Meet an Insider: Ramon C. Quevedo

Securing an interview with Ramon C. Quevedo is difficult. After ten years of working for EDI-Staffbuilders International, Inc. as a Senior Technical Consultant, he was recently promoted to Group Managing Consultant, now in charge of the team that searches and sources engineering talents for placement in jobs abroad. This means that any interview with him will be squeezed in between his client meetings, as was the case when he was interviewed for this article. He was gracious enough to grant a few minutes of his time, given his extremely busy schedule.

A graduate of Electrical Engineering from the University of Sto. Tomas, Mr. Quevedo first worked in the British Indian Ocean territory of Diego Garcia. “I worked at the naval base there, and we saw action during my term of employment. That was during the Gulf War in the early ‘90s.”

The high-energy environment has helped him adapt to the rapid pace of activity at EDI-Staffbuilders, where his early experience as an Overseas Filipino Worker qualified him for a job with at the international recruitment company ten years ago.

The professional shift proved to be not without its challenges, but Mr. Quevedo soon adapted, this time focusing his attention on the recruitment and assessment of applicants. The usual challenges are still there, he admits, “especially in my current field. My responsibilities to his team and my dealings with EDI’s many clients are always on my mind.” Still, Mr. Quevedo forges on, finding jobs for his fellow citizens abroad.