There are many advantages for Filipinos interested in working for an Australian owned company. These may vary between individuals, but typically may include the following:
- Filipino professionals work the same hours as our Australian business partners, which often means that you can keep your normal work routine and maintain a healthy work/life balance.
- We provide a competitive and/or higher rate of pay than that offered by any other local business competition.
- If you have a long-term view of migrating to Australia, the workplace environment is an excellent opportunity to start networking with real Australians and commence working towards your chosen migration strategy whether it be a Sponsored Visa or applying for a Skilled Independent Visa. With either of these visas you will receive permanent Australian residence, which entitles you to free public healthcare (Medicare), certain social security benefits as well as the opportunity to apply for Australian citizenship. In Australia, there is now a very real shortage of skilled workers, which is being exacerbated by an ageing population. As a result, the country is continuing to accept more overseas workers across a variety of industries and the Philippines is one of the few countries from which they are selecting these people. The jobs currently in demand include accounting roles and IT roles (e.g. systems managers, software designers, systems designers, systems programmers, applications and analyst programmers). Australia will continue to hire and import skilled Filipino workers until it can satisfy its own shortage of skills domestically, which looks likely to be a long time away.
- The working environment of Australian business culture tends to be quite collaborative. Therefore, you can expect that before most important business decisions are made it is normal for company management to consult team members for valuable input, which you can be assured will be taken in to account.
- At Scale, we offer our Filipino employees an ongoing training, mentoring and professional development program that is provided by and overseen by Scale’s highly qualified Australian counterparts. These Australian experts include people from professions including accounting (including Certified Chartered Accountants), bookkeepers, HR personnel, software developers, administration staff, schedulers the IT Helpdesk Service Team and so on.
- Through working at Scale you will ensure you remain at the forefront of the rising trend in creative process outsourcing (e.g. video game development, 3D animation and sound and music engineering), which now represents a highly promising area for the Philippines. This will grow and solidify your professional standing and ensure greater future prospects.
- With the Philippines being distinguished as having the APAC regions best telecommunications infrastructure, we will ensure that you have constant access to all of your immediate team members as well as your direct management when required. This will be done via the use of digital communication platforms such as video conferencing, Skype, etc. You will also have ready access to your workmates and management in your local workplace so you can always ask for assistance when you need it.
- The Philippines is located in the exact same time zone as Scale’s head offices based in Perth, Western Australia (WST) and is only 2 hours behind that of Sydney and Melbourne (AEST), which are situated on the east coast of Australia. Having the same time zone as Scale’s head office will ensure that you not only have constant communication access with your workmates and management, but it will also improve workflow processes. Together, this will keep you consistently engaged and operating effectively, which we know full well is an important factor in attracting and retaining our highly valued employees.
- We conduct regular training and education sessions across the company for all of our Scale employees. These are often focused on the significance of our company’s strict set of systems, policies and procedures, the importance of adhering to these in addition to educating you on your personal responsibilities as a Scale employee. We are a company embodied by a culture and set of values that is underpinned by an ethos of integrity. Consequently, we want to remain transparent with you.
- Scale employees will all have access to the same software, communication and IT tools necessary for you to work with our clients and ensure that you can operate effectively whilst enjoying a high performance work environment. This will help develop your skills in all aspects of information and communications technology, the performance of typical business practices and processes as well as generally assisting you with your ongoing professional development.
- Working with us will inevitably improve your oral, written, multimedia and multilingual communication skills, which will also prove invaluable in your professional development and establishment of any of your future prospects.
- We leverage each of our employee’s individual skillsets to ensure they are constantly
engaged and driven in their work. - By choosing to work with an Australian owned company you are becoming a responsible global corporate citizen. You will be instrumental in creating a successful business venture for your Australian employer, but you will also find that you continue to open up new opportunities for yourself, which will improve your own quality of life and that of your family. Additionally, you will be working towards the betterment of living conditions for some of your less fortunate fellow countrymen as you help grow your country.