Connecting the dots
When SGV turned me down in 2006, I was devastated. I felt like I was rejected by my one true love to the point that whenever I saw acquaintances that were hired by SGV, I couldn’t help but stare and wonder what it is that they had that I did not have back then.
After watching my SGV dreams get crushed, I ended up working for a local Audit firm in Davao City. It lasted for 7 months. In fact it could have been shorter but I just didn’t want to give up on it too quickly. At some point though, I just realized that it doesn’t matter how long I stayed, I was just in the wrong place.
A lot of people do not know how familiar I am with the feeling of being rejected by one company after another. I had good grades in college, had enough extra-curricular activities to add color to my CV and spoke English well enough but for some reason companies just were not interested to hire me. It came to a point when I didn’t know where else to apply because my CV has been submitted to every company in Davao City that wanted someone with an Accounting degree. But I did not lose hope. I continuously prayed and asked God specifically for a job that would pay me a reasonable salary and would have a nice office.
Sometime in July 2007, I got an unexpected call from an HR Personnel of Deutsche Bank. It turned out that they did receive the CV that I submitted and that they were interested to interview me. I went to the recruitment fair that they had in Davao a month after I got the call. There were hundred of applicants, some have never even heard of Deutsche Bank prior to attending the fair but I was lucky enough to be among the 50 applicants who got a Job Offer at the end of the event. My compensation package was twice the amount I prayed for, and the office is in one of the most beautiful buildings along Ayala Avenue. No doubt, God does provide us with the best when we ask Him for it.
I have been with Deutsche Bank for almost 5 years now. It hasn’t been an easy journey but it has undoubtedly developed me to become the person that I’ve always dreamed of becoming. And as I trace my steps back to where it all began, everything does fit together. I was never meant to work at SGV. And Audit, no matter how much I enjoyed it in college, has never been something that I was meant to make a career of. I couldn’t be happier that SGV rejected me because now I know that such rejection took me to where I’m supposed to be.
