Above is the current Mosaic group in MRO =) Everyone is going very strong and i believe more good things are coming along. I really love this group because each one of us are different and are willing to come together to bring energy to the group! It’s awesome! =)

Had a great time during Goal-Setting and i be looking forward to review my goal at the end of the year!

Together with other candidates =)

But what makes it so special this year was that i actually conducted my first very own agency time and goal setting with my consultants! Right now, i have about 3 consultants with me and a couple of them will be joining later this year. My goal for this year remains the same: 8 consutlants by end of the year! I set this goal earlier this year and true enough i am gearing all my actions into achieving this goal.

Attending goal setting has always been a very fruitful session for me because each time after coming out from it, i am always feeling very motivated! Like the others, i also have my fair share of losing focus along the way but one of the ways how i get it back was through goal setting session =) I remember there was this famous saying: Motivation is like bathing. It has to be done daily! Personally i find it very true especially in my profession where you gets alot of ups and downs. Of course, the good side is that you matures alot along the way.

I will continue to work towards my goal while making sure that i will see my consultants achieving their own goal. For those who are reading, i urge you not to give up your goals easily. Life without goal is like a ship without a captain, lost in the big ocean. Hence do you want to be lost?

The choice is yours! Cheers!

It will be a very interesting and insightful session as i have incorporated a lot of ideas to make this training a success! Maybe i will share abit over this blog in the future.

Stay tuned! =)

NLP was originally promoted by its founders, Bandler and Grinder, in the 1970s as an extraordinarily effective and rapid form of psychological therapy, capable of addressing the full range of problems which psychologists are likely to encounter, such as phobias, depression, habit disorder, psychosomatic illnesses, learning disorders. It also espoused the potential for self-determination through overcoming learnt limitations and emphasized well-being and healthy functioning. Later, it was promoted as a ‘science of excellence’, derived from the study or ‘modeling’ of how successful or outstanding people in different fields obtain their results. It was claimed that these skills can be learned by anyone to improve their effectiveness both personally and professionally.

We have done a few exercises today and it was quite impactful. Really appreciated the fact that i am in an agency where we strongly believed in educating ourselves through such training. I will update more of what i be going through for the next two days. Stay tuned for more updates!

Quote:

‘The finance industry now has an influx of professionals aged below 30 who were retrenched from the foreign banks. How can we new graduates compete with them?’ he said.

Meanwhile, some of those who are not yet in their final year have ‘backup’ plans.

Ms Xu Jieyi, 22, a third-year SMU student doing a four-year double degree in accountancy and economics, will graduate in December next year. But she is taking a part-time diploma course in professional make-up artistry. Her parents paid $4,000 for the five-month-long course which started this month.

1 in 2 students ‘afraid of graduating’, Straits Times February 15, 2009

Comment from me:
I happened to read this quote from online citizen website and i personally find it quite interesting to know the finding. How come these days the young graduates are afraid of losing out to people who have been retrenched or afraid of not being able to get a job?

First of all to the question of losing out to experienced worker, we got to tell ourselves that being young and dynamic are our advantages! It means that we are open to new ideas, more willing to work harder and accept new working style. This is one thing that all employers are looking for. The bosses out there does not want to hire a person who has a certain attitude or mindset about how things are to be run because it may create some conflict and he may also have problems handling him. Although they are experienced in doing sales but if they are not hardworking, they can lose out too. Young people should think that learning how to do sales is easy and all it takes is to find the right person to teach you. You should be excited being a fresh graduates!

Second on the part of not being able to find a job. Personally i think it is quite nonsense to say that there are no jobs in Singapore! There are plenty of jobs out there and the question lies in there are no suitable jobs for them. Many graduates are thinking of getting a decent job of $2.5k on their first job and wont’ settle anything less than that. So this also explains why some of the people i know are jobless after 6 months of graduation. Of course there are some of my graduate friends who don’t mind working for just $1.8k for the time being because their mindset is that it is better than nothing. So therefore the difference here is the expectation. In times like this, expectation has to be lower down.

Anyway i don’t see why people should not work for lesser paying job because what is most important is the experience and not so much of the salary especially for young graduates. The first two years of a young person is to explore working life and to find out what really suits him and what are his strength and weakness. Just remember experience does not come easily but money does!

Since young, i had done all kind of jobs ranging from hawker centre helper, waiter, admin to sales promoter. I would said that it was due to my brother who keep asking me to work for experience that’s why i was willing to work any job. I really got to thank him for that because if not i will not be where i am now today. I appreciated what i am doing now and i told myself that should one day any mishap happens to me, i will not die of hunger because i am able to work any job to keep me alive.

Therefore for my readers, just be aware that it is the expectation that matters and working experience is valuable. Don’t be choosy over jobs. Take it with pride and i am sure some good things will come out from it! To those people who are graduating this year, never be afraid not being able to find a job. There will always be job for you but it’s a matter whether you want to try it!

**You can send your resume to me @mro.career@gmail.com if you like to find out more about what i am doing.