Interviews.

Okay, just a warning this entry might be a bit biased :)

I've been interviewing applicants for the company because we need more people in my team and in other teams as well. So far, almost everything's been filled up and we just need one more person for my team. Now, here's where my bias comes, well it may sound like a biased opinion, but this is just based from my observations on why Ateneans are good on interviews. In case my entry shows up on google, here's the 101 on interviews for fresh grads.

So here's what fresh grads need, I don't really care how high or how low your grades were, how many subjects you failed, I just need personality. That's it. Dazzle those who are conducting the interviews. Make sure you have confidence and you shine and make them feel you know what you're talking about. Newly grads start on equal footing with each other because they don't have work experience yet. We don't even look at the grades, well except for other schools I think(okay biased) or if it took you 5 years to graduate(except for ECE grads because it takes 5 years). I just really can't believe some of the applicants' answer when we ask them how would their college friends describe them, one even answered, "Mahirap kausap..", I mean how the hell can we hire someone who's hard to talk to, right? Bias on schools aside. If you need to fake it, as long as your personality can win us over, go ahead :) Oh and please brush up on English :D If we ask a question in Filipino, feel free to answer in Filipino. If we ask a question in English, please also answer in English. I thought that was a given :)

Now why do I think Ateneans have an edge? Well for one, with the oral exams we've had to go through, Philo and Theo, we've had that practice on delivering answers and reasoning out. Basically, marunong tayo kung paano mambola. We can justify our answers and get our point across whatever it takes :p

Now the reason why we can't hire Ateneans all the time, they have a bigger asking price hahahahaha.

The pro's and con's of it :)