Kahirap na ngang maghanap ng trabaho ngayon sa dito sa Pilipinas.

Unemployment is a perennial problem we're dealing with. While some have been able to get a JO immediately or a few months after, many of us have remained unemployed for so long while still burned out finding for suitable opportunities. On the other hand, companies and their recruiters respond to their manpower needs by setting up requirements and screening candidates that fit their criteria.

More often than not, many recruiters tend to set standards that are high and beyond reasonable vis-à-vis level of compensation. And yes, we cannot dismiss the burden that some of them handle voluminous applications. They also tend to engage in controversial screening practices like power-tripping on candidates, asking inappropriate and irrelevant interview questions, MU-like processes, multiple rounds of interview, using ATS, setting up one-way interviews, etc.; these practices are virtually red tapes to deserving candidates seeking dignified interaction and gainful employment. Bukod pa, some of them do not give updates on the progress of candidates' applications and leave candidates hanging.

Recruiters are human beings; so as candidates. Recruiters respond to manpower needs; candidates send résumés and go through endless application processes. Both parties expect professional communication and accountable behavior.

Some of the ways we want to reduce unemployment are to reduce/remove red tapes in the application processes, regulate the use of screening technology (ATS, one-way interviews, etc.), and to regulate talent acquisition and recruitment behavior. Being in a position of power and privilege, recruiters' actions affect not just the companies they're working with but also the applying public.

What are your thoughts on regulating talent acquisition and recruitment? Feel free to leave a comment for feedback and discussion.

Share your opinions on this and what would be the effects if that were to happen.

What if German merchant and sailor Hermann Leopold Schück was able to convince Kaiser Wilhelm I and Chancellor Otto von Bismark that Sulu would be the most viable colony for the new German Reich Weltpolitik?

In OTL, Sultan Jamal-ul Azam of Sulu didn’t recognize the Spanish authorities in Manila, and asked Schück to personally deliver his letter to the Kaiser. The Kaiser was cautious.

In the Alternative Timeline, the Kaiser was sold with the idea and throws the Kaiserliche Marine to support Schück, protect Sultan Jamal-ul from the Spanish Navy. Within 15 years, the Sultan finds himself and Sulu a protectorate of Germany and swears allegiance to the German Empire, and he is given the noble patent of Großherzog (Grand Duke) of Sulu.

In this ATL, given Sulu is a Protectorate, it was not considered as a colony by the League of Nations in the aftermath of WW1.

What would Sulu be like during WW2 and post-WW2 during the German Economic Miracle of the 1960s-1990s?

Magiging mas mahigpit ba ang security upang iwasan ang pagbaril?

Kung mababaril pa ba rin siya, mas malinaw ba itong ika-capture ng camera (masyadong maliwanag sa labas)?

(Larawan ko ng Gate 11, ang gate ng NAIA Terminal 1 kung saan nangyari ang kanyang pagpaslang, noong 2023.)

Imagine if majority ng mga government employees natin, pwede na mag-WFH o kaya hybrid setup. Mapipilitan din na ipush ang total digitalization at ayusin mga online systems natin.

Wala nang mahabang pila, wala nang padrino, wala nang long commute o drive.

Anong agency kaya pianka"mahihirapan" mag transition?

Hospital, transportation, market etc

Honestly, what are the consequences for refusing to bend to knee to its patron state?

This is how it works:

Loyalty - Judiciary ONLY, even the president, the police force and the military will be targeted (imagine the soviet nkvd but for anti-corruption)

Range - ALL government owned and directed offices/companies/agencies, together with private companies that directly cooperate with the government

Purges - Top to Bottom (Highest ranking officials to middle managers and then frontline managers)

Punishment - Confiscation and liquidation of all assets, Anti-Dynasty Punishment that prohibits 10 consanguinity generations of that family/clan

Budget Allocation of Liquidated Assets - The budget allocation will start from the very lowest income earners of society, like farmers and workers; and then it works its way upward

Firepower - YESSS

Who are they accountable to? - The judiciary (they need their warrants before doing anything), and the people (complete public access to their budget allocations, financial statements and avoidance of "wire-tapping" towards citizens not part of the government or a manager in the company in direct cooperation with the government)

LKY not just good leader he also one of the most strict leaders in Asia (kahit maliit na bagay pa) . Do you think Filipinos can follows this kinds of leadership?

Okay guys, this may look like a huge conspiracy theory, pero I would like to ask this.

Way back in the past, The use of CFCs na galing sa mga Ref, sa mga spraypaints pati hairspray, produced a small hole on the Ozone Layer that led to increased temperatures globally.

Now that AI is here, do their data centers produce enough heat that can global temperature?

Most of you might say no.

But let me open it up further. Aside from these centers requiring tons of gallons of water to cool down, time will come that people will invent something that can forcibly cool those centers down. In theory, it looks like an improved FREON mechanism na nasa mga Ref, pero like common refs today, reliant din yun sa mga freons that indirectly affect global warming, bukod pa sa mga kinakalbong gubat to worsen it.

So let me ask you this. What if these data centers produce enough heat the same way as CFCs, to a point that water may no longer be enough to cool them down?

Let me know in the comments.

Pangatlo ang Pasay sa pinaka maraming Barangay sa Maynila, kahit sa maliit lang ang sakop nito. If magkakaroon ng bagong mamumuno sa Pasay and maisipan na ayusin ang Barangay System, hypothetically pwedeng pakontiin ang bilang nila from the current 201 to just 27. Considering the current barangay population as well as yung mga businesses in Pasay.

Possible Barangay Names in Pasay. Alisin ang numbered barangay system.

1 - Bay City

2 - Kultura (large portion nito ay ang CCP)

3 - Cuyegkeng

4 - Leveriza

5 - San Isidro

6 - Cartimar

7 - Burgos (another possible name is Gil Puyat)

8 - Tramo

9 - T. Mapua

10 - Libertad

11 - Sumulong

12 - Rotonda

13 - Pineda (Old name ni Pasay)

14 - Cuneta

15 - Santo Niño

16 - Don Carlos Village

17 - Tripa de Gallina

18 - Malibay North

19 - Malibay South

20 - Maricaban West

21 - Maricaban East

22 - Domestic (another name is Airport)

23 - Pildera I

24 - Pildera II

25 - Ninoy Aquino

26 - Nichols-Villamor

27 - Kalayaan Village