A Portfolio Of

My Work
Immersion
Experience
 The Producers Bank started its operations on November 27, 1995 in San Jose City, Nueva

Ecija. Producers Saving Bank Corporation (“Producers Bank” or the “Bank”) is formerly known

as the Producers Rural Bank of San Jose City and later as the Producers Rural Banking

Corporation. As of December 28, 2018, the bank already has a total of 175 from all over the

Philippines.

This bank offers several services, to name a few: (i) deposit products such as savings

account, atm account, checking account, time deposit account, and foreign currency deposit unit

(FCDU) account, (ii) loan products like business loan, mortgage loan, agriculture/crop loan, auto

loan and Teacher's Salary loan and (iii) money transfer service via Western Union.

It is given the merit given of being the rural bank with the largest branch network in

Luzon and second largest nationwide.

PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Reflection:

I realized that being in the actual workplace really feels different. I had been thinking and

imagining what it would really feel to work even before. I have come to realize how busy the

working people are and each one of them has really difficult tasks intended for them. Moreover, I

figured that it would be easier and lighter to work when you are surrounded by people who make

a healthy environment for all.

Narrative:

Our second day was busier than the first one because we already had something to do.

When our supervisor arrived, she saw us and asked us if we were wearing make up because it

was one of our requirements. We did not actually have enough time because we still have one
subject before our immersion which is why we just did a simple and very light makeup. Ms.

Lorraine then somehow scolded us and told us that our makeup was too light. They haven’t still

given us any task so we already asked for something to do for us to be able to document

something. Moreover, it was quite boring if we do not do anything so we really had to make the

first step and ask something to do. We were asked to arrange their recent Customer Information

and Specimen Signature Card alphabetically. It was easy for us to do it since it is not that thick

and the 4 of us had divided it to be able to finish our task faster.

Reflection:

I have realized that team work in the actual workplace is really essential to create a more

productive business environment. A person who is working especially the professional ones

should really comply with proper attire and grooming.

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Narrative:

After our 2-week Christmas vacation, our classes resumed a day after New Year. All of

us were really lazy to attend our class. However, we needed to go back to reality and return to

our academic selves. For our first immersion day for 2019, we were given the chance to hold and

count their cash. We were really nervous with the possibilities that we could misplace the money

and we would have to replace it with our own. When we were already finalizing the number of

each denomination, there were some bundles that we have counted incorrectly that some of them
lack couple of bills or some of them were exceeding. It was a different experience but it was

exciting.

Reflection:

This day made me realized how actual workers in reality don’t receive ample time of

vacation however they could not complain because that is how the workplace works. It opened

my eyes that I should value my free time more and be more productive whenever I am given

time.

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Narrative:

For almost 2 weeks of not being able to go to work immersion because of the exams and

the intramurals, we returned at Producer’s Bank last January 24. As a welcome, we were tasked

to do something that we haven’t tried before, the call back. In doing a call back, we need to

check the PR numbers of all papers that is inside the plastic for a specific date. The plastic

container contains the checks, teller’s blotter, deposit slips, withdrawal slips, receipts and other
transactions done within the day. We are also given separate large sheets of paper, like the size

of a 10 column columnar which is the Financial Transactions Listing Report for a specific date.

We had a difficult, confusing, yet fun time doing this task. I think the font of the words written in

the paper was only size 8. We need to find two of the same PR numbers for each transaction.

There are times that we could not find the pair of the PR number because the words seem to be

shuffled in our eyes already.

Reflection:

There are more than what we think on how banks work. Commonly, we just think that

banks are solely for investments, loans, deposits, and withdrawals. However, bank workers does

several work behind those. I also realized that bank transactions are very confidential and must

always be exact and precise which is why checking of transactions is really essential to assure

whether the recorded activities are correct.

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Narrative:

The succeeding week of January 30-31, our accounting head asked us to do the call back

again. It is one of the most regular tasks that we do together with other work immersion students

assigned in Producer’s bank; probably because it is really time-consuming and it is one of those

“not-so-confidential” papers that we could work with. We were just laughing at each other when

one of us couldn’t find the pair of one PR number. Elaine, from 12-Simon even joked that
continuously doing call backs would break her dream of becoming a flight attendant because she

said her vision might be affected because of the tiny sizes of the words.

Reflection:

I realized that in the workplace, we have no right to complain even if we are asked to do

the same things all over again because that is how things go. Things like the call backs that we

did were necessary to be done routinely to just to assure the accuracy of the transactions made. I

appreciated the phrase, “Patience is a virtue” even more.

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 Narrative:

It is our pre-final exam last February 7 which is why we only had our immersion on

Wednesday. We only did one job for this day and that is to arrange the bills that would be placed

in the ATM. We needed to arrange the bills from the newest ones, those in the middle, down to

the oldest ones. We joked about how would it feel if our parents would hand us a bundle of thick

yellow paper bills and tell us, “Wag kang uuwi hanggang di ubos yan”.

Reflection:

Although we haven’t done that much for this week, I have realized how private and

confidential things go in banks. People working in there are held accountable for large sums of

money and they must be very responsible in handling them.

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Narrative:

For our last week in our work immersion, I felt both happy and sad. I felt happy because

we did not have to go out of school anymore, wear corporate clothes and put on make-up every

week. However I was also sad because I would miss the experience and I would like to learn

more things. When we let our supervisor and the employees know that it was already our last

week, they refused to give us work to do on Wednesday. On our last day, our co-immersion

students brought food for the employees also for their last day and they also asked us to eat with

them. We helped them in cutting and pasting the names of teachers on the folders for their salary

loans. We had also done replenishing for the last time as well as arranging the paper bills.

Reflection:

I have realized how much I have learned from our entire experience and how we built

relationship not only with our bosses but also with other students. I also felt glad with the

reaction of the employees when we let them know that it was our last week. As we reach our last

week, I have recognized that there was so much professionalism that was nurtured within me.
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