I want to testify to the amazing grace of God in my life and family. God has not left us without a witness, God is not slow as men do count slowness and He is always working behind the scene even when we cannot see nor feel it. January this year, I testified of God’s faithfulness in my education and how God gave me victory after suffering huge disappointment from a failed master thesis. Since then, I have been job searching, I´ve written dozens of applications and recorded 99.9% rejections. When this corona crisis began, the Holy Spirit prompted in my heart that I will be gainfully employed before this COVID-19 crisis is over. I did not know how it would happen but I was so convinced to the extent that I began to share it with my wife and siblings. I changed my pattern for job search by the guidance of the Holy Spirit and began to apply for PhD positions which I initially thought would be more difficult compared to regular industry jobs.
Around April, precisely, 24th of April, 2020, my former supervisor, Professor Rainer who supervised my final master´s thesis sent me an email asking if I am interested in a PhD opportunity in Switzerland. I replied yes so, he sent me further details and contact person to whom I should address my application. 28th of April, 2020, I made the application and received an interview appointment slated for 1st of May, 2020 (3 days interval). At this point, all I knew about the project was the project topic but to God be the glory I passed the first stage of the interview. Then, I was given 6 days to prepare a seminar presentation on the PhD topic via a video call. Part of my task includes developing my concept, ideas and proposed my strategy to solve a problem which many experienced scientists have been unable to solve for decades. I went to the Omniscience God, Almighty, and Creator of the Heavens and Earth; He who gives wisdom for witty inventions, and gifts for interpreting dreams. He (God) showed exact things to do while preparing for the presentation.
After the seminar, the head of the institute, who decides which PhD applicant to hire said my strategies and proposed hypothesis were 98 % the same as what he had in mind. Then, he asked two questions which I answered correctly and immediately said he will hire me for the job. The rest was academic gist, a laboratory tour and salary discussion. It happened so fast like a dream I believed God copied the professor´s mind and revealed it to me hence my idea and hypothesis as inspired by God was in tandem with that of the professors´ who I haven’t met before. 12th of May, 2020, I received an official offer letter for the PhD student position. To my surprise, this project is an EU-China initiative. I will be registered both in Switzerland and Germany and the salary will be commensurate with the Switzerland standard salary for PhD students. What a marvelous God we serve, He is too faithful to fail. Shalom!