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Monday, July 9, 2012

Franklin Baker, B&M Global, and the Aboitiz Group @ 2012 AIM Placement Fair


The following entries are provided by guest blogger  JADE GALVAN of the AIM Career Management Services team.  This is her coverage of the two company presentations last July 5, 2012 at the recently concluded 2012 AIM Placement Fair.

FRANKLIN BAKER
Coconut products - that will be the first thing that comes to mind when I hear the name Franklin Baker. This manufacturing company made a presentation at the AIM campus on the first day of the 2012 Placement Fair.  The talk was conducted by Mr. Dong Buligan, Senior HR Manager for Human Resources, who came all the way from Davao City. Franklin Baker was started in the Philippines by the late Bob Chandran, a prominent AIM alum and Triple A Award recipient in 1992.  Dong was encouraged by top management in Franklin Baker to give a company presentation on campus, most notably by their President and another AIM alum Mr. Juan Armando Patag. 
Dong Buligan with AIM students (MBA and MM)
The presentation started with a brief history of Franklin Baker and how it started in the USA.  It also involved how the company grew to become the foremost supplier of coconut products in the country. Apart from manufacturing, Franklin Baker continually improves and seeks innovative ways to do business in the country through their Research and Development arm that provides technical, regulatory & product development.  Mr. Buligan also shared management-level job openings in their firm for our students. Locally, Franklin Baker has two manufacturing facilities in the Philippines- in Davao del Sur in Mindanao and in Laguna in Luzon.

B&M GLOBAL SERVICES
B&M Global is a subsidiary of Baker & McKenzie International B.V. Located in the prestigious business district of Bonifacio Global City, B&M Global is a Philippine shared-service center for law firms in 38 countries globally and this includes providing support documentation services.  The presenters for B&M Global were Madia Salcedo (Project Supervisor) and Joyce Garcia (Project Coordinator) both for Global Business Development and Marketing.  Maida and Joyce, both from the marketing leg of the company, gave the presentation on the dynamic nature of the work in a typical KPO for law firms.
They presented employee engagement activities that can be expected within the firm fostering dynamism and camaraderie among colleagues. Together with the HR manager, Portia Llaguno, their team shared career opportunities locally and worldwide, including specific roles in their marketing and business development department. It is encouraging to note that career shifters definitely have a place in the company according to the speakers.

ABOITIZ GROUP

Valerie Cruz, Talent Attraction Manager for Aboitiz

Aboitiz Group, one of the leading and biggest companies in the country today, conducted a presentation at the SGV Caseroom of the Asian Institute of Management, with Ms. Valerie Cruz, Talent Attraction Manager of Aboitiz Equity Ventures (AEV), as keynote speaker. The Aboitiz Group is recognized by various local and international surveys and publications as among the Philippines’ best managed companies and is held in 2010 as Asia's Best Companies. In 2011, they were Gold Awardee by the Institute of Corporate Directors for their subsidiaries - Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Aboitiz Power Corporation and UnionBank of the Philippines. During the talk, together with the human resources team in support, Ciarah Pacheco and Kim Villacrucis, Ms. Cruz shared the company’s profile and history together with some career opportunities within Aboitiz Group’s vast businesses in the power, banking, food, construction, land development & ship building sectors.  Various functions for career possibilities within the mentioned sectors include Accounting, Administration, Audit, Branding, Corporate Communications, Corporate Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal, Treasury, Corporate Social Responsibility, Customer Service, Engineering, Marketing and Sales, Purchasing, Quality Assurance and Control, Regulatory and Trading. AEV in particular has received numerous awards for its corporate governance practices. The presentation was graced as well by Mr. Román V. Azanza III, First Vice President - Business Development and Ms. Noemi Sebastian, AVP – Human Resources and Quality. Both special guests insightfully shared their thoughts and wealth of experiences within the Aboitiz Group.
Among the current job openings, AEV plans to build an OJT program specifically tailored-fit for MBA students and CMS hopes to hear more about it by 2013.  For a list of the companies of the Aboitiz group, please visit their website.


Galvan for the assist...

- Jade Galvan is CMS Coordinator in AIM. She is a DLSU alumna and is a member of the Philippine team that bagged top prize at the 2012 Kaohsiung International Dragonboat Competition


To know more about the MBA program in AIM, please email Edythe Bautista at mbautista@aim.edu
To know more about our services in career management, email cms@aim.edu


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