Job on Board - Bartender

We all know that the Hotel and Tourism Industry right now speaks jobs! With the potential of the industry to generate jobs, it is a good thing for one to know what are needed by the establishments and what is the work of the jobs at hand.

For a possible bartender, here are the details:

Task:

• Serves alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages behind a bar in a pub, club, tavern or similar establishments;
• Take payment from customers;
• Maintain the liquor, garnishes glassware and other supplies or inventory for the bar;
• Serve food to customers;
• Keep the bar area clean.

Education and Training:

• High school graduate;
• Training on Food and Beverage handling and salient legal issues in serving beverages and tobacco.
• Bartending 

Skill and Competency Requirements:

• Knowledge of laws and regulations on the minimum requirements in serving alcoholic beverage, cocktail recipes, proper attire and conduct;
• On-the-job training by observing and working with more experienced Bartenders.

Physical Attributes and Characteristics

• Neat, friendly and enjoy talking with customers;
• Proper attire, good grooming and a good conduct is a must.

Salary/Compensation

•  Entry level P8,000-9,000 per month
• Customer's Tips

Career Advancement

• Supervisory jobs as dining room supervisor and/or maitre d' hotel.

Employment Opportunities

• High demand for well-trained Filipino front-liners in the Tourism Industry abroad.

Jobs On Board is a series of occupational briefs which aims to provide information on hard-to-fill and highly-in-demand occupations. It contains such information as the nature of the job, its education and competency requirements, earnings, employment and job outlook. This occupational brief is taken from the Occupational Brief No. 1, from the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).  

Hard to Fill Jobs - Job On Board: Software Engineer

Hello guys, it's been a long while I have not updated this blog. But this time, let me share to you the Hard to Fill Jobs according to the Project JobsFit of the Department of Labor and Employment. In this post, you will be able to know the Tasks of each job, Education and Training, Skill and Competency Requirements, Physical Attributes and Characteristics, Salary and Compensation, Career Advancements and Employment Opportunities that go along with each job on board.

For our first job on board: Software Engineer

With the creation of the ICT/IT course being offered by many educational institutions, most of them offer Electronics Communications Engineering, Computer Engineer, Software Engineering and a few more I could not mention. However, one of the most hard to fill jobs include the Software Engineer and these are what entails that job.

Task

• Researching, designing, writing and testing new software programmes;
• Developing existing system by analyzing and identifying areas for modification;
• 'Bolting together' existing software products (getting incompatible platforms to work together and creating code to link them);
• Maintaining systems by monitoring, identifying and correcting software defects;
• Investigating new technologies;
• Creating technical specifications and test plans;
• Consulting clients, colleagues concerning the maintenance and performance of software systems and asking questions to obtain information, clarify details and implement solutions.

Education and Training

A bachelor's degree, usually in Computer Systems Engineering or Computer Science Software Engineering or Mathematics. Knowledge in Microsoft and Oracle Programs is an advantage for this job.

Skills and Competency Requirements

• Ability to create functional and technical design specifications for development efforts;
• Proficiency in programming skills, including familiarity with data types, syntax and control structures;
• Adept at debugging complex applications problems and ability to produce quality software documentation, including requirements specifications;
• Analytical skills;
• Problem solving skills and the ability to work in a team;
• Good interpersonal and communication skills (especially the ability to understand client needs and communicate proposed solutions effectively).

Physical Attributes and Characteristics

• Enthusiasm and knowledge or project cycles;
• Attention to detail, even in pressured situations as deadlines approach;
• A logical mind;
• Numeracy aptitude. 

Salary/Compensation

P40,000.00 - 60,000 per month depending on the experience and the level of the knowledge in the business.

Career Advancement

• May advance to become Project Manager or Information Systems or Chief Information Officer.
• Some Computer Software Engineers with several years of work experience or expertise find lucrative opportunities working as a systems designer or independent Consultants or starting their own computer consulting firms.

Employment Opportunities

Employment of the Software Engineer is expected to increase much faster than the average for all occupations, as business and other organizations adopt and integrate new technologies and seek to maximize the efficiency of their computer systems.  

Jobs On Board is a series of occupational briefs which aims to provide information on hard-to-fill and highly-in-demand occupations. It contains such information as the nature of the job, its education and competency requirements, earnings, employment and job outlook. This occupational brief is taken from the Occupational Brief No. 1, from the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).  

Career Guide for Graduating Students

If you are a graduating student this March, I am sure you are already listing down the possibilities of your future. What you will encounter may be a few good people who will tell you that life is difficult. After you have marched up the stage to get your diploma, the next question would be, what happens next?

It is never easy to determine your career, but you can still determine your future albeit slow and difficult it may be.

List down your wants, and you should have a timeline for this. If you want to find work, list down where you want to work and what kind of work you are looking for.

But before you go looking for a job, you should list down the following:

What are your goals, dreams, ambitions?

1. _____________________________
2. _____________________________
3._____________________________

What work conditions would you like to see in your future workplace?

1. _____________________________
2. _____________________________
3._____________________________

What are your character traits when it comes to work?

1. _____________________________
2. _____________________________
3._____________________________

What are your strengths?

1. _____________________________
2. _____________________________
3._____________________________

What are your weaknesses?

1. _____________________________
2. _____________________________
3._____________________________

How can you improve your weak areas in order to perform better?

1. _____________________________
2. _____________________________
3._____________________________

Answer these questions and think about your answers, in this way, you will know where you are heading and what future you want in your career.

In Finding a Career, The Youth MUST Listen

It is not because those people who always want to have a word with the youth are almost older than them, rather is the fact that because they are young, they must listen because older people say the right things. But the youth must listen because they need to.

In finding a career, it is not your family or your friends who will be benefited by your decisions, rather, it is generally only you and secondarily, the people who love you.

The youth must listen when people senior to them say how hard it is to earn money, because it is true. When they say you need to find a good job that you will love, the youth must listen because they say it based on experience.

Finding a career is not a joke, nor is it a pressure placed on the youth's shoulder. Rather, it is a measure, a fight in teaching you how you can survive life. It is a measure of how far you can go against the race that is set before you in order to survive.

I know of a lot of young people who stopped schooling because their parents are rich, but their parents are not noveau-rich therefore they still have to survive the trials that come their way most especially financially. Those who were not firm with their decisions in finishing school are no longer very happy with their lives. Some have children at a young age, some are nowhere to be found, some still take pity from their parents. But there are of course, some who have managed to get by. They are those who, even without finishing school, know what to do, where they will go, because they listened.

Remember, what the parents and elder people tell you mostly come from their experiences and they are directed to you because of the concern they have on you, not wanting you to get to the other side of the road without looking at both sides.

True, some people telling you this and that may not be good counselors, you may not want to listen to them because they insist upon you what they want you to become, not what you really want and what will make you happy. But listen, anyway.

The best way to gather more insights about life is to listen, there may not be perfect suggestions, recommendations or views, but you have to listen so you can hear the perfect choices in your career. Listen.

Career Guidance for Young Professionals

There are a lot of opportunities for our Filipino youth. Some may say there are no jobs for the young professionals, but fret now, we have a lot and Department of Labor and Employment's logo of More Than Jobs says it all. There are abundant career choices, here and abroad.

But yes, despite these multiple opportunities, most Filipinos still do not have jobs because there is a high incidence of unemployment among our youth.

There are times when we see long lines of applicants looking for a job and only to be rejected after the interview. We still wonder why there are more classified ads on the newspapers and dailies, and yet, why the clamor for the lack of jobs?

Well, unemployment does not mean the lack of jobs but it may be the result of a job and skills mismatch, inappropriate job skills and the lack of qualifications so to speak.

This career guide is for our young professionals. This will help the young professionals, even the out of school youths, young Filipino jobseekers, and even our unemployed adults to look for the perfect career they will have to tread.

In this blog, I will be posting tips on career guidance, tips for looking for a job, interview tips, and even business tips for the young businessmen of our country. Please visit this blog for more of your career guidance tips and for other guides for the young jobseekers to sell themselves to employers.

I myself, had a long journey to looking for a PERFECT CAREER, but when it came, I knew it was the best for me.

Please share this blog to everyone!