Try as I might, I can’t seem to nail an offer in a reputable mnc that I wish I could get into. The “I’m-sorry-we-do-not-have-an-opening-to-match-your-current-skillset” rejection email gives me a bit of a smack to the ego. I can’t seem to get a hang of interviews and let them know that I could adjust well with the company’s culture or know and have the work experience enough to be hired. It is kind of depressing, really, getting rejected, but after a while I just try to look at it as some kind of a challenge; it is just a meaner way to help me identify in which areas of my career building that I need to work on.

There are news of right-sizing left and right, and not from sme’s but from those huge mnc’s: 500, 1000, 1500 employees laid off, eoc’d or what-have-you’s. It has got me thinking, how safe is it to venture out there just to get away from a depressing and seemingly dead-end job with this current employer? How could I recession-proof myself? I guess I just have to deal with the red tape and embrace the small annoyances here as opportunities for learning, for now; it is safer to suck it up and stay than go out there and jostle for that limited number of openings of that “better employer” against the thousands of recently fired IT professionals and just graduated college students.

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Now, I wonder how low will it cost to hire an IT professional here in the Philippines with the recession going on? I wish this will even out soon.