Category: Career

  • Pre-employment requirements in the Philippines

    Pre-employment requirements in the Philippines

    For the past two years, I worked from home as web developer for a foreign company. And now, I am having office-based employment for the first time. I already did office-based work before for 7 months, but that was only internship, not yet employment.

    After some time and effort, I received some job offers from companies in various places – Makati, Ortigas, and Quezon City. I wanted to avoid Makati, dreading the wearisome commute that I already experienced during internship, but the offer I accepted is actually from the company at Makati. The position they offered me is what I think would best help build me up for my career goals, and so I decided to just overlook the difficulty in commute. After all, difficulty is part of life. 🙂

    The pre-employments in the company where I’m about to work are as follows: (more…)

  • Job-hunting tips for IT people – developers / programmers / engineers / web designers

    Job-hunting tips for IT people – developers / programmers / engineers / web designers

    I went to job screenings before without preparation except studying for the expected programming exams. Because of this I screwed up in an interview with a company that I really wanted to be a part of. There’s no time for regrets though and I need to keep moving forward. 🙂 I don’t know why, but I didn’t prepare for the interviews and wasn’t able to answer the final (3rd) interviewer properly.

    Web development/programming is what I do, so I’m going to list down some tips, in no particular order, to prepare for your job-hunting and increase the chance of getting hired:
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