated.
“A journal of successful experiences… It looks like… the blog of someone who received unofficial offers from actual publishers. I suppose that should be fine.”
“Senpai, hurry, hurry.” Isshiki rushed me as she tapped my shoulders.
Again, you’re too close. I’m getting all sweaty now too, so could you, like, back up fifteen centimeters away from me or something…?
I gave Zaimokuza a look of what to do and he nodded. “Umu, let us have a look!”
“…Alright, let’s check this one then.”
I clicked the aforementioned link and the top page of the journal of successful experiences loaded on the screen.
The header had “Absolute Best Unofficial Offers! kenken’s Journal of “Successful” Job Hunting Experiences at Publishers!!” displayed as the title.
“…Hey, what does it mean by ‘best unofficial offers’? Are there best and worst unofficial offers or something?”
“Hold on.”
When I asked, Yukinoshita extended out her hand to the mouse from my side. She opened up a different tab and began searching for best unofficial offers and so forth. While she was doing that, her long black hair would brush and tickle the back of my hand. Naturally, I withdrew my hands to my knees and sat in a well-mannered pose.
Once her search displayed the results, she pointed. “It seems like it refers to an unpublicized ranking of prospective employees within the company. The best offers seem to be referring to the ones at the top of those rankings. Upon entry into the company, they’ll be treated as executive trainees and they’ll also have the advantage in where they are assigned… or so it says.”
“You know, just hearing ‘executive trainees’ gets me a little worried…”
That sounds like a sweatshop if I ever heard one. It sounded as worrisome as slogans like “The feeling of being at home!” or “The young generation are showing great efforts!” Now I was becoming concerned about what lie ahead in kenken’s future.
Well then, having already witnessed something frightening, we might as well follow along this kenken or whatever’s path of glory to see if he’s able to wonderfully become a corporate slave of a publisher through his best unofficial offers.
We scrolled down the screen and decided to read the journal entries one by one.
“Absolute Best Unofficial Offers! kenken’s Journal of “Successful” Job Hunting Experiences at Publishers!!”
This blog will discuss the process of getting the best unofficial offers from publishers one by one!
All rights reserved @kenken
1. Filling Out The Job Application
JA’s a strange acronym, isn’t it (lol)?
On the applications, there are standard questions that ask you to provide a short CV, your work history, and your motive for applying. Besides those, there are also questions unique to every company such as: write an essay or comedy skits on three topics, recent news that interested you, three people who are currently the center of attention, your most embarrassing story of failure, etc… Sometimes, they have eccentric parts as well such as having blank white pages asking you, “Please use this space to describe yourself.”
Job offices also store past JA’s as well, so one effective strategy is to ask upperclassmen from a seminar or a club to let you see theirs!
As an addendum, regarding the CV…
Recently, there have been many job applications that do not have a university name listed, so you will not always be put through an academic filter. As a matter of fact, I have championed the stance against the very existence of academic filters from the start. Many students who were extended unofficial offers from famous companies were from well-known universities, but I feel the reason for this is only because said students happened to attend a well-known school and was chosen based on their hidden potential and not the brand or strength of their alma mater.
Perhaps many companies will begin to recruit people by evaluating them on a much more equal and personal level without any bias.
Conversely, perhaps we, the job seekers, also should not judge a company based on their brand or their name value. It is possible that being aware of the fact that the companies and job seekers share a mutual position in selecting each other may be the key to success.
I want to send this saying to everyone.
“When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” (Nietzsche)
Hoh… It’s actually written quite decently based on a quick look. Actually, why was kenken sending the words of Nietzsche to us? I honestly would prefer Nietzsche himself doing that.
Yukinoshita who had been looking at the blog together with me nodded her head as she continued reading. But Yuigahama and Isshiki had a disgusted expression and looked slightly hesitant.
“It’s so wordy…” Yuigahama murmured.
You won’t be able to read Conan if this amount is enough to get you down. There might be a lot of words, but interesting things are still interesting!