small web company looking for talents.

[Loki]

Hello,

We are looking to open a small office in Dumaguete for our growing little web studio. We picked up Dumaguete because its nice environment (Manilla and Cebu look like hell) and university.

However, we are not sure we can find the right profiles ... Does anybody of you have some experience in recruiting webmasters and coders. are there any available on the local market or do we have to look for in Cebu ?. Please let me know how we can advertise the jobs.

Thanks for your help and good advice,

Loki

[TheDude]

Are you living there?

I am a web developer myself and I will hopefully be moving there in a month or two.

You picked the area in part because of the universities, so why not look at the universities? Maybe target the Information Systems programs.

Otherwise Dumaguete is not exactly the bay area. Dumaguete is probably not a place where the web developers of the Philippines flock to. I think I would rather pick up someone who has learned the basics in a university and train that person before he or she has had a chance to pick up a bunch of bad habits.

Good luck!

[tanjames_ph]

Hi Loki,

My wife and I went there last July for some diving at Apo and Dauin. We loved the pace of the people, the place, and the weather so much that we started asking around on what we could do to be able to migrate to Dumaguete.

I've been a programmer from back when the PC chipset was an 8086, those were the COBOL days. Shifted from programming to administering AIX/SCO UNIX and NT/Exchange during the Y2k scare. Worked with RAID5 boxes, laid out CAT5 and even serial networks for dumb terminals(!), managed radio modems and routers. Moved to VB, regressed to Clipper. Moved back to VB.NET and Oracle. I've played around with various LINUX distros at home. Lately, been looking at CMS packages, was thinking of putting up something like DumagueteInfo for the Manila crowd.

I've hardly any knowledge about C/C#/C++, just basic CSS, limited java/javascript, hardly any PHP (but starting to like it thanks to Joomla and Drupal).

What skills are you looking for and how many butts do you need? I'd have to agree with TheDude that you might want to get noobs to train rather than "old" people with bad habits (like myself) for the programming/coding part. Then again, you might want a few backend people who won't panic when the servers crash all at the same time on the eve of a major event.


Excuses to Rhoody and the rest for making this a job search forum

James

[TheDude]

Tanjames_ph,

I think they are looking for a local. Unless you are willing to work for Philippine wages.

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Dude

[richard08]

Local workers would be possible,,,I have a co worker before who's a web developer,,he transfered to Etelecare cebu way back years ago, but now when TELETECH a different call center company move to dumaguete,,he also trasnfered to that company,, I guess he must have really miss his home town dumaguete. Early post is right why not train people from the fresh graduates of the universities, its realy worth an helpful too.

But just incase you'll pick dumaguete prepare your electrical generator coz we got lots of scheduled and non-scheduled brownouts here, hehehe

[tanjames_ph]

Originally Posted by TheDude

Tanjames_ph,

I think they are looking for a local. Unless you are willing to work for Philippine wages.

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Dude

I am a local, although technically I'm in Quezon City, but I would like to be a Dumaguete local

And, I have been <i>frogramming confuters</i> since way back and I've been doing it for local wages, I probably make 1/5th to 1/8th of what I could be getting abroad! While most of my colleagues have migrated away from the Philippines and into the "white man's world", I've been providing world class support and services to a few local companies and basically kept the Philippine economy from going under! (<i>read that as I was having too much fun enjoying life here that I didn't take the brain-drain-leave-the-philippines-and-make-lots-of-cash-abroad route<i>.) Maybe I should get a medal or a statue even...

Too many foreigners are realizing that the Philippines is actually a great place to spend the rest of their lives in. Hey, I've been here the whole time! It's just that I haven't yet made enough cash to be able to actually go around and enjoy its every nook and cranny.

[TheDude]

You don't have to leave the Philippines to make a "Western" income. I am moving there and but my income will remain the same. I work for clients around the world though.

Also, you are not necessarily doing anyone a favor by charging lower rates. I can provide more quality and sometimes work on a lower budget than some people who charge half my rates (they may take twice as long or do work which needs to be fixed by other developers.)

[Franko]

I have been trying to get a few PHP programmers now for 2 months to work on my 10 domains. No luck so far. I have also tried to get people to work on my blogs. Also, very little luck. I have to say that I do have one person working for me that replied to my ad here and it is working out quite nicely. I am also running an ad in the Chronicle and have had no calls from that ad. Not even people calling me for part time work.

[babel-fish]

When these students graduate from university with a degree in computer science they go where the jobs are, Cebu and Manila.

One suggestion some of the cable tv companies place have a advertizing channel and its very cheap to advertise jobs and things. my friend ran some adds on a company in Liloan (north cebu) it was worth while he filled his accomodation in no time at all.

Cebu is the better choice than Dum.

[Loki]

I guess it is a matter of collective effort so that IT workers consider job offers from Dumaguete.