Thirty Seconds

At careers day today I went to a session from CA (Chartered Accountants) and basically the guy said that for cadetships, HR looks at your CV for 30 seconds. THIRTY SECONDS. Fair enough they have 1000 to get through but dang it's a brutal world.

Basically, people who have a job to get done look at your two page summary of yourself to decide whether you're good enough. Isn't that scary? You put your life in two pages only for it to be placed there and judged by some corporate workers. It's scary.

I guess this is what we mean by 'performance-based world'.

But I need to remember that these people and their opinion and judgement is not important at all. Sure it's important to my career and my future, but not at all important to how I stand before God and how much I'm worth to Him. Thing is, my CV and application is the person that I project myself to be to those who I want to hire me. They're going to look at 'the best of me' and say yay or nay.Sure I can tell them about how great I am but of course I'm not going to write a 1000 word answer about my weaknesses or what a crappy person I am. It just doesn't work like that.

 When I stand before God I can't hide anything. He knows I'm really gross on the inside. I'm filled with sin and He can't stand that. BUT He loved me enough to send His son to die for me. When I stand before Him, He'll see perfection, but it's not my perfection it's Jesus'.

I'm currently in the process of applying for a whole lot of cadetships. I pray that everything I say in these applications will be true and will ultimately glorify God. I pray that if I am successful in getting an interview, I won't be ashamed to tell the interviewers about where my passions lie - Christ and His church.