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Atty. Jalilo O. Dela Torre, OIC, Bureau of Local
Employment
In a labor-surplus economy, we’re now experiencing
an unbelievable phenomenon of jobs looking for
workers.
1. Out of 100 workers applying for call center jobs, only 5 are
hired: they need 600,000 more until 2010, according to BPAP
2. 100,000 welders needed locally.
3. Commercial airline pilots and aviation technicians have flown
away and are now considered critical skills.
4. Mining, geodetic and metallurgical engineers now needed by
the mining industry but none can be extracted from the earth.
5. Did you know we don’t have enough waiters and bartenders?
And you thought waitering was easy!
Key Employment Generators Demand/Supply Situation
Jobs Creation
Capacity (20062010)
In Demand Skills
Hard to Fill Occupation
1,383,892
Entry-level Animators, HR
Analysts, Financial
Accountants, Call Center
Agents, Engineers,
Editors, Programmers,
Engineers, Accountants,
Animators, Programmers, Contact
Center Agents, Medical
Transcriptionists, Editors
II. Mining
39,382
Skilled Engineers, Miner,
Surveyor, Geodetic
Engineer, Metallurgist
Geologists, Mining Engineers,
Metallurgical Engineers, Geodetic
Engineer
III. Aviation
27,581
Pilot, Mechanic, Air Traffic
Controller
Pilot, Mechanic
2,043,755
Inland and Coastal
Fishermen, Oyster/Mussel
Farm Cultivator, Vegetable
Farmer, Fruit Tree Farmer
Entrepreneurs, Aquaculturist,
Horticulturist
Key Employment
Generator (2006-2010)
I.
IV.
Cyberservices
Agribusiness
Key Employment
Generator (2006-2010)
Jobs Creation
Capacity (20062010)
V. Health and Social Work
(Health Services/Medical
Tourism)
382,495
Trained Nurse, Dentist,
Nursing Aide, Health Aide,
Massage Therapist
Trained Nurse, Surgeon,
Spa Therapists, Herbologist,
Cosmetic and
Reconstructive Surgeon
VI. Hotel and Restaurant
400,280
Front Office Agent/Attendant,
Cook, Food Server and
Handler, Food and
Beverages Attendant, Other
Housekeeping Services,
Waiter, Bartender
Chefs, Front Office
Agent/Attendant, Cook,
Food Server and Handler,
Food and Beverages
Attendant, Other
Housekeeping Services,
Waiter, Bartender
Seabased, Production,
Professional and Technical,
Administrative and
Managerial, Clerical, Sales,
Service, Agricultural
Aluminum Fabricator
Auto Mechanic, Pipe Welder
Pipe Fitter, Carpenter,
Marine Deck Officer, Marine
Engineer Officer
VII. Overseas
Employment
VIII. Shipbuilding &
Maritime
IX. Construction
5.6 m
In Demand Skills
Hard to Fill Occupation
Marine Officer, Seafarer,
Culinary Chef, All
occupations under
shipbuilding, Welder,
Fabricators, Pipe Fitter,
Marine Electrician
Architect, Engineer,Welder,
HEO, Insulator, Rigger,
Fabricator, Pipe Fitter
Why do we still have underutilized labor?
We believe the culprit is skills mismatch.
Skills mismatch – refers to a condition whereby the
skills and education of the existing workforce do not
match the needs of existing firms and industries. This
largely reflects the fact that a country’s policies,
primarily labor and education, have not adjusted to
the needs of its economic sectors.
This phenomenon is not just happening in the
Philippines.
Reasons for unemployability of college
graduates
•the lack of English language competencies,
•poor interactive skills,
•poor choice of degree courses,
•poor quality degree courses or
•more blatantly, just too many students who
barely passed their degree examinations.
Reaction by a reader in a blog to a plan of the Malaysian government
to enroll college undergraduates in skills training to improve their
employability.
A substantial portion of the registered 66,000 unemployed graduates
are from some of the most popular courses.
Business administration, computer and information technology, and
engineering are the most sought-after courses by many school
leavers.
This has resulted in a high number of unemployment among
graduates from these disciplines – 19,900 business administration
graduates, 9,500 from computer and information technology, and
7,500 engineering graduates.
The Malay Mail, April 11, 2005
Running third is engineering, with 45,444 expected graduates
for the year. Compared with the figures in 1995, when its
graduates stood at 46,090, the number dropped by 1.4
percent.
Engineering graduates will have the toughest time in getting
the jobs that they spent time learning in the colleges they
came from.
“We produce mostly white-collar engineers. They never get
their hands on. Worse, they are not qualified to be engineers
in its strict sense,”
Donald Dee, President, Employers Confederation of the
Philippines
The bottomline is, students should pick courses
based on their capabilities and not based on
what's apparently "in-demand" out there (e.g., IT
courses). If you are not cut out for IT or
Engineering, putting yourselves through the
courses is not going to make you more
employable in the IT or Engineering markets.
“Jobs skills mismatch is a major challenge right now. A
large number of trained graduates are left unemployed
or underemployed because they do not fit the
requirements of the job market. It’s quite ironic that a
number of job vacancies could not be filled up because
the available manpower supply would not fit the job.”
Secretary of Education Jeslie Lapus
Percentage of Graduates Employed in Jobs Requiring Preparation in
Field
Field of Study
1995 Graduates (%)
1991 Graduates (%)
Agriculture
25.8
35.7
Architecture
42.4
79.6
Commerce & Business
63.9
86.8
Computer Science
38.5
75.5
Dentistry
65.7
89.2
Economics
17.3
31.0
Engineering
59.9
66.3
Fisheries
21.1
66.7
Humanities
19.7
54.6
Language
18.6
60.9
Law
39.4
62.3
Marine Engineering
42.9
56.8
Mass Communications
26.3
58.3
Mathematics
22.9
58.6
Medical Technology
37.8
63.4
Medicine
57.5
87.4
Nautical Science
48.4
38.5
Nursing
41.0
84.5
Physical Science
20.3
63.9
Social Science
29.3
43.0
Teacher Education
41.9
77.4
Veterinary Medicine
43.5
National Career Assessment Examination (NCAE)administered by DepEd to determine the areas of
improvement in the basic educational system that
could address the job mismatch in the country.
1,305,211 – took the test on Jan 17, 2007
49,066 or 3.76% showed high aptitude for
college admission
(75% and above in General Scholastic Aptitude)
757,356 or 58.03% demonstrated high levels
of entrepreneurial skills
711,526 or 54.51% demonstrated high levels
of vocational skills
Why college education is still preferred by most
1. College education qualifies them for whitecollar employment which usually offers a
number of advantages—more comfortable and
safer workplaces, more regular and stable
terms of employment, and social security
protection.
2. College education improves their lifestyle, if not
their social standing.
CHED 1995 TASK FORCE
Graduates by Discipline Group and Region (Private)
AY 2002-2003
Discipline Group
Grand Total
Agricultural, Forestry, Fisheries, Vet Med.
1,001
Architectural and Town Planning
1,623
Business Admin. and Related
86,340
Education and Teacher Training
38,991
Engineering and Technology
23,926
Fine and Applied Arts
956
General
2,303
Home Economics
66
Humanities
3,471
Law and Jurisprudence
2,266
Mass Comm and Documentation
3,272
Math and Computer Science
26,450
Medical and Allied
28,130
Natural Science
2,316
Religion and Theology
1,242
Service Trades
2,211
Social and Behavioral Science
9,886
Other Disciplines
22,012
Grand Total
256,462
%
2
IT Related Discipline1
Maritime Education2
25,926
11,614
%
2
0.39
0.63
33.67
15.20
9.33
0.37
0.90
0.03
1.35
0.88
1.28
10.31
10.97
0.90
0.48
0.86
3.85
8.58
100.00
10.11
4.53
Reasons why public secondary schools don’t benefit
from career guidance and counseling:
1. Guidance counselors have little time for guidance
and counseling;
2. High ratio of students to each guidance counselor
3. Lack of training of guidance counselor in career
guidance and counseling and in testing and
measurement;
4. Lack of career and labor market information;
5. Inadequate budget for career guidance
6. Lack of qualified staff to use tests for career
guidance and counseling
What do we do about it?
Recommended Strategies and Interventions
Labor Market Information
1. For career guidance and advocacy
2. For human resource development planning
3. For jobs skills matching
4. For curriculum development
5. For investments promotion
Elements of Local Employment Planning
1. Local economic and labor market analysis
2. Identification of growth economic sectors
3. Developing a human resources development plan for
the identified growth sectors
4. Initiating a multi-stakeholder dialogue to formulate the
local employment plan and invest ownership
5. Developing employability of constituents through skills
mapping
6. Developing entrepreneurship capabilities of constituents
7. Building capacity of local institutions for employment
facilitation, jobs creation and livelihood promotion
Career Information, Guidance and Advocacy
1. Focused on public high schools with no career
guidance and counseling services
2. Aimed at paradigm shift in career choice decision
making
3. Interdisciplinary in approach
4. Multi-year scalar implementation
5. Driven by NMS and NHRC recommendations
Strategic Framework for Youth Employment
Manpower Summits
What we can do together
Active Labor Market Policies
Framework of Engagement in Local
Employment
Urgent Tasks for Collaboration among
DOLE,PESOPHIL and private industry:
1. Career Advocacy Program – Career Information,
Guidance and Counseling Training Interventions
2. Broadening Access to Labor Market Information to
the Youth;
3. Addressing Human Resource Challenges of Priority
Growth Economic Sectors, especially BPO
4. Addressing Skills Mismatch through IndustryAcademe-Government Collaboration for Curricular
Reform
5. Extending Corporate Social Responsibility of BPO
into the Addressing Vulnerabilities of Disadvantaged
Sectors