CAREER TALK FOR GRADE 10 HOSTED

A career talk for the Grade 10 students was organized and hosted by high school guidance counselor Mrs. Sheryl A. David of the Office of Student Affairs last March 20, 2021 via Zoom. 

    The guest speakers are alumni from the past four batches of Senior High School graduates, and are now doing excellently in their academics and extracurricular activities in college. Each of them is now assuming key positions in various university student organizations.

              Dr. Sining Kotah opened the webinar with her welcoming both the guest speakers and the participants. She reiterated that the SHS program of PCC provided not only the academic foundations but also various opportunities to learn about our cultural background.

        The afternoon proved to be very fruitful as the guests shared their experiences related to deciding to proceed with PCC Main’s SHS program, choosing their respective strands, as well as maximizing these choices of college programs and other experiences in college.

          Chua admitted to the audience that he did not initially intend to stay in PCC for SHS, but the eventual decision to stay proved to be the right one as it exposed him to many opportunities to hone his skills through the various activities and competitions he was given the chance to take part in. He also made special mention of his accounting teacher in PCC who equipped him with the knowledge in not only accounting but also many business concepts, making his two terms in DLSU a breeze. 

       Meanwhile, Lao had his sights focused on taking up a  computer-related program, thus, he took the STEM strand. Though he eventually took a business course, the additional math subjects in STEM proved to be advantageous for him as there were more math subjects in his program than the regular management programs. 

     Li discovered her knack for events planning in college through the various college-based and university-wide organizations she joined. She said that her HUMSS background opened her eyes to the various cultural and social diversities that  helped in swiftly adjusting to college life, including those that concerned people-to-people interactions.

         Sy revealed that she was not entirely sure what she wanted in senior high school, but being one who liked math and sciences, she took up the STEM strand even though her original leaning was in business. She advised the students to make the most out of whatever decisions they would make. She asserted that one’s selection of strands did not have to be based on interest or skill because one would always be good at something, one could learn to love doing it; and if one enjoyed doing something so much, one could eventually become skillful in it. 

          Sia shared that the strict research requirements that the PCC SHS students needed to fulfill might have seemed like a burden during that time, but this foundation made it very easy for her to comply with college requirements. She also left the audience with these words of wisdom: In the end, it is not in the school or the strand that makes a successful student, it is in one's attitude. 

          To cap the sharing, a video presentation was shown where Eunice Lao (12B-ABM), Hiraya Marcos (12B-HUMSS), and Katrina Mae Ching (12C-STEM) shared the reasons they had for choosing their strands and their pieces of advice for the Grade 10 students. OSA Head Mrs. Winsdy Joy Marcos concluded the webinar with profuse thanks to the alumni who served as role models for the students, and the pride of their teachers.