Skills

MANILA – The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) says there’s plenty of jobs available for new college graduates. The only problem is, do they want the jobs – or vice versa?

The government has committed to invest heavily in developing the skills of the country’s youth population beginning with basic education, as the prevailing jobs-skills mismatch in the Philippines continues to be a major obstacle in attaining the Aquino administration’s quest for inclusive growth.

The Department of Labor and Employment has earmarked P2.97 billion of its P8.12-billion budget for 2013 to skills training and retraining programs, to prepare the workforce for the ASEAN’s integration into a single market in 2015.

THE AQUINO ADMINISTRATION has issued an executive order establishing an educational and training system to address the jobs-skills mismatch in the country. DepEd pitches more support for classroomsDepEd taps Google for educators’ toolsTeaching Martial LawToshiba, Ayala Foundation support education projectDeal to settle DepEd arrears with GSIS Executive Order (EO) 83, which took effect yesterday, created…

Manila, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) yesterday appealed to graduating high school students and those who have yet to enroll in college to try “unpopular” courses.

The Philippines urged Canada this week to recognize the academic degrees earned in the Philippines to boost the hiring of Filipinos. Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario said this would help fill the projected one million job vacancies across Canada by 2021 in sectors such as mining, oil, and health care.

LABOR Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz called on Filipino workers and job seekers on Tuesday to adapt to the changing industry landscape by “retooling and retraining” for employment security as she cites glaring problem of skills mismatch, where only 1,000 applicants were hired on the spot when there are, in fact, 135,000 job vacancies offered in Metro…

DAVAO CITY — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) here said there is still a problem of graduates not being able to meet the requirements of the industry in the Davao Region.

MANILA, Philippines – Seeing continued strong demand for pilots worldwide, leading global aviation training services company Alpha Aviation has beefed up the capacity of their Clark-based Philippine unit to train more pilots with another Airbus A320 simulator.

CEBU, Philippines – Members of the Associated Labor Unions-Trade Unions Congress of the Philippines and their dependents leaving in Cebu who cannot afford to pursue a college education can now avail of scholarships from the Technical Education and Skills Development (TESDA) through the ALU-TUCP Workers College Foundation, Inc.

Inside Business Agenda MANILA, Philippines — When the World Economic Forum (WEF) released its Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011, it painted a picture of the global economy at a time characterized by significant uncertainty.

CEBU, Philippines – The obvious problem of human resource shortage in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) has prompted a group of Cebuano entrepreneurs to open up a training center to equip potential manpower with employable skills.

A RECENT column,“Saudization? It might be a blessing,” got flogged a lot, the negative reactions coming from here and elsewhere. The main point of the over-the-top criticism was this: that I was a clueless jerk who had no understanding of the level of pain and dislocation the Saudization program would inflict on domestic helpers and…

Faced with a shallow skilled talent pool, the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry has begun collaborating with the government and various schools to ensure the graduates joining the labor force have competencies aligned with the needs of the industry.

MANILA, Philippines – Fewer Filipino workers were hired abroad due to their lack of necessary skills and experience, local job recruitment industry leaders reported yesterday. The recruitment leaders said they were only able to fill up about 40 percent of job orders from abroad mainly due to lack of highly skilled Filipino workers.

THE PHILIPPINES aims to become the hub for English and personnel management training for Japanese firms looking to relocate to Southeast Asia in the wake of the disaster that hit the Northeast Asian country last March, said a Trade official who attended a regional meeting in Kuala Lumpur on July 8-9.

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Labor and Employment’s (DoLE’s) National Skills Registry System (SRS) has gained ground in Pangasinan with the municipality of Malasiqui as its next target for a databank of manpower supply.

Ronald barely finished his first year in high school three years ago. Today, he is a tambay, too young to be the neighborhood’s siga, but most likely on his way to becoming one. While still reverent to the older tambays, he is building his own following of younger kids, many also school drop-outs.

MANILA, Philippines — Young school leavers in Quezon City can look forward to learning a skill for free, getting a job, and another chance to return to school.

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BECAUSE of the increasing cases of job mismatch in the country, the Commission of Higher Education (CHED) on Tuesday unveiled its list of “priority” courses recommended for incoming college students this academic year.

The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority has certified at least 6,806 applicants.

ATTENTION incoming college freshmen: If you want to be sure of landing a job after college, take a course on information technology (IT), hotel and restaurant management or accountancy. This was the advice of Jay-Jay Viray, managing director of an online recruitment portal company.

LUIS Calingo Jr recalled how he almost got himself kicked out of engineering school at the University of the Philippines. Enjoying his first wind of freedom, cutting classes to join demonstrations and hanging out with his fraternity brods, his grades plummeted and he lost his scholarship. The timely intervention of a fatherly professor, who pulled…

MANILA, Philippines – More and more Filipino science and technology workers are leaving the country for employment offers abroad, according to a study by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).

‘Brain drain worsening at a fast pace’ MANILA, Philippines — The country’s “brain drain” has worsened with the number of Filipino science and technology (S&T) workers leaving the country to work abroad jumping by 148 percent from 1998 to 2009, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health (DOH) has issued a resolution directing operators of spa and massage clinics to have their massage therapists undergo training and pass licensure examinations by December 2014. After the three-year window period of January 2011 to December 2014, no one will be allowed to practice massage therapy professionally in…

THE Philippines is losing its accountants to other countries amid a boom in the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, according to an accounting group. Cindy Ortiz, president of the Association of Certified Public Accountants, said that the country is currently experiencing a shortage of accountants even as the demand for accountants is increasing since multinational…

MANILA, Philippines – Business process outsourcing (BPO) companies must address the annual loss of an estimated 84,800 workers from resignations or face a massive shortage of workers 5 years from now.