Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Something Unexpected

I admit that I always wish to get a chance to work in oversea, friends that know me well are aware of this. And I did occasionally apply some oversea job when I come across it. Anyway, I never put high hope on it because I understand it is not easy to get an oversea employment.

Until today, I got an offer from US, I know it is unbelievable.. it is totally out of my expectation. Yes, I am keen to go oversea, but I never expect it is from US, I applied some job in Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong and/or Taiwan, but not US. For me, US is a country that I can only see from a movie or read from a book.

They contacted me few months ago about this job opening in US. The company send some HR people to Malaysia to conduct this interview this week. I went to this interview today, there are quite number of candidates there. There are few round of interview asking about your education background and working experience. Then they ask you to sit for a test which consist of 40++ question regarding your expertise. The test I did is about the new features of Oracle 10g. Then they mark the test and give me the offer letter on the spot! Of course they do give me some time to think about it. I'll have 2-3 weeks before I hand it back to them.

Now I am thinking.. there are lots of smart people from US, my skill is not niche though, why do they come all over to Malaysia to get this bunch of IT people to US? Can't they get any US citizen with the same skill set? May it be some job that the US citizen wouldn't like to take it? Or is this just a scam to employ us as cheap labour?

In fact, the package is not very attractive in terms of monetary, but perhaps is the exposure that matter, it's not that you can easily get a chance to work in US...but is this reliable? I am blank now... it's too sudden, I need time to sort things out. Please alert me if you knows anything fishy about this.

2 comments:

Eunice Foo said...

Congratulations !!! I know how tough is the decision..take a piece of paper and list down the things that u will gain and forgo if the decision is to be made to US ...:)

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