For Filipinos, English proficiency is fading sadly

For example, those doctors, nurses, seamen, teachers, domestic helpers (and really just college graduates in general) who speak English well have an edge on the rest and are able to work abroad, thanks largely to their competency in English. They help make Philippine migrant workers one of the largest migrant worker groups in the world. Indeed, the more than 10 million Filipino workers abroad have managed to prop up the Philippine economy by sending some $16 billion back home to their families last year, amounting to the fourth largest level of total remittances in the world, and accounting for almost 12 percent of the country’s entire GDP. Indeed, remittances from overseas workers have time and again made it possible for the country to survive many crises, and they will perhaps help it weather the current financial crisis.

Call-center agents, Filipinos chatting on their headsets to inquiring English-speaking customers half a world away, were supposed to provide the answer to the Philippines’ economy. They could be drawn from the country’s famously large pool of English speakers to tap into the lucrative offshoring and outsourcing (O&O) market.

But employers in the industry say they now have to reject 95 of 100 job applicants because their English proficiency is inadequate.

A country where spoken English once ranked as an official language has seen its collective proficiency slide over the years, even as the economic importance of the english has grown. The decline stems in part from nationalist campaigns to promote Filipino and from inattention in schools, which the government is taking steps to undo.

Employers say it is increasingly difficult to find people with adequate English, and some O&O employers think the labor supply has dried up.

English once dominated

The shortage is ironic given that the Philippines once boasted, with some justification, of being the world’s third largest Anglophone country.


If students’ math and science scores are poor, their performance in English is even worse.
“If we do not supply the demand, then we will lose our business,” Garcia says. “We will always need the English language.”


Read the complete articles here at this link
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2010/0510/For-Filipinos-English-proficiency-is-fading



http://english.safe-democracy.org/2009/01/21/the-philippines-still-grappling-with-english/

4,000 workers hired by Saudis

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http://manilastandardtoday.com/2013/06/04/4000-workers-hired-by-saudis/

Philippine DOLE reports fewer online jobseekers

MANILA, Philippines - Fewer Filipinos seem interested in looking for a job nowadays.
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported yesterday that only a few applicants are using the government’s online job facilitation system in looking for jobs.

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said an average of 70,511 vacancies are now being offered through the Phil-JobNet, but only 21,187 have applied in the past months.

“These vacancies cut across the professional, technical, skilled, and semi-skilled occupations. It is unfortunate, however, that there are only very few applicants registering with the Phil-JobNet where these vacancies were posted,” Baldoz said.

She said among the top 20 job vacancies being offered online are those for call center agent, domestic helper, sales clerk, driver, factory worker, production machine operator, cashier, waiter, customer service assistant, service crew, agent, janitor, product specialist, electrician, carpenter, construction laborer, saleslady, technical support staff, promo staff and nurse.


The labor chief said data from the Phil-JobNet showed that many employers have no specific preference in terms of gender and civil status. However, 40.7 percent of them prefer workers aged 25 to 44 years.
She said a majority of the job vacancies were for males (16,272), while there were 9,800 slots for female applicants. A large portion of the vacancies – 5,978 – requires unmarried applicants.
Most of the job vacancies require workers aged 25 to 34 years while a very limited number of positions are available for those aged 35 years and above.

Most of the job vacancies (61,812) required applicants with one year or less work experience; 4,214 required 1-2 years experience; 3,213 vacancies needed 2-3 years and 1,172 were looking for applicants with 3-5 year experience.

“Overall, 8 out of 10, or 87.7 percent, of the employers who posted their vacancies at the Phil-JobNet did not require any relevant work experience from applicants, while the remaining 12.4 percent did require,” Baldoz said.

Of the 21,187 applicants who registered during the second quarter, females (11,762) outnumber the males (9,424); 16,201 were single or unmarried while 4,764 were married.
Most job applicants belong to the 20-24 years age bracket; 6,083 to 25-34 years age group; 3,069 to 15-19 years, and 1,665 to the 35-44 years age bracket. Of the total applicants, 91.7 percent, or 19,471 have five or more years work experience.

Philippine Coast Guard hiring 1,000 personnel

CEBU, Philippines - The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) admits its lack personnel to cover the 7,107 islands of the country. You might also consider other military jobs too check the site links at the end of this post. Government jobs have good benefits, retirement, and regular not contract job!

According to Captain Anelito Gabisan, Public Information Officer of the PCG-District Central Visayas, they are targetting to hire more than 1,000 personnel for this year. He also said they plan to double their recruitment in the next five years so they would reach an average of 25,000 personnel.
“Kulang na man talaga lahat pati sa PNP (Philippine National Police) kahit sa AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines) and we need more personnel,”
The PCG currently has almost 5,000 personnel.


Gabisan is encouraging all interested men to apply as enlisted personnel and commissionship to the Philippine Coast Guard Service.

Applicants may apply personally at the PCGDCV headquarters located in Pier 3, Arellano Boulevard, Cebu City for initial screening on September 12 to 2. The examination will be on September 22.

 “I will advise that they should take the opportunity now because they are lucky that for the Visayas the recruitment center is here in Cebu,” Gabisan said.  Read full article here
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=848314&publicationSubCategoryId=107

Read more at the Philippine Coast Guard official site

http://www.coastguard.gov.ph/

Army 

http://www.army.mil.ph/

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TOP 50 Job Position Vacancies by DOLE's PHIL-JobNet

If you serious in getting a future job let the list below indicate what jobs are hiring, note if your serious in getting a good paying job with lots of benefits and stay in the Philippines, you better practice your English immediately as the most jobs are waiting there .......learn and practice English now! 

For more information on Call Center Agent and what they require and places to apply see my blog http://callcentera.blogspot.com/ in Cebu if in Manila just search in Google call center work Manila and find lots more contacts.  Where ever you live in the Philippines, the agencies are hiring excellent English speakers now!

New malls are opening all over the Philippines and there are lots of jobs as sales clerks and salemen and cashiers and promo. 

Maids and househelpers are needed everywhere for those that don;t have college education and also gas boys and baggers and janitors in supermarkets so apply now in one of the links at the right for present job openings.   Also there is a booming construction segment in most major cities so lots of jobs in skilled work or laborers is available.  Security guards are always needed and just a short training course is needed to qualify.  Should be tall for this job.  Drivers are badly needed in most major cities if you have your license both motorcycle, car, and truck.
Check out my blog for security guard requirements here
http://guardphilippines.blogspot.com/

Check out your local fast food for good servoce crew employment along with waiter jobs in the many restaurants.  

Accounting is a great field to choose as every business needs accountants and computer analyst is a good choice as well in college.

Note that nurse and seaman are not in the top groups being hired so this is not a good choice for career.

Rank	Occupation	Quantity
1	CALL CENTER AGENT	11317
2	PRODUCTION WORKER / FACTORY WORKER	4600
3	SALES CLERK	3316
4	SALESMAN	3299
5	AGENT	3246
6	SALES EXECUTIVE	2189
7	CASHIER	2181
8	PROMO SALESPERSON	1948
9	MERCHANDISER	1733
10	DOMESTIC HELPER	1329
11	WAREHOUSEMAN	1240
12	TECHNICAL SUPPORT STAFF	1150
13	JANITRESS	1125
14	CUSTOMS REPRESENTATIVE	1003
15	SYSTEMS ANALYST	1002
16	PORTER (GOV)	1000
17	SERVICE CREW	900
18	SECURITY GUARD	704
19	PRODUCTION MACHINE OPERATOR	701
20	OFFICE CLERK	685
21	JANITOR	669
22	LABORER	658
23	ACCOUNTING CLERK	655
24	WAITER (GENERAL)	631
25	ACCOUNTING STAFF	602
26	CASH COLLECTOR	591
27	PROMO GIRL	575
28	SALES REPRESENTATIVE I (GOV)	518
29	CUSTOMER SERVICE ASSISTANT	515
30	SALES COORDINATOR	464
31	ELECTRICIAN (GENERAL)	451
32	CIVIL ENGINEER (GENERAL)	447
33	SALES OFFICER	359
34	TELEMARKETER	312
35	CHEMICAL ENGINEER (GENERAL)	311
36	COMPANY DRIVER	308
37	STREET CAR WASHER	300
38	MESSENGER	285
39	MARKETING OFFICER	279
40	MOTORCYCLE DRIVER/RIDER	266
41	COOK (GENERAL)	263
	CARPENTER (GENERAL)	263
42	BILL COLLECTOR	259
43	MECHANICAL ENGINEER (GENERAL)	258
44	FOOD ATTENDANT	245
	BUILDING ELECTRICIAN	245
45	ELECTRICAL ENGINEER (GENERAL)	229
	STOCK CLERK	229
46	BAGGER	226
47	HEAVY EQUIPMENT MECHANIC	225
48	SALESLADY	222
	SALES ASSOCIATE PROFESSIONAL	222
49	ACCOUNTING MANAGER	213
	ASSISTANT COOK	213
	UTILITYMAN	213
50	DATA ENCODER	210

Philipppine Health-care outsourcing: 100,000 jobs by 2016

The country’s burgeoning health-care outsourcing industry is expecting a 74-percent growth in the number of its full-time employees (FTEs) this year, making it a viable alternative for job-seeking graduates of nursing and other medical-related courses.

Last year Himoap said the industry employed 24,700 individuals. “Himoap aims to have 43,000 full-time employees by the end of this year.”

Read more here http://businessmirror.com.ph/home/top-news/32318-health-care-outsourcing-100000-jobs-by-2016

Philippine DOLE extends career coaching for college, high school students

“The activities, which will be in the form of seminars are meant to inform students on key labor market information, including jobs that are in demand and which will be in demand in the next 10 years,” Baldoz said, as she urged students to plan their future career based on these jobs by attending the seminars.  Click here to read more
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More Philippine companies on hiring mode, survey says CONSTRUCTION JOBS ARE HOT

COMPANIES led by those in construction are hiring more people to support their expansion this year, according to the results of a survey conducted by the central bank. 

advanced software engineering class Computer and math fields are expected to add 785,700 jobs between 2008 and 2018, a growth rate twice the average for all occupations, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Computer science majors also will earn higher-than-average salaries.   Read more at the original article click here 

What is the best course to take now in college? Computer scientists and programmers

But engineers are in high demand abroad and a good number of OFWs are highly paid skilled engineers. Then again, not all engineers are created equal. There are also some types of engineers more in demand atcertain times than others. It seems that these days, it is all about computer engineering.

As for salaries, NYT reports that “Google is paying computer science majors just out of college $90,000 to $105,000, as much as $20,000 more than it was paying a few months ago. That is so far above the industry average of $80,000 that start-ups cannot match Google salaries.”
The Times continues: “…the shortage of qualified engineers has grown acute in the last six months… Nationwide unemployment among computer scientists and programmers is higher than in other white-collar professions – around five percent… But even with a glut of engineers on the job market, few have the skills that tech companies look for, said Cadir Lee, chief technology officer at Zynga.

“Colleges rarely teach the newer programming languages like PHP, Ruby and Python, which have become more popular at young Web companies than older ones like Java, he said. Other skills, like working with large amounts of data and analytics, can be acquired only at a few companies.”

As for salaries, NYT reports that “Google is paying computer science majors just out of college $90,000 to $105,000, as much as $20,000 more than it was paying a few months ago. That is so far above the industry average of $80,000 that start-ups cannot match Google salaries.”
The Times continues: “…the shortage of qualified engineers has grown acute in the last six months… Nationwide unemployment among computer scientists and programmers is higher than in other white-collar professions – around five percent… But even with a glut of engineers on the job market, few have the skills that tech companies look for, said Cadir Lee, chief technology officer at Zynga.

“Colleges rarely teach the newer programming languages like PHP, Ruby and Python, which have become more popular at young Web companies than older ones like Java, he said. Other skills, like working with large amounts of data and analytics, can be acquired only at a few companies.”

Reference: http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?publicationSubCategoryId=66&articleId=671062

 In the 21st century, if you are not educated in genetic engineering, robotics, computer science, bioremediation or nanoscience, your outlook for employment is bleak, not only in the U.S. but worldwide. (from USA Today)

Top Jobs for Filipinos

The biggest number of jobseekers is for factory and service crew and cashier and production machine operators.
Others in the list are sales and office clerks, nurses and sales ladies.

On the other hand, the top vacancies reported in the DOLE Philjobnet system are call center agents, accounting clerks, mechanical engineers, domestic helpers, sales clerks and warehousemen.

In 2007, Soriano said POEA figures revealed that among the first-time OFWs, 121, 715 were factory workers, 107,135 were classified as service workers mostly domestics while only 43,225 were professional and technical workers. Another 20, 000 were sent out as sales workers and clerks.

“In 2007, 74 percent of deployed workers were domestics, service and factory workers. Of all the deployed, only 14 percent were new hires,” he pointed out.

He said the “most alarming trend” has been the increasing rate of female workers getting jobs overseas. In the past seven years, he said, 64 percent were female against 36 male and most of them were sent as domestic helpers, entertainers and factory hands.