Job Openings

I received these requests from John Arimado, and I hope these are still available. Anyway, the address and person to contact are here:

June 5, 2009: We need an IT Head and a HEAD-Accounting Department...Please send applications to john_arimado@yahoo.com / angelicumhrd@yahoo.com. Call 7324243 loc 127. Look for John. Please. Thanks. (sent through text using the number 2371002403020)

May 29, 2009: ANGELICUM COLLEGE IS URGENTLY HIRING FOR CLE, LANGUAGE, READING, MATH, SOCIAL SCIENCE, PRE-SCHOOL, FILIPINO, COMPUTER FACILITATORS I.T. HEAD, GUIDANCE COUNSELORS and EXTERNAL AFFAIRS, SOCIAL WORKER. ALSO COLLEGE (Part Time) FACULTY for Baking and pastry / Bartending / Housekeeping / Commercial Cooking (also sent through text using the number 2371002403020)

These job openings reminded me of one of the points mentioned during the Congress Hearing last May 26, 2009: "We need a Registered Guidance Counselor in our school. Please give us one." The response of the Board of Guidance and Counseling Chair Dr. Rosales was this: "You can forward the request to the APO." Napangisi ang lahat ng nandoon.

We badly need Guidance Counselors, and I bet we need to really watch this matter closely. Let us alert each other of developments in this field so that we end up helping each other than harassing each other. I remember the Congressman say: "The country cannot also afford not to have a Guidance Counselor. We better have quantity and let quantity come later." In other words, it is still better to have a Guidance Counselor in the school than to have none at all. But with the law above us, how are we to do our jobs? I had personally raised the matter there in Congress: if it is possible to suspend the law. The answer was HEAD SHAKING (not the way Indians interpret that of course). Let's see what will happen.

Honestly, this is cause for alarm which those in position should really address. It is easy to say "we're only implementors of the law." But what about when problems crop up in our school settings, in our communities? Are we to simply shrug off our shoulders and say "I am not licensed." Are we to tell our students then:

Students, learning problems are a big no no this year because we have no Registered Guidance Counselors. Maybe next year!

Please don't go into substance abuse because we have no Guidance Counselors available this year, maybe next year.

Please don't abuse others because we have no licensed Guidance Counselor this year. Maybe next year!

Families, please don't separate muna. Just tiis muna kasi wala tayong Registered Guidance Counselor. Maybe next year!

Wala muna tayong career guidance kasi walang qualificadong tumulong sa atin na Guidance Counselors. Siguro, the students will ask us: Sir/Ma'am, pano na ang aming kinabukasan? Pupulutin na lang ba kami sa kangkungan?

Whooh! What a dilemma! Our moral fibers will be tested here. All the best and God bless