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This is why Filipinos are being hired in any industry and what they are expected to do

The Philippines is home to people with humor and positivity. We are flexible enough to adapt to new environments- just like moving to different countries. Learning a language, culture, and tradition are easy for us. Filipinos are known to be hospitable with an industrious attitude. These are a few of the reasons why international employers like hiring Filipinos in whatever industry that is.

In the fields of Education, Financing, Agriculture, Insurance, Real Estate, Marketing, and many more. Though education is important, Filipinos don't need a diploma as a passport to these jobs compared to the skills and services we can provide. Although we are adaptable, training is still a huge advantage if we have them.

Because of the lack of opportunity and not being compensated well in the Philippines, we prefer working with international clients. With that, our skills will be paid with higher potential. In return, Filipinos, even under minimal supervision, will work hard to contribute to the growth of their client's businesses.

With great knowledge of Filipinos, employers expect them to: 1) Be present and show up on time. 2) Evident hard work even under pressure. 3) Maintaining a friendly and light environment in the workplace. 4) Respect boundaries 5) Be flexible and adaptive

BE PRESENT AND SHOW UP ON TIME

Filipinos are infamous for the 'Filipino Time' mentality. Where, we set a specific time and place for a meeting for them to arrive an hour or two later. Funny it may sound, but we say 'we are on our way to the meeting place', while we are still taking our showers and preparing to go out. With that example, employers would still prefer working with people who have good time management and a sense of time.

EVIDENT HARD WORK EVEN UNDER PRESSURE

While everyone works to finish tasks according to how the boss wants it, Filipinos like extending their time just to finish a specific task at its best form. We ask for feedback so we know what areas need improvement. Evident hard work even under pressure. We do our best to be kept. We are family people, hence some of us still work for our families, household chores, outside activities, and more but still make sure these agendas are out of our basket on working hours.

MAINTAINING A FRIENDLY AND LIGHT ENVIRONMENT IN THE WORKPLACE

As people who can easily adapt, we also trust people easily. It makes us befriend everyone without exception. We have a sense of equality as we give the same treatments and respect to all.

Filipinos are known to be funny people so we make sure that stressful time won't be as stressful if you have us. We make fun of everything but with restrictions, leading us to the next one.

RESPECT BOUNDARIES

You show us kindness or not, we would still be decent to you. Although we are friendly enough, we still make sure that we keep professional on working hours. Colleagues are colleagues and bosses are bosses. We can drink and have fun outside work but boundaries presented once we are in the workplace.

BE FLEXIBLE AND ADAPTIVE Bring us to any country and give us two months, or so, to learn and understand a language, tradition, and culture. We like learning and being adaptive to our environment is easy for us. Learning is normal for us and there's always a space for a new skill. We do advance research and we prepare to set our expectation. 'We don't go to a war without bringing an armor' as they say.

These are only a few things an employer would expect from a Filipino worker, not limited only to Virtual Assistants. Work with Filipinos and we'll help you on your way to the top!