JOB SEEKING | Jun 24, 2019

Throughout My 8-Year Journey of Looking For A Meaningful & Purposeful Career

Emily Wong

Career Coach

I used to be depressed, confused, no clue of my career, life direction, and lost all my confidence.

Then I worked in 8 different industries in 3 countries and finally found a career that suits my passion, talents, core strength and values. Choosing the right career path is more important than just working hard, and I keen to share the most useful strategies of my career journey to help you become the best of yourself and land in your dream job!

I was jobless, not sure about myself and my career. I am just an ordinary girl like you !

I am grateful of difficulties and barries I encountered on my journey.

I graduated into the year of global financial crisis, and I was looking for a investment job in a financial centre (where it’s been hit the most during the turmoil at London). You can probably imagine, I had to apply for more than 270 jobs and go to more than 20 interviews with major banks, and eventually managed to got into investment bank.

Through extremely long working hours and stressful work that I do not enjoy, I developed chronic hormone/weight problem as well as depression.

If I can do it, you can do it too!

From there I embarked on my journey to looking for the purpose and meaning of my life and my career. After lived in 4 regions and worked in several industries I decided to migrate to Australia where I feel it is the place to actualise my ideal work-life balanced life style.

My family was strongly against my decision, and I was bearly surviving as I could not find a full time job after making 300 applications (back then I did not know having Permanent Residency is the primary concern of Australian employers).

I then did waitressing, tutoring, telemarketing and real-estate sales, also worked in a “one person company” as a recruitment consultant, marketing and media officers. At the mean time, I did not give up looking for a career. I went to many offline network events (I was so cringe), utilised my alumni, and even tried delivering my resume door-to-door without success, until hiring my own career coach and got into IBM.