✔ 2 months waiting game
✔ No backer
✔ 1 rejection
✔ 15 walk-ins
✔ 1 short-list
✔ 1 exam
✔ 1 interview
✔ I PASSED!!

I experienced a lot of depressing moments last December-January 2018 when I waited a response from my top picked hotels that I want to work for my internship. My nights were uneasy thinking when I should be called. Time was so fast that day by day, my friends and classmates were deployed. For a month I got butterflies in my stomach and a thorn on my heart. There was no assurance for me and I was so pessimistic that there was no chance for me to be deployed from big hotels.

January 18, I flew here at Manila because the hotel might give us a hotel a call and conduct an interview but weeks passed by, no call nor text did I received from them. I was starting to blame myself why I did not work hard by giving resumes to other hotels. I lost hope to everything and I needed to unwind alone because everything I planned were not falling into place like the hotels I like were not responding, the house I want to rent was not in the right place. I was stressed and I needed a time to think. I needed a time to plan for my back-ups to be deployed and graduate by June. I prayed hard and ask for a sign to God and then I found a bible verse that struck me -

Proverbs 3:5-6

5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;

6 in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight

For once, I forgot everything and trusted his plans for me. I offered everything to God because everything I was bringing with me was very heavy.

February, the month where hotels would need new batch of interns and they would call the short-listed applicants. My most wanted and most believed hotel I applied did not called me. I was so sad at the moment because I believed myself I could get a slot because of the credentials I have. I got plenty of questions on my mind and I got bitter to the hotel. I was so prepared for an interview but I was not given the chance to show my personality.

I suppose to go home and be employed in a 2- star hotel but my friends told me not go home and fight for a place. They gave me courage and hope to keep going on.

Days after I recovered from the pain , I accepted the fact I won't be deployed from my top picks. I ask God's courage and wisdom for me to stand on my own. I immediately printed fifteen resumes and passed to different places like from Pasay, Malate, Makati and Ortigas for days.

"I told myself that this is the real world, if I want the best for me, I have to go through no shortcuts and just plain hard work."

I realized I was lucky compared to my classmates because I was experiencing this kind of struggle. I now know the place and I know the applying culture here at Manila. I even feel the hard work in applying, when I did not used uber and grab as my transportation.

Applying here was hard because the industry I entered has standards to meet. I gave my all, is the best thing I could only do because I trusted the Lord that He would do the rest for my internship.

While applying on going to Malate, I received a text from Dusit Thani that they invited me for an interview, I got excited because it was one of my top picks and it is my last resort to have my internship. It felt like Dusit Thani was really for me I understood that why God placed me in the place I am living now and why I was not accepted in the first hotel. I was so stubborn and I was forcing myself for my plans but He changed it all because He knows His plans are better.

I learned that

" There are things in life we want but God has His own plan for us."

I thank God that friends and family were the instruments to fatten my heart. My friend in Makati who was also accepted in a unexpected hotel told me that "if its for you then it will go smooth". Moreover, roommates also told me that Dusit Thani best suits for me and that's why I have to fight for the slot.

I thank them so much for giving me a boost on my part and for giving me hope again.

they said that "there is a perfect time for everything"
Now, I understood the things that happened to me, it all connected into one timeline. The pain, and realizations that I got into. The problems I encountered were all solved.

Knowing that I was going into an interview I prepared myself for me to get the one-shot application that I desired. I meditated for days and prayed to God that I hope I will get this hotel.

The day of the interview I was excited yet nervous of the fact there was no assurance. I calmed myself by listening to music like "When you believe" and I even talk to friends to divert my nervousness.

Even though I was prepared, It was my first time to have an interview and it was nerve wrecking for me. There was also an exam that I did not expect that more gave me more tension. We took it and the HR department checked it. I hoped and prayed a lot to passed the exam so that I could proceed to the interview and thankfully I got them both. In addition, I aced the interview and it went well.

Imagine that we were eleven applicants and only five of us proceeded to the interview. I was shocked because those applicants who did not got the chance has a backer that we even don't have in our hands. On the other hand, I am more than prepared that I believe that I will get a slot. It was also a boost on my part that all my hard-work paid off.

How to prepare for an interview

Know yourself
Study the company
Have a personality
Keep calm

"Never go to a battle unprepared"

I believe that if you are prepared, you will have the confidence to speak in front of everyone you will get to meet during the interview day. I know that if you keep on believing you will meet what you have desired.

~I vialed the universe, living life to the fullest!~

~Wondra Tv~

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