1. Inappropriate attire: wearing slippers (even if it’s a pair that costs over P1,000, they are still slippers and not office attire), sandos, jeans and other non-business attire for an interview.
2. Bad hygiene: applicants who have bad breath or body odor inspire interviewers to cut things short. Even if you need to relieve stress, avoid smoking before the interview; if you really must, wash your hands and chew gum. Do not use too much perfume or apply too much makeup. Just keep it simple, look neat, and smell clean and that will take you a long way.
3. Trashy resumes: Folded and crumpled resumes say you don’t care. Resumes that have been photocopied, biodata forms, resumes that lack contact numbers and include emails like bratinellaprincessbabe, cut_ako, or ihaveabigjuicyhotdog.
4. Rude interruptions. Turn your cell phone off during an interview. Period.
5. Mommy or daddy tag-alongs. Ed Cruz, senior executive for talent acquisition at Aditya Birla Minacs says, “When you are a fresh grad, it is understandable that you would bring someone along. But please do not bring your mommy upstairs with you to the office. We’ve had cases when it is mommy who asks the receptionist why it is taking so long for us to call the applicant in. Just tell mommy to meet you downstairs when the interview is done.”
6. Getting too personal. Nobody, repeat, nobody wants to hear your life or sob story. Job interviews determine who deserves the job based on credentials, not on “cry”-dentials.
7. Badmouthing the former employer. This simply inspires backgroung checks on you, and who do you think the prospective employer is going to believe? Not you.
8. Being rude. Do not treat the guard or the receptionist poorly because good interviewers make sure to talk to them too. Companies with clients have no room for rude personnel. Being late also falls under rudeness, and so does namedropping, which is one interviewer pet peeve.
9. Talking money. Application periods are the wrong time to ask about money. Never ask about it, because that’s a sure way to get rejected.
10. A wishy-washy handshake. Don’t handle your interviewer like a dead fish, and don’t pump their hands excessively. a firm and short handshake is enough.
-Adapted from M.D. Pamaran, Manila Bulletin
2. Bad hygiene: applicants who have bad breath or body odor inspire interviewers to cut things short. Even if you need to relieve stress, avoid smoking before the interview; if you really must, wash your hands and chew gum. Do not use too much perfume or apply too much makeup. Just keep it simple, look neat, and smell clean and that will take you a long way.
3. Trashy resumes: Folded and crumpled resumes say you don’t care. Resumes that have been photocopied, biodata forms, resumes that lack contact numbers and include emails like bratinellaprincessbabe, cut_ako, or ihaveabigjuicyhotdog.
4. Rude interruptions. Turn your cell phone off during an interview. Period.
5. Mommy or daddy tag-alongs. Ed Cruz, senior executive for talent acquisition at Aditya Birla Minacs says, “When you are a fresh grad, it is understandable that you would bring someone along. But please do not bring your mommy upstairs with you to the office. We’ve had cases when it is mommy who asks the receptionist why it is taking so long for us to call the applicant in. Just tell mommy to meet you downstairs when the interview is done.”
6. Getting too personal. Nobody, repeat, nobody wants to hear your life or sob story. Job interviews determine who deserves the job based on credentials, not on “cry”-dentials.
7. Badmouthing the former employer. This simply inspires backgroung checks on you, and who do you think the prospective employer is going to believe? Not you.
8. Being rude. Do not treat the guard or the receptionist poorly because good interviewers make sure to talk to them too. Companies with clients have no room for rude personnel. Being late also falls under rudeness, and so does namedropping, which is one interviewer pet peeve.
9. Talking money. Application periods are the wrong time to ask about money. Never ask about it, because that’s a sure way to get rejected.
10. A wishy-washy handshake. Don’t handle your interviewer like a dead fish, and don’t pump their hands excessively. a firm and short handshake is enough.
-Adapted from M.D. Pamaran, Manila Bulletin
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
“Safety and health at work every day!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government
(NUG) of Myanmar.
Reject Military!
#WearMask #WashHands #Distancing #TakePicturesVideos
Monthly Observances:
March – Women’s Role in History Month
April – Month of Planet Earth
Weekly Observances:
Last Week of March: Protection and Gender Fair Treatment of the Girl Child Week
Last Week of April – World Immunization Week
Daily Observances:
Mar 25 – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transallantic Slave Trade
Mar 27– Earth Hour
Apr 21 – Civil Service Day
Apr 22 – World Earth Day
Apr 28 – World Day for Safety and Health at Work
