Skills

Labor officials urged local government units (LGUs) to register their constituents in the government’s Skills Registry System (SRS) to help them find jobs more easily.

DAVAO CITY — Software developers in this city are struggling to find replacements for experienced staff who have quit for higher-paying jobs.

MANILA, Philippines – The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), Informatics Philippines and the Business Processing Association of the Philippines launched yesterday a project that aims to increase the number of highly skilled information technology (IT) workers in the country.

THE government has allocated funding for training business process outsourcing (BPO) near-hires to attune the workforce with the latest trends in IT as the industry expands its skills set to include electronics engineers.

The advancement of technology in this millennium age has introduced a lot of flourishing careers with attractive compensation for the Filipino people. The development is growing rapidly because of the emergence of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services particularly in the call center industry. The unemployment rate that used to be a top problem in the…

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) are now pushing in for Filipinos who are “knowledge workers rather than mere manual workers.” According to Labor Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz, this type of work is what Filipino workers should expect in the future.

sometimes, injustice happens to us. Have you been retrenched or laid off and in the process of looking for a job? Lest the statistics on retrenchment is too mind-boggling for your comprehension, you can rest assured that you are not alone in facing the looming uncertainty of sudden unemployment. You may be facing this issue…

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) are now pushing in for Filipinos who are “knowledge workers rather than mere manual workers.” According to Labor Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz, this type of work is what Filipino workers should expect in the future.

MANILA, Philippines – Graduates of the more popular computer school chains performed well and enjoyed a high success rate in getting information technology (IT) jobs.

I had the good fortune to listen to an ensemble of illustrious, knowledgeable and practical speakers from different parts of the world at the Summit on Globalization of Human Capital held in Taipei, Taiwan last Sept 24 to 26. Among them are keynote speakers USA’s Dr/Prof. Dave Ulrich and Switzerland’s David Prince and concurrent session…

DAVAO CITY — This city’s information technology group is having a hard time meeting the requirement of a Chinese company that is looking for 50 gaming developers here.

Be late. But at the same time never be more than 30 minutes early. Do not pressure the interviewer by being someone s/he has to entertain and care for. Wear perfume or cologne, because an excess of this will be a mark against you. One tiny spray is enough, if you really must. You’re there…

Why are there job interviews? Companies need to determine who is best suited for the job opening and who is most likely to fit in with the existing team. Your attitude may matter more than your credentials at this point.

EARNING while at home may sound a difficult prospect, but not for Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) Director General Joel Villanueva, who vowed on Monday to address the unemployment problem hounding the country.

THE government has launched a National Skills Registry System (SRS) to help narrow down the mismatch between a job seeker’s skills against current job availability, a common problem experienced by new graduates.

President Benigno Simeon Aquino III has underscored the importance of the Department of Labor and Employment’s National Skills Registry System, which he said would help narrow the mismatch between an individual’s skills against current job availability, a common problem experienced by new graduates.

I sat as a panelist in a round-table discussion on the mismatch problem at the annual conference of the Call Center Association of the Philippines last week. We had a very insightful exchange and I would like to synthesize the points of discussion in this column.

The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) bared yesterday many local government units (LGUs) nationwide are having difficulty of establishing and operating their own Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) centers. The reason is owing to lack of funding.

MANILA, Philippines – In the next three years, the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry will generate the most jobs for Filipinos in the country. This, according to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), is a result of President Benigno Aquino III’s working visit to the US, where he tapped foreign companies to invest in…

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino skilled workers can partake of 40,000 jobs in Guam when construction work for a large military base starts in the US territory, according to technical-vocational educators in Davao City.

THE PHILIPPINES is creating more jobs but too many skilled people are still unable to find work, economic planning chief Cayetano Paderanga said yesterday.

THE National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said that despite improvement in the economy, the quality of employment remains a concern.

THE PHILIPPINES is poised to gain from the diminishing work force abroad but top managers will have to adopt key strategies to retain local talent in the meantime, an expert yesterday said.

And the work is ‘less toxic’ too MANILA, Philippines—Among the allied medical professions in the Philippines, their field is not as popular as nursing. But radiologic technicians like Arnold and Agnes Llegado have a secret they want to share: Compared to nursing, the rad tech’s job is “less toxic”—and the pay (in some countries) is…

BRUSSELS — Two years after the world economy suffered a nervous breakdown in the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, global financial markets remain unsettled, and the recovery that started so vigorously in 2009 seems to be stalling.

MANILA, Philippines – Two Singapore-based institutions have partnered with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) for the implementation of a training program that aims to boost the skills and competencies of the Filipino workforce.

MANILA, Philippines – The Technical education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) wants colleges and universities to improve their information communication technology (ICT) education curriculum to enable them to produce graduates that are competent and employable IT workers that it said is now much in demand by the local and foreign job markets.

Foreign business chambers have partnered with an academic association in a bid to minimize jobs-skills mismatch in the labor sector. The American, Australian-New Zealand, British, Canadian and European chambers of commerce had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities (PACU), to endorse “deserving and qualified” college students for internship…

According to a recent Gallup survey, about a quarter of all Filipino adults would live elsewhere permanently if they had the chance. Many of those who can already are. It’s been estimated that about 10% of the population is living in some 200 different countries. Filipinos have long dominated emigration to Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore,…

Picture this scene happening in a factory: RECRUITMENT OFFICER — “I am sorry we cannot hire you.” TESDA GRADUATE — “Can you please tell me why?” OFFICER — “Because you have no experience.” GRADUATE — But how can I get experience if you do not hire me?!”