Monday, April 16, 2007
May OJT na si yhan
Masarap palang maglakad sa Ayala Ave. lalo na kapag tanggap ka na sa company na balak mong pag-OJT-han.

Isa ako sa mga late na nagwork sa klase namin. Read: Maarte ako. Kinukuha na kasi ako ng Sykes before pa mag holy week. May project yung team na sasalihan ko. Mataas pa ang allowance. Pero dahil nga sa maarte ako ambisyosa ako, tinanggihan ko ang Sykes.

Today , nagpunta ako sa Accenture. Ang bait nung nakausap ko na Recruitment Officer. Gusto ko siya in fairness. Ang gaan niya kausap. Well, since HR siya, malamang trained talaga siya to be what an HR officer is expected to be.

So, ayun, back to me.. Tanggap na ako. Yey for me! Start na ko tomorrow. Hindi ko pa alam ang gagawin ko pero xempre highly confidential yun so malamang hindi ko yung pwedeng i-share.. weee..

Hindi ko na rin natanong kung magkano ang allowance ko. That's the last thing on my mind right now. Ang gusto ko lang talaga ay matapos ung 300 hours, and xempre may madagdag naman kahit konti sa aking knowledge. =)

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
Sana Accenture na talaga. *cross fingers*
Ang tagal ng pinaghintay namin ng classmate ko para magsimula sa Company M, para lang malaman na sa April 23 pa ang start namin. At nalaman lang namin yun 2 days bago magpasahan ng requirements sa school. Thursday yun.

Kamusta naman un? Kala ko okay na ako. Kala ko meron na akong company na pweedng isagot pag nagtanong ang mga classmate ko kung saan ako magO-OJT. Ang tagal namin hinintay ang go signal ng company M. Un pala, sa wala lang mauuwi ang paghihintay namin. Amp.

Sa wakas, tinawagan ako ng Accenture. Nagpunta ako sa Libran House Friday Morning at binigyan ako ng Medical Referral Slip. Nakipagmeet ako sa classmate ko sa Makati dahil may ipapapirma siya sa supervisor sa company niya. Naisip ko, wala namang mawawala kung magpapaa rin ako ng resume sa company nila. Binigay ko ang resume ako at scheduled ako for interview sa Monday ng 2pm.

Ano na nga ba ang nagyari sa Accenture? Ang sabi ay baka late next week pa daw ako magstart. Hala, baka July pa ako matapos nun. Kaya tinawagan ko sila ulit pagkauwi ko ng bahay nung Friday. Good News! Sabi nung kausap ko , siya na daw ang magiinterview sakin at tatawagan niya daw ako kinabukasan, Saturday, kahapon dapat yun. At pwede na daw akong magstart early nextweek.

Sa sobrang tuwa ko, napatakbo ako sa SM Megamall, para sa Medical sponsored ng Accenture. Wow, ang sarap palang magpamedical ng walang bayad.

Kaso di siya tumawag nung Saturday. Huhuhu. Naghintay ako buong araw kaso di siya tumawag. Kumakabog na naman ang dibdib ko dahil sa sobrang paghihintay. Makakatulog lang siguro ako ng mahimbing pag nagstart na ako magwork. Waaaahh.

Anyways, tatawagan ko na lang sila ulit tomorrow and I hope makastart na ako sa Tuesday para naman matapos ko ung 300 hours na required ng school namin. Bakit ba kasi 300 hours e. Pwede naman 150 lang. Alam naman nilang summer. Buti sana kung isang buong sem yan. haaay. pasaway talag ang sistema ng Pontifical and Royal University. raarrr!!

Wish me luck. sana sa Accenture na nga talaga ko!

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Thursday, April 05, 2007
Truth about my OJT

I’ll share with you the truth behind MY so-called on-the-job training or Internship as I’d prefer to call it.

I am an incoming senior student at the University of Santo Tomas taking up BS Information Technology. Our curriculum is requiring us to have a company train us as interns with a minimum of 300 working hours this summer.

Normally, schools themselves find a suitable company for their students. That should be the correct setting. However, under unspecified circumstances, we, the students are the ones who are blowing our asses off just to get a very good company accept us as interns. Honestly, some of us are dead tired dealing with company HR departments who won’t return our e-mails and all that shit.

Not only that, we also have to pay the freaking school 5,300 pesos. Where is that amount supposed to go? well, I have no fucking idea. Think think......

I passed my resume in countless companies at the Job Fair held at our school. Only 4 of them responded. One was Accenture who convinced us into getting an exam with them, the other was Sykes Enterprise, Link2Support and the other one, which is a call center company.

Most of us dreamt of working with Accenture because it is an IT company for the most part. One afternoon, our cellphones started ringing one after the other. It was Accenture and they were asking us to confirm an examination with them. Of course, everyone was ecstatic. It was the first company to call us since the Job Fair. Everyone confirmed into taking the exam at the Accenture Libran House.

Whoever said that the pre-employment examination of accenture is easy,is either lying or did not really took the exam. Accenture Torture, that's what we'd like to call that exam. The examination was very hard. It tested our intellectual endurance. I believe the neurons in my brain were also screaming and cursing that exam more than I do. It probably was the hardest exam I evarrrr had.

A few week later, I got a call from them informing me that I passed the exam and they would schedule and interview so I should check my e-mail once in while. I waited and waited and waited until I grew roots but there was no e-mail. My other classmates also did not receive any from them. So much for hoping.

Then there was Sykes where I was interviewed together with one of my classmates and another girl from UP. My brain once again complained but this time it's because of an information overload. The interview lasted for at least an hour or so and there was too much information for me to handle. The bottomline was me and my classmate did not take the offer because the job was not fitted in our category and for other inconvenient reasons as well.

I was desperate to find a company, so me and some of my classmates ventured the soaring towers of Makati. Went to PBCom, PhilamLife, GT tower, RCBC Plaza etc. and submitted our resumes to unknown companies. We all knew at the back of our minds that our resumes will be disregarded. Heck we were even lucky if it reaches the HR department.

FYI: Amongst those towers, the PhilamLife Tower has the best elevators. =)

I was cursing walk-in aplication. Not only did I spent so much for my transpo and food and water, it also was tiring that I even fell asleep in the bus and lost my ID. =(

After so much desperation, our walk-in application paid-off. Metrobank called me and my friend scheduling us for an interview. As far as we're concerned, we got the job. We either start this week or next week.

Okay, it might be tiring as it seem but it's only the beginning of this internship and I'm so much hopeful for the success of this one.

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Wednesday, April 04, 2007
No one can mess with my internship
I thought my upcoming internship this summer wil be so much fun. Because of my excitement, I started buying a few corporate shirts and some shoes to match them. But when I opened my messenger this evening, there was an offline message from one of my classmates saying that there will be some changes. Instead of the girly one, we will have the guy instructor as our OJT coordinator slash adviser.

Suddenly it hit me right in the head. I just realized I'm doomed. You see this guy instructor, gave me two , not just one, but two failing grades last year. Both for the lecture and laboratory. It doesn't end there. Only this semester, I was supposed to fail the subject he's handling. I got 57, and the passing was 60. Me and my classmates just realized that his computations were wrong. So upon changing the computation, turns out that I am the only one, the only one who was still left failed. According to his computation, I got 59. I asked if we could compromise, gladly he agreed. But asking him that kind of thing was not easy. It felt like I'm a criminal who was facing the wrath of my victim, when in fact I am the victim.

From that moment, I realized that I should not take studies for granted. Not at least the subject he's handling. As far as I know, I am not the stupidest student there is but how come I was the only one left failed? So there, I've come to so many theories but everything was summed up to the thought that he does not like my guts or whatever.

But really you know what, I will make this the best internship I will have in my life. Regardless of whoever the coordinator is. =)

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