How to Win Resume & Ace Interview (25/Apr/14)
Feedback & thoughts from Jia Ge
Dear my students,
Thank you for your comments. I am very happy to see you have some
additional thoughts about my interview and resume concepts after our
class. As I said before, there is NO shortcut when it comes to resume and
interview preparations!
To Leslley, everyone has the “suffering frustrations” before getting the first
accounting related job. How do you define “enough” failures? 10? 100? 500?
1000? “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
Thomas Edison once said.
When I graduated, I was just an international student who finished the
bachelor degree and got the PR in Sydney. Today you think my titles and
experience are “too impressive”. It is because that people only get noticed
once they have some proven results to our society. But have you seen the
time when I was struggling to write my winning resume in front of my
computer? Have you seen the time when I was completing my CA
assignments at 3am after my wife and kids went to bed? Success only
comes with our own determinations! That it! Everything else is just another
excuse for failures.
To Alex, Yes, you need to write down the answers. Read them, change
them and improve them. Finally make sure you can act on them! And
remember you need 3 stories to cover the 10 points as much as you can.
We only have 6 hours in class, so the best way to do role play is to find a
reliable friend. Another way I used before is to make your own interview
videos in front of a camera and replay them again and again, then repeat
this process until you think the videos could be uploaded to YouTube
without embarrassing yourself on the Internet! 
To Yu, there are countless ways to teach the resume and interview skills.
But I choose to share my own personal experience with you. So I can tell
my students: “Yes, we can!” You just need to know how and then DO it!
Practise, practise and practise until you can “fake” it. This is not magic. This
is hard work!
Finally best wishes and good luck for all of you.
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Dear Jia Ge,
Thanks for your 6 hours "interview and resume preparing" course on last
Friday.
During this course, I have learned a lot of details about how to present the
best part of myself during the interview process and even how to interest
the interviewer from my resume.
As a graduate, I have no any work experience and have no idea what would
an interview looks like. Lacking of information makes me feel less
confidence and fear to find jobs.
After last Friday's course, I have learned lots of skills like how to make us
match the company's requirement perfectly, how to control the progress
of interview. This course not only teach us how to present us perfectly, but
also help us to find out what are the major weakness of us to compete with
others. I noticed that the only way to be confident is do preparing well.
The more homework we did before the interview, the more control power
we hold during the interview.
Also thank you for sharing your own experience with us. That was very
kindness.
Thanks for your helping.
Regards.
YT
Hi Jia,
I'm very impressed with your class. Not only did you have good structural
content in consistency, you have strong human sense. Your speech
inspired me not to give up on my career path. I've found that I was not
completely to prepare for the interviews by drawing lessons from past so
that I was nervous and stuck in behaviour questions. Indeed, there are
many stuffs to be done before I walk into the any type of interview, and
different types of interview has different strategy such as phone interview
and video interview.
Mail
GPO BOX 1622
SYDNEY NSW 2001
Head Office
Level 36, Gateway
1 Macquarie Place
SYDNEY NSW 2000
Service Branch
Level 13, Citigroup
2 Park Street
SYDNEY NSW 2000
P
F
M
W
E
1800 51 8888
1800 59 8888
04 8880 8888
dollarsrus.com.au
[email protected]
Dollars R US® holds four Public
Practice Certificates from CPA
Australia, The Institute of
Chartered Accountants in
Australia, Chartered Institute of
Management Accountants
United Kingdom and The
Institute of Chartered
Accountants in England and
Wales.
JP for NSW
204242
CPA Member
9348257
CA Member
340923
Tax Institute Member
81067
Tax Agent
24703399
ASIC Agent
33666
ASIC Credit Rep.
450863
MFAA Member
101055
Certiport® Testing
90053239
As regard behaviour questions, I'm just wondering how you could make
clear, short and conscious answers to any questions. Is it necessary or
useful to write my story down based on the models so that I could answer
the questions smoothly? Here I would look forward an advice that you
could provide real practice or simulation exercises on role-play for us in
order to improve response skills.
Dollars R US Pty. Ltd. ABN 69 165 438 595
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BTW, my updated resume has been attached due to urgent application. I
would really appreciate you if you could modify it and consider me 1 hour
one to one free career coaching at your convenience.
Best regards,
AM
Hi Jia,
I really enjoy today’s lecture about the soft skills of resume and interview
preparation.
Your personal experience and research inspired me a lot about how to
prepare my job seeking and interview. For example, preparing three stories
to cover the behaviour questions and get more information from different
resources to start a topic during the interview. I believe they are very useful
skills.
However, your titles and experience are “too impressive” to me (e.g. CA,
ACCA, CPA etc.). As a beginner, your achievements look kind of far too
different with me and we have totally different starting point (e.g. Optus
graduate program). After suffering enough frustrations in the job hunting,
I really need a mentor with similar and related experience with me.
I love the last story you told us about how you “come back” to work for
PWC after years. You proved that apart from knowledge and skills, desire
to succeed is important too. I always believe afraid of failure is a really bad
excuse for not even trying. This is the major reason why am I in this
program right now and meeting you is my pleasure. Thank you.
Regards,
LZ
Mail
GPO BOX 1622
SYDNEY NSW 2001
Head Office
Level 36, Gateway
1 Macquarie Place
SYDNEY NSW 2000
Service Branch
Level 13, Citigroup
2 Park Street
SYDNEY NSW 2000
P
F
M
W
E
1800 51 8888
1800 59 8888
04 8880 8888
dollarsrus.com.au
[email protected]
Dollars R US® holds four Public
Practice Certificates from CPA
Australia, The Institute of
Chartered Accountants in
Australia, Chartered Institute of
Management Accountants
United Kingdom and The
Institute of Chartered
Accountants in England and
Wales.
JP for NSW
204242
CPA Member
9348257
CA Member
340923
Tax Institute Member
81067
Tax Agent
24703399
ASIC Agent
33666
ASIC Credit Rep.
450863
MFAA Member
101055
Certiport® Testing
90053239
Dollars R US Pty. Ltd. ABN 69 165 438 595
Dollars R US and its logo are registered trademarks in Australia