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與朋友閒談，話題觸及求職和求愛，我們都認為兩者雷同。以下是典型求職過程的特點，看看你可否把求愛過程的特點對號入座：
打開報紙搵工，你多被工作的表面因素吸引，例如人工、福利和工作性質。當慎重考慮是否申請，你問自已是否擁有雇主要求的才能和特質。就算已把求職信寄出，你還不時問自已是否真的會喜歡這份工，因你實在了解它太少。
當你獲邀參加筆試或面試，你會開始曈景一旦得到這份工，生活會如何改變，但暗地裡你不得不承認，你其實向雇主吹噓了自已的能力，如何為雇主及公司作出貢獻的承諾夾雜了不少虛話。為安慰自已，你亦說天下烏鴉一樣黑，在未與求職者簽約前，那會有雇主透露他們如何無理及笴刻對待員工。
不幸名落孫山，你會不斷在腦內回帶，反省甚至埋怨自已是否在面試中失言。如果你對得到這份工有太多曈景，又或已投資了感情，傻到學會愛上這份工，那自怨自艾的哀悼期便無可避免。
打你搵到好工，甚至上了工，最終份工不一定乎合你最初所想。但既成事實，要與雇主朝夕相對，好好醜醜，你都是盡量與他保持良好關系為妙，免得苦了自已。
In a recent chat with a friend, we touched upon the topic of job hunting. We both shared the view that there are too many similarities between job hunting and having a love affair. The following chronicles a typical job hunting process. See if you can draw similarities with love affairs.
When you start to hunt for a job, you tend to be attracted by the discernible attributes of a job, e.g. its pay, fringe benefits, job nature, etc. When you seriously consider whether you should make an application, you sometimes wonder whether or not you have the qualities being sought by the employer. Even when you have overcome the internal struggle period and dropped your application letter into the mailbox, you are still asking yourself whether you really like the job as you know too little about it.
When you are offered a written test, and subsequently an interview or rounds of interviews, you begin to fantasise about the start of a brandnew life if you are offered the job. However, you admit to yourself that you did bluff and lie about your own strengths and even offer empty promises about what you can contribute to the employer right from the application letter to the interviews. Well, ironically, you are also aware that no employers will expose their unreasonableness and nastiness until you commit yourself to them by signing the employment contract.
If unluckily you are not offered the job, you may question yourself what you might have said or done wrong during the interviews. If you have fantasised about or invested your genuine interest in the job, you will inevitably undergo a mourning period when you feel yourself quite miserable. Even if you are offered the job and have taken up the job, it may or may not turn out to be what you think it is like, but as a matter of fact, you tend to try to maintain an agreeable working relationship with your employer because after all you have to face your employer and colleagues day in day out.
