Trabaho.com -Your Complete Online Career Resource

Trabaho.com Partners with Data Matrix, Inc.
August 19, 2003
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Trabaho.com ends the year with a big bang
November 16, 2002
Trabaho.com

RP's First Job Site Still Leads On
May 13, 2000
Digital Filipino

Labor & Management Firms getting e-recruitment habit
April 10, 2002
BusinessWorld

E-recruitment: Easing hiring woes
April 03, 2002
BusinessWorld

WPI Partners with Genetic Computer Institute
February 04, 2002
Trabaho.com

Trabaho.com powers the Tsinoy.com Jobs page
August 31, 2001
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Job-matching tool helps create perfect matches between individuals and jobs
July 12, 2001
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Trabaho.com Partners with Data Matrix, Inc.

Present during the contract signing are (seated from left) Ms. Joyce See, and Ms. Clarissa Cruz; (standing) Ms. Mathel Ong, and Mr. Joyj Azurin.

A strategic alliance between Trabaho.com and Data Matrix, Inc. has been formed last August 19, 2003 to bring to the fore another recruitment solution. Companies usually have more specific requirements than posting job advertisements and retrieving resumes from the database of Trabaho.com, it is for this purpose that Trabaho.com launches its executive search service in cooperation with Data Matrix, Inc., a consulting firm that has served some of the Top 1000 Corporations in the Philippines.

The Placement Service Package includes recruiting qualified personnel who meet the job requirements for permanent placement, conducting rigid preliminary interviews to assess candidatesí technical proficiency, job

expectations, personal background and work attitude, endorsing 3 short listed candidates who would closely match the requirements of the organization, and coordinating interview schedules of short listed applicants.

To complete the package Trabaho.com clients will also have an option to avail of the following services: Job Fit Analysis, Skills test, Medical examinations, and Background investigation.

DMI has projects in the commercial/industrial, public sector, telecommunications and software research. It has served organizations, which are among the Top 1000 Corporations in the Philippines. It has also served government sector agencies and other small but fast-growing companies.

Trabaho.com ends the year with a big bang
After being in the online job hunting industry for the past 6 years, Trabaho.com has finally reinvented itself into a one-stop career site for both job hunters and HR people. Launching last November of 2002, the site has at last re-entered the scene as ìYour Complete Online Career Resource.î Now Trabaho.com sports a flashy new design, more efficient web services, and a whole new roster of products and services that are all geared towards helping both the Filipino job hunter and HR to achieve new heights of effectiveness.

Apart from exciting job opportunities and competitive rates for job ads, Trabaho.com users will be pleased to find useful career tips and advice from the Career Resources and the HR Library. In partnership with top business magazine Launch Asia, Trabaho.com also features Industry Watch, a section that highlights industry trends in the region and abroad. Trabaho.com has also come out with the HR Template Kit, a collection of useful templates: a sample company manual, form templates and sample job descriptions. The site also has a special section for the community at the Forums page, where people can create their own hang out place among peers of the same interest.

To get the best out of Trabaho.com, simply log into the site and go to your related page: Job Seekers or Employers. If youíre an employer, first create an account in the My HR Assistant section. Fill in your profile before subscribing to the job ad services. After activating your account, you can create your own job ad through our Job Post Wizard or access the Resume Retrieval service. The resumes you receive may be processed and sorted through the Resume Management System. Finally, if you want to market your services on our site, you might want to check out the Trabaho Marketplace and get an account.

If youíre a job seeker, simply log onto the My Trabaho Finder section. Create your account ? this will also serve as your online, searchable resume. Just make sure that your profile is updated at least every six months to keep it fresh and competitive. Search opportunities in our job listings. You can also make use of the "Apply Online" function found on the advertisements. This will send your application straight to the HR. If you want to shop for career-oriented services, you can log onto the Trabaho Marketplace and check out the items on display. Or you can browse through our articles or voice out what you think in our Forums.

Using this career site can be both easy and exciting. Take time out to see how much Trabaho.com can make your life easier and more effective.

Job-matching tool helps create perfect matches between individuals and jobs
Now, employers and job hunters can benefit more in finding the right job/ the right person for the job through the Job Fit Analysis tool.

Powered by SGV-DDI (a joint venture between SGV and Company, a leading management consultancy firm in the Philippines, and Development Dimensions International, which specializes in aligning people systems with business systems), the tool helps organizations determine the perfect match between an applicant and a job vacancy, and aids individuals in discovering whether they fit well in an organization they are seeking employment in.

The Job Fit Analysis tool works by processing the top resumes chosen by the corporate client from the Trabaho.com resume databank, and sending questionnaires to be answered online by the chosen applicants. This way, both the company and the job hunter can determine their perfect job match faster and more efficiently.

Take advantage of this service by visiting the Trabaho Marketplace to for more details, or e-mail jobfit@Trabaho.com.

Trabaho.com powers the Tsinoy.com Jobs page
Now, Trabaho.com serves a wider audience by partnering with the Filipino-Chinese community's premiere website, Tsinoy.com.

Now, Trabaho.com will be featuring main features such as career articles, book reviews, tips, questions and answers and other value-added service at the Tsinoy.com Jobs Board. With this new alliance, more people will be able to access more oportunities for employment and career advancement.

Employers may now post their job advertisements in both websites. Advertising rate starts at PhP 1,000 and changes depending on the number of posted positions and duration.

For further details, contact tel. nos. (63-2) 414-3595, 365-5510, 365-5586,
or e-mail tsinoy@trabaho.com.

Web Philippines, Inc. Partners with Genetic Computer Institute
Web Philippines, Inc., developer of Trabaho.com, The Premiere Filipino Job Hunting Website and Genetic Computer Institute Philippines (GCI), recently signed a Memorandum of Agreement that joins the two organizations in a career partnership. Trabaho.com will provide the students of the Genetic Computer Institute with career-related information by powering its career page. Both parties also agreed to team-up with their marketing and promotional initiatives. Present in the signing were Joyce See, Trabaho.com Asst.Team Head, Cheryl Alindogan, Trabaho.com Team Head, Jim Sarmiento, GCI Marketing Officer and Mr. William Tan, GCI Franchise Operations Manager.

GCI is part of the international chain of training schools represented in 37 countries today. They provide quality IT Training and International Certification.

RP's First Job Site Still Leads On
by Jherlie Cheng
Correspondent

[May 13, 2000] The Philippine online job recruitment marketplace is becoming a highly competitive field, much more than search engine portals. From the time Trabaho.com started in 1996,
there's now a big number of job sites coming from all potential sectors from newspapers, start-ups, to regional job sites penetrating the market. Is Trabaho.com already left behind and
has it suffered from competition?

Roger Chua, president of Trabaho.com, doesn't think so. "The service is getting a lot of repeat businesses for posting of job advertisement. We take this repeat business as a sign of being an effective provider for this kind of service."

Chua claimed that Trabaho.com is different from its competitors. It has been in this business for a number of years that resulted to a lot of repeat business from its loyal clients. "The fact that there are a lot of companies wishes to venture into online recruitment and job advertising basically proves the business model. There is a good future for this type of service, the challenge is for us to continue to improve the service offerings."

Trabaho.com generated 375 thousand pesos worth of revenue on its first year (1997) and doubled for the past two years. It expects to achieve it again this year. Its sources of revenue depends on the clients which are charge based on how many positions they would like to post and on the duration of their advertisement. Trabaho.com was put up just in time for Internet World around October of 1996. Setting up and establishing the trabaho.com
was difficult. Companies and people do not appreciate the value or the benefits of the Internet can bring at that time as trabaho.com calls on the companies, send proposals and make follow-ups. While at this point in time, there are so many publications and so much media attention focusing on the Internet field.

The company has 30 staff running the website. The least charge Trabaho.com offers to companies is 700 pesos for one position, one job advertisement for one week. The criteria to have a job posting in Trabaho.com, aside from agreeing to terms of payment and duration, is the credibility of the business. Its concern is to avoid fictitious or fraudulent companies from posting or to be a part of such schemes. "To the best of our affiliates, we do some
due diligence on the company itself, before allowing those ads to be posted."

Chua also offers customization of job openings to its clients. "The client determines the design. It's not a template type, it's their own unique design. So you would be able to see all the companies posted in Trabaho.com have their own distinct advertisements."

With regards to security, the application is secured. Applicants send an e-mail directly to the company should a job opening interest them. "We don't cheat them, we don't store them on behalf of the client. The client also appreciate the confidentiality of this way rather than having a third party access to those materials," said Chua.

Venture Capital? "We would probably see on how things develop this year. I would probably say that we've been fortunate that resources, both financial and otherwise," said Chua. "We've been lucky in being able to get the resources. We are in an on-going operation so capital could be sourced from operations or let's say from banks.
Banks have been helpful as well in providing with the credit facilities, that allowed me to put into the company." (There are grapevine news that the company is pushing for an IPO this year.)

Chua sees the future of e-commerce would be better once the e-commerce law is in place. "There's a need for implementing rules and regulations that could help the Philippines be part of the global economy. Right now, businesses and corporations would still have to decide for themselves. Whether with or without
e-commerce bill, they would engage in some form of commerce over the Internet."

"Web Philippines also intends to produce different kind of services like for wedding, sports, travel, commerce. There are so many niches that are not yet fulfilled." said Chua. "The Internet is a free market. Anybody who believes that they would be able to offer a unique selling proposition, just follow their instinct. In my case, if someone approaches me with something special to offer, I'm willing to put in the necessary time, effort, and money to see it through."

E-recruitment: Easing hiring woes
By LEAH B. del CASTILLO, Sub-Editor
MANILA, PHILIPPINES | Wednesday, April 3, 2002

First of three parts

Companies in search of the right talent to fill their ranks have a new tool in online recruitment, which allows them to reach prospective employees through the Internet. In contrast with the traditional hiring process, online recruitment offers speed and efficiency which newspaper ads most of the time do not assure.

Estimates where it is already a phenomenon show that online recruitment -- or e-recruitment as it is also known -- is a profitable business.

For Western Europe, the International Data Corp. (IDC) estimates that the e-recruitment business would be worth $4.5 billion by 2005.

In the United States, the International Herald Tribune last month reported, citing IDC figures, that domestic revenue for online jobsites last year grew by 38% to $727 million, while revenue newspaper job ads fell by 35% to $5.7 billion.

An estimate for the Philippines put the worth of online recruitment at $1.1 billion by 2003.

A number of businesses have been established in the past few years offering companies the benefits of using online recruitment, among them Jobstreet.com Philippines and trabaho.com, which is owned and maintained by Web Philippines, Inc. Even the government has gotten into the act with its online recruitment service Phil-JobNet.

A QUESTION OF HOW MUCH BETTER

In a country with high unemployment rate and increasing use of the Internet, these e-recruitment sites may yet become a staple in job recruitment, if more companies soon realize the profits of availing of this service.

"Online recruitment is a very effective means of finding jobs for Filipinos here and abroad," Joyce O. See, trabaho.com brand head, said in an e-mail interview.

"This serves as a venue for employers and job seekers to interact. This puts Filipinos in touch with thousands of employers, local and foreign, who are actively looking for qualified applicants."

Sifting through and processing numerous job applications are some functions from which companies are spared with the use of e-recruitment services.

"It's really a question of how much better or how much we could improve processes, making them more efficient. This includes costs -- how much more cost-efficient recruitment can be," Candice L. Alabanza, Jobstreet Philippines general manager, told BusinessWorld.

The e-recruitment websites have a basic software tool allowing companies to post their ads on the site, for a fee. Jobstreet, which started operations in the country in late 1999, has SiVA, a program that allows companies to create, edit and customize their own ads online. The ads may then be accessed by the job seekers identified by Jobstreet as having the right qualifications, following the specifications of the hiring company.

With SiVA, potential employees are pre-selected and employers view only the most relevant data from the job applicant's resume. They are also able to compare the details of as many as 20 job applicants at a glance. As of November 2001, Jobstreet had 300,000 registered users, i.e. job seekers, and generated an average of 5.3 million page views a month. It boasts of some 15,000 visitors per day.

On the other hand, through trabaho.com, which was established in 1996, job seekers can submit their resumes via e-mail and may receive feedback on the same- day, "if not within the same hour," Ms. See said. Unlike Jobstreet, trabaho.com affords companies a look into their resume base, through another software tool, MyResume Manager, through http://www.resume.com.ph .

This application helps employers organize and store resumes. Another tool, the Job Fit Analysis, helps employers screen applicants according to their qualifications. "Employers/recruiters can search through a database of over 20,000 online resumes," Ms. See said. The matching system offered by the Department of Labor and Employment's Phil-JobNet, operational since November 1998, follows a strict 100% correspondence and does not allow companies to search through its resume database.

Similarly, job seekers are not allowed to comb the applications. Phil-JobNet, through a software application, matches the job seeker with the employer; if a match occurs, only then is the job seeker referred to the company. "If the employers see the entire database, the tendency is for them to resort to manpower pooling.

Similarly, applicants who get to see all the job positions tend to apply for all the posts available even if they are not qualified," Zenaida A. Contreras, Phil-JobNet's supervising officer, said in an interview. Ms. Contreras pointed out that since Phil-JobNet is not moved by financial motives -- it does not charge companies and job seekers anything for their service -- it can afford to follow such strict criteria. "What we want is that the job vacancies be accessed by the right people.

Some job seekers, maybe out of laziness, would not try to look through all the postings," she said. "If we will fill all the vacancies, then it would greatly help the country's employment scenario." There are currently some 5,000 positions advertised in Phil-JobNet, while there are some 2,500 active job seekers, or those who renew their applications every 30 days. Its database, however, contains some 100,000 resumes.

Next Wednesday: Companies on e-recruitment, fill rates and a sketch of the country's work force

Labor & Management
Firms getting e-recruitment habit
Leah B. del Castillo
April 10, 2002

Second of three parts

Companies repeatedly availing of online recruitment services point to the early success of the e-recruitment business in the country.

"We measure the effectiveness of the services that Trabaho.com offers by means of repeat business," said Joyce O. See, Trabaho.com brand head, in an e-mail interview. "We have a lot of loyal client companies who are giving us a lot of repeat business for posting of job advertisements.

In the six years of Trabaho.com's operations, it has generated more than 500 clients - local and international - which post their jobs ad with Trabaho.com. "Our clients come from different industries, from manufacturing, retail, to health and medicine, to IT and computers," said Ms. See.

Among these clients, Ms. See informs, are Accenture Philippines, Jollibee Foods Corp., Intel Technologies, Motorola Communications Phils, and Unionbank.

Across the region, Jobstreet has a roster of some 8,000 clients from nine offices in Singapore, India, Malaysia and the Philippines. Of these clients, 1,800 companies come for the Philippines.

"Right now, we have a lot of the traditional companies - manufacturing, pharmaceuticals," said Candice L. Alabanza, Jobstreet Philippines country manager, told BusinessWorld.

In the Philippines, Jobstreet's clients - many of whom are repeat clients, Ms. Alabanza noted - include Smart
Communications, Merck Sharp & Dohme Phils. and Fujitsu Ten Software Philippines, Inc.

Registered users, or job seekers, of Jobstreet come from the gamut of professions and skills. Ms. Alabanza, however, notes a lack of users from those in the medical profession.

"We're still trying to build a database of those in the medical profession, because there is need (for them in the job
market). They won't take to the Internet," she said. "These people are technologically advanced in their own field, but they're not into IT yet."

Jobstreet boasts of a fill rate - total number of jobs reported as filled by its advertising employers - of 65% for the last quarter of 2001. For the entire year, Jobstreet logs in a 59% fill rate. For the year 2002, Jobstreet intends to raise the fill rate to 80%.

On the job seeker's side, Jobstreet figures show that from January to October 2001, five registered users on average were being hired daily.

Although government's Phil-JobNet uses the Web as its main tool to match potential employers and job seekers, it is faced with the immense task of getting the job done through resources that are many times inadequate.

With the Department of Labor and Employment's Bureau of Local Employment as its back room, Phil-JobNet's
operations are supposedly carried out mainly through the department's regional offices and provincial and regional
PESOs (public employment service offices).

The PESOs are manned by the local government units (LGUs) but technically supervised by DoLE. "We have
provided computer units to all cities and all provinces," said Zenaida A. Contreras, Phil-JobNet's supervising officer, in an interview.

"A very common problem is the LGU not being able to sustain the service," Ms. Contreras said. "Some LGUs have a reasonable explanation - there is no Internet service yet in the area. For others, they say they have no funds to spare."

Ms. Contreras, however, thinks that the latter is no excuse. "They have not seen the importance of spending, say
P3,000 a month, to pay for the Internet connection, if only to facilitate the employment of several persons in a month," she laments.

"Those few jobs will certainly push economic growth."

In the National Capital Region, Ms. Contreras points to Quezon City, Pasig, Makati, Pasay, Muntinlupa and Malabon with the more active PESOs. Surprisingly, the city of Manila, where a lot of the metropolis' unemployed reside, is not active in this effort, Ms. Contreras said.

"The bureau itself handles the bulk of job applicants coming from Manila," she added.

Job vacancies posted with Phil-JobNet come from various sectors, with most coming from the manufacturing, real
estate, hotel and restaurant, transport and communication, and construction sectors.

For overseas posts, Ms. Contreras said there is big need for those in the medical and related fields - nurses, medical technologists, medical assistants, etc.

Contrary to expectation, she noted that Metro Manila and Region 4 (Southern Tagalog) host most of Phil-JobNet's
roster of job seekers and client companies. "I was expecting majority of the companies looking for employees to come from Region 3 (Central Luzon) - because of Subic and Clark economic zones - and Region 7 (Central Visayas). These are supposedly the country's industrial hubs. But, no. Very few vacancies from these regions are posted with us."

Most of Phil-JobNet's client companies are in the services sector - food chains, department stores, hotels and
restaurants.

Most of the job seekers availing of e-recruitment sites belong to the 20s-30s group, both Phil-JobNet's Ms. Contreras and Trabaho.com's Ms. See affirm. "Majority of the job seekers in Trabaho.com site belongs to the 22-29 age group," Ms. See said.

On the other hand, most of the job seekers in Phil-JobNet's database belong to the 25-34 age group.

Even as the country boasts of a young work force, it seems that some companies couldn't have them younger. Most of the companies advertising with Phil-JobNet, Ms. Contreras said, look for employees in the 19-24 age group.

This situation, Ms. Contreras said, "is worrisome. Except for supervisory positions, in many places, the maximum age requirement is 26!"

In terms of education, 42.2% of the applicants in Phil-JobNet's database are college graduates, 12% finished high
school and 5% completed only the elementary level. Only 2% have taken some postgraduate education.