PhilFAQS

I wanted to write more on proving your actual worth to a company … rather than telling them how smart you are, or how much you need a job … and I will.  But I saw this very good article today and I felt it was too good fto pass up, becuase the author says alot of what I would say and says it beter.

One tip I see misisng that I personally belive in is “LinkShare”. There are thousands of folks on LinkShare.com with Filipino connectuions and hundreds of businesses. At the very least, learn what a business does before you even make your first contact. Nothing will make you look less valauble than to ask someone “Are you looking for engineers”?  when they turn out to be a firm that does contract radiology work … little things like that do matter.

One of the more impressive resume’s I ever saw back in my hiring days was from a programmer answering and ad which specically called for a Visual Basic expert.  In his cover letter the gentleman had me sold until I got to his last paragraph when he asserted that not only did he not work in Visual Basic he told us, in no uncertain terms that we were dumb to be using it as well.

Hey when a client pays you to hire VB programmers, you hire VB programmers … let the knowledgeable ones argue about what system is best after work in the bar … it’s amazing how many people want a job but also want to tell their prospective employer how the employer should do business … instant disqualification in my book. Read the rest of this entry →

Here’s a little news item I my dear wife pointed out to me this afternoon:

The biggest law firm in the country allegedly fell victim to a multi-million-peso scam.

Sources in other law firms told abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak that Sycip Salazar Hernandez Gatmaitan, one of the leading local law firms, was duped by a foreign client into advancing P50 million for a deal that would supposedly bring around P100 million to the firm’s earnings.

The law firm was reportedly promised five percent of its client’s $50 million-claim. However, in order to get their cut, the firm was first asked to advance P50 million…. read the full Philippine scam report article here

Once again, it would seem that an expereinced, educated attorney in a high-level management position fell victim to exactly what I wrote about recently regarding the key to virtually all scams, Philippine or elsewhere … getting money that really wasn’t his .. or his firm’s.

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Just advance us x amount of money and you too will benefit from money which was never yours in the first place.

The article goes on to outline a number of famous scams from recent Philippine history.  Note the common theme … advance us some money and you’ll get more than you know is yours … a special deal for you to get ahead … insider information only.  In plice terminology this is know as the advance-fee fraud scheme

Once agin I’ll maintain what I’ve often said, and what many notorous ‘confince men’ have said in the past … you can’t scam an honest man.  If it is too good to be true … it is likely that it is.