Employment – Local

College application deadlines are fast-approaching for most families. (For the 10% of kids who’ve applied early decision and early action, that deadline has passed, and now they wait until December to hear.  And if they don’t get in “early” they still have a few weeks to submit more applications by the January 1st due-date.)

Davao City (27 October) — From 27-28 October, Davao will host over a hundred representatives from the Regional Development Councils (RDCs), Regional Coordinating Councils (RCCs), Regional Tripartite Industrial Peace Councils (RTIPCs), chambers of commerce and industries, the youth sector, and civil society from all over Mindanao for the second leg of the Department of Labor…

Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz yesterday said the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is working very closely and actively with the International Labor Organization (ILO), other United Nations organizations, such as the International Organization for Migration (IOM), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and its multipartite partners in the…

A BETTER Christmas this year; but with a fewer number of employed people.
That’s what economist Victor Abola predicted on Thursday, as he presented the Dun&Bradstreet Inc. business optimism index (BOI) showing a positive outlook for the fourth quarter by 260 companies.

Maybe you know for sure you’re about to get canned. Or maybe you’re just bracing for a likely downsizing. Either way, it’s smart to get the wheels in motion now for landing that next job.

THE BUSINESS process outsourcing (BPO) industry should intensify efforts to recruit workers outside Metro Manila as there are competent talent pools in the provinces, according to an official of the Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPAP).

MANILA, Philippines – Here’s good news for jobseekers. The Department of Labor and employment (DOLE) yesterday assured that employment opportunities are brighter for jobseekers with the coming holiday season.

JOB AVAILABILITY INDEX GROWTH in online job postings slowed in August from a year ago, still reflecting cautious employer sentiment. The Job Availability Index’s statistical measure of monthly job placements at Jobstreet.com rose by 17.8% last month, slower than August 2009’s 78.6%.

Manila, Philippines – With the dawn of the global economic meltdown, lay-offs and retrenchments, finding the job that suits you best may prove to be a not-so-easy feat.

A recent survey by research firm Gartner has revealed that many CIOs and human resources (HR) leaders continue to be required to do more with less budget, and that employee headcount has not returned to pre-recession levels.

32,578 jobs also created in first half Investments for One-Town One Product (OTOP) projects have reached P704 million or 49 percent of the P1.439 billion target for the entire 2010, initial figure from the Department of Trade and Industry showed.

Public works and public employment programmes (PEPs) have long been considered a staple of social assistance. For the most part, though, they have been designed as ‘safety nets’ in the context of counter-cyclical programme interventions and responses to shocks where the objective has been to provide income support for the unemployed in the form of…

Bangko Sentral employment index at all-time high MANILA, Philippines—More jobs may be available for Filipinos in the fourth quarter as the employment index, a key indicator of the plans of companies to hire additional workers, has hit an all-time high.

CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga: Business firms based in this freeport have made significant contributions in the export industry and employment in Central Luzon. Clark Development Corp. (CDC) president Benigno Ricafort said that the freeport has earned about $891 million from exports in the first half of the year or 33 percent of Region III’s $2.7-billion total…

Data provided by: ONLINE ADS for Philippine jobs decreased minimally in July from a year ago, implying stability in the business and economic environment.

One of the manifestations of poverty is not having a job. If, together with President Noynoy, we think that our main objective is to reduce poverty, then the immediate objective is to create jobs. Joblessness is partly cause and partly the result of poverty. At present, unemployment is a world-wide phenomenon. We are fortunate in…

Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz has encouraged young people , including students and fresh graduates, to take a closer look at in-demand occupations, and develop the corresponding skills to avail of these job opportunities found in the country’s major and emerging industries.

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Good looks can kill a woman’s chances of snaring jobs considered “masculine,” according to a study by the University of Colorado Denver Business School.

As a manager, the one refrain you don’t want to hear is, “It’s not my job.” If something is asked of you and it is either outside of your skill set or you really don’t have the time to do a bang-up job of it, then it’s okay to tactfully explain that to your boss.…

Buoyed with renewed sense of hope and promise of a bright future with the assumption into power of the new Aquino administration, investors and companies have shown renewed confidence in the country’s economy as reflected in the significant rise of job openings for workers in online recruitment sites.

Citing the recent State-of-the-Nation Address (SoNA) of President Benigno Aquino III, the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) said it plans to tap the private sector to solve job mismatch, unemployment, and graft and corruption.

MANILA, Philippines—Migrante International, an alliance of overseas Filipino workers, families and advocates worldwide, today called on President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino to make good his promise of stopping forced migration by generating more local jobs.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration employees’ association yesterday urged the Aquino administration to increase the salaries of Pagasa personnel, particularly weather forecasters, to prevent them from leaving the country for better paying jobs abroad.

Saying he has marching orders from Malacañang to create more jobs, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Gregory L. Domingo said achieving 3 million jobs in five years would be achievable.

How do you calculate the almost exact number of employees that an organization needs for business expansion as a result of an improved national economy? — Yellow Submarine.

MANILA, Philippines–Graduates of technical vocational courses have higher chances of getting employed and with a shorter job search period, Technical Education Skills Development Authority (Tesda) Director General Pastor Z. Guiao said.

SIMPLY creating jobs will not be enough to usher in inclusive growth and decrease inequality, according to a study released by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a finding that is seen to impact efforts of the Aquino administration to craft a strong employment-generation program in order to stimulate the economy and boost household incomes.

Been rejected over and over? Maybe you’re looking in the wrong places Not everyone who began a job search last January has a job now, and chances are, if you’re reading this article, you’ve been rejected, or want to find a better job than the one you have. we looked over the Classifieds’ archives over…

Don’t let them get you – and your career – down Workplace bullies come in all shapes. forms and sizes. You’ve most likely encountered bullies at some point in your life, maybe at work or way back when you were still in school.