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Filipino Job Seekers: Here are the Practical Tips on How to Get a (Good) Job in the Philippines – Part 3

Hello Filipino job seekers! Today, you are about to read Part 3 of the practical tips on how to get a job within and outside the Philippines. I know, we all want a good job, a job that will give us the satisfaction we deserve and the financial freedom we aim for. Before I lay down the last list of tips (which more likely is the most important tips of all in these post series), let’s have a quick re-cap of Part 1 and Part 2. In Part 1 , I give you tips on how to write a good resume, how to get yourself ready for the interview, and how to find and apply for a job that fits your personality or profession. Also, I offer some advises that will help you put that budget for your job application into a good spend. Using the internet smartly, getting a temporary job while applying for the big one, and seeking the help of people around you are some of those important to-do’s when applying for jobs. In Part 2 , I list down all the requirements of your future Philippine employer which mainly

Filipino Job Seekers: Here are the Practical Tips on How to Get a (Good) Job in the Philippines – Part 2

Job seekers, here is Part 2 of this interesting post series. The link to Part 1 is here for those of you who haven’t read it yet. Filipino Job Seekers: Here are the Practical Tips on How to Get a (Good) Job in the Philippines – Part 1 Okay. Let me dive you deeper into the Philippines job economy. Let use a lens to see how stuff works for job on-boarding the country. Now hear me on this. Do you want a job? If it’s a yes then you have two main options: A. Live with the system, or B. Leave the system totally and find somewhere else – abroad. Job Hiring Ad in the Philippines But let’s get into the local job market first. List of Requirements from an Employer So after that job interview, let’s say you were told that you were hired. Perfect! But wait; there are more tough tasks to do! You need to complete all the requirements your employer is asking. Indeed! For first time job seekers, the list of requirements is enormous. What are they? Here is the huge list of major require

What are High Rise Buildings For in a Country of a Hundred Million People?

Recently, I've been to Makati City and Ortigas Center in Pasig City to find better job and business opportunities. The number of high rise buildings here seems to be doubling every year. Tinted glasses, magnificent architecture, and corporate people are here. Impressive places. But I started thinking and ask these questions. Are these high rise buildings really for us - the 100 million Filipinos? Are these wonderful infrastructures for job seekers like me? In this blog, I will share my views of the rising Philippines economy and its impact to millions of Filipinos. Building construction is everywhere in the Philippines. If you’re an investor reading this post, I have some good news for you. Here are the facts and figures about the Philippine economy today. Last May 8, 2014, Standard & Poor’s Financial Services (S&P) upgraded the Philippines’ long-term sovereign credit rating from BBB- Stable to BBB Stable, the highest rating ever recorded in the country’s history. Source:

The Job is On the Street

This is not a promotion of one of the many popular web-based job hiring companies. But on a literal sense, the job on this case is actually patrolling the streets of Metro Manila to tell everyone that the job is just there waiting to be grabbed. In 2010, the government reported that the country has a 7.4% unemployment rate. This data placed Philippines on the 105th rank out of the 196 countries surveyed for the highest to lowest unemployment rate. United States is just two ranks away from the Philippines, being 107th with 7.2%.  On the Photo: Passenger Bus Advertising Jobstreet, a Popular Web-Base Job Hiring Company  Not too bad with regard to the position of the country when it comes to unemployment. In fact, according to Jobstreet, they are now serving over 3 million Filipinos. Regardless of the compensation or salary being given, the labor force of the country is not only bringing life to the economy but also feeding as well their own families. Technically speaking,

What Have Changed on Me?

What makes life really amazing is when you happened to fulfill and achieve the goals you set. On the last few months of 2010, I had been really planning on getting a new job or shifting into a new career. This decision has been really so tough. First month, second and fifth month passed and my jobstreet applications have been all denied. I was once interviewed but the good luck never came in. If I am to assess myself on the way I performed on job haunting, I believe I did my best. However, I am a playing-safe kind of person. Specific to these goals, I still wanted to keep my current job while doing the haunting. And even up to today that I have my new job and new career with me, I am still working full time on this job where I had been for already three years. On the Photo: My Wife and I at Baguio City, Philippines Five Years Ago I love writing about the things that I experienced, events that I dealt with, problems that I had encountered and resolved and even anything that I