Employment – Local

THE World Bank intends to direct the focus of the Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) on creating jobs for Filipinos and improving the country’s safety nets.

MANILA, Philippines—Alarmed by the difficulty experienced by college graduates in landing jobs, marketing experts will give some 10,000 students in colleges outside Metro Manila some coaching to prepare them for the job market.

Creating better jobs for Filipinos and reducing the underemployment rate by half to about 10 per cent over the next two years would help the Philippines achieve the nearly impossible 2015 Millennium Development Goal on poverty reduction, the country’s top economic manager said.

The Philippines faces tough challenges of reducing poverty, raising investments in the country and generating quality jobs for its people even as it enjoys impressive economic figures starting last year, the government’s chief socio-economic planner said Friday.

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The Philippines ranks as the eighth biggest contributor in the global value chain, according to the World Investment Report 2013, a study conducted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, which was launched on Wednesday at the Great Eastern Hotel in Quezon City.

WITH a growth of 7.8 percent in the first quarter, it’s understandable why Filipinos become impatient when it comes to job creation. But the government and local economists pointed out that creating jobs is a Herculean task that takes time.

Mr. President, I congratulate your esteemed leadership of the Conference. I also congratulate Director General Guy Ryder and commend him for his incisive and forward-looking report. The Philippines, with its tripartite constituents, supports and is ready to engage the ILO on its Centenary Initiatives outlined in the report of the Director General.

MANILA, Philippines —Too many jobs, but too few qualified applicants. There were more than 65,000 job vacancies but there were only around 2,500 jobseekers who participated in the day-long job fair that was among the highlights of the country’s 115th Independence Day celebration in Manila on Wednesday.

MANILA, Philippines – Joblessness rose to a three-year high in April amid record economic growth as new graduates flooded the job market while unfavorable weather conditions stymied hiring in the agricultural sector, officials said yesterday.

The World Bank said that the Philippines need to create 14.4 million good jobs- jobs that raise real wages and bring people out of poverty- until 2016.

MANILA, Philippines–About nine of 10 Filipinos are as concerned about energy prices and future energy demand as they are with employment and education, according to a survey commissioned by the Shell Companies in the Philippines.

MANILA, Philippines — Fresh out of college and seeking for a job? Online jobs portal Jobstreet.com Philippines Inc. pooled job postings and ranked the best paying entry-level jobs for those who just graduated from college:

Jobstreet.com Philippines said quality control senior managers’ salaries are the highest, based on salaries from job listings. Quality control senior managers get around P253,000 a month on average, according to the online jobs portal.

Good news for parents who need steady income to put their children through school: more than 130,000 jobs are up for grabs in the Philippines this June, the Department of Labor and Employment said Thursday.

With the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals approaching, Aurelio Parisotto, ILO Senior Economist, explains why jobs and livelihoods should be at the centre of a post-2015 development agenda.

MANILA, Philippines – In just a day, more than 20,000 jobseekers nationwide have found new jobs, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported yesterday. Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said the nationwide job fairs held last May 1, Labor Day, resulted in the on-the-spot hiring of 20,905 out of 127,880 applicants. “The number of applicants…

MANILA, Philippines – Unemployment is not as bad as some surveys have shown, according to Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz.

May 1 is often celebrated with parades and labor rejoicing in many countries. These provide symbolic, if plastic, events extolling the achievements and aspirations of labor. In the past, where communist governments ruled, the day was a parade of state power in the name of labor. In our country, May 1 is a day when…

The problem with job creation is that everyone is talking about it but nothing really gets done that’s palpable. Government, labor unions and private sector business all have said something about the importance of job creation and somehow the problem remains formidable.

Want to earn quickly? Apply for a job in call centers. According to the Bureau of Local Employment (BLE), a call center agent is the hottest job in the Philippines with supply unable to match the demand.

MANILA, Philippines – More and more Filipinos are blazing the trail in online freelance work as a major source of livelihood or to earn extra income, leading online freelance platform Elance said in a report.

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Now that summer is here, many Filipinos are looking for summer jobs or part-time stints that will help them fund their dream summer vacations. Some simply want to look for opportunities to work from home, but online job sites aren’t always helpful.

The government is preparing an updated version of the Medium-Term Development Plan (MTDP) focusing on people and quality jobs to address the growing number of jobless Filipinos, according to a Cabinet official.

Filipino women’s participation in the country’s labor force is increasing but still lower than that of men, according to according a report from the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB).

Most PH firms now hiring as they gear up for expansion Now is the best time to go job hunting in the Philippines because most local companies are planning to expand their businesses this year, according to JobStreet.com.

MANILA, Philippines – More than 250,000 jobs are left unfilled according to data released by state-owned Phili-JobNet (PJN). In a statement on Monday, February 25, Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz said PJN, the government’s official job search site, recorded a total of 268,278 job vacancies as of 15 January 2013.

The Philippine central bank said that employment outlook for the coming quarter remains bullish. In its latest Business Expectation Survey (BES) released on Friday, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said that the employment outlook index for the next quarter increased to 23 percent.

I heard that President Aquino had members of his Cabinet look closely into how the economy lost nearly a million jobs last year in spite of an exceptional 7.2-percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the same period. I called attention to the disturbing statistics at the Philippine Development Forum held in Davao last week,…