Gig: Corporate head hunter

I expected to have my Gig. Now that I have it and am reading it, I really want to do my “Gig”, our UCHANU’s “Gig”. Each interview in Gig gave me different impression and it was pretty hard for me to choose one to write about. Finally, I think I’ll write about something that I feel close to, that I feel I understand because somehow I had experience part of the same thing.
I’m talking about a girl named Rose and an interview of a head hunter. To be honest, I’ve never imagined the mentioned occupation so hard to do before. If someone asks me what I think a head hunter do, I will just draw a picture of a nice and clean and spacious office with a big desk and a computer. Applications flood in and recruiting announcements full the in-tray. All he/she-the head hunter has to do is to match. Of course, what I imagine happens in the US. After this, I guess I’m no longer that easy-thinking. The same occupation in Vietnam, if ever exists, will not be the same, or not yet and there’re so many reasons. People normally look for jobs themselves and companies seek for the talented by their own means. Matchers in Vietnam, like job agencies, are not often effective and reliable. The result, most of the time, is not what you want. Wrong and careless matches are made, this causes you to lose your money for no reason.
Anyway, come back to the girl. She was a temp. That’s standing out. Even though, she never prepared herself as a head hunter, she possessed quality and achieved experience through many jobs she was put in. But the really impressive fact is how things are carried out in this profession. If anyone wants to excel, they have to have tricks and understand the nature of the whole industry. Imagine how far they can go to get the job done. The interview took me straight to reality, not that I‘ve never experienced jobs or witnessed people did this before. But this, this stood me out. It’s like everything you learn in school seems not to matter anymore. I’ve always understand that life teaches us more than any school does, and life really works here.
I was a bit confused when it came to lying in a job. Well, normally, lying is unethical. I had been a sales person before and to tell the truth, my boss did teach me to lie. A head hunter here, acts as a sales person, she has a product, she tries to sell it. The difference here is no one produces those and she has to find somewhere else. It was convinced that lying was not a bad thing here. At least, people hadn’t been harmed by that. But only if it stops as a means of getting phone numbers or getting to the right person. It’s tempting always for a lying expert to use her talent elsewhere, I guess. A professional in this job, either is a very smart communicator or he/she can become really mean and cunning and crafty and might lose the way if they don’t try to limit themselves to good. I like Rose for that, for she didn’t get lost. She knew how to take advantage of what she had and absorb fine skills on the way.
There’s one more thing I agree with Rose: “The world isn’t about companies. It’s about people”. If companies want to keep their employees, there’s no other way than to treat them well. People have the right. Talented people deserve. I just wish someday to see the society and business world in Vietnam that competitive, that selective and that professional so that more will benefit.