"Hone up your skills to avail of job opportunities in 2011."
This is the New Year advice of Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz to jobseekers yesterday, as she bared that 2010 brought increased local job opportunities as can be seen from the country's main online portal for jobs and skills matching, the Phil-Jobnet system (www.phil-job.net).
Baldoz said this is good news for the New Year, as she encouraged job seekers including students, fresh graduates, and the youth, to continue to train and upgrade their skills if they wish to successfully respond to and fill up these vacancies.
"Our efforts to strengthen the employability, competitiveness, and opportunities for labor," Baldoz emphasized, "are in pursuit of the overarching goal of President Benigno S. Aquino III, in 22-point labor and employment agenda, to invest in the country's no. 1 resource, its human resource, in an atmosphere of industrial peace and social justice."
The labor and employment chief emphasized that skills training and upgrading is one of the appropriate responses to the prevailing labor mismatch and unemployment problem which affect mainly high school graduates at about 46 percent, and college graduates at almost 43 percent.
Baldoz cited a report of the Bureau of Local Employment Director Ma. Criselda R. Sy which show that as of 28 December 2010, there are 61,548 vacancies of all types, both local and overseas, currently posted by employers in the Phil-jobnet.
Phil-Jobnet also carried online some 7,127 skills for hire on a variety of labor skills.
The BLE report also show that some 56,708 job seekers applied for 61,548 vacancies posted in the Phil-jobnet.
The top 50 vacancies currently posted in the syste
m include opportunities for those with skills, credentials, or qualifications as pharmacists (615), call center agents (296), kitchen helpers (202), merchandisers (200), staff nurse (200), sales executives (160), occupational therapists (150), receptionist s (124), service crew (120), mechanical engineers (100), materials engineers (100), land surveyors (106), among many other occupations.
The "hot jobs" for the week from 21 until 28 December 2010, cover about 120 positions available to qualified applicants in local industries, along with 20 overseas position titles.
"The top 10 hot jobs for the week are mainly local ones, consisting primarily of opportunities for those with skills or qualifications as welders (1,001), occupational therapists (51), reinforcing iron workers (50), store supervisors (50), inventory clerks (50), receptionists (34), delivery helpers (21), professional tutors (20), delivery drivers (20), head teachers (20), sales clerks (20), motorcycle drivers/riders (20), bill collectors (20), stock clerks (20), customer relations officers (18), stockman (18), and accounting staff (12)," the report said.
On the other hand, the top hot jobs for overseas included those for domestic helpers (100), reinforcing iron workers (50), and mechanical engineers (20).
The top skills for hire carried currently in the Phil-Jobnet include service crew (1,993), production workers/factory workers (1,758), cashiers (1,635), sales clerks (1,396), production machine operators (1,394), salesladies (863), staff nurses (737), data encoders (712), office clerks (691), merchandisers (404), etc.
"For jobseekers who would like to avail of these jobs in 2011, they need to train and upgrade their skills to match the requirements," Baldoz said.
For inquiries about this release, please go to a Public Employment Service Office (PESO) located in your nearest local government unit (LGU), if not the DOLE Regional Office in your region, or see the specific employers and their linkage details at the Phil-jobnet system accessible at http://phil-job-net. Furthermore, for skills training assistance/queries, please call up the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) at 8932454 or visit their website at www.tesda.gov.ph
source : http://www.dole.gov.ph/secondpage.php?id=1681
source : http://www.dole.gov.ph/secondpage.php?id=1681
