Home Radio's Vision and Mission

VISION

An enlightened citizenry exercising their freedom of speech and expression provided by accurate and comprehensive information delivered through a progressive and committed media organization staffed by professionals whose foremost concern is public service

MISSION

Promote teamwork among various departments and personnel involved in the different aspects of production of work and support activities.

Enhance professional growth and development of all employees as befits the company's most important resource

Establish and ensure an efficient and regularly upgraded system of information gathering,processing and delivery that conforms to established standards of media professionalism and existing norms governing freedom of speecha and expression

Gem of a Find

Franz: Aha ka mag-intern Jovan?
Jovan: Home Radio or Wild FM. Kana lang duol sa school oy.
Franz: Laaaaaaaaaa! Ganahan sad bya ko mag-intern sa Home Radio!
Jovan: Adto ta didto na unya after enrolment. Mag-inquire ta if modawat silag intern.
Franz: Sige.
Gem: Kuyog ko ninyo bi.

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That conversation. There's nothing interesting with it. But that conversation is the reason why Jovan, Gem, and I found ourselves working at Home Radio for our internship. Gem was a bit undecided where to have her OJT so she went with us. Since then, I always call her "Gem of a find".

That's her. Boyish on the outside, bona fide feline on the inside. HAHAHA Gem is so gonna kill me for blogging about her. But the succeeding details will make her think again. I'm gonna write about all the life lessons I've learned from this chick.

Gem has always been vocal about things. She doesn't feign emotions. She's the real deal. Being true is one thing I have learned from her. If you don't want to do a thing, don't let society force you to engage in such.
Despite being vocal, Gem still remains tact unlike other people who are so over the edge with their being vocal. It might sound contrasting to be vocal yet tact, but that's just how I see Gem. She seems to say the right words in any situation.

Work-wise, she always gets the job done properly. I can attest to that because I've worked with her during our DYAR days and also during our two month stay at Home Radio. To sum up, Gem is the total package
--- she's an epitome of  a lady with a great body, beauty, and brain. Truly, she is a "gem of a find".

Jovan of all Trades

Heeeeeeey blogspot! Just got home from Volleyball practice -_- But that's not why I'm blogging right now. I'm going to write about my internship buddies who have taught me a lot of random things. First off, meet Jovan!

I call him the "Jovan of all trades". During our internship at Home Radio, I noticed that he was the first one who got pretty close to most of the employees. He seemed to be a contagion of happiness and positive vibes that influenced everyone at the office. If it weren't for Jovan, we couldn't haven known Sir Hans, the Sales & Marketing Head, Miss Sarah, the Finance and Administration Officer, and the DJs. One thing I learned from him is to do everything with a smile. 

Whenever there's a task that needed to be accomplished, Miss Sarah never hesitated to approach Jovan and asked him to do an errand which sometimes made us think "Why do they always approach Jovan and ask him to do this and that? What about us? Don't they have anything for us to do?" Yeah, this thought crossed our (Gem and mine) minds. But it's not that I'm saying Jovan hogged all the paper works. He called on us for help. Because of this, we learned to offer help instead of being asked for help. Do you see the difference between offering for help from asked to help? I bet you do! 

The last thing I learned from him and forever remind myself with is to do ordinary things extraordinarily well. There were times when we were asked to have a lot of documents photocopied. Jovan with his being a neat freak taught me to always keep everything organized. 

I guess those three learnings maybe meager for some, but they had a very great impact on me. I will forever cherish working with Jovan and treasure all the things I learned from him.

Internship Evaluation (Second 100 hours)

I'm already done with my 200 hour internship at Home Radio. It's kinda bittersweet for me. I feel happy to accomplish my tasks there and be able to focus on other academic stuff, but I also feel sad thinking I won't be able to see the people whom I've grown to love working with. Anyways, here are my last set of evaluation from my working supervisors. :]

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Sir Julius' feedback:
Very much willing to learn work attitude.

Darwin a.k.a DJ Duwayne's Feedback:
Confidence is a very important factor for future media practitioners.
Innovation (There's no limit to imagination).

Ms. Sarah's feedback:
Excellent in terms of professionalism during internship.
High-standard of servitude.
Able to commit to assigned task.

Internship Evaluation (First 100 Hours)

Here are the stuff my supervisors at Home radio have to say about me. :]

Sir Julius' feedback:
Very willing to learn.

DJ Duwayne's feedback:
Good job! I need to see aggressiveness from Franz.
 Innovative, Curious in an excellent way.

Ms. Sarah's feedback:
Orderly organize paper works.
Able to meet task on a limited time given.
Experience in Home Radio will be a pathway for a future career.

A closer look into the ratings :]

Company Guidelines

Hi Blogspot! Here are the guidelines I have to observe while I was doing my internship at Home Radio. :]

Code of Discipline

Discipline and Definition of Penalties

Discipline means “orderliness”. The term does not only mean strict observance of the company’s regulations but rather “working, cooperating, and behaving” in accordance with said regulations. The primary purpose of disciplinary action is to correct the employee’s shortcomings or excesses more than to inflict punishment. Discipline is enforced in order to make the employee behave in accordance with the company’s norms.

Administration of Disciplinary Action

Procedures:

1. The right to discipline is a line function and as such, should be initiated by the immediate supervisor and/or department head.
2. When an infraction of a company rule has been committed by an employee, the immediate supervisor and/or department head concerned should accomplish a disciplinary report memo stating therein the following pertinent facts:

2.1 name of employee who committed the infraction

2.2 description of the infraction(s) committed, its nature, time,and place, the resultant injury and damage or loss if any.

2.3 recommended disciplinary action/sanction

2.4 with notation and approval by the department head

Title: Office Decorum

Objective: To ensure that all employees shall reflect the good image of the company by maintaining proper conduct, good manners, and pleasant appearance.

Policy Statements:

1. Office Attire
1.1 All employees are required to wear the prescribed uniform or approved dress code from Mondays to Fridays as follows:
1.1.1. Ladies – dress, skirt, slacks, blouse. Sleeveless dress/blouse, tight fitting blouse must be worn under a blazer. Minis, leggings, plunging necklines are not allowed.
1.1.2. Gentlemen – long and short sleeved polo, barong, and slacks. No maong pants, shirts, sandals, and rubber shoes.
1.1.3. Saturdays/Sundays – employees can wear maong pants, shirts, and rubber shoes.

2. identification cards 

2.1 all employees are issued identification cards by the company to be worn by them and to identify them from other people entering the company premises

2.2 all employees must wear identification cards when entering and while inside the company premises

2.3 loss id cards must be replaced immediately. Cost of the new id will be charge to the concerned employee

3. The duty accomplished report is then forwarded to the HRMD for appropriate evaluation or investigation and action.

3.1 disciplinary actions shall be imposed as a result of non compliance of company work rules base on the following

3.1.1 written reprimand- a wriiten notice issued to an employee for an offense commited that would served as a warning. Repitition of similar offense shall be met with stiffer penalty

3.1.2suspension- a temporary physical detachment from teh service without pay. suspended employee shall not earn any benefit during the period of suspension such as V.L S.L and service creditsv holidays, saturday, and sunday sandwiched by suspension days be without pay.

3.1.3 Dismissal- dishonorable separation from the service, discharge for just cause.

4. If the infraction committed only warrants reprimand, the immediate supervisor with the approval of the department head can take immediate action. HRMD shall be provided a copy of the disciplinary action for record and notation in the 201 file.

5. When the infraction committed is punishable by suspension or dismissal, the case shall be referred to HRMD for proper action. HRMD shall inform the employee in writing of the charge against him stating the particular omission constituting the infraction, and shall give him the opportunity to explain and present his side.

BREACH OF DISCIPLINE

·         Tardiness/Absenteeism

·         Abandonment of work

·         Loitering

·         Feigning sickness to avoid assigned task

·         Negligence of duty

·         Gambling

·         Receiving/accepting bribes in exchange of jobs, work assignment or any favor

·         Failure to safeguard company property that resulted to loss/damage

·         Working under the influence of liquor

·         Falsification/tampering of documents

·         Failure to comply instruction prejudicial to the interest of the company

·         Discourtesy from superiors

·         Using Obscene language

·         Rumor mongering

·         Provoking a fight/ inflicting injury/ threats/harass fellow employees

·         Abuse of position to gain personal profit or advantage

·         Criminal acts punishable by law

·         Illegal drugs (using/ pushing)

·         Giving false testimony in a company investigation

·         Sexual harassment/ illicit affairs

·         Theft/ robbery of company property

·         Misappropriation of company funds

·         Capping/ kitting/ delayed deposit of collection

·         Revealing company classified matters/information

·         Participating or undertaking in any trade that is in competition with the company

·         Failure to comply company security measures or established guidelines.

Internship Correspondence

Hey Blogspot! I'm posting the letters and documents needed for my internship website. I'd rather upload them all here than in my web. I don't want to clutter that much. :]

Organizational Chart

Received Endorsement Letter

Resume First Page

Resume Second Page

Application Letter

Received Waiver

In Actuality

   Hi Blogspot! It’s 1:10 AM and I can’t go back to sleep so I thought of visiting you. Now, here I am making my fourth internship blog. Isn’t this great and productive of me? (HAHA)

   
    During our first day of internship last May 28, Sir Hans, the sales and marketing head, asked us to make a radio advertisement for Harold’s Hotel.  A lot of things came into my mind like, “What if we can’t come up with a good script? What would they say about USJ-R Masscom students? How can they trust us with something this big?”

    I doubted myself but I reviewed all my notes about radio script making and consulted my classmates who were good with such stuff.  I remembered that in making a radio/tv ad, one has to divide the page into two columns. The left column is where technical instructions will be written while on the right are the words being voiced over or uttered. This is how I made our first assignment.

   On our second day, Jovan, Gem, and I shared our drafts and edited each other’s works. The group decided to pass my output to Sir Hans. I felt horrible with my draft because my technical column had nothing written on it. I’m not really good with technical stuff so I left it blank thinking the technicians will do the editing and adding of sound effects. I felt bad passing something that was half-baked, but when it got to Sir Hans’ hands he said nothing bad and thanked us. Although, he did ask why I wrote it in such way and I was like, “What? They don’t do it like this here?”  

   I knew that when they make commercials, all they do is compose the scripts and leave the disc jocks with the editing and adding of sound effects. It got me thinking that what we’re taught in school may not necessarily be what is done in the actual field. But I am not complaining. I even think it’s an advantage on my part to learn how to make split page scripts.  My internship site may not be doing it but maybe some radio and tv stations make use of split page scripts.  

Professionalism: A Work in Progress

”A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.”

These are the words from British-American journalist, television personality and broadcaster, Alfred Alistair Cooke.  I may not know the reason why this quote came into his mind but I do agree with it.

My internship stint at Home Radio exposed me to the concrete definition of the word PROFESSIONALISM. But the word is better defined in dictionaries (and in the web) than being done. There are really times when our sense of professionalism is put to a test. Our environment, our ego, or our colleagues can sometimes trigger us to do something unprofessional.

As an intern, I’m learning the art of professionalism from professionals both in the academe and at my internship site. During my stay at Home Radio, I got to know about internal conflicts among the employees but one good thing about the employees was how they dealt with their problems. Everyone stayed diplomatic when they resolved the issues. No one got won over by their emotions which can cause jeopardy to one’s professionalism most of the times.

Approximately seven months from now, I will be a professional but I know it won’t be an easy ride. What can harm my hopes of becoming a professional are my days of lethargy which can put a hold on me from doing my best.

Whenever I get attacked by my laziness, insecurities, or other negative vibes, I will think of Cooke’s quote. It will serve as my reminder. If I want to belong to the professional and corporate world, I have to perform at my best even if the odds are not in my favor. This may be easier said than done, but I know I will make it. I will not fail myself.