Maia Zinnnia Gamos for Video Resume

Speaker: Maia Zinnnia Gamos

Maia Zinnnia Gamos: Hi. Uh First question, please introduce yourself in a couple of sentences. Couple of sentence. I'm not so sure. Um There's not much to know about me. Um But there's only one thing that I would give a disclaimer as early as now. I'm very talkative. So it's low gracious. I think it's gonna be apparent on this video um recording. Uh Yeah. So my name is um my first name is really unique. Spell it as ma I A so most of the time, especially clients or friends from the US or Australia would mispronounce my name. They would usually say it's Maya Mia or Maya. I think in my 36 years of existence, there were only two people who were able to pronounce my name correctly. But it's my, my is uh the goddess of spring and fertility. And my second name is Lin, which is a wild flower, very colorful white flower. Um I started my recruitment career back in 2008. So I worked for a Philippines Clark and uh I am a debt collector and I collect debt from us clients. Uh It was g money back in before, but I think now it's Synchronic Financial or Synchronic Bank. Uh We do collect uh debt for, you know, customers who have privately labeled credit cards like Walmart JC, Penney Lowe's Gap Incorporated and Mervin if it's still there, um those uh credit cards, any privately labeled credit cards under synchrony bank. Uh I did start as a debt collector and then ended up my career as a team leader slash recruiter because when you're a team leader, you get a chance to do the final interview for the new debt collectors. And that started my passion and my love with recruitment. Um It's really fulfilling to see the people that you have hired or the people that you said yes to, you know, working, giving them the opportunity to earn to help their families and all that. And then during the interview process, you get to learn from them, they say they get to learn from you, but I don't think it is right because we get to learn from the people we interview and whenever they share and they tend to be con like they, they tend to be confident with you, they overshare like some personal stuff. And then it surprises me that there are people who are going through this kind of stuff that you only see in series movies, but it happens in real life. And then by the end of the day, you thank God that you're not on the same situation. So that's like inspired me to continue my recruitment career. Um I worked at I for eight long years and I decided to move up to the next level, like really focus on working in the recruitment industry. I think eight years is good enough. I eight years is really good enough for IOS Clark. And fortunately Casa Clark opened here in Pampanga. And then I applied as a recruitment specialist and I was happy I was given a chance to um land a good career in recruitment. I've worked in Tasco for more than two years. And up until today, I would say that's one of my best uh recruitment experience because that was the first time that I handled end to end recruitment. So I did interviews, I did volume recruitment. I also did some um target targeted recruitment, like have to hire team leaders or supervisors or managers. Uh task was really, really happy company or a happy place for me. And that really mold me to become a really, really good recruiter. But still of course, continuous continuously learning after Tasca um the trend of recruitment made way for RPO or the recruitment process outsource uh wherein you directly hire for a certain client or for a certain yeah, for a certain client and you hire targeted roles like it, accountancy, um accounting roles and stuff. So I wanted to explore that side of equipment and not do volume recruitment because you know, you get to have two skills and one go. So, um fortunately a company named is hiring for a recruitment consultant. So I was thinking that I will be employed uh for people as an internal recruiter. It's not, I was hired as a recruitment consultant for a certain Australian client that Australian client is. Line recruitment is a it, a recruitment agency in Australia. One of 100. Um what I do there is I start just doing resume screening and then um a little bit of interview with first level roles like level one service desk. And unfortunately, line recruitment has to close its doors uh and have to pull out from. So I was on a floating status and then of course, we don't want to be on a floating status. We have bills to pay. Fortunately, the company just right beside Bo is hiring for our recruitment consultant. So I applied at to or yeah, the outsource accountant. It's what's uh I think that's their name so to and they're hiring for recruitment consultant again, I was in the impression that I would be hired as an internal recruiter for to a Nope. I was again hired for an Australian client which is Taylor recruitment consulting. Same with my recruitment. I think it's their direct competitor because they also are an it recruitment consultant, a consultant agency in Australia. So it's the same. I also hire for level one service desk, level two service desk. Um I do end to end, I do uh the sourcing CV, screening interview, scheduling interview. And uh the latter part of my career there, it advanced because before it was only my client who are allowed to do Zoom interview. But that time I was given the opportunity to do the Zoom interview with Australian candidates, which is really, really surprising because I've never done that in my entire career. Like I said, I was always dealing with Filipinos lo local and I was happy about that. And then after uh I was offered to do sourcing at Southern Philippines Clark, another BPO, the reason why I left and moved to Southern Land because sourcing is one of my weakness back then. So I wanted to hone my skill in sourcing and that was the best opportunity for me to do that. And unfortunately, pandemic hit. So I have to leave uh Suer land. I have actually, they have to let me go because I was the asked the person to come in. So I was the first person to go up. Um And then I started doing freelancing or getting clients from upwork or any other platforms. And I was able to be hired for upwork for some clients, Saudi clients, um us clients and Australian clients. Currently, I am with local life which is an Australian recruitment agency, but this time for health care, so I hired doctors and move them from one state to the other uh which they call loco doctors. So currently I'm with locum life, um managing several doctors, registrars, and consultant. Uh and so far it's doing great because it's also a new field for me. It's not no longer, it, it's no longer accounting, but it's something new added knowledge. And I'm just so happy that I still have. I am still with that client, but of course, if there will be any better opportunity that would expand my knowledge, I would be gladly accepted. So that's just basically about me, not just a couple of sentences.

Maia Zinnnia Gamos: Right? What would be my strength and weaknesses? I think most of the time whenever I ask, whenever people would describe me in my entire career, they would say I'm AAA people person jolly energetic, uh which I think is my strength. I'm very personable. I think um a lot of my clients and my managers would always say that I'm a very personable, very energetic. Um really someone that they would really listen to listen to when I started talking. So I think that's one of my strength. Um aside from that, I think I am I, this was my weakness in the past attention and detail oriented because I tend to take on a lot of responsibilities and I tend to tend to take on a lot of information. And sometimes that, that really is not a good thing when you need a job, when you're in a job that has to be, that you really have to be attentive and detail oriented. But now as I go on with the recruitment process where everything is like back and forth, back and forth, this is urgent, this is urgent, there's another urgent. So I tend to know how to prioritize and I tend to see and organize myself every day. That was an ongoing process for me. That was my witness. Now, it's going to be my strength. Now, my weakness would be, I think I talk a lot, sometimes talking a lot is an advantage and a disadvantage. So I really have to control my, my mouth whenever I deliver something. Um, aside from that, I think one of my, um, weakness would be, uh, I think still one is taking on too much responsibility. Um, especially in my current role. Um, even though I have a manager, I still take on the responsibility of a manager because I think, um, I can resolve the issue faster or I can do the job faster, which is, I think, uh, one of my weakness. So that's it. My strength would be, um, very personable, energetic. I think if I work eight hours or 10 hours, I would still be the same me with a lot of energy and my weakness again. That's it taking on too much, uh, responsibility and, yeah, and I talk too much, which is sometimes not really good.

Maia Zinnnia Gamos: The most uh professional achievement that I'm really proud of. One is stepping into the recruitment industry. Um on my previous video about telling something about myself, like I told you uh like really zero experience in recruitment, right? That's really zero. And then I was able to move to the recruitment industry and then mapped my career for the next five or six years. So it's like that's the biggest or the most pro the professional achievement that I'm really, really proud of. Um they say recruitment easy, but I tell you, no, it's not for someone who doesn't have any background in recruitment and then stepping into the recruitment industry, it was really a challenge, but I was able to, you know, get over that challenge, really challenge myself and then excelled in that career and look at it, look five years, six years now, I'm still in the equipment industry um currently being in the recruitment institute for the past six years. Another thing that I am really proud of is based from the experience that I have had is I can definitely deal with different kinds of candidates from different kinds of roles. Um Right now I'm handling doctors, doctors are somewhat hard to deal with because they're professionals and you know, they're gonna eat you alive because they're doctors. But uh that's one thing I'm proud of. I have doctors that have established good relationships and I think that's because I'm very personable and very right personal and really talkative and friendly with my doctors. And I have a lot of doctors that at this stage are talking stage. We're talking about travels, we're talking about their kids, we're talking about their pets. So I think that um establishing a good relationship with my candidate, um especially on my current role is also one thing that I'm really, really proud of. Plus the fact that when you have that kind of relationship with your doctors, especially in my current, we have a certain target to reach uh placement to reach every month. And because of that kind of relationship that I have, I was able to um hit my target. Um every month, there are misses. Yes, of course, there will be challenges like during the pandemic, it was really, really hard to bring the doctors from one border to the other. But um so far so good. Um aside from that would be I think managing a team right now, again, I was able to uh use my leadership skill because I have three people below me or under me that I have to really, really motivate. And um at the same time, train So I think those are the most proudest professional achievements that I have at the moment.

Maia Zinnnia Gamos: What are the things that I'm looking forward uh to my next role? Cliche, I say, but it's learning and knowledge. Um You know, people would say it all the time, candidates would always say it all the time. But for me, it's the reality. Um whenever we don't get challenged anymore and like we're no longer learning from our current role, we tend to look into our next role where we learn more from what we already know. I mean, I think learning is a continuous process. I mean, you can never say that, you know, everything about recruitment, there would be a lot of different things that would happen along the way. And that's what I'm looking forward to on my next rule. Something that would challenge me more and would give me learning more knowledge and greater experience. Um Yeah, expand my experience, expand my knowledge and expand my learning when it comes to recruitment.

Maia Zinnnia Gamos: Why am I the right fit for the role? I like the word, right? Because usually the questions would be, why are you the perfect fit? I think no one is perfect for the role, but there would be a right person for the role. Um I would be the right person or the right fit for the role one or I'm suitable for the job because one of the experience that I have in recruitment, um I've been in different in, in different industries of recruitment, it accounting and health care and real estate. So I think that's gonna be my edge because I've been through a lot of different candidates, different countries, different nationalities. And I think I can handle uh those kind of candidates aside from that, I think um one thing that I can bring to the table is the experience that a candidate would have when I'm the recruiter. Um I always believe that the recruitment is the eye or the window of the organization. If candidates are, they don't feel good or they don't feel welcomed or if they find that their recruitment, a recruiter not friendly sometimes at the back of their minds they would say that if the recruiter or the recruitment process is like that, it tends to also think they also tend to think that the organization or the client or the company would, it's the reflection, you know, the recruit recruiter is the reflection of the company. So they would also think that a company is somewhat like that. So that's one thing that I think would make a difference in the recruitment industry or in the recruitment process, you know, taking care of your candidates, making them, you know, not just treating them as a candidate but treating them as a person like putting yourself in your situation when you first applied. So, yeah, I think I would be a right fit aside from the experiences that I have the industry and the candidates that have managed from different nationalities, different countries, different time zones, my personality itself on how I deal with candidates and establishing a good relationship with them. Because if you have a good relationship with your candidates, you can retain them, you can have them stay in their organization at the same time. If the recruitment process is long, if you have that good relationship, follow up and all that, you get, you get to hire a good candidate or you get to make that candidate stay and wait until they get hired for a debt organization or for a debt client.