Drug activity dropped dramatically since Johann and Wolfgang arrived.
Hilarious isn’t it? I’ve come across to this article long time ago and I just can’t recall the exact date and the name of the magazine. All I know is that it was surely long time ago. 
So what’s the real score about this story? Actually, this was highlighted as one of the best practice being implemented by company owners themselves based in Canada and U.S respectively. They were so happy about the results of this kind of approach on mitigating drug activity around their vicinity especially on those areas where customers frequent. Worst, customers won’t be coming in since these criminal minds are scattered on areas where customers park their vehicles especially on convenience stores. They’ve suggested that instead of calling the police why not just buy cheap and loud speakers and play classical songs. Worst when calling the police these punks gets irritated and invaded and would surely retaliate and won’t be accepting sorry for an answer. Drug activity and other petty crimes has been so rampant especially on those areas where security personnel is not visible or if there is security personnel’s are so helpless in controlling these so called radicals plus most of them are juveniles. In some cases these radicals have come to befriend security personnel’s to the extent that we’ve been hearing news about security personnel’s being an accessory to the crime. For sure you don’t want to be in big trouble right? Read more..
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“Intangible assets – How much is it really worth?
“Intangible assets – How much is it really worth?
Organizational entry isn’t just about finding the right person at the right time for the right job. It is also about keeping the right person. But how can we keep such valuable asset amidst the growing industries that promises to offer a fun place to work with plus perks together with extremely high starting rate? This is just one of those deep-seated questions being thrown now days by HR executives in every round table brainstorming there is. This has been one of the reasons why thinkers such us J. Collins & Porras adopted “built to last concept”, R.M Kanter urged executives to become “change masters” & Welch embraced “boundaryless” organization initiated with an open-book strategy just to encourage innovation and creativity to better position their respective organizations. To borrow one CEO’s statement “Take away my assets and leave my people.” This is one proof of how valuable these intangibles are to every organization striving to keep its pace in the new emerging economy.
Decades ago applicants use to offer commitment, loyalty, trust & conformity to our standards but sudden paradigm shift has emerge that lead to employers approaching talents offering them career path, security, training & development and benefits of which other industries could not match. This is the reason why I’m encouraging young job seekers alike to be a “company of their own” just to keep abreast with the demands of the new economy as discussed on my previous article. This is a good opportunity rather to better equip themselves with the necessary tools & competencies before exploiting the new global mindset of every recruiter and employer i.e. blitzkriegs. Job seekers should never rely too much of what their institution has offered them for things they taught us are mostly outdated proven by emerging practices in the new business arena. You should be responsible of your growth as discussed on my previous article. On one hand, this has been the reason why some multinationals or even local companies resorted to strategic collaborations with known institutions for strategic advantage. Some global corporations have even built their own institution and pooled the best professors at large just to help them breed new emotionally intelligent leaders – Hybrid performers. If you belong to these types of organization then so what if you’ll jump-ship. But still, they’ll bleed in silent and morn for the loss such talent for along with it was an enormous amount of tacit knowledge of which we can’t write nor explain. This led me to embrace the fundamentals of knowledge management before your think tank’s runs dry. Now, are you scared? Is your company still willing to push the game plan with your clear and concise operating system together with your ambitious or measurable goals? Then I would suggest you check your talent management program if it could counter your future knowledge management initiatives. Read more..
Stereotyping: How I hate young recruiters from the BPO Industry!
Stereotyping: How I hate young recruiters from the BPO Industry!
A critique to young recruiters in the BPO Industry.
I just can’t imagine why they’re so fun of stereotyping applicants. If not from schools then from what type of industry you’ve learned stuffs. Is this the kind of training they got form their respective organizations? Are these the one’s being taught to them by their immediate heads on how to get quality and promising applicants? Is this a proven technique as to acquire quality hires?
Young as they are there’s still plenty of lessons still to be learned. I just hoped that they’d realize this early that sometimes real talents are concealed in rough surfaces. It takes a fine craftsman to mold a masterpiece and time to test its determination. You’ll never know that those résumé’s your dumping is gold and right before you knew it they’ve already made your competitor a great company to work with earning enormous profits. Another scenario is how one guy who was thrown out by his own company of which he co-founded. Ironic right? Latter he built his own company of which his former company acquired and right then he was back on board. And who is this guy then? Steve Jobs of Apple himself. You know who’s responsible for iPhone’s wide acceptance though for a fact that it’s still to be released by AT&T come last week of June. Gold’s are buried beneath the surface so you should exert more effort and give them a fair treatment for you to identify future great performers.
“Passion to make a Difference – an HR Cebu Story”
“Passion to make a Difference – an HR Cebu Story”
This has been inspired by a simple yet profound conversation I had with Elena Maramba an aspiring HR professional braced by a recent initiative by HR Philippines spearheaded by Jing Ureta of Marbel University together with it’s ever supportive core team. HR Philippines was the source of my desire to found HR Cebu and sell it to HR Philippines as a regional group with the recognition of HRD Gateway. Passion indeed could make you surmount the insurmountable.
It’s because of passion that we ignite and habit to keep us going. This has been a lesson learned from my previous readings on various blog’s and forums that I used to park and scoop around latest news about technology and potential big ideas. Some of which are potential googler’s in the making who are in the constant lookout for potential VC’s and angels for them to sell their big ideas. Passion indeed could make you fathom the unfathomable. Read more..
Work, My Future and That Advice
Introduction
I think this is one of those few times I’m blogging about my working life. Frankly, it doesn’t bother me how many people from my office reads my blog. Although at first, it was kind of a little embarrassing when you suddenly caught someone reading your blog or they comment to you personally about what you just blogged.
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School: In a Common Student’s Point of View
When you go to school, you spend most of your time in classrooms on which the walls, ceilings, and doors all look the same and if you’re not used to it, it would seem like a big maze. The only thing different is that school security on which you often caught sleeping on duty.
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Work: In an Unenthusiastic Employee’s View
Like school, work is the same. You go to work to spend 8 hours sitting in front of the computer doing your so-called “job.” This so-called “job” includes a lot of stages. There are pre-work, real work and post-work stages. Let me explain these stages of work.
A company of your own
So whats that suppose to mean?
This has been my previous learnings from my 3 year stint in the HR arena. You have to be a company of your own.
I’d like to share this self taught learning reinforced by various readings to fellow job seekers out there. Actually I’m still actively looking for a new skill and challenge to embrace hopefully a big one to a new company (BPO preferred).
Job seekers should think like a company or act like a company equipped with the latest tools and competencies for you to be marketable enough to customers around. And who are these customers? Employers of course.
Fresh from college? So how do you guys market yourselves? Well mostly fresh grads usually brag their diploma’s, grades and licenses but I tell you some employers don’t care about these stuffs because past performance cannot guarantee them that your worth the investment though some schools of thought would still agree that it’s a good source of information on how you’ll perform in the long run.
So what then really counts if you don’t belong to those classroom brainiacs of your time?
Virtual collaboration
Virtual collaboration
Virtual collaboration has been a hottest online strategy being adopted by web start-ups since the dawn of the dot-coms. This has been also an effective tool on my part since it gave me the benefits of knowing more go-to guys in my category “webeprenuers”. If you’re a start-up who lacks funding in terms of financial and knowledge then collaboration or strategic alliances are good options to consider. This strategy has been proven by top web performer and could get you to where you wanted to go.
I’ve been doing virtual collaborations since the past two years before concentrating on a core project. Collaborations P2P & B2B for future benefit would really be good if you’re looking forward to building your won virtual empire. Success of this kind of initiative is dependent upon its execution and management for you to allocate the needed resources effectively. Managing alliances is so crucial that if you’ll neglect this part you’ll soon notice that you’re screwing your potential to be a force to reckon with. Worst, if you don’t know whom your collaborating with and what benefit would your start-up idea be getting, then you’ll still end up in a dustbin. So I would suggest you fully evaluate their capabilities and sitting to it that their services would give value to your users experience. Read more..
Mission Statements
Mission Statements
Mission statements are important when you’re up to something big. Mission statements are easy to materialize but hard to realize. Mission statements should set of missions from individual person up to the organization in general. The hard part of this is how you align those individual missions according to the organization’s mission in general.
Mission statements are sometimes vague if you’re a start up. But generally, mission statements are all directed to profit though some would sugar coat it as “towards a rewarding user experience” that is service oriented sites tends to innovate all the time to give their users and guest a rewarding experience. This is like a garden analogy. We don’t want this guys just come on go without staying a little bit longer at our gardens. This is also one proven fact that users can’t find one site that offers various features that suits every persons needs. In this case we build higher walls add more flowers and flood them with very powerful and useful features. Just like google etc. who keeps on acquiring merging and innovating to address that gap. Read more..
Knowledge vs. Wisdom
Knowledge vs. Wisdom
Knowledge Management has been the latest fad being adopted by Senior Managers now a day. But we should take note that not all fads are quite effective since there are a lot of things needed to be considered in choosing to adopt a certain fad and Knowledge Management is one fad that made waves in the new economy i.e. BPO Industry. Especially from BPO Industry that they wanted to know what there sub-offices are doing that is why they resulted to integrating all the systems with the use of sophisticated infrastructures.
Adopting knowledge management in the work place should start first on a shared vocabulary idea. One should understand basically what is knowledge and how to acquire it. Actually, knowledge can be and even can be bought. Of course when you avail of trainings and seminars then you acquire such knowledge. But the problem is execution. Execution has been the most common pitfalls by some organizations. They tend to plan superbly but lack the execution part of which this is the most vital part. Execution and implementation should go hand in hand together with some metrics that would ascertain results. Read more..
EFFECTS OF RETRENCHMENT
A close friend of mine after finishing her undergrad course gave this article to me. This has been a product of her careful research at my previous company before. Moreover, this has been circulated long time ago to various hr forums and has been archived at my old blog platform. So I retrieved it and housed it at my present website i.e. http://www.careerclub.com.ph since this is very relevant to my present undertaking as a rookie blogger on related matters.
EFFECTS OF RETRENCHMENT
Elena R. Maramba
Having retrenchment as a main alternative for the company to save itsfinancial instability, is never that advantageous for the employees.Although some of them might be grateful for after having been retrenched by the company, they were able to find a much better and a more stable job,which they didn’t a bit consider when they were still working in thecompany. But then again, not all people are as fortunate as them. A lotof employees are obviously working so as to give their family at least adescent life to live, not even a luxurious one. And being one of those who were terminated is never easy for them and to the people who are dependingfrom them, especially that looking for a new job is never easy, knowing how rampant unemployment is in our country. The sad thing with this is that people who lost their jobs, would now be inclined to go abroad in order to sustain the needs of their families. This could lead to having their lives at stake just for the purpose of having money. And somehow, this shouldn’t have been the fate of many Filipino employees.However, having retrenchment could save the company. They could lessen their financial expenses and in this way they could better budget their money and put them in areas which could be of great improvement for the company. Their expenses will be minimized knowing that they would haveto pay a lesser number of employees who could still manage to do the sameamount of job if there were many employees hired. Although this would mean, making the employees do more jobs than usual, but could be helpful since if many employees are also working, there is a tendency that they would work with less effort knowing that there are plenty of them.Somehow, retrenchment had also helped the company to avoid duplication of duties which has helped the employees since it’s through this that they were able to maximize their knowledge and skills over the job they are working. This could be a driving force for the employees to do better in their job, which could help the company to have a more productive output with great quality.In this way, the company would also be inclined to give their employees more benefits and perhaps to increase the salary, without affecting much of their financial capability, unlike if they have to pay a great number of employees. And this would be of great motivation to the employees to do better and to give the best they could for their work. Read more..
