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Where would you get your next employee?
2007-12-12 21:33:00
Where would you get your next employee? This has been a common question to most recruiters recently whether the company is big or small. Others would rather stick to the traditional approach i.e. news paper postings since they’ve got good experiences using that system. To others who can really afford or who just wanted to exploit those job seekers who use the internet as their medium of searching for their next employer they tend to rely on various expensive job portals. With both trends being used by companies right now, where in the latter is more or less 10 yrs older, I’m sorry to tell you this that your stuck on both old systems that is not really effective to date and shall I say that your recruiters are not doing their job, that you never utilized every resources and means available or simply put you fail to innovate. Let me drop this question to employers who’ve been using both mediums as their only approach in luring applicants to your vacancies. How effe...
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The Best Investment in the World
2007-12-11 20:03:00
The Best Investment in the World “It’s not real estate. It’s not mutual funds. It’s not even Google stocks! The best investment you can ever have is yourself. It’s the only thing that really matters in the long run. ” McBilly Wilford Sy http://www.mcbilly.com (http://www.mcbilly.com/) I was blog hopping lately and visited a friend’s blog and saw this interesting article. Just to give you a short review of this guy before giving you a glimpse of his article. Let me give you a simple review of this kid’s profile. He’s just actually 18 years old and currently a working student taking up Bachelor of Science in Information Technology. He loves the internet and wants to make a difference. That’s the spirit… Other than being ...
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How does a great company look like?
2007-12-11 03:36:00
How does a great company look like? Some job seekers would tend to ask this question to their fellow job seekers as well as to how does a great company look like and I doubt if that fellow job seeker of his can answer his enquiry. Great companies is a great place to work I tell you. In fact, everyone has been desiring for this status but only a few succeed. Anyway, this entry was inspired by the book of Jim Collins “Good to Great”. I’ve actually read the book months ago when I was still with my first employer. T’was like a bible to them and the Manager’s are really oblige to read the book or if not get a few applicable lessons from the book. Now, you’ll have the idea of what the book really is in terms of contents to managers, executives and company owners. I would suggest you read first his “Built to Last” book since most of the reviews I’ve encountered linked it’s findings to that book. In addition, since I knew the boo...
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Chariots of Fire: “Resignations”
2007-12-10 10:09:00
Chariots of Fire : “Resignations” Maybe you guys would wonder on what’s the connection of the title of this entry to that song i.e. “Chariots of Fire”. Just recently, I was trying to familiarize myself with that song since I’ll be using it for our Christmas Party thus; was thinking of having it as the title for this entry to add a different taste to this radical content. Suffice to say the song inspired me to write this entry. Moreover, I’m so grateful that a few friends and guest visited the site. In fact some informed me that the article gave them bliss and gave them something to laugh about. Some also emailed me and gave me their opinions about the article and some points that I’ll be relaying to you as well. Their points should be pondered as well since it can affect future movements especially on resignations. What’s the good thing now is that, with the article I was able to gather a few more points from everyone as far as I...

I just resigned: Tips on the best months to resign.
2007-12-09 05:43:00
I just resigned: Tips on the best months to resign. “I’m broke, depressed and got no one to turn to!” This was the first text message I received from a close friend last night. “Where are you? You should be comforting me right now.” Hmmm… this one’s really important and guess what, he seems to be so demanding now... J .. Why he should not be when one needs comfort so desperately and got no one to turn to except me? 11 pm? What the… Anyway, I offered him a place to hang out with which happens to be my place and offered him a drink. Just a reminder, I’m no counselor or whatsoever. But, I’ve already accommodated some yuppies in my schedule just to be their mentor? I doubt if I’m qualified though worth the try and practice lolz… So what’s his story? Simple, he just resigned. Actually, I find it very stupid to resign during this month. December has been the most glorious days to employees especially if you...
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Soft Skills Trainings Programs
2007-12-07 09:50:00
Soft Skills Trainings Programs : Our company is dedicated and focused in delivering top quality training services. As a part of our commitment to our valued clients, our team of professionals formulated the Soft Skills Plus Training Programs. Our cost effectively created training programs are presented with a practical and powerful approach in enhancing the skills and exploring the potentials of each individual. We consider each team member plays a key role in an organizational success. We share a common goal with our clients. Meeting expectations, exceeding standards. Soft Skills Trainings Programs we offer: English Proficiency Better Business Writing Powerful Presentation Skills Effective Supervisory Skills (Basic) Effective Supervisory Skills (Advance) Train the Trainers Quality Customer Service Time and Stress Management Team Building Effective Delegation ...
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Discover Your Dream Job Today!
2007-12-05 03:00:00
Discover Your Dream Job Today ! Today, since I got nothing good to write (as always) let me just share to you this short ebook. This ebook is about the Five Simple Steps to Finding Your Dream Job fast published by Two Eleven New Media. “How happy are you in the job you're in? Do you have a desire to do something else with your career? If so, you're not alone. You have plenty of company in wanting to change your goals and focus in life. Maybe you've just turned 40 and realize that you're into the second half of a working career you never really liked. Studies have shown that working in a job because you have to, not because you like it, can have some effect on your life span. Why take years off your life when you don't have to? The problem for most people in these situations is that they're not sure where to start. They've either been tossed into this situation unexpectedly and are trying to make decisions on the run or they know that they at least need to have a paycheck...
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Your own Blog can raise your visibility to employers
2007-12-04 18:40:00
Your own Blog can raise your visibility to employers “Visit recruiter and company blogs to learn about employers and opportunities. And consider starting your own blog to raise your visibility to employers and help them get to know you.” A few companies have started this initiative; in fact I’ve read a few CEO’s blog already. Blog and Social Networking Platform’s are new tools most frequented by Talents. In the blogosphere you’ll see a lot of diamonds in disguise of an ordinary rock. You can see their wits being written on this canvass called Blog’s waiting to be noticed and be read by guest. If it interests them, they subscribe and even aggregate it. Furthermore, in blogging, you’ll learn, earn a few friends, increase your visibility to employers and ultimately, earn a few dollars upon monetizing your traffic. Currently, hiring managers does a little research on a job candidate online. A few clicks using various search engines can pro...
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Latest Monster Attack Targets Employers
2007-12-04 17:15:00
Latest Mons ter Atta ck Targets Employers Well, well, well.. What do we have here, a second attack to a job portal giant? This has been the latest news from Monsters.com which is a job board giant like CareerBuilder.com. Worst, this time, the attack was target to employers. So what does this imply? No one’s safe in the internet. Hackers are getting smarter everybody that they’ve come up with various stuffs just to penetrate to your security. From the last attack, hackers were able to steal more than a million user data’s. Now, let us check with some of the leading job portals in the country to date. From JobStreet.com, JobsDB.com etc. are their security measures reliable if such attack occurs? Some of these portals are using collaborative software to clients’ corporate websites just to track applicants of which various HR experts wonder if these hackers will be using those contraption as their main gateway to corporate websites, then to corporate information&r...

Fresher's Guide for their first 1,000 days of employment
2007-12-04 09:17:00
Fresher's Guide for their first 1,000 days of employment This article was inspired by the book Mission Critical Leadership by Paddy Miller. The book was quite expensive at that time but now, how painful it is seeing the book is now on sale for only P 100.00. Anyway, I actually bought this book 2 – 3 years ago and begun reading it without understanding the contents of it. My bad, but of course you can’t blame me for that since I’m just an ordinary guy at that time with extraordinary dreams, and now, still. Nothings changed. To continue, basically the book is very useful to executives since the book is written for them, not for me, nor for those fresher’s or for those ordinary employees like us in general. But mind you, there’s a treasure in it. On one hand, I created a twist of the book. I gathered some points, and made it as a guide for me to reach my goals. But unluckily, I didn’t reach my goals in life in a stricter sense but I’m pretty...
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Careerclub Philippines now offers quality hosting!
2007-12-03 07:32:00
Careerclub Philippines now offers quality hosting! Are you in need of a quality web hosting solutions for your site? Are you in need of a domain and web hosting solution for your next online project? You’ve come to right place. Careerclub Philippines is now offering Domain and Web hosting as an extension of our service at very affordable price. Get a domain. First, let’s get your self a new domain. Just use any available tool in the internet for your preferred domain. Once your preferred domain is available inform us immediately for us to reserve your domain. Our hosting package. Our package is among the cheapest in the market and our servers have a 99.9% uptime. So what does our package includes;
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NEWSFLASH: Careerclub Philippines “Career Section” is now up and running!
2007-12-03 00:06:00
NEWSFLASH: Career club Philippines “Career Section ” (index.php?option=com_jobline Itemid=30) is now up and running! We have just fixed the problem lately and our “Career Section” is now functional for employers use. Once again, we would like to invite employer representatives to post their updated job vacancies now. How to post jobs: Register an account first. If you have registered recently, we’re very sorry to inform you that you have to register again because our site suffered a major problem last week. All registered users were deleted and our back-up files were all corrupted. Registration would only take a minute or two. Proceed to “Career Section”. (index.php?option=com_jobline Itemid=30) Click on this section for you to view the page where all jobs can be found. Please don’t get discourage if you’ll see no job postings for now since we just suffered a major problem last week. By the way, your job postings could help us o...
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Is your company moving or just trying to terminate you indirectly?
2007-12-02 19:45:00
Is your company moving or just trying to terminate you indirectly? First of all, I would like to inform everyone that our site is now fully functional using Internet Explorer browser since it has been reported that it was not. We’ve fixed the issue just last yesterday and up until now we’re still trying to retrieve all the files. If you’ll notice any bug’s again, please do not hesitate to drop us a line. Moreover, back up files was not that useful and that I don’t know. I keep receiving errors once importing the files. Worst, all our 100+ registered users were all deleted coupled with our partner links thus, were very sorry if you can’t find your links in the front page for now. Most retrieved links are placed on our link directory for the meantime. We will be transferring those links in our frontpage once done fixing things. So, is your company moving or just trying to mass terminate all of you indirectly? Quite tricky ey? Don’t wo...
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I sell books.. Just another unemployed.
2007-12-01 10:43:00
I sell books.. Just another unemployed. I’m tired of selling books that’s why I quit. Uttered words by a stranger whom I once chat with the other night… I once strolled around Ayala and I felt hungry so I went to PansitPalabok stand and yes, just the kind of food I can afford aside from it’s my favorite. Anyway, I saw this guy alone trying to finish his stuffs so sensing that this guy needs a companion and someone to talk with I joined him. Well of course, guys can just blend any time any where but mind you I can’t blend with ladies that easily. How did I know that he needs a company by then? Well some HR is good at body language therefore, I can tell. Moreover, I’m not also discounting the fact that we’re a bit confident as compared to girls so we can just talk to anyone at anytime. I also validated that this guy wanted someone to talk with because he opened up first like where I’m presently connected since I’m wearing my uni...
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The HR Logic…
2007-12-01 10:42:00
The HR Logi c … Because of the information overload that I’m experiencing right now coupled with the demands from my clients internal and external thus, I could not provide original contents as of to date. Honestly, I’m trying to draft one here but I guess my mind can’t process stuffs. Worst, felt a bit in hurry on some things I find irrelevant to my chosen profession. For the meantime let me share to you this famous Hr story. After 2 years of selfless service, a man realized that he has not been promoted, no transfer, no salary increase, no commendation and that the Company is not doing any thing about it. So he decided to walk up to his HR Manager one morning and after exchanging greetings, he told his HR Manager his observation. The HR Manager looked at him, laughed, and asked him to sit down saying,” My friend, you have not worked here for even one day.”

Are you more capable than your boss?
2007-12-01 10:42:00
Are you more capable than your boss? Worst, you even wanted to acquire your superior’s post knowing that you’re more capable of him/her? If I’m not mistaken you’ve already belittled his/her competence in front of your friends during those times when you were drunk or perhaps backstabbed her that often once career related conversations erupted. This is so unethical and if possible please refrain this. You know what? Sometimes we think this way when our boss’s started to flood us with deliverables not found in our job description that to some extent he wants us to create reports beyond our imagination. Moreover, there were also some instances that you need to extend long hours just to provide him/her the report he/she needs that leads us to sacrifice our scheduled dates. Maturity and leadership has also been an issue to the extent that you don’t know were you’re department is heading. These are just the common outcry of a newly hired employe...
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You’ll never regret reading this story..
2007-12-01 10:41:00
You’ll never regret reading this story.. I’ve read these story months ago and for the second time around a colleague of mine forwarded me this story. Some of you might have read this story while others have not thus; I’m sharing this to you and as guaranteed you’ll never regret reading this story. It might be difficult for you to understand some of the words being used by the author but I just wanted to preserve the real essence of the story thus, I’m not providing any translation to it. I would rather suggest grabbing your friend who’s fluent in Cebuano language before reading this one or else you’ll miss the pain, the agony and tears. This is story is worth sharing. This story is worth pondering. This story is worth remembering. This story is worth recalling. These story is your attention. Lastly, I would like to give credit to the real author of this story who happens to be unknown since I could not trace the real source of this story. To...
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Careerclub Philippines weekend check up!
2007-11-28 23:41:00
Careerclub Philippines weekend check up! Yes, we will be doing some debugging this weekend so expect a few problems while logging in but don’t you worry we’ll try not to hamper the user experience. Expect some slight changes and updates but I doubt if it’ll be noticeable. Things I’ll be doing this weekend: 1.) Fix the issue on Internet Explorer compatibility. Since internet explorer is having a hard time loading the site, I think I need to work on this one now. I’ll probably be doing some testing using my other sites on this one. As you can see I’m no programmer so I’ll really be having a hard time doing this alone. 2.) Update Keywords. It’s December thus, I’ll be trying new keywords for the month. I’ll be surfing around to known sites for the keywords. 3.) Scrap non-related affiliate programs. Let me see if my time can accommodate this one. Well anyway, I’m very much dependent with this kind of...
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I sell books.. Just another unemployed.
2007-11-28 20:50:00
I sell books.. Just another unemployed. I’m tired of selling books that’s why I quit. Uttered words by a stranger whom I once chat with the other night… I once strolled around Ayala and I felt hungry so I went to PansitPalabok stand and yes, just the kind of food I can afford aside from it’s my favorite. Anyway, I saw this guy alone trying to finish his stuffs so sensing that this guy needs a companion and someone to talk with I joined him. Well of course, guys can just blend any time any where but mind you I can’t blend with ladies that easily. How did I know that he needs a company by then? Well some HR is good at body language therefore, I can tell. Moreover, I’m not also discounting the fact that we’re a bit confident as compared to girls so we can just talk to anyone at anytime. I also validated that this guy wanted someone to talk with because he opened up first like where I’m presently connected since I’m weari...
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Are you more capable than your boss?
2007-11-28 01:53:00
Are you more capable than your boss? Worst, you even wanted to acquire your superior’s post knowing that you’re more capable of him/her? If I’m not mistaken you’ve already belittled his/her competence in front of your friends during those times when you were drunk or perhaps backstabbed her that often once career related conversations erupted. This is so unethical and if possible please refrain this. You know what? Sometimes we think this way when our boss’s started to flood us with deliverables not found in our job description that to some extent he wants us to create reports beyond our imagination. Moreover, there were also some instances that you need to extend long hours just to provide him/her the report he/she needs that leads us to sacrifice our scheduled dates. Maturity and leadership has also been an issue to the extent that you don’t know were you’re department is heading. These are just the common outcry of a newly hired...
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The HR LogicÂ…
2007-11-28 00:58:00
The HR Logi c… Because of the information overload that I’m experiencing right now coupled with the demands from my clients internal and external thus, I could not provide original contents as of to date. Honestly, I’m trying to draft one here but I guess my mind can’t process stuffs. Worst, felt a bit in hurry on some things I find irrelevant to my chosen profession. For the meantime let me share to you this famous Hr story. After 2 years of selfless service, a man realized that he has not been promoted, no transfer, no salary increase, no commendation and that the Company is not doing any thing about it. So he decided to walk up to his HR Manager one morning and after exchanging greetings, he told his HR Manager his observation.

You’ll never regret reading this story..
2007-11-27 03:14:00
You’ll never regret reading this story.. I’ve read these story months ago and for the second time around a colleague of mine forwarded me this story. Some of you might have read this story while others have not thus; I’m sharing this to you and as guaranteed you’ll never regret reading this story. It might be difficult for you to understand some of the words being used by the author but I just wanted to preserve the real essence of the story thus, I’m not providing any translation to it. I would rather suggest grabbing your friend who’s fluent in Cebuano language before reading this one or else you’ll miss the pain, the agony and tears. This is story is worth sharing. This story is worth pondering. This story is worth remembering. This story is worth recalling. These story is your attention. Lastly, I would like to give credit to the real author of this story who happens to be unknown since I could not trace the real source of this ...
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If I were her HR Manager I could have summoned her!
2007-11-26 20:09:00
If I were her HR Manager I could have summoned her! Worst, I could have terminated her at once… but wait, I guess I have to do it as per labor policy. Due process it is… This was my reaction to a certain supervisor on that particular mall after I heard her. Just last night after I saw my pitiful face on that book I mentioned in my previous post things turned bad. As to why I did not post this one last night? I just don’t wanna ruin my mood.s Anyway, the story goes this way. As I was waiting for a buddy whose fitting stuffs in the dressing room I saw these sales ladies gathered around chatting and one was their supervisor. As to why I’m confident that she was? Well she was wearing a more identifiable uniform. I might be wrong but for sure she’s a notch higher in terms of category compared to those folks around her.
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Was it John Chow who visited my Blog?
2007-11-26 17:15:00
Was it John Chow who visited my Blog ? Just minutes ago when I checked my Blog saw John Chow’s face. I can’t imagine this guy checking my blog in behalf of being a busy blogger. So who’s John Chow anyway? Well, if you’re a blogger perhaps you know who this guy is or you can as well visit his blog at http://www.johnchow.com/ (http://www.johnchow.com/) to know more about him. And why I am writing this? It’s just that it’s a compliment for me that this guy visited my blog once and I guess I’m just lucky enough. I wonder how nice it is if Darin, Arrington, Erick Schonfeld etc. would also be visiting my blog.

Did I say that I saw my face on a book?
2007-11-26 06:51:00
Did I say that I saw my face on a book? Yet another off topic for the week. Yes, I did saw my face on a book “Exploring Bohol” when me and my girlfriend visited Ayala – National Book store to check on new stuffs just hours ago. She’s been telling me about it years ago but it’s just that I don’t believe it and I never cared about it. Just a while ago she took the book and showed me how pitiful I look way back in college. Hahaha.. Wow! Can’t imagine myself stuck in that book and when I tried checking on other related books still my pitiful face was there! My girlfriend even told me that how ironic it is that I keep on buying books yet I don’t have a copy of that book wherein my pitiful face is embedded. Tsk tsk tsk.. Anyway, my face was stuck on those not because I’m a $%^$# $%^*$% (^%( $ but because of some things that I love doing way back in college. Mmmm the book was priced P495.00 and P 698.00 respectively. I wonder i...
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Confident of being a High Performer?
2007-11-26 00:29:00
Confident of being a High Perform er ? Are you confident that you can land a high paying job because you’re a high performer especially if you’re in sales and marketing? Watch out because recruiters together with headhunters are now so careful on assessing potential high post. Aside from a famous quote that “past performances does not guarantee future accomplishment” it has also been noted that high performers achieve such level due to the resources provided by his present or previous employer. Worst, some of these performers did not notice that.

Is your communication skill killing you?
2007-11-25 19:41:00
Is your communication skill killing you? This has been the most common dilemma that our job seekers wanted to cope with and has been the source of frustrations to some. Have you taken a long, hard look at how well you communicate with others lately? I bet the answer is no . Well, I suggest that periodically you review how good you are at being clear in your conversations with others, your writing of letters, reports, etc., and your effectiveness in presenting information or delegating work because this is the key on how confident you can be in closing deals especially if you’re a job seeker. To date, BPO is the hottest industry and most of our fresh graduates have wanted to join the bandwagon but without the English accent and fluency on other various languages you’re not welcome not unless if your tech geek. Anyway, are you worried about how your communication skill is killing you? Don’t worry now there’s the two of us or worst a million of us and I mea...
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Careerclub Philippines not IE compatible?
2007-11-23 23:16:00
Yes, I've been hearing feedbacks from various readers that Careerclub Philippines is not working with Internet Explorer and I'm very sorry for that. I've been trying to look for solutions as of date but to now avail. This occurred yesterday upon accidentally installing other stuffs. Wish to address this issue as soonest so as not to hamper the user experience. Rest assured I'll keep everyone posted once fixed.
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Pinoy Big Brother? Just another effective marketing strategy..
2007-11-23 21:57:00
Pinoy Big Brother ? Just another effective marketing strategy..This article maybe late but still worth the read knowing that I been wanting to write this short article for months now but I could not find time to reflect on this topic since I’ve got backlogs to attend to. PBB has been a sensation to all of us since its first edition. Up until now you can still notice various articles related to PBB circulated by known bloggers in the country to date from critiques, rhetoric’s and personal opinions as to how PBB affects our lives.So what made PBB so successful when they first launched the program? Let me highlight to theories as to how we are glued to this hot program. Aside from being a “kapamilya” you might consider this opinion. Ambulance Effect. This has been highlighted by some behaviorist of our times that played a very vital role in marketing campaigns. Ambulance effect is when we already know that an accident or somehow related to it occured sti...
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News Flash : Careerclub Philippines goes offline..
2007-11-23 04:06:00
Careerclub Philippines goes offline.. I was trying to install a “com_map” for me to give Careerclub Philippines portal that needed site map for robots to look at it and I accidentally extracted it at my directory. Hayyyyyyyyyyyyy… I messed up my site. Worst I don’t know how to fix it. As you can see lines are pop’n before some buttons. You can see more of it at the “career section” hayyyyy.. I asked for support from the forum but to no avail. I just hope that someone good enough can help me fix this one. I’ve asked help from a guy who’s also an enthusiast of using this kind of CMS and he suggested me to reinstall and load my back up files but I guess I won’t be doing it coz maybe it’ll worsen the problem..I’m just to hesitant of doing it without an assurance of a real programmer. But anyway, I’ll still be checking the support forum hoping that someone is familiar with this problem.Moreover, funct...
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