Introduction: In today’s global environment there is a competition on performances of organizations. Business organizations are seeking highly skilled professionals to be employed to achieve high performance and productivity over other competitors. The purpose of this research is to determine the effects of personality traits, and professional skills on employee performance in an Automotive Corporation in the Philippines. Methodology:  The study is a quantitative research, and a descriptive-correlation. A self-constructed survey questionnaire was distributed to 97 employees of Automotive Corporation using convenience sampling. The statistical tools used for analyzing the results from the SPSS 22, was Pearson correlation to analyze the relationship and standard deviation and the mean for the descriptive study, and t-test and ANOVA were used to analyze the difference, and in terms of predictions, linear regression was used.  Result: the Study revealed that the relationship between Professional Skills has a positive significant relationship with employee performance but there is no significant relationship between personality Traits and employee performance, though openness was dominant with the highest mean. The study also showed that professional skills, personality traits, and employee performance are high.   Considering the sex, males had a higher employee performance than females. Further results revealed that only professional skills predicted employee performance. Discussion: The result of the study implies that business owners need employees that are able to get the job done because employee performance is critical to the overall success of the company. The study recommends that industries should pay attention to Professional Skills, and Personality Traits of workers because it is important in business organizations.