About the guest: Allen Cruz is an Economics graduate from UP Diliman. He is currently working as a Foreign Exchange officer in Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, and he has previous work experiences as a banker in UnionBank and as a management trainee for an oil company.
In this episode, we talked about:
- Why he chose Economics as a course in college
- What you will learn from a degree in Economics
- Why UP's Economics curriculum allows so many free electives
- Career opportunities for an Economics graduate
- Why we need economists involved in deciding the prices of currencies
- His experiences working as a banker
- The many different skills you gain from working in the Loans function of a bank
- How he conducts research, analysis, and reporting about their clients
- The challenging aspects about working as a banker
