Get close to Beauty!

I went to a seminar held by Ceci at our university. Ceci is one of the famous beauty companies in Korea. They publish their own magazine and held a lot of beauty events for young women. This event was to learn special make-up of the most famous Korean actress, Hyegyo Song, and to introduce the best Korean beauty company, Amore Pacific. As I wrote here before, I am quite interested in beauty things; so it seemed to be a good opportunity for me to know about the company and useful make-up tips.

The seminar was divided into 2sections.
First, a professional make-up artist had a beauty class. She's been working as a make-up artist over 10years. So she is mostly working with celebrities like Hyegyo Song. She was teaching us how to do make-up like Hyegyo Song because her make-up is very popular these days. In addition to this, she gave us lots of useful tips to keep our beauty with daily habits. It was worthy and reliable because of her appearance. She looks like in her late 20's, but actually she is in 40's... All students were shocked and couldn't belive it. It was flabbergasting. ;-p

Second, HR Dept. of Amore Pacific company introduced themselves and how they recruit people. Since they are by far the best domestic beauty company, now they aim to be involved in global top 7 beauty companies in the world by 2015. They are especially focusing on China, America, and france; so they prefer to have employees who are able to work in another countries. Actually I saw their products were displayed in other countries, and it seemed to be one of the popular cosmetics for foreigners. Whenever I saw that, I was so proud of that. Not only for that, I've been use their products for my whole life so that I know they make really good stuff. since I am interested in getting involved in cosmetic companies, I really want to be hired by this company. Hopefully I can be able to do like that.

Through this seminar, I could learn about various of tips that I hadn't known before. Also, it was a good time to get to know about the company that i am interested in. I am gonna try to apply for Amore Pacific and... see what will happen! ;-)

The Application Process Step by Step

I finally have my application form submitted today. Actually I’ve experienced this several times before; this time is the hardest one so far. By now, it was not a formal thing, but was informal one for getting part-time jobs. There are a couple of things you need to do in applying for companies. I am going to go over some of the process and give you useful tips.

2 steps to prepare for a job application:

1. Get your professional profile picture:

 If you are about to put any pictures of you on a resume, it would be one of the reasons to be left you off the list of applicants. You need to dress up neatly to look like a professional worker. For this, I went to a photo studio to get my profile picture. Usually, Korean female applicants go to a beauty salon to get a professional make-up & hair style. In my case, I really didn’t have enough time so that I did my make-up by myself and got hairdressing from my friend. Fortunately, it was done nicely! :) Look. How nice I look like..!

(A woman in the picture doesn’t look like myself.

All thanks to Photoshop. XD)

2. Write a letter of introduction: know about yourself! :

A letter of introduction is the same as a cover letter. Well, there are various application forms depending on companies. Each company has their own application form, and they give you several different sections regarding your work experience, the reason why you want to work with them, and so on. To impress them, you should know about yourself. It seems to be easy, but you might get into trouble while filling out the form.

Me, myself… I did. I stayed up all night for several days to complete my cover letter. I found out that it is the most difficult thing for me to express myself by writing a cover letter. :( I want to say that the more you know who you are and what you want, the less you let things upset you. Right understanding of yourself will only help you to write a perfect cover letter. You can get some advice of people around you about this as well.


If you are done with these two steps, now you are ready to be a perfect applicant! I am sure that things will work out for the best. Good luck with your application!

Though I am not yet ready to be a good applicant and have a long way forward, I am trying to do my best as much as I can. Hopefully, I can get involved in a company I really want to work for.
I’ll go for it. Good luck for me! :)

Have you ever heard about 'Wisdome'?

Today, I attended a seminar hosted by ‘Wisdome’, which is one of Share Economy companies in Korea. They aim to share a wide variety of experience and knowledge by inviting experts in every field. They make a lot of group seminars and post them on their own website, http://www.wisdo.me/index.do; then people can participate in the seminar that they are interested in. It might be a great opportunity for people who want to get some advice from experts in particular fields. After having the seminar, participants get to know each other with the same interests and share other things they’ve got as well.

The seminar that I took part in was about a Sharing Economy company ‘Airbnb’, which is famous for sharing special places all over the world. It’s totally different from a normal lodging business, but they connect people in a unique and special way. First, they look for some hosts who have any vacancy in their house; then they help some tourists stay there for at a reasonable price. In addition, tourists get some information about local places from their hosts and hang out with them while staying there. What a great way to utilize useless flats and to learn about the local things that is not well known to tourists!

 

 Well, we did video chatting online with a Korean employee from Airbnb since she’s been working at Asian office in Singapore. She gave us a brief presentation concerning her company's services, policies, and so on. We could have known about a lot more information about the company, and it motivated me in various ways; basically, I am quite interested in working at international companies like Airbnb, and I am willing to work abroad if I can get the opportunity. Well… let me imagine if I could work in another country, oh… OMG! That would be super awesome!! ;) I might choose one of the countries which weather is unchangeable and which people are friendlier than others. As you know, Korea is too cold in the winter, and it is too hot in the summer!

 

Actually, I have short-term work experience in the U.S when I was in San Francisco last year. In spite of my imperfect English and inexperience, I could have enjoyed myself working there. International people, a different business culture, working by speaking in English… everything was so intriguing even though I was having difficulties from time to time. I sorely miss everything there sooooo much, and I've left my heart out there... haha ;)

    Anyway... from today’s seminar, I could have got the time again to think of my dreams, future job. It was really wonderful, and I will attend another meeting later on. I am looking forward to doing it!

I Have A Dream!

"What's your dream, Seoyoung?

What would you like to be in the future?"

 

 

For some people, it may seem to be easy to answer, and they might be willing to reply without any hesitation; for me, it’s the most difficult question that I’ve ever been asked. I’ve been wondering about my dream for a long time, but I couldn’t come up with what I really want to do.

 

 

Then recently, I saw an advertisement about a contest with a theme of dream. This contest is held by Asiana Airlines, which is one of the best airlines in Korea. They are looking for some university students who want to go on a trip for exploring their dreams. They offer exciting opportunities for contestants to get closer to their dreams by supporting them financially. I wanted to participate in this contest, but I didn’t have any dream. I was hesitant, so I asked my friend to join me in that.

 

She is well aware of my problem that I haven’t had any dream so far, so she started figuring out what kind of things that I can do well. Since she is my closest friend who knows me very well, she could give me some great advice. She told me that I am good at doing make-up and seem to be interested in that field so much. Actually, I wanted to be a make-up artist when I was young; however, my parents wanted me to get a common job such as a teacher or a worker in any company. Also, to be a make-up artist was not considered as a good job those days, and it’s not that easy to be successful unless I am really talented or into it. So I couldn’t help giving up my little dream.

 

Anyway, thanks to my friend, I feel like I got the answer that I’ve been looking for until now. She suggested me to get some information about cosmetic companies and to figure out what I can do from there. I think this is good enough for today. I mean I finally found my dream!!! Yeah!!!!! ;D I still don’t know what to start yet, but I got much better than before. From now on, I and my friend are gonna work on our project to make our dreams come true. We'll do our best to be a winner. I guess we deserve it! lol hope we can win the contest and get an awesome chance to go travelling for our dreams! I am already sure that we can do it. We’ll go for it!

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