im a business management graduate from De La Salle University.
i had 6 months call center experience.
my ultimate goal is to go to canada.
my short term goal is to find a job in dubai.
from dubai, thats where im gonna find work in canada? you think this is possible? help. i'm a filipina who is in canada. my advice to you? find a canadian employer who will sponsor you for a work-based immigrant visa. if not, go and apply to canada yourself.
if you want to go the dubai route though, go ahead. but it will take you a long time, i think.
sure, having some sort of work experience may get you points to qualify for application for a canadian visa... but it will not get you any jobs related to that field. you have to start from scratch. they will not honor any work experience that is not local, ie, canadian experience. Maybe you can. But it would be better if you get local experiences from here first before going outside the Philipines, just for you to get accustomed to working and interacting with colleagues in an office.
If Canada is your ultimate target though, you might as well start working there since most companies require local experience. This means your experience from other countries won't matter anyway. If I were you, I'd get 2-3 years experience first in the Philippines. You will have a better chance if you are an experienced professional. In Canada and even in Dubai, they highly consider the work experience of applicants. The more experienced the better.
Yes it's possible to find work in Canada while you're in Dubai.
Good luck! yes you could.but better if you get to have a few years of working experience in the philippines first before flying abroad. it would help for you to land a job easily abroad. John Lloyd Cruz, is that you? Hahaha. Didn't I see this scenario in a movie?
Anyways, anything is possible. If you want to work abroad and become successful, there are some things that all Filipino workers must never forget:
1. Be professional at every second you spend time at work or while in the conduct of business. This is a tough one for most Filipinos who grow up in a society that encourages unethical and sometimes illegal scheming, gossiping and oneupmanship tactics and behavior in the workplace. Value integrity and you will be rewarded.
2. In your spare time unlearn bad spanish-influenced Filipino habits such as believing and acting out discriminatory practices against certain racial/religious groups such as blacks and moslems. This will definietly cost you worthy friends in your private life in a modern country like Canada--where people accept and practice tolerance and fairness highly.
3. Put your pride in the closet. Pride is the Filipino's most likely cause for not attaining success. Filipinos believ that if you are a college graduate--that you should never work in a blue collar capacity because they consider it beneath them. However, in the west, some blue collar workers earn more that professionals and rightfully so. In short, your DLSU degree, unfortunately, doesn't count for much in a western nation. You may end up working for minimum wage at times. It's okay. Just remember that your work or educational achievement does not define you--
My sage advice aside. Why don't you just apply directly to immigrate to Canada? Why bother with the Dubai step? Just a quick note: I'm not discouraging you. I'm just giving you a piece of something called reality.
First of all, you're not a fresh graduate. As you have said, you already have 6 months of call center experience.
Graduating from an "Ivy League" school only helps you get an appointment for interview. After that, only yourself and your experience counts. Unfortunately, you have very little experience. Companies, especially foreign ones, usually don't care what school you come from. What they look for are skills that will help them achieve their business objectives. If you don't have that skill, then you don't get on board. It's that simple.
At 6 months call center experience and with your degree in business management, I'm sorry to say that you have very, very little chance. My reason? There's so many people in the Philippines and in other parts of the globe, like Singapore and India, that can easily have, already have, or have so much more experience than you do. Now tell me, why should a foreign company hire you?
Please realize that foreign companies, especially call center ones, took jobs away from their country of origin to invest in the Philippines. In other words, they no longer have (or have very little) jobs there (in their country of origin, e.g. US). Now tell me how can a foreign company hire you?
An acquaintance of mine just recently moved to Canada and it took them more or less 6 years to get all of the paperwork done. Kid, you have a very, very long way to go.
I have friends who worked in call centers for years but haven't been able to find jobs outside of the Philippines. I don't think that your call center experience will help you either. At just 6 months, you probably just got regularized. Personally, I don't know anyone who came from a call center who now have work outside the Philippines.
I also have friends who work for high profile IT companies, and even with that seemingly good work experience and exposure, it took them more or less 4 to 5 years of local experience before they were able to find jobs abroad. As you get older, you'll realize that it's the experience that counts.
Why would you want to leave your country? That's one question that you should find the correct answer to. Otherwise, you'll just punish yourself by loneliness, being away from your home and from the people that you love.
What you should do? Stay put, get a few more years of experience, be the best that you can be, prove to yourself that you're one of the best in your company, hopefully to the point that you leaving will set them back surely. You'll know that you've achieved this when everyone else respects you, your superiors ask you for input, help, or advice, you have a relatively high position, and most importantly, the company tries to stop you from resigning by giving you counter offers. Then, should you decide, you now have enough leverage to find a foreign job of your own. |
