Minor Field Trip Overview

In the day of our minor field trip we were tasked to go to the Sutherland IT Company which is located at Dona Luisa Bldg., Corner Quirino St., Emilio Jacinto Ext, Poblacion District, Davao City, 8000 Davao del Sur, Philippines. When I went there, we were asked to go at the time of 9 am and I arrived at about 8:30 am where I saw some of my classmates in the Field Trip and Seminars. We waited for them outside the building which near it which is a café called CoffeeCat. I think that kind of shop sells a lot of expensive coffees. Anyways, we waited there until it was like 9:15 am and when we were asked to come inside, I realized that we are not yet complete. As we entered the Sutherland building we were asked to formed a line of one in which they would give us like the I.D for the entrance and after that, we were asked to write our names and signatures for like the guest area and after that, we were asked to go to the recreational room in which they held the seminars in there. Inside, I can say that the recreational room was quite huge for us and also I found like 3 rooms behind namely, the Prayer Room, Game Room, Singing Room and I forgot the name of the other one. Just because of those rooms, I immediately remembered all the memories in our trip to Manila the companies in which it also existed there. They use those rooms so that they can entertain and so the employees would also have fun. After that waiting for like 30 minutes we were entertained and welcome by a man named Mr. Mars Ninte. I found out the he is the high ranking officer in the recruitment office. He told us about the basics in BPO, what is BPO and many more. He also told us that he will introduce us to the two of their programmers to answer our questions. He also showed us some of the videos that were made by the Sutherland Company. He showed us videos in which the officers of the Philippines branch and the International branch explain to us why there is Sutherland and many more. After that, he introduced us to the IT programmers in their company which they call their “GTI Engineers”. Their names are Mark Rudolph Espanueva and Marben Labonete. They said that they are the ones monitoring the security of the database and the servers and many more. After that we had a site tour in which they introduced us in most of the rooms around the Sutherland building. We were separated into 3 groups and we were the first. I also realized that there were zones in which you must speak in English. Also we saw the server room, and many more. After the tour we sat down and ate the snacks and after that we took a picture and went home. What can I recommend for the improvement of the advance seminar program of USEP? Like the one in major field trip, the school must also provide like suggestions for students to know the best place to learn and enjoy for the Field Trips and Seminars. My advice to those who will take their advance seminar program in the near future: Enjoy the trip and learn many from it.