Honesty is the best Policy
Honesty is the best policy. This adage is very popular in the Philippines. It is taught even in my early years in school. It is said that a person who is honest always wins his battles. A few years ago, I was tasked to handle the recruitment of ...
Demotion: Demoralizing or Not?
Demotion is the movement of an employee from one job to another of lower rating, employment status, or rank. From Schalk and Rousseaur’s perspective on psychological contracts, we know that the effects of demotion on one’s health depends on how we perceive the...
The Challenge of Counseling
Counseling is a specialized skill. If you want to be a counselor, you will need higher formal education because you need both theory and application to sharpen your knowledge. This is one of my learnings in my Master’s degree thesis entitled...
5 Easy Steps to the Hiring Process
After 16 years in Human Resources, I have overseen many job hirings for employees. For companies, hiring the right people with the skill sets needed for the job are so important that it justifies spending valuable resources such as time, money and trained people. To...
Top 6 Tips for Would-be Entrepreneur
Are you tired of rising up the corporate ladder? Do you often think of how your life could be if you have your own business? Are you sure you have what it takes to be your own boss? If you are an employee who wants to explore business opportunities outside of...
The Importance of a Salary Structure
A few years ago in January, one local company released the approved raise for rank and file professionals and supervisors. This was regularly done three years after the last salary raise. One employee who benefitted from the raise was Cheska. She was a single,...
How to Inspire Good Behavior
In a manufacturing company in the Philippines, the lunch schedule of the production workers is at 12 noon to 1 p.m., while the lunch break of rank and file professionals, supervisors, and managers is 12:30 noon to 1:30 p.m. Lunch break was scheduled this way in...
Understanding Inner Beauty
In the hiring of job candidates, when all are qualified and only one more job requirement is left, the hiring team may choose one who radiates strong outer and inner beauty. Beauty as related to work is not only about a pretty face. It has to do with the overall...
Connections in the Company: Good or Bad?
In the 1990s, one of the top pharmaceutical companies located in Makati, Philippines posted an advertisement on the major newspapers. The job opening was for an HR Assistant. The requirements were the following: 1. A graduate of...
Marketing People are Very Good with Words
A female applicant for Marketing Manager was chosen versus a male applicant in a construction company. It is because of her wit skills with words. She is really a good conversationalist that she can attract people she’s talking to. Her choice of words is...