Watching kids visit Silicon Valley made me feel a bit behind I read a snippet recently about students from Daegu SW Meister High School visiting the Google headquarters in California. They were getting advice from actual engineers about their hiring process and what the daily grind looks like over there. It’s wild to think that…
The reality of ground staff training I remember sitting in that dim classroom, thinking that getting a job as airport ground staff in Japan would be a simple path to living abroad. I had joined a K-MOVE program, expecting a structured transition, but the reality hit as soon as we started the specialized training. It…
I remember sitting in a coffee shop in Gangnam three years ago, staring at the career page for Google employment opportunities, convinced that landing a role there was the ultimate validation of my professional life. After actually going through this process, involving multiple rounds of intense technical interviews and eventually realizing the environment didn’t quite…
The disconnect between surveys and my actual inbox I keep seeing these headlines about how young people are just weak for leaving their jobs so early. There was this Saramin survey from 2021 that claimed like 84% of companies were having trouble with new hires bailing out, and honestly, reading those numbers makes me feel…
Getting lost in the sea of online courses I remember sitting at my desk last month, clicking through a browser window filled with tabs about ‘Google AI certifications’ and various career development webinars. It feels like everyone is talking about these credentials lately. My friend sent me a link for a program at Hanyang Cyber…
Getting lost in the sea of public recruitment notices I spent half of yesterday refreshing the careers page for a few major construction firms, including SK Ecoplant, just to see if anything had changed. It feels like every time I open a tab, there’s another announcement about ‘record-breaking’ hiring numbers, like the 117 positions opening…
Watching the numbers shift on my dashboard I’ve been staring at my application trackers for a few months now, and honestly, the numbers don’t really tell a story. You send out these PDFs, fill out endless variations of the same biographical details, and then you just wait. I remember last month when I was looking…