Joel Aba Email & Phone Number

Being employed for 14 years now, I have a wide experience with various industries particularly in the field of Training and Development, Customer Relations, Public Relations, Sales and Marketing, Tourism, and Business Operations Management. I am a former Senior Administrative Officer and later, Senior Executive Assistant at the Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas (OPAV) under the Office of the President of the Philippines - Malacanang. But prior to this work, I have been immersed in journalism and communications in college as a Features Editor and a professional events host (2006-2010).Through these communications experiences in my younger years, I have found myself molded into Public Relations. After college, I ventured my way to Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Industry as a Communications and Product Trainer. After 3 years, I took a career turn to Hotel and Resort Marketing in a local 4-star hotel in the Philippines. Hospitality has always been my niche.Due to my move to Cebu City, I spent 3 years with the Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas (OPAV). During my years with OPAV, I handled the Health Sector through projects that impact the country such as the Malasakit Center Program, where I was a Program Coordinator. With this platform, I was able to extend my skills in public relations and understanding the various inter-agency connectivity and its individual mechanisms to help improve government function towards the needy.Apart from this, I extensively handled the regional Tourism cluster concerns where I help bridge concerns of the local Tourism to the national departments to boost local-national participation. These are programs that I am proud of not only because we have achieved in my team, but because I learned that working is not about advancing an industry alone, but advancing people and the nation. This is where I discovered my love for travel. I would love a kind of work that assists other people, touches their lives, and make lives better. It is indeed self-motivating when your life creates an impact that goes beyond yourself.

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  Negros Oriental State University