The Extracurricular Being

Yup, you read it right!  We can have discriminatory job ads reported in JobStreet.

As I've said in my previous post, we job hunters can do something about discrimination in the Philippine.

For example, I was able to spot a job ad that discriminates people who are above 27 years old.

Let's walk through the process of reporting the said job ad.

1. Click the "Report Advertisment" link at the bottom of the job ad webpage.

2. A new window will be opened.  Enter your email address.  This is where Jobstreet will contact you regarding the status of your report, so be sure to check your email regularly.

3. In the "Report this advertisement as" drop down menu, choose the reason for reporting the job ad.  Please note that a job ad can be reported not only for discrimination (e.g. age/gender, language/marital status, race/religion), but also for fraudulent/misleading claims and poor job description.

4. In the "Write your comments here" box, you can type your comments regarding the job ad you are reporting.

5. Finally, click the "OK" button below the "Write your comments here" box.  It will open a new window, wherein Jobstreet will confirm that you have successfully submitted your report.

Images courtesy of JobStreet.

Equal employment opportunity is often defined as the protection from being discriminated or denied of employment opportunities on the basis of race, disability, religion, age, gender amnd other immutable traits.  In the United States, various laws prohibit these forms of employment discrimination, and the said law is being strictly enforced by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

That means it is clearly a violation of employment opportunity laws when we see a job opening ad in in the format below:

WANTED: Customer Service Representative

Requirements:
Female, not more than 26 years old
Graduate of a reputable university (UP, Ateneo, La Salle, UST, UA&P)
Pleasing personality

Sad to say, the said format of job ad is very common here in the Philippines.  And if you happen to be either a male OR a 27-year-old female, your chance to get hired just got busted and the sad thing about it is you were never really given the chance to market yourself and your merits before the HR officers.

Here in the Philippines, some equal employment opportunity bills have already been passed in the Philippine Senate.  Senate Bill No. 49 and Senate Bill No. 354 have been written and passed by our good senators Juan Flavier and Jinggoy Ejercito-Estrada respectively, and the said bills are currently pending in the Senate Committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resources Development.

And while these bills are waiting for these bills to be approved, discriminative job ads continue to plague the job market today, undeniably contributing to the soaring unemployment rate of this country.  Companies continue to post discriminative job ads, capitalizing on the assumption that we Filipinos cannot do anything about it.

Or they just thought so.

It's not that we can't do anything about it.  Of course we can!  Most of us just chose not to act on it!

Not me!  While we may have good solons who are promoting equal opportunity employment, I cannot sit here and wait for the government to fix things for me.  I decided take action

In this blog, I will post here job ads that do not only violate the principle equal employment opportunity but are also disagreeable (for lack of better word).  I used the word disaggreeable because some job ads out there are not only discriminative but are also disagreeable in other aspects like (you wouldn't believe this) grammar and capitalization!  So be sure to check things out in this blog.

We will make the whole online world see how corrupt the Philippine job market is as reflected in its job ads.

Yes, we undergraduates do experience hardships in getting a job here in the Philippines.  But do you know that college graduates also find it hard to land a job?  How and why is it so?  We may just find out why in this blog...