Day 54

Strange. Do I star feeling restless or what is this? I got a strong feeling this morning that I must start looking for a job, now; "what if I don't get a job at all, am I acting too late?". Funny.

So what I did today was unexpected: I sent an open job application to one of the Finnish (global) company in Tampere. I begged a job! Well, not really, but first touch has been made.

It's actually pretty difficult to write a letter, where you have to say all the good thinks about yourself. Flatter yourself. To tell where you are good about. Most of the Finns does not feel confident when asked to do so. I'm one of those. It's not easy to say "I'm the best you can get" even though it would be true :)

Writing a CV was not easy either. I spend quite a few weeks writing one, but luckily it's done now. I completed both the Finnish and English versions already in June before I started to write this blog. I have kept up-to-date CV since 1998 in English. But when I tried to translate it to Finnish, I noticed that most of the words and terms used in English CV were practically useless. I needed to create a new CV using the words that everybody understands, first in finnish and then in english. At the same time the layout and the form was outdated, so needed to learn how CVs should look like today, not in 1990s. Luckily I got some education for writing CV as it's pretty important part of applying to any job. Make it look boring and messy and now one will read it and you are out before the game has even started. It could be that I need to do more modification to it as the time goes by, but's that's fine, it's not perfect yet, not even close. I'm not going to share it with you, but here's my LinkedIn profile for any interest: http://fi.linkedin.com/in/arminentommi