My Mr. Mermaid

Untitled Part 14

Chapter 14: Job Interview and Press Conference by ryuxenji

Yun Duo felt that she was pretty much headed toward becoming a part-time mentoring tutor. Besides helping Tang Yi-Bai with his level 4 exam, she also had to help Lin Zi prepare for the written test and interview for his job application.

Lin Zi's resume was very interesting.

In order to avoid unnecessary concern from the interviewer with regards to his work experience, he simply left those out. For the column where he was supposed to list his work experience, he only put down 'freelancer' without providing any further explanation. This simple word exuded the information-laden aura of 'shameless youth with an overinflated sense of self unwilling to do lowbrow work living off the moonlight years of his elders'.

And then, in the column for self-evaluation, he even more shamelessly beautified himself according to the code of conduct set out by the newspaper agency for its reporters. He made it sound like he was born to be a reporter — that anyone who stood in his way of becoming one was just cruelly stifling talent.

Besides that, he wiped away his studies abroad in the section on academic background, only retaining information on his undergraduate degree. In the section where he was supposed to list any academic honours he had received, he went wild:

Runner-up of his primary school essay competition;

Reader's choice writer for his junior high school paper;

Full marks for his college entrance exam;

...

He worked hard to dig up all of these glorious past achievements, using them as evidence that he was qualified for the job.

When Yun Duo saw it, she was rather surprised. "You scored full marks for your college entrance exam? Impressive."

"In English."

"..."

In the end, under the column for 'Expected Income', Lin Zi very pompously wrote down: As you see fit.

To be honest, Yun Duo believed that his resume had only passed the initial screening due to those words.

And then there was the written test. The topic for the written test was decided on-the-spot by the few heads of the editing centre. The topic was not a professional one — primarily meant to test the respondents writing skills, critical thinking, and observational insight. It was relatively simple, and with some targeted preparation, Lin Zi passed it easily.

The interviews were conducted by Director Liu himself. The door of the conference room was closed. The job applicants were seated neatly in rows outside like sheep — most of them were young people looking for their first job, and some were even still university students, so each and every one of them were more or less a little nervous. Sitting among these people, Lin Zi sat at ease with his legs crossed, ankle over knee, looking rather out of place.

Very soon, he had been called into the conference room.

And then, almost as soon as he stepped through the door, he was recognised ...

As something had cropped up suddenly for one of the senior editors on the interviewing panel, Teacher Sun who had been in the office had been dragged in as an impromptu replacement. When Teacher Sun saw Lin Zi, his jaw dropped. "Stock god, why are you here?"

Lin Zi's brows twitched. Godd*mmit. He had so carefully crafted what he was going to say, even putting in the extra effort to practise his acting skills ... and now, he was exposed even before he could use any of it!