THANK YOU TO THE ~th POWER
08.20.07 (2:52 am) [edit]
When I graduated in March 2006 all I wished for were just two things— vacation or time to rest and a 'nice' job. I was fortunate I got both. I was able to take a break from school and from Manila for more than a month and I enjoyed every moment spent with friends and loved ones during those times. Then, I landed into a 'nice job.' A 'nice job' for me at that time simply meant a job that is not government related. A dream job for me as a college graduate aspirant is a Makati-office related work, whatever that is.
I had my practicum at Headstrong Summer of 2005 and when Headstrong offered me a position in Recruitment one month before college ends, I did not hesitate to say, "Yes, I would like to join Headstrong, I would like to do recruitment, and I would like to work with the people I was able to work with during my OJT."
To be offered a job at that time when all were job hunting, for me was very precious and meaningful. I am a person who gets easily flattered and when Headstrong called to say they would like to get me because they liked how I worked and all that, I of course believed what they said. Then everything else followed. I went over an interview again, I was invited for the job offer and I obviously signed. I became an official Headstrong employee on the 17th of April, 2006. The rest was history.
Yet just when I thought that I should be thankful because my two wishes were granted, I realized that God actually gave me far more—He provided me with numerous and countless blessings while inside the company. More than all the things I learned about recruitment—about sourcing, interviewing, talking to and facing applicants, negotiating, serving job offer, or preparing ads, name it, I firmly say that far more important are the relationships I made and the friends that I gained.
I will definitely tell my yet non-existent children stories about the friends their mother met, bosses, co-workers or even the Ates and Kuyas who have helped and who have inspired their mother at Headstrong, back at the 17th floor, then the 16th floor and lastly at the 15th floor of the Export Bank Plaza Building, in Makati City. I will not get tired of telling them how these people have inspired and have transformed their mother to someone more independent and someone more grown-up. Never will I be tired of sharing how these people have made their mother someone who’s able to get out of the world with a mind full of knowledge about career and about life and a heart filled with gratitude and inspiration.
To say THANK YOU a thousand and even a million times to these people is not enough. Even my future great great grand children owe these special individuals “THANK YOU” and so I also say these lines of Rosie in the novel Love, Rosie by Cecilia Ahern;
I don’t want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at that time, so special, so influential and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory—I want us to be friends forever
I had my practicum at Headstrong Summer of 2005 and when Headstrong offered me a position in Recruitment one month before college ends, I did not hesitate to say, "Yes, I would like to join Headstrong, I would like to do recruitment, and I would like to work with the people I was able to work with during my OJT."
To be offered a job at that time when all were job hunting, for me was very precious and meaningful. I am a person who gets easily flattered and when Headstrong called to say they would like to get me because they liked how I worked and all that, I of course believed what they said. Then everything else followed. I went over an interview again, I was invited for the job offer and I obviously signed. I became an official Headstrong employee on the 17th of April, 2006. The rest was history.
Yet just when I thought that I should be thankful because my two wishes were granted, I realized that God actually gave me far more—He provided me with numerous and countless blessings while inside the company. More than all the things I learned about recruitment—about sourcing, interviewing, talking to and facing applicants, negotiating, serving job offer, or preparing ads, name it, I firmly say that far more important are the relationships I made and the friends that I gained.
I will definitely tell my yet non-existent children stories about the friends their mother met, bosses, co-workers or even the Ates and Kuyas who have helped and who have inspired their mother at Headstrong, back at the 17th floor, then the 16th floor and lastly at the 15th floor of the Export Bank Plaza Building, in Makati City. I will not get tired of telling them how these people have inspired and have transformed their mother to someone more independent and someone more grown-up. Never will I be tired of sharing how these people have made their mother someone who’s able to get out of the world with a mind full of knowledge about career and about life and a heart filled with gratitude and inspiration.
To say THANK YOU a thousand and even a million times to these people is not enough. Even my future great great grand children owe these special individuals “THANK YOU” and so I also say these lines of Rosie in the novel Love, Rosie by Cecilia Ahern;
I don’t want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at that time, so special, so influential and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory—I want us to be friends forever