Partner of the Month:
Unocal Philippines

As a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Union Oil Company of California, Unocal Philippines serves as a supplier of electricity to the National Power Corporation using geothermal energy harnessed from its two geothermal plants in Mak-Ban and Tiwi.

For the past four years, Unocal Philippines has outsourced the whole recruitment process to John Clements Consultants. As a result, JCCI serves all of Unocal’s manpower requirements, from contractual, rank and file up to managerial level positions. Providing support to Unocal for this effort are three John Clements divisions: Staffbuilders Asia, the Executive Search & Selection Division, and Professional Staffers.

Manee Gayloa, Head of Employee Care and Manpower Planning for Unocal Philippines, shares their company’s recruitment needs. “The scope of the services JCCI provides to us is in two major categories, he begins. “One is the outsourcing of the recruitment administrative services where John Clements handles the recruitment legwork and Unocal comes in during the final stage of the hiring process. The second category is for John Clements to provide us our requirement for clerical and administrative support services and recruit for us all our manpower needs for direct hires from contractual, rank and file to management positions.” Today, Unocal employs over 400 people mostly composed of engineers and skilled technicians, support staff from their head office in Makati and steam field operations in Laguna and Albay.

He also foresees an increase in the requirements for services from John Clements Consultants. “We’ve just been acquired by Chevron, which is a giant multinational company, and we’re now busy with integration efforts. We will definitely need clerical and administrative support, which John Clements does for us. Based on the latest merger with Chevron, there may be need for more people within the next 2-3 years: engineers, technicians, administrative staff.”

As an employer, Unocal offers very competitive compensation package in the market.

The benefits of working for the company do not stop with money, too. “If there’s anything I’m proud of in working with Unocal is the vision and the mission that we lived. It’s not only something that’s written on paper, but most if not all of our employees continually strive to live with our values of excellence, trust and integrity,” Mr. Gayloa relates. “We value people at Unocal, and we live by what we say.”

A good example of the company’s values and sense of social responsibility are Unocal Philippines’ Community Development Programs in Tiwi and Mak-Ban. Their objectives are to serve as a vehicle by which UPI meets its social responsibilities as corporate citizen of the communities where it operates; to promote goodwill and appreciation of them company; to promote rapport and close interaction with policy-makers and regulators on the various levels of the local government structure; and to develop community awareness on the nature of UPI’s operations and the health, environment and safety risks associated with the same.

And through all of this, John Clements Consultants will be there to ensure that Unocal Philippines gets the best people to work for them. “We’ve come a long way partnering with John Clements, and it’s been 4 years since we began,” concludes Mr. Gayloa. “What I like about John Clements is that aside from the fact that we’re dealing with professional people, they are flexible and most, if not all of their staff are really client-oriented. I think based on the feedback I’ve been receiving from the project owners, so far, so good. With the increasing work load I’m doing now, I can’t imagine working without support from John Clements Consultants.”