Job - hunting is fun.

And I'm not talking about walking in and out of buildings in Ortigas and Ayala and greeting every receptionists, customer service personnels and guards with a plastered fake smile and your ever predictable, memorized line:

"Good morning Sir/Ma'am. I'll just pass my resume. Thank you."

You walked out of the premises thinking whether the receptionist - after reading your CV will walk straight to the recruitment section screaming "Eureka! We've found the ONE we've been looking for!" or will place your data sheet in her 'scratch papers' file for photocopying or the trash bin.

Thankfully, with modern technology, there are easier ways to get hired and find a job. You can either email your resumes and transcipts without the hassle of commuting and finding where on earth is Valero Street and Pearl Drive or signing up with Jobstreet or JobsDb.

I don't believe in the idea of being a 'walk - in applicant'. You need not come to an office to apply for a job unannounced. It seems that you are too desperate to get a job without waiting for an invitation for an interview or examination.

I email my resumes. Every Sunday, I scan the classified ads section of a certain broadsheet looking for prospective companies to apply for. Six vacancies on the average and on peak hiring seasons, I'll be sending to 10 positions at least.

Another hassle-free way of finding a new job is thru these two online job - seekers haven - Jobstreet and JobsDb. These two are so famous that some of my former officemates had set their pages as their homepage. Talk about being 'productive during office hours', ehh?

I'm actively using Jobstreet not because it is the better one but I forgot my JobsDb username and had not bothered to recover it. My bestfriend, Cecille, insist that I sign up for JobsDb because according to her, it is much, much easier to use because you need not answer those 'silly' questions before you can submit your applications.

There are some truth to it, though. Sometimes the questions posted at Jobstreet are so ludicrous that one won't bother to answer them anymore:

How would you relate your key competencies to the position?

What is your standard of success?

When was the last time you felt disappointed and what did you do about it?

The first question, I think is the most popular (and silliest?), over-used question used at Jobstreet? Makes me want to answer it with:

Give me an appointment for a job interview so that I can tell you.

Second question is more like a beauty pageant type of question and I always wonder what prompted Jobstreet to use this. A good answer for this would be:

I can finally consider myself successful if I don't have to answer a question like this anymore.

For the third one - let's see if this will work:

I was quite disappointed to read this question so I decided to hunt down the idiot who's behind all this.

But there's this damned-if-you-answer-damned-if-you-don't-answer question that I just can't help but to give a tounge-in-cheek answer. The company even invited me for an interview because of my submitted answer:

Why should we hire you?

This may work for you guys - I answered:

Why not?