Hey, here is a thought if you are 25 and still don’t know what to do with your life apparently there is not much you can do about it :) Not very encouraging isn’t it?

These days influence of media is so great that often people forget who they are and what they really want. It is hard even for me to remember what it was that I always wanted to do.... Maybe American dream, is just one more idea to control us? Everybody wants American dream – you should try to get it as well.

Remember Marten Eden? There was a story of an old guy who truly fulfilled American dream. Starting from very bottom of society he became rich and famous in his 60th. Yes, now he was able to enjoy all the pleasures of life – travel, big house, friends... Unfortunately, he was old and sick now so could not travel, he had no family to share his big house, and friends were there as long as he had money.

Don’t get me wrong, I do want to get rich! As the matter of fact I want to be rich and famous to the whole Ukraine. I want to do lots of big things (which? I don’t know yet...) Still, there are a lot of people who are happy the way they are. Being a doctor or mother it is also a job that pays off if you put your heart in it.

I guess it is all about enjoying yourself and things that you choose to do. I think making choices is harder than it looks like :). At the end of the day it is not about who you think you are or where do you live, or what colour your skin is or your religion – it is about things that you do or don’t do on your way.

So to start one more time from basics :)

What are jobs there that potentially available, what they requirements and what we can do here?

Fist industry that I wanted to cover or at least take a better look is BANKING. Here we go...

There are two major different bank types- COMMERCIAL and INVESTMENT. Most of the banks today is a mixture of both of them with dominant of one or another. What is the difference then?

Commercial bank is what we usually think about when talk about bank. Here you can get loan or open deposit account, pay your bills or exchange/transfer money.

Investment bank instead of interacting with people/business directly and lending them money it helps people/business to raise money from other firms through bonds, stocks, etc.

Work in investment bank divides on three main categories:
- Investment banking or everything that brings money (merge and acquisitions, underwriting, asset management, trading (stocks, bonds, etc), global transaction banking)
- Analyze team or everything that research/analyze/predict behaviour of the market– risk management, financial control, research, corporate strategy
- Back office or support – operations (providing support of all operations of investment bank), technology (IT development), and administrations.

For commercial bank it is two main divisions:
- Front office – it is where interaction with client and engagement of new ones happens
- Bank office – it is where operations of front office are supported and laterally coming to life!

Job hunt continues! Taking a job for just only an opportunity of having job is not really great idea and there are more things that need to be considered like – what makes you happy? What is important to you in your life? Doing something you like or doing something that pays good money? Spending major time in your life at work I want to make sure that I do what I like to do and it pays me good money :)

So I decided to go further... Had to change country, and necessity to face obstacles connected with being foreign, speciality that cannot be transferred that easy into any other culture, and work experience in small but prosper company in Ukraine – I have a lot of thinking to do. Like what I want to do, and what is even more interesting – what I can do in Ireland. I used to be sales person and I liked it (at least most parts of my job), now I am working in bank doing constantly repeating job (there is nothing good about it except free time after work and long holidays without any disturbing which I was lacking in my previous job).

When arrived I started to look for a job in recession time, in completely new country, with new language and culture. I manage to find it ionly after around 4-5 month of intense search. I described it in my blog – all how it was... From writing Cv up to opening a spousal work permit and etc.

After working in my new job at the bank for around 6 month now, I realise – money and lots of time for holidays is not a really fulfilment of my dreams... I want it to be interesting and challenging, well paid with lots of possibilities to improve, implement my ideas, travel, and just enjoying results of my work. Not really knowing what I want to do and what I CAN DO HERE; job search continues.... And I want to keep on talking about useful things which I find here and there. I hope at least some of us will end up with great result!

The best internet search for job

Thinking about job I found very helpful web sites that are not very job oriented by nature, but may be very efficient in the sense of getting experience and understanding of a country.

Like for example almost every country has separate web site for its citizen in Ireland. I hope it sounds more or less understandable. I mean web sites that help you, as a foreigner to get around in Ireland. Virtualireland.ie – would be web site for all Russian speaking people, Vivoirlanda.com - would be for Spanish and so on. Usually those web sites/chats have topics about work, where you can post your comment “I am looking for a job, pls help”. It would not bring immediate effect, but take time and just make sure you are checking your email on regular basics not to miss out opportunity. When I posted my ad on one of this web sites, honestly saying I completely forgot about it, since did not have enough fate in it. Although after a month I got couple proposals for job. Some of them were like baby seating (which I was not very interested in) still others were office based work.

You never know where you can find good people who can help you. Just make sure as many people as possible know about your problem – and solution will find you :)

I also was trying to find job through adverts on gum three and adverts.ie. I know it sounds a bit weird, since it is not job search web sites. I did found some decent proposal and different job opportunities, honestly saying none of them turned out for positive experience for me, so I stopped checking them. But, you never know…

Tips for earning money while being redundant

There is a lot of example how people became reach trying to cope with redundancy.
Just follow your passion they say :)

Here is a story who made his million on online business:

A few of months ago (beginning of 2009) I received notification that I was to be made redundant from my manager of sales position. Trust me – I don’t want your sympathy because I was overjoyed.
really wanted to have my own business – I just wasn’t sure what it would be.

One day, it dawned upon me that what I really needed was an internet based business. Many years ago, a friend of mine had become a millionaire by owning the rights to some fairy tale that he sold online. Basically he spent his day playing with the cat, sitting on the couch and watching his bank balance grow.

If you have ever worked 14 hour days per day, you’ll know that you can’t keep it up for long. I decided that I would see the financial year out at the day job so as to get my commission, and then resign so that I could concentrate on my own business. I wasn’t really looking forward to explaining why I had decided to move on but the recession gave me a helping hand and the company decided to make me redundant anyway. Frankly I couldn’t leave fast enough because 14hr days were not fun, and by then I had completely lost interest in the day job.

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4 best ways for job search in internet

Sending CVs through internet. It is one of the simplest ways to send a CVs since minimum and more routine work is required. Where you want to start to send your CV?

Internet web sites that specifies on job search: http://www.jobs.ie/, http://www.irishjobs.ie/, http://www.monster.ie/, http://www.fas.ie/…….

Direct approach to the companies through emails: look at http://www.yellowpages.ie/ – find the area of your interest, find all companies that are stated under list and go through their web sites asking for job. You also can call directly to the company asking HR person to help you with the search, or even to stop by the company, giving them your CV. Unfortunately, due to the crisis, companies are more closed for conversations. Still it is a good chance to let them know about you. Usually if it is big company, they will take your CV into archive, and as soon as they would have some opportunity, they will let you know about it. It happened with me when one of the IT companies came back after a month, asking if I am still available for job opportunity in their company.

Specified web sites for the area of your interest such as:

http://www.fsi.ie (finance companies), http://www.businessworld.ie/cd/Top1000/index.htm (100 best companies), http://www.eastpoint.ie/move/map2.htm (business parks) and on and on...

Email with CV to all recruiting agencies in your city. It is use to be that head hunters were after people, now it is all the way around. The best way is to send your CV to as many recruiting companies as possible, and then call – trying to talk with somebody in regards of jobs. It happened to me when I was trying to make a call back to one of the recruiters I sent CV to, they said- “we got your CV in case of opportunity we call you back”. Still most of the recruiters were more friendly and at least talked to me over the phone.