Background: Students who graduated with high honors had undergone many challenges in all aspects of their life before landing a fulfilling career both in a local and overseas setting. Method: A qualitative research design specifically phenomenology was utilized in this study to obtain an in-depth understanding of high honor graduates' lived experiences in overseas employment. Data were gathered through the twentyseven semi-structured interview guide and were analyzed using an inductive approach to theme development. Findings: Findings have shown that graduating with honors indirectly affects job performance but it helps them possess a cultivated mindset through having instilled optimism, propelled perseverance, and challenged self-confidence; sustained development by actively involving in job skills development, pursued graduate education, and reinforcing work-related reliability; processed success by attaining a feeling of gratified hard work, developed work values, pursued opportunities abroad, and achieved set goals. Conclusion: Graduating with high honors calibrates one's attitude, mindset, and work values that directly or indirectly develops one's motivation to search for a fulfilling job and maintain the most satisfactory work performance abroad. Recommendations: Thus, it is recommended that students must focus on sustaining a proper mindset such as goal setting, develop grit in attaining such goal, and also process oneself to be a self-righteous person so that their hard work could pay off in pursuing a successful career whether local or overseas

Keywords : Overseas Employment, Honor Graduates, Work Performance, Cultivated Mindset, Sustained Development, and Processed Success.