Jason Wong, HKG, YVR, HNL

Nowadays, how many people have the backbone to stand up for mistakes that ones’ committed?  Recently, there were tons of incidents that I have encountered in current labor force where people made mistakes but they never stood up and dealt with the problems - instead, blaming others, changing subjects or in the worst case, making false claims and lies about things that was not true at all.  My job is about people relations, so I tend to get people in more “accelerated” way.  In other words, I see people with more darker sides than most people do.  Give human civilization another 5,000 years, I bet we will see invertebrate human form emerging in every world corner.

I am getting a bit more concerned about nowadays, applicants never bother much to compose a well written cover letter before sending their resumes along.  Occasionally, I did receive resume and “memo” looking cover letter: “Hey man, I am looking for a job, give me a ring.” and the fun part was, these candidates’ expected salary range = $80K USD and up.  Speaking of resumes, I received more and more PHOTO attached or GIF/JPEG “artworks” resumes…I don’t mind if those photos are professionally taken or those art works are well rendered - the poorest things are - they are too low-resolution, too dimmed, too yellow, too sloppy…Anyway, long story short, if you want a potential employer to look at your application, please have a decency to write or at least “copy” a professional cover letter along with your resume.  Nothing worse than having bunch of U-Grads submitted their ill-prepared package in such a care-free fashion.