WILMA
What do you want to become when you grow up? The typical answer would be a teacher, a doctor or an engineer. But as early as 10 years old, I knew I wanted to be a Customs Broker. My childhood dream was pursued by taking a Bachelor’s Degree in Customs Administration. When I was in my college days I fell in love learning Tariff and Customs Law and Computation. My ONE love! Have I told you that I got 91% in Computation in the customs broker board exam? Naks! Tooting my horn!
CCBI
I am delighted to announce that after many years living abroad, the Chamber of Customs Broker (Accredited Professional Organization of Philippine’s Professional Regulation Commission) created its Singapore Chapter. And my name was inked in history as one of its founding officers.
I am blessed to be appointed as PRO and as one of Singapore Chapter officers, we will do our best to help and be a contributor in developing and enhancing Customs Broker as a reputable profession in and out of the Philippines.
FREIGHT/LOGISTICS ANALYST
As professionals we need to upgrade our skills and being an analyst is an outstanding way to develop our brokerage expertise.
Below is the career map shown by Mr. Roger Lee in CCBI Goes International:
Most of the companies here in Singapore are looking not only for a Customer Service or Coordinator but they are eyeing people that possess knowledge on how to handle tools like pivot table for reporting or data handling/tracking.
CUSTOMS BROKERS OF THE FUTURE
As I have said in this post titled Evolution of Logistics Analyst, analyst is the new and best thing not only for career but also for businesses involved in logistics/warehousing/freight forwarding businesses.
And I do hope that in the near future, logistics, supply chain, brokerage companies will be aware of the power of data they own right now and how to harness it to solve their problems and how to take advantage to increase a firm’s profit.
For Customs Brokers in the Philippines that want to kickstart their upskilling or retooling, you can check-out DataSense Analytics or Project SPARTA for free courses with certificates and for those who have the budget to learn, you can look for Eskwelabs!
That’s all for now! See you in the FUTURE FELLOW CUSTOMS BROKERS!
