Skills

By Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star), March 11, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – Filipino applicants’ lack of skills – not lack of jobs – continues to hound the country’s labor market as only 10 out of 1,000 applicants are getting hired on the average.

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Every year, approximately 5,300 colleges and universities in the U.S. busily churn out thousands of graduates. And American higher education remains a sought-after commodity worldwide, as evidenced by the million-plus (according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) international students flocking to the U.S. to study.

Learning to Earn, the 3rd pillar of UNESCO’s 21st Century Education has been part of the educational pattern of upper secondary education of Europe, USA and Australia. With licensed expert instructors and fully equipped work areas provided in these continents, professional occupational training has enabled senior high school graduates – as well as unemployed adults…

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution is interacting with other socio-economic and demographic factors to create a perfect storm of business model change in all industries, resulting in major disruptions to labour markets. New categories of jobs will emerge, partly or wholly displacing others. The skill sets required in both old and new occupations will change in…

I had the pleasure of recently attending the first graduation ceremony of over 500 young Filipinos involved in JobStart – a program designed to help out-of-school youth prepare themselves for the job market by giving them enhanced career guidance services, life skills training, technical training, and work experience. The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)…

Today, employers are looking for a variety of talents, skills and personality traits in future candidates. This means that people who haven’t attended university, have just as much of a chance of getting employed due to the potential skills and experience that they have gained in the time that others have spent studying for a…

Let’s be clear: Skills mismatch is not an emerging markets problem. It’s universal and affects both wealthier parts of the world – whether the United States or the European Union – and emerging markets. In a way, it’s more visible in industrialized economies, thanks to their comprehensive labor market statistics. In developing countries, we have…

MANILA, Philippines – A survey conducted by leading online job site Jobstreet.com Philippines reveals that employers place importance on internship experience as well as behavioral and functional skills in considering a fresh graduate applicant for employment.

MANILA, Philippines – The country’s largest business group the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), has formed a foundation to help address the jobs-skills mismatch.

In today’s lightning fast, roller-coaster business environment, the concept of solely developing deep expertise in one skillset in order to sequentially climb each rung of the career ladder to get to the top is an anachronism. Yet many organizations and employees are still in the dark, mistakenly believing that supporting this strategy leads to the…

MANILA – Thousands of job opportunities are up for grabs on Wednesday, as the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) kicks off its Labor Day job fairs nationwide. “We aim to give back the service they deserve by fast-tracking the matching of jobseekers and employers, particularly in identified areas where skills are highly in demand…

MANILA, Philippines – Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said there are many job vacancies in the Philippines, but not enough qualified applicants.

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Malacañang clarified on Thursday that a proposal to hire foreigners for certain job vacancies in the country is still being studied.

MANILA, Philippines – With many Pinoys finding it hard to get jobs, it may be difficult to believe there are some occupations that lack skilled workers.

Even in countries with strongly performing, business-friendly economies, a positive relationship between education and training rates and employment outccomes is not automatic. We can clearly see this in Asia. Our region has experienced substantial economic and jobs growth, and sharp improvements in standards of education. Yet skills shortages, skills gaps, and skills mismatches, persist, particularly…

Thousands of Filipino students graduate annually and they will all aim at attaining their dream jobs. The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) is expecting over 550,000 students to graduate in 2013, hence, over 500 thousand more people will be added to the work force.

MANILA, Philippines —The Philippines lies below the middle on a list of countries drawn up by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum according to their ability to unlock the potential of their human resources.

MANILA, Philippines – The lack of enough skilled workers is preventing foreign manufacturers in the Philippines from expanding operations, according to a ranking official of Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC).

The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) needs a P4.09-billion budget to train more Filipinos under its scholarship programs, its top official said Thursday.

MANILA, Philippines—The Commission on Higher Education has come up with a list of “priority courses” in a bid to steer college students toward degrees that the labor market needs.

Vice President Jejomar Binay on Monday threw his support behind proposals to review the Salary Standardization Law to stem the reported exit of government workers for higher-paying jobs abroad.

MANILA, Philippines – Like the government’s weathermen, Philippine air traffic controllers, pilots, and professional aerobridge operators are leaving their posts, lured by high salaries offered by the emerging Middle East airports.

THE DEPARTMENT of Labor and Employment (DoLE) yesterday said it wishes to reach 180,000 beneficiaries under the Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES) this year, up from its target of 140,000 in 2012.

MANILA, Philippines – To scale up educational and training programs and equip employable talent pool with industry-standard skills, the Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPAP) and Commission on Higher Education (CHED) signed a memorandum of agreement to integrate the Service Management Program (SMP) course into the curriculum of 13 state universities and colleges (SUCs).

The crisis has forced millions of workers to seek new jobs but their skills are often not those that employers are seeking, and this skills mismatch is driving up unemployment levels. GENEVA (ILO News) – Several developed economies are seeing increasing numbers of job vacancies but their unemployment rates are not going down. In some…

MANILA, Philippines – Many Filipino jobseekers are now opting to “underskill” themselves just to get employed, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said yesterday.

Intensified investments in basic education are crucial in developing the capacities young Filipino workers, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said over the weekend.