the area where anson road is located is the business district of singapore. so it's like our makati in the philippines. i had a difficulty in finding my way because they were renovating the 1st & 2nd floors. unlike most of the places here in singapore, this building did not have ample signs to show you your way. the first office that i needed to go to was on the 32nd floor and all i could see was an escalator waaaaaa. on the 2nd floor i saw one of the indian laborers and i asked him for directions. it was funny that althogh i did not understand half of what he was saying, i somehow understood through his hand gestures. he told me to go down to the 1st floor and go "inside inside" where there are many lifts. he was even kind enough to follow me to see if i understood his directions and when i stopped to check out the building directory, he told me to follow him. he probably thought that i did not understand him.
just like most of the buildings in makati there are different elevators, or lifts as they call it here, that would only take u to certain floors and you would have to alight and move to another lift. so it took me a while to go the offices as they were on different floors. of the 3 agencies that i went to, only 1 had a slight positive result. at the moment they did not have any jobs open to foreigners but the person in charge asked me for a copy of my resume and advised me that she would be calling once a suitable position would be available. it only took me around 30 minutes to see all 3 offices and then there was nothing else to do. i was thinking of going to suntec city and do some window shopping or just go home. then i remembered the building directory, if this building housed 3 recruitment agencies, there could be more and i just said to myself: aja aja fighting!
i went to checkout the directory from a-z and i listed down the names and office numbers of those that appeared to be recruitment agencies. i saw that most of them were on the 16th floor including the one that i prioritized which was called kelly recruitment: call center staffing. bingo!
dee (the receptionist) asked me for a hard copy of my resume and asked if i was keen in telemarketing/sales. ive tried it before and i have proven that i was not. so i said no. she then went inside the office and came back after about 5 mins. she advised me that there would be an opening for market research. she gave me her card and told me to email my resume if i was interested and she will be getting in touch once the post is available. apart from kelly recruitment, there was another agency that accepted foreigners without any posts available. the receptionist just gave me a piece of paper after checking the box beside the email address for foreign applicants and advised me to send my cv. then for the rest, it did not take me more that 2 minutes:hi, i would like to apply for any customer service or call center job openings that you have.
are u PR or Singaporean?
No
oh we only accept PR/Singaporean. Sorry for that. (Some of them would say, Good luck)
by 12noon i was done with my list of 18 agencies. it may seem sad because i am not used to being rejected for job applications. but i was not disheartened by this because i was already expecting that this would happen. hopefully dee and the other 2 people who gave me hope today could find me a suitable position. but if not, then so be it. i've just been in singapore for almost 2 weeks, so there's still a lot of time. as i always, i trust in the saying that all things happen for a reason and in God's time.
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