The Interview’s Day

Today is the day, Li Wei 23 years old, was waiting for his handphone to ring. Today, he stayed back home waiting for the online job interview. He told his mother about this job interview a day before to avoid any unnecessary thoughts.

Since he quitted high school 6 years ago, he had attended over 35 job interviews, 12 of which were conducted online. This one will be the 13th interview conducted online for him.

Even though he was quite experienced in the interview, he can't calm down his nervousness. He sat down on his bed and took a long breath 10 times. As a result, his nervousness was gone.

Suddenly, his handphone rang. Looking at the caller number "Unknown", Li Wei was able to guess that this video call is from the company he had been waiting for.

"Hello, good morning, Li Wei here." Li Wei didn't show any nervousness at the moment. He saw a young lady on his video call apps, maybe a little older than him.

"Hello and good morning too. My name is Ms. Lim and I will be your interviewer for today. Are you ready?"

Today, Ms. Lim needs to interview around 100 applicants. In addition to that, her boss instructed her to personally interview a few applicants, and Li Wei was one of them. To complete her 100 interviews, she needs to make the interview session simple and short.

"Yes." Li Wei answered.

"State your full name and your national identity card number."

"Name Li Wei Zhi and national identity card number XXXXXX20070707XXXX."

"What do you expect from this job?"

This is a tricky question for Li Wei, in fact, this is a tricky question for all the applicants. Nobody knows about this new investment company or what exactly the job they have been offered.

Provide online resources for the company? What kind of online resource? Li Wei guessed that most of the applicants do not know about it. However, for him, he was able to guess the job's actual task.

He has been working in an internet café for 6 years, and once in a while, this kind of job appears online. He did apply for all the job vacancies he came across before but was in no luck. In addition to that, this kind of company will only advertise a few job vacancies. However, the new investment company was offering exactly 1000 job vacancies.

"The company requires 1000 new employees. What was not so obvious is among the 1000 new employees. The company will select a few people to become the company's core employees with better salaries and benefits. I intend to be one of the chosen core employees. This is my expectation."

Author note: If you happen to read this novel from other sites besides WEBNOVEL.com. You might not get the edited chapter. Sometimes, I rewrite the published chapter again and again and again.

Listening to Li Wei's answers, Ms. Lim was a bit surprised. She never expected that the young man would answer so confident and precisely. Because of his answers, she had high expectations for the young man in front of her.

"If someday, a competitor company offered you the same job with a triple of your salary, would you quit this company?"

Again, this is a tricky question. If he answers no, he will be lying to himself and the interviewer, any sane person will jump ship! If he answers yes, this new company will not hire him for not being loyal. Thus, what kind of answer will satisfy both the interviewer and interviewee? (Have you ever been in this situation, being asked this kind of question by an interviewer? Please comment below TQ)

"At this moment, I cannot answer this question. In the future, if I come across this kind of job offer, I will personally tell my answer face to face with you, Miss." This is the only best answer Li Wei could think of at the moment.

Ms. Lim wrote a few notes in her book. Then, she looked at Li Wei again.

"If you were offered this job, when can you start?"

When someone asks you this question, there is a high probability you will get the job. Li Wei's breath grew fast, and he knew his chances of getting the job now are quite good.

"I need to send a 24 hours' notice to my current employers. The earliest I can start will be 4 days from today." Answered Li Wei.

"Congratulations, you are accepted to join this company. Please settle your things in 4 days, on the fifth-day report yourself at the company HQ. Check your email for more details. Have a nice day and goodbye." Without waiting for a reply, Ms. Lim turned off her video.

Li Wei was shocked, the conversation ended abruptly, he did not even manage to say goodbye much less thanking her the interviewer. He still can't believe he got the job, so he quickly checked his email.

Even though he heard the interviewer congratulating him, since the conversation ended so suddenly, he still needed to verify it by checking his email. His heart was beating so fast waiting for the email to load. Upon checking his inbox, there was 1 new email and the email was sent by the company 1 minute before the interview ended.

Reading the email's first sentences, Li Wei jumped and shouted happily.

"Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Mom, I got the job!!!" Shouted Li Wei happily.

At The AOSIS Investment Co. Ltd. Private Building.

Ms. Zhu, Mr. Wong, Mdm. Jing-Mei and Ms. Lim were conducting interviews for 1000 applicants. Ms. Lim was given the 100 names list, while the other 3 were given 300 names each to be interviewed and they must conclude it in 3 days. They were given guidelines on how to choose the candidates, as a result, they were able to conclude the interview with great effort in 3 days.

Meanwhile, the successful applicants must report to the company HQ starting from 6 OCT till 9 OCT. Anyone missing these dates will be automatically rejected and their job offer will be passed onto the reserve applicants.

On the morning of 6 Oct, 265 of the 1000 applicants arrived at the AOSIS Building. One of them was Li Wei. He still could not believe it he got the job even though he was standing in front of a multi-story building. After being rejected over 30 times in the job interviews, he became used to it. Never once in his dreams, on his 36 job interviews, he was given a lifeline.

The 2 restaurants on the ground floor were packed with over 200 applicants. They were instructed to be present at 10.00 am sharp at the company HQ. Most of the applicants arrived before 9:00 am. Nobody wants to be late on their first day of work, such a job opportunity does not come every day.

Li Wei was standing in the lobby of the building looking at the giant slim TV. There is a message on the TV screen. "Welcome, To All Job Seekers! Please go to the Meeting Room on the 5th Floor by 9:30 am. Thank You."

Li Wei looked at his handphone clock and it was 9:03 am, there are 27 minutes to go. He wanted to go early but he hasn't seen anyone going to the 5th floor.

"Are you the new employee?" Suddenly a young man standing next to Li Wei was asking him.

"Yes, how about you?" Seeing the young man will be his colleague starting from today, Li Wei does not mind making a new friend.

"Same. By the way, my name is Wang Lie. I believe starting from today we are going to be a colleague?"

"Yes, I am Li Wei, nice to meet you." Both of them shook hands, Li Wei had a very good impression of the young man beside him.

Seeing a few people going to the 5th floor, Li Wei and his new friend Wang Lie also join the others walked straight to the 5th floor. A few of them use the lift, most of them use the stairs, it will take ages for everyone to reach the 5th floor by using the 2 service lifts.

Five minutes before 9:30 a.m., a large meeting room with over 1000 seat capacity was packed with 256 attendees. Being late for even 1 minute will give a bad impression to their new employer.

Nobody wants to be that person, they were among the luckiest applicants getting this high-paying job with low education requirements.

Li Wei sat in the middle of the pack with Wang Wei. Like others, both of them were waiting for the person in charge. There is a large screen on the stage, and a few of the company's employees were doing the final check-up.

A moment later, 6 people in formal suits came from the front door. The group was led by a female. Li Wei had met this female before during his interview session. By body language, the female in front leading the group was the leader and their new boss.

"Good morning, and welcome to the AOSIS Group." On stage, Ms. Lim was giving a speech while the other 5 people were standing behind him.

"I am pretty sure some of you have met me before, and most of you haven't. I am the founder, the president, and the CEO of AOSIS Group. Basically, I am your boss. You can call me Boss or Ms. Lim, both are fine by me."

All 256 people listened attentively to their new boss's speech. Most of them were quite shocked that the young lady on the stage will be their new boss.

They thought that this young lady has an extraordinary background. Nobody is insane enough to suddenly employ 1000 employees, which will cost the company 10,000,000 yuan per month in salary expenses alone!

"These people behind me are the heads of departments. Since this is a new company, some of them hold multiple jobs in this company. Gradually this job will be offered to one of you to lessen their burden."

"So far, does anyone have a question?"