Huawei Philippines has kicked off a series of virtual campus recruitment events aimed at attracting local talent and revitalizing the country’s job market during this pandemic. With this year’s theme of “A Bigger, Bolder Future,” the technology giant has partnered with major universities in the Philippines.
Some 500 students of the Mapua University and other educational institutions in the Philippines attended the recent online recruitment event, as they aspire to jumpstart a career in the ICT industry and be part of Huawei’s growing local talent pool.
“We believe in collaboration and long-term partnership with Mapua. In the past, a lot of Mapua fresh graduates joined Huawei and already became the key staff of Huawei and fulfilling the vision and mission of Huawei,” according to Jade Cao, Huawei Philippines Human Resource Director, noting that Mapua remains to be the top source of Huawei engineers.
Huawei aims to develop Filipino ICT talent and train them in global standards to “make the local talent ecosystem more glorious.” added by Cao.
The partnership between Huawei Philippines and the Mapua University started in 2015 with the Huawei Seeds for the Future Program. From then on, Huawei has launched several successful programs and events, including the Huawei ICT Academy, Huawei ICT Competition, and Huawei Sales Elite Challenge in 2019. Just last year, Huawei opened its scholarship program to Mapua students.
Mapua graduates who are now working at Huawei Philippines are hoping that more of their fellow Mapuans would seize the opportunity to work at Huawei and gain firsthand experience in their field of study.
“I was searching about 3G, 4G, LTE, then I stumbled upon a globally leading telecom vendor, which is Huawei. Then I got interested in joining the company when I was an undergrad because I was studying mobile communications, and it was a major subject and I was passionate about it,” said John Michael De Jesus, a Mapua graduate of Electronics Engineering and now a radio frequency engineer at Huawei, as he shared his career journey, noting that he first heard about Huawei when he was in high school.
He encouraged his fellow Mapuans to join Huawei because he “found a better version” of himself at the company career-wise.
“I first heard about Huawei when they went to Mapua for a job fair, and I got interested to join the company because of the good experiences I heard from fellow Mapuans working here,” said Christian Joshua Ulaye, a graduate of Computer Engineering and now a cloud core network engineer, as he was motivated to apply at Huawei because of the experience of his fellow Mapuans.
Ulaye added that after he got hired, he realized there is a lot to learn in his line of work. He described his job as “challenging but rewarding.”
The career fair with Mapua University is the first in a series of online campus recruitment activities of Huawei Philippines this month. The University of the Philippines had the recruitment event last April 22nd and at the University of Sto. Tomas last April 28th. Another online recruitment is set this year and will be announced on Huawei Philippine Facebook Page. Graduates from other Universities can join and submit their resumes as well.
The following job openings were announced at the event: wireless engineer, datacom engineer, fixed network engineer, procurement engineer, supply chain engineer, maintenance engineer, software engineer, civil engineer, RF engineer, electrical engineer, project controller, finance specialist, account specialist, account manager, public relations manager and sales specialist.
Interested applicants may send their updated resumes to [email protected] and for more information on upcoming events, you may follow the Huawei Philippines’ Facebook page.