It's Hard to Get a Job in the Philippines

One of the things that bug me a lot is the fact that there are a lot of "levels" an aspiring employee has to go through before being able to land the job they desire. I have seen a lot of jobs postings on sites where Filipino employers are allowed to post jobs applications. And most of them include in the post the process the people will take in case they apply for that job.

The first thing that I can't understand is the fact that some of the jobs say in their titles is "Entry Level", which I thought was it's okay to apply for that job even if you have no experience. I know that companies are designed to make money, but of course, you need people to work with you and have their experience as good as possible. And as for the employees, even if you have a bachelor's degree, you will not land that job your course is designed most of the time. Sometimes, these postings from companies even include in the description that it's okay if you have zero experience, whatsoever, but they still require applications to have at least 6-12 months of experience. I mean in a nutshell. you can't land a job if you have no experience. But you need a job to be able to gain experience. The Bachelor's degree does matter since it gives the credibility that you have studied a certain course that the job requires you to have but, still it doesn't work like that in most cases.

Another thing is that the expectations are very high. I can understand if that job is on top like Managers, Senior-type jobs, and jobs requiring you to lead people. But obviously, I am applying for a job that only requires people who are new to work but has the skills to do the job. The amount of pressure a Human resource interviewer makes on an applicant is what I am really concerned about. I applied for a job before and I had to do an online interview. What I am really not happy about, although I think I'm not supposed to think that way, is the fact that the woman looks like she doesn't even like me. I don't know why these people are so "serious", I mean it's a job so you have to be serious but not that serious. I can't even remember if she smiled at me. Maybe something happened on her part, but then again, you are recruiting people to work for your company. You can't find people, most of the time, that has that confidence to smile at you when you can't even smile back. The questions I had were actually just the basic ones but during the assessment, I had to turn on my camera and microphone while she doesn't have to. Since I am really desperate for the job and I was there already, I just said Yes to everything. Although she gave me some spare time to finish my work since I wasn't done with it, I was really un-intimated by her presence. I just smiled the whole time, but inside, I was not feeling the excitement I was supposed to feel.

I just don't understand why these HR people are meanwhile the security guards, that I have encountered, were friendly. The tables have turned probably.

Lastly, as I have, jobs go through so many processes before landing a job. I saw a job posting in Indeed where after they gave you a call that you have been invited to a phone call interview, then you did that interview, there will be an assessment. After that assessment, you will have to go to an interview once again before having the final interview with the boss. I can and will understand if you're applying for the vice-president position in the company or they are finding someone to replace the Chief-Executive Officer but it's not the position I saw. I can't remember the exact title of the post but it has something to do with programming because I always filter the search into technology-related jobs. I also saw some comments on Reddit where they really call out these employers who think that they are above everyone since companies in western countries don't even do that. I think I can probably say that it's true because I once applied for a job abroad and all I did was an interview, more like a chit-chat because the questions weren't really that complicated and just an assessment. I think I didn't pass the assessment because I didn't use most of the programming languages they want me to write but I'm okay with it since right from that moment, I know I have to learn more to be able to gain more knowledge in programming.

Let me know your thoughts on my experience and have you experienced the same thing as well?