Wikang Nagsilbing Batis ng Tagumpay

Readiness for the World of Work and Career Trends

and Opportunities in The New Normal

The webinar has beautify set up with the prominent speakers, ma’am Carel as the first
speaker and followed by ma’am Marjorie as the second speaker of the webinar. The first
speaker opened the webinar with the topic about the usual scenario of a new graduate hunting
for a specific job. She explained the hardships of the new graduate and the things that they
should took to themselves as an advantage to others in looking for jobs. Moreover, the second
speaker discussed about the labor market that should a new graduate should learn about like
the right and obligation of individual; for employees and employers.

I begin with the first speaker; the first speaker is a head of guidance services and
counselling office of a prominent school somewhere in Kidapawan. She opened with the topic of
wearing the winning personality. This topic focuses all about personality and the thing that
individual or a new graduate should take care of himself/herself as an advantage of what he/she
might do after graduation. Moreover, in myself, even though at the moment I am currently a 4 th
year student I can say that I already overviewed myself of what are the things I needed to
develop and learning other basic skills in computer. Yet, with the new normal scenario with our
society and a fast-changing world, I must say that I have to be competitive and need to be
competitive in order to perform my very best of what opportunity I have in the near future. In
addition, the speaker also discussed the observations from the top recruitments’ agencies about
the things that a young employee should acquire. She additionally introduced the career tools
on job hunting, how to pass for an interview with proper decorum and on how to make proper
resume. Furthermore, considering that everybody should do everything towards success
because according to the first speaker, there is no elevator to success, you have to take the
stairs.

On the other hand, the second speaker discussed about her mean topic, the labor
market. She defined the labor market or usually known as the job market is the place where
workers and employers interact with each other. In this place, the employers concentrate to hire
the best and the workers compete for the best satisfying the job. The speaker considered also
the factors affecting the labor market like globalization, demography, education and training,
technological changed, government policy and etc. I learned also about to priority occupational
requirements in labor market like in-demand occupations, hard-to-fill occupations and cross-
cutting occupations. These are the job opportunities which are high in demand but less are
qualified. Towards the discussion, the speaker added a topic about rights and duties of workers
where incudes due process for procedural and substantive due process.

In summary, the webinar is nice and the speakers are really good. A lot of learnings I
gained about the real word after graduation and in labor market. Yet, being a student, I visualize
a lot of things like my goals and dreams in life however without a proper preparations and self-
development I couldn’t achieved to those goals. The webinar readiness for the world of work
and career trends and opportunities in the new normal is really great.
 Business Correspondence

The speaker, ma’am Bonefacia has provided a great presentation about the main
topic. She defined her topic as a business correspondence that means the exchange of
information in a written format for the process of business activities and it is very helpful
in business industries. Correspondence is very helpful between parties or sectors
because it is the written communication between persons.
Business correspondence is what we are doing everyday like how we
communicate when we are going to buy in online platform, how we communicate with
our school despite online classes and etc. Even though we are not into business we are
likely doing this thing regularly to communicate with the outside world making business
because of the pandemic. For instance, email considered also a form of business
correspondence when we are representing a company or for purpose of business.
Moreover, written communication is important in a business for a various reason;
exchanging information while maintaining professional relationships between
organizations, employees, and clients according to the speaker.
There are various reasons why business correspondence is important, some of
them are in maintaining proper relationship, serves as evidence, create and maintain
goodwill, inexpensive and convenient, formal communication, and helps in the
expansion of business. Individually, each of these importance was discussed by the
speaker. In addition, the speaker also included the types of business correspondence;
internal correspondence, external correspondence, routine correspondence, sales
correspondence, personalized correspondence, circulars and etc. I have a great
learning from each of these correspondences and I could finally say that business
correspondence is a complex one. Additionally, in the webinar, the speaker discussed
the 7 principles of business correspondence that may help the business to develop and
achieve its mission, these are; consideration such as your attitude, courtesy, clarity,
concreteness, correctness, conciseness, completeness and etc., which are helpful in
evaluating a business or company. Lastly, the speaker tackled about the business letter
formats. There are four basic business letter formats; full block style, semi-block style,
modified block style, and modified semi-block style.
To sum up, another great webinar has ended of the day. The learnings given are
concise and helpful for our future works.

Electric Transmission and Distribution System

 Sir Michael, the speaker from the Cotabato Electric Cooperative Inc. (COTELCO)
and a former professor gives a nice and informative lecture about his work being an
electrical engineer and the informative background about COTELCO where he works.
According to the speaker, COTELCO is one of 120 electric cooperatives around
the Philippines which the main function is to provide energy for the whole cotabatenyos.
Honestly, there are terms in the webinar that the speaker is telling that new to me and I
can’t adjust, however, the speaker really gave everything to the clarifications of the
topics being discussed. He introduced the EPIRA LAW which governs the electric
distribution in the country.
The speaker clarifies the meaning of electrical transmission and distribution
system which he refers as the different stages of carrying electricity over poles and
wires from generators to a home or business. The primary distinction between the two is
the voltage level at which electricity moves in each stage. After electricity has been
generated, a system of electrical wires carries the electricity from source of generation
to our homes and business. These lines can be found overhead and transmission and
distribution lines make up what is called the grid. Transmission and distribution are two
separate stages or systems on the grid. Transmission is the highway of electricity
delivery. It refers to the part of electricity delivery and moves large amounts of power at
a high voltage so that many transformers are being built to step up or step down the
voltage source. Yet, the COTELCO has its own electrical system and its own operation.
It has a general manager and has six different branches that operates the whole
operations of the COTELCO company.
Mostly, the COTELCO is an energy distributor company which dependent from
the energy suppliers from the different parts of Mindanao like FDC, SMC Global Power,
Aboitiz Power, and etc. to augment the energy source of the province. The company
gets its supplied mostly on conventional power plants like coal-fired power plant,
geothermal power plant, and etc. which supply energy automatically unlike the non-
conventional power plants. Moreover, the speaker also discussed deeply every
analytical computation on the energy being distributed. He also said that importance of
safety which is their major concern because they are dealing always with the high
voltages of energy source.
In addition, the speaker also clarifies that the COTELCO uses advanced
technology and software for their operations to lighten their job. Yet, to work on a
electric company is one of my dream jobs being an engineering student. I gathered
enough information from this webinar and thanks to the speaker and for the whole
USM-KCC.

POWER GENERATING UNIT

GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANT

The webinar is very much pleasurable on my side because I am a mechanical

engineering. Yet, the speaker, Engr. Bersamina is an alumnus of the school and has a
lot of experienced in the geothermal powerplant industry.
 The speaker is currently working in Energy Development Corporation under the
Lopez’ group. Despite this pandemic, the speaker provides the basic components and
diagrams on the geothermal powerplant. Geothermal energy refers to heat energy
contained in underground reservoirs of hot water and steams= which naturally occurring
within the earth while geothermal power is the generation of electrical power from stored
heat underneath the Earth. The speaker also provided contract areas of operations of
their company with the total installed powerplants capacity of 1,202 MW; North Negros-
49 MW, South Negros-192.5 MW, BacMan-150 MW, Leyte-708 MW, and Mt. Apo-
103.23 MW. Moreover, Mt. Apo is located in our locality and the speaker provided that
the Mt. Apo Geothermal Project is a 701-ha reservation area which the trees and plants
help to maintain the equilibrium process needed in carrying a geothermal powerplant.
The speaker provides basic features of a geothermal system which he included
that geothermal is a water-based resource. Therefor, since it is a water-based resource
that means the water in surroundings; rain, reservoir, caprock, hot springs and water
landscape are the primary ingredients to sustain a geothermal power which utilizes the
magma underneath the Earth. It has many systems and components in building a
geothermal powerplant, we have the Basic Fluid Collection and Recycling System
(FCRS) Components; the production well, two-phase line, separator, stream line, re-
injection or brine line, re-injection well, and control system. Each of the part contains
major functions in sustaining the underground energy.
For the EDC as a producer of energy it supplies many distributions company
such as COTELCO. The speaker provides electric flow diagram from generation to
consumers which is very complex to understand. Moreover, the powerplant is under the
NGCP which provides its control over the distribution aspect of the energy distributed.
The geothermal powerplant has many long pipes that could measure 1 or more in
kilometers in length and wells that also kilometers in depth.
In addition, the speaker said that the Mt. Apo geothermal is using two
powerplant, consist of 1x52.3 MW and 1x50.93 MW, both are Mitsubishi condensing
units. For operational flexibility, the high pressure streamlines of both plants are
interconnected. Lastly, having basic learnings coming from the EDC engineer is
blessed.

INDUSTRIAL AND OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY

Industrial and occupational safety is really nice topic coming from sir Sabit, the
speaker. The topic is very well explained hence, OSH subject is in our curriculum under
ME-326 for Mechanical Engineering. It reminds me a lot from the topic that safety is the
first canon in the Code of Ethics for Engineers states that engineers shall hold
paramount the safety, health and welfare of the public. An engineer’s responsibility is to
use engineering tools and technology to ensure that places that are dangerous to work
at are as safe as possible. It is important for an Engineering student, like me to have
basic knowledge on occupational safety and health. Likewise, being an engineering
student and someday will work mostly in a prone of dangers and accidents, I have to
learned every aspect of safety knowledge as possible and always put in mind.
The speaker discussed smoothly about the topic even though it costs a semester
to deliver such subject. I learned the difference between the meaning of danger and
accidents