WORK IMMERSION/RESEARCH/CAREER ADVOCACY/CULMINATING

ACTIVITY (SHS-WRCC)

Lesson 1 – Introduction to Work Immersion Lecture

WORK IMMERSION
- It is important in any endeavor because this generally serves as a preparation for the
students when they enter into formal employment.
- It serves as a platform for a formal training prior to employment.
- Students are trained to do tasks the right way and since they are outsiders just coming in an
organization, students provide a unique and a fresh view in doing things.
- It gives an overview on how things are done in the real world.
- It serves as a backbone for getting things done.
- The safety of the student is one of the primary concerns of the university.
- Every student is bounded by their responsibility to the work immersion workplace.
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH (OSH)
- commonly referred to as occupational health and safety (OHS), occupational health,
or workplace health and safety (WHS), is a multidisciplinary field concerned with
the safety, health, and welfare of people at work.
PHILIPPINE LABOR CODE
- Devotes an entire book to prevention, enforcement of OSH standards and compensation of
work-related injuries and illnesses.
General Labor Standards:
1. Minimum Wage (Art 99, as amended by RA 6727)
2. Holiday Pay (Art. 94)
3. Premium Pay (Art. 91-93)
4. Overtime Pay (Art. 87)
5. Night Shift Differential (Art.86)
6. Service Charges (Art.96)
7. Service Incentive Leave (Art. 95)
8. Maternity Leave (RA 1161, as amended by RA 8282)
9. Paternity Leave (RA 8187)
10. Parental Leave for Solo Parents (RA 8972)
11. Leave for Victims of VAWC (RA 9262)
12. Special Leave for Women (RA 9710)
13. 13th Month Pay (PD 851)

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT (DOLE)

- The Philippines' Department of Labor and Employment is the executive department of the
Philippine Government mandated to formulate policies, implement programs and services,
and serve as the policy-coordinating arm of the Executive Branch in the field of labor and
employment.
Each employer covered by the Occupational Safety and Health Standards must:
1. Furnish its workers a place of employment free from hazardous conditions that are causing
or are likely to cause death, illness or physical harm.
2. Use only approved devices and equipment in the workplace.
3. Give complete job safety instructions to all the workers (especially those entering the job for
the first time) including instructions relating to the familiarization with their work
environment, hazards to which the workers are exposed to and steps taken in case of
emergency.
4. Comply with requirements of the Occupational safety and health standards.
Rights and Responsibilities in the Workplace:
1. Equal work opportunities for all.
2. Security of Tenure
3. Work days and Work hours
4. Weekly rest day
5. Wage and wage-related benefits

SECURITY OF TENURE
Article 279. Security of Tenure.
In cases of regular employment, the employer shall not terminate the services of an employee
except for a just cause or when authorized by this Title. As employee who is unjustly dismissed
from work shall be entitled to reinstatement without loss of seniority rights and other privileges
and to his full back wages, inclusive of allowances, and to his other benefits or their monetary
equivalent computed from the time his compensation was withheld from hip up to the time of hi
actual reinstatement. (As amended by Section 34, Republic Act No. 6715, March 21, 1989)
1. Payment of wages
2. Female employees
3. Employment of children
4. Safe working conditions
5. Rights to self-organization and collective bargaining

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
- The term collective bargaining is made up of two words, ‘collective’ – which means a ‘group
action’ through representation and ‘bargaining’, means ‘negotiating’, which involves
proposals and counter – proposals, offers and counter – offers.
- Thus, it means collective negotiations between the employer and the employee, relating to
their work situations.
- The success of these negotiations depends upon mutual understanding and give and take
principles between the employers and employees.
- It is a process between two parties, namely the employer and the union, where the terms
and conditions of employment are fixed and agreed upon.
Objectives of Collective Bargaining:
Collective bargaining has benefits not only for the present, but also for the future. The objectives of
collective bargaining are:
 • To provide an opportunity to the workers, to voice their problems on issues related to
employment.
• To facilitate reaching a solution that is acceptable to all the parties involves.
• To resolve all conflicts and disputes in a mutually agreeable manner.

Every worker has the right to self-organization, to form or to join any legitimate workers’ union,
free from interference of their employer or the government.

Safety Tips:
• Clean and organize your workstation to avoid potential harm while doing your job.
• Be aware of your surroundings.
• Be alert and awake while doing your job.
• Make sure that there is a clear and easy access to doors and fire exits.
• Always follow the health and safety procedures of your company.
• Set you work schedule with regular breaks to avoid getting work-related illnesses.
• Consider learning first aid and basic self-defense skills.

General Responsibilities:
• Take reasonable care of your health and safety and to take reasonable care not to put other
people at risk.
• Participate in appropriate training.
• Adhere to the employer’s health and safety policies.
• Make proper use of any personal protective equipment.
• Report any injuries, strains, or illnesses you may suffered as a result of your work.
• Tell your employer of any health-related issue that may affect your performance.

Lesson 2 – Writing a Resume and Application Letter

WRITING A RESUME
- A resume is an information sheet of a person’s qualifications and achievements.
- It details your personal and educational background clearly.
- It also showcases your skills, talents, abilities and attributes.
“YOU NEVER GET A SECOND CHANCE TO CREATE A FIRST IMPRESSION.”
Your RESUME is one of your FIRST IMPRESSIONS with a potential EMPLOYER

RESUME
- A short account (1-2) pages of your Experience, Qualifications, and Achievements.
- Its goal is to capture the reader’s interest.
- Most resumes only get 20-30 seconds scan by the reader.
- It MUST have enough IMPACT to GRAB the ATTENTION of the prospective EMPLOYER.
Types of Resume:
Chronological
▪ It is the MOST common type of Resume.
▪ It lists previous jobs & dates; most recent job first.
▪ It identifies work accomplishments and skills connected to each job.
▪ Easier to prepare and is generally successful.
Functional
▪ Uses career profile in lieu of objective.
▪ Focuses on jobseeker’s knowledge; skills and abilities.
▪ Lists company names, titles and job dates at the bottom.
▪ May list number of years of experience in a function.

FORMATTING YOUR RESUME

You can arrange your resume in a variety of formats. However, most resumes follow this type of
order:
• Contact information
• Objective or Career Profile
• Summary of Skills (optional)
• Work Experience
• Education
• Professional Affiliations (optional)
• Military Information
STRUCTURE
▪ Be consistent in structure to make it easy for readers to skim through your resume quickly
without confusion.
Parts of a Resume:
• Identification
• Professional Objective
• Educational Background
• Experience
• Character References

WRITING AN APPLICATION LETTER

▪ An application letter is a sales letter – with you as the product.
▪ Your application letter and resume make up the application package for your job campaign.
The general motive – sell yourself.
2 Types of Application Letter:
Solicited Application Letter
▪ A solicited APPLICATION letter is sent in response to an employment advertisement.
▪ The POSITION IS ADVERTISED.

Unsolicited Application Letter

 ▪ An unsolicited application letter is one sent to a company you would like to work for,
even though you don't know of any particular job vacancies.
▪ THE POSITION IS NOT ADVERTISED.
These are the Major Parts of an Application Letter:
• Heading
• Inside Address
• Salutation (Dear Mr./Ms., To Whom It May Concern)
• Body
• Complementary Close (Sincerely, Yours Truly)
• Signature Over Printed Name

Lesson 3 – Memorandum of Agreement (MOA)

MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT (MOA)
- It is a written document describing a cooperative relationship between two parties wishing
to work together on a project or to meet an agreed upon objective.
- It serves a legal document and describes the terms and details of the partnership
agreement.
The Typical Format:
• Authority
• Purpose of the Agreement
➢ Name of parties involved
➢ Brief description of the scope of work
➢ Financial obligations of each party, if applicable
➢ Dates agreement
➢ Key contacts for each party involved
• Detailed description of Roles and Responsibilities
• Payment schedule (if applicable)
• Duration of the Agreement
• Modification of Termination
• Signature of Parties’ Principals
Tips for Writing a MOA:
• Use one Memorandum of Agreement form when writing the terms of an agreement.
• Keep it simple.
• Agreements should strive for balance.
• Agreements should be written in positive language.
• Agreements should be specific.
• Carefully reality checks should be done with parties.
• Carefully review each item in the terms of agreement with both parties.
• Keep in mind that the MOA is a settlement agreement.
• Be absolutely sure that all parties sign the agreement.
• All parties should receive a written copy of their agreement before they leave the session.

How to Write a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA):

 • Include a discussion of the problem be addressed.
• Identify the parties involved.
• Explain why the parties came together.
• Describe the scope of the work that will be done.
• Summarize the purpose of the agreement.
Detailing Roles and Responsibilities:
• Describe collaborative tasks.
• Categorize the work to be performed.
• Specify the roles of each party.
• Clarify the goals of the project.
Setting the Terms:
• State the dates the agreement will be in effect.
• Describe how the agreement can be modified or terminated.
• Create signature blocks for each party’s principals.
Confidentiality in Workplace:
• Information in the workplace should be treated with confidentiality. There are procedures
for keeping them private.
• Confidentiality in the workplace can be defined as keeping the employee, customer and
client information private.
• By maintaining the confidentiality standards in the workplace, an organization not only
protects itself from legal hassles but improves the employee productivity as well by
providing them with a secure and safe work environment.
Breach of Confidentiality during Work Immersion:
• Students should know what files or materials they are permitted to access in the placement
and should adhere to that.
• Under no circumstances should the materials in the placement be given to outside people.
• Also, students should not discuss any business dealings with the clients. Otherwise, it is
considered as a breach of confidentiality in the workplace.

Lesson 4 – Ethics in the Workplace

ETHICS
▪ Ethics are a general set of rules that are important to be followed, to be a part of society.
▪ It guides one to live in the right way in society.
▪ These certain rules are common worldwide.
▪ These ethical principles are inherited as well as are learned by the individual from their
family’s ways of living.
WORKPLACE ETHICS
▪ Workplace ethics are nothing but the rules and procedures that should be carried out in an
office by the employer and the employees to maintain a professional company culture and
to build a better relationship with their customers by providing better services.
▪ Workplace ethics plays an important role in company growth and development.
Examples of Workplace Ethics:
Secular values are the basis from where the ethics of the workplace have been derived from. Some
of them are:
• Loyalty
• Comradery
• Citizenship
• Trustworthiness
• Integrity
• Respect
• Caring
• Fairness
• Responsibility
• Accountability

Most Important Ethical Terms and Principles:

1. Values
• The values of a person can be defined as the acts and actions which we make in our daily
life. are devotion, respect, hard work and love. These acts of values make a person more
valuable. These values tell more about a person’s behavior and responsive qualities which
he can possess during work.
2. Morals
• Morals are the certain duties which he needs to do for the betterment of society. Moreover,
these are certain duties which make society work in a synchronized manner. These morals
apply to every single human being of the society and they can’t be judged in a specific
manner, because the things in moral are either right or wrong.
3. Integrity
• Integrity means to be always honest and sincere under any circumstances. When any
individual shows integrity in a professional environment and his work, it means that the
person can be trusted as well as he is an honest man to rely on. The person who is honest
and sincere always sustains for a longer duration in the company as compared to others.
4. Characters
• The character is one of the most important ethics which in short describes a person. It tells
about your behavior towards others and your reactions towards the different situations. A
bad thinking mind can destroy your character and a positive attitude and healthy
mind always keep you with a good character.
5. Laws
• These are certain rules and regulation fixed by you yourself. These rules define you and put
a limit to events that are dangerous for your lifestyle. A man with rules always shapes up in
the laws of the company and work accordingly in the best way possible, and a man with no
rules always lands up in troubles. These laws give us the ability to differentiate between
right and wrong.

6. Dedication
 • This is also a person defining ethic. The stronger dedication in work, the greater the output
and results. Dedication in work makes a man stronger for tough situations and he also
becomes a key player in motivating the others during the hard times.
7. Accountability of Responsibility
• The more a person is responsible in nature, the more efficiently and responsibly he will do
the given task. Responsibility towards everything such as parents, family, society, nature,
works, office, etc., are certain things which not only should be kept in mind but also these
must be followed by every human being for a healthier environment.

Benefits of Ethics in the Workplace:

1. Asset Protection and Assurance

• When your workers possess an ethical working environment and ethical behavior in the
workplace, your company’s maintenance cost decreases to a remarkable extent because they
are well aware of their duties and responsibilities towards the company.
• They also realize that they should not do any damage to any of the machines and equipment
are given to them as they are very valuable for the company and doing damage to these
things will be a wrong act, so automatically things will be taken care of and everything will
work systematically.
2. Productivity will increase

• When the working staff and the workers value the work given to them and then they will do
all the given work in time and achieve their set targets, this will greatly affect the sales and
the productivity of the company.
• Due to this, it is assured that you will have a group of people who will sail your business
even in the worst of the downfall of the market, and keep the growth of the company and
business consistent.
3. Teamwork will develop

• When all the workers do their jobs in a responsible way, then a time comes when they have
achieved the target way before the given deadline, then a question arises What Next? So the
situation automatically bonds up all the individuals into a team.
• These individuals now work as a team and work in the benefit of the company for which
they will be getting or achieving their incentives. This mutual understanding of the
employees is a positive signal that the company will sustain for a very long period in the
variable market conditions.
4. Public Image and Brand Value Increases

• Yes if all the members of the company are dedicated to work as well as figure out there
values and responsibility towards the environment, then it is for sure that the type of
cleanliness and the disposal of the waste product of the company will be unbeatable in the
market, hence resulting in attracting a bigger customer base due to the clean and quality of
the services or products.
• Moreover, an increase in the public image and an increase in the customer base is directly
proportional to an increase in brand value. In simpler words when you gain popularity
amongst your customers you start to develop your company into a brand.
5. Adaptive to changes

• Workers with professional ethics in the workplace are definitely the master key to their
success. The team of understanding, trustworthy, reliable, motivate, concern and
 responsible people will defiantly adapt themselves into any kind of position and work they
are filled with.
• Moreover, in general, it has been seen worldwide that in the digressive market conditions, if
the company asks for any changes in the production or changes in the kind of work then the
workers oppose.
• In some situations, the company is left empty-handed falling short of workers as they leave
the company due to changes, but things are just opposite when you have a trustworthy and
responsible bunch of people as they themselves demand changes according to the
companies situation and let the company run even in the hard market situations.
6. Decision making and implementing is always easy

• Whenever there is a need to take a big decision then the best one made is by the advice of
the employees of the company, and what will be better than every single employ respecting
the decision and supporting the company to go ahead with their decision.
• This is the power of ethics in the employers who respect the decision of the company and let
it go along with the flow. This is very rare in the big companies but where this scene
happens; the company turns big brands over the night.
7. Trouble-free working environment

• Generally, where everyone is unknown and moreover no one wants to know each other
there are higher chances of great trouble and where there is a friendly, respectful and great
workplace or environment between the employees there are fewer chances of the least
troubles from the employee’s end.
• If in case, a situation arises where there is some little misunderstanding between the
employees, it gets solved within them due to a better and strong understanding between all
the employees. Even the management does not have to bother about those small little things
as they know that the employees will take better care of themselves.
8. There is no one left negative

• When people are detached from one another and someone gets negative regarding the
companies’ work then it has been seen that from that single negative employee many are
affected.
• Thus there is a sudden decline in the working of the employees, but when everything is good
to go and everyone is concerned about one another then things become systematic and in
case if someone gets negative, the positive and supportive environment works as a boost up
for the person and again he/she starts working to their best.
9. Less Legal Issues

• When everything is systematic and functional and in addition your workers are cooperative
and understanding then you won’t be facing any problems or legal obligations from the
employee’s end, because all the workers are treated equally and all are well known with
their duties which the job requires from them.
• When everything is managed and systematic then all the paperwork and the legal
formalities are the primary things which are considered the most, so there is no question of
any legal issue.
10. The company will touch new level of success

• When everything is so managed and systematic along with the understanding of the
employees because of their strong ethics, the company will surely touch new heights of
success and even the growth of your business will be assured.
• When your employees become experts in their respective works and respective fields, then
their dedication and will, to do the work will show true colors and give more fruitful results.