Acing the job interview
Assalamualaikum, You’re probably here because you’ve been submitting job applications here and there, and voila, you’ve been invited to an interview! And now you’re thinking – Oh crap, how do I got about doing this thing? Well, fret no more my dear friends. In this post, I’ll share with you some…
Radiance21 Scholarship – Wrap-Up and Final Words
Assalamualaikum, Some of you might remember the Radiance21 Scholarship Project that I did as my 21st birthday project back in 2015. It was a collaboration with SkolaFund, a crowfdunding platform for education in Malaysia. I was talking to Aizan a few weeks ago, and he suggested that I do an…
Choosing the ‘right’ graduate program
Assalamualaikum, This is a continuation of my previous post, Should You Go To Graduate School?. Assuming that you’ve either read that post or have already decided that “Yes, I am going to go to graduate school”, you might start to think about which graduate program to go to. In this post,…
Taking the training wheels off.
Assalamualaikum, This is a surprise. I don’t usually update the blog more than once a week, but now, I’m writing my third post for this week itself. Huh, I’m surprising even myself. Is this what high-level procrastination does? I have a 2-page draft of my 6,000 words assignment due on…
Making your job application stand out
Assalamualaikum, I’ve been spending some time on LinkedIn recently, and I keep seeing posts like this: I’ve sent out like hundreds of CVs to different job vacancies, but I haven’t been invited to any interviews at all. It has been XX months since I graduated, but I’m still unemployed. I’ve applied…
“Why are you being so harsh on yourself?”
Assalamualaikum, Last week, I made an appointment to see the University’s Wellbeing services. It’s nothing major, no worries. It was mainly because I needed a neutral third party to talk to – someone outside my close circle of family and friends. I don’t know, but sometimes ranting about unnecessary things…
Things changed, and that’s okay.
Assalamualaikum, It’s been more than 10 years since I started on my blogging journey. I started off with a Blogger blog, much like a lot of other people. My old personal blog was simple – just a collection of thoughts and stories from my daily lives. I wrote about the…
Should You Go to Graduate School?
Assalamualaikum, I have a bunch of posts for Post-SPM 101 and Fresh Grad 101, as well as some Life Thoughts reflection posts here and there. But I thought that, hey, maybe I could do another series on Grad School 101. A couple of people have been asking me (since a year and…
What to look for in a job?
Assalamualaikum, This blog is inspired, in part, from a recent career talk / workshop that I went to. But it is not entirely from that workshop though, because I’ve been seeing a lot of similar cases around me with friends and people I meet, so I thought perhaps I could write…
Getting rid of those “Oh sh*t, I can’t do this” thoughts.
Assalamualaikum, Apologies for not updating the blog last week. I’ve been meaning to write, but after my trip down to Nottingham (me being a good sister and going to check up on my younger brother because our mum was worried), I fell sick with the cold and/or slight fever, so…
Working Part Time While Studying – Is It A Good Idea?
Assalamualaikum, This weekend was my lazy weekend – I slept in and was on the phone (audio/video call) with Aiman for most of the weekend. I was talking to him about the part-time job interview I had last week (which I wrote in my last post, Let’s Go, #HudFreshers), which…
Let’s Go, #HudFreshers
Assalamualaikum, Hello again people. So I’m finally here in Huddersfield, have been here for almost three weeks, actually, but I never actually got around to actually updating this blog [apologies, again and again and again for it]. This week is my first official week of classes and I can legit…