DOLE Released Breakthrough Study to Help Solve Local Unemployment

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has released a breakthrough and pioneering study called “Project Jobs Fit” that identifies the skills needed by its industries for the next 10 years. This will be relevant to the country’s efforts to mitigate local unemployment.

In a press release, DOLE Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said that the government is now looking forward by initiating concrete measures to pursue the objectives of the study, and setting the appropriate foundation towards a job-friendly economy. The country's economy would be equipped with the capacity to mitigate brain drain and the mismatch of the available jobs in industry as well as the skills of the labor force.

Sec. Baldoz noted that the voluminous Project Jobs Fit has essentially pinpointed the Philippines’ key employment generators (KEGS) - or those sectors identified as “having the potential for absorbing the greatest number of the Philippine workforce” in the next 10 years.

These are the following sectors: agribusiness, cyber-services, health and wellness, hotel, restaurant and tourism, mining, construction, banking and finance, manufacturing, ownership dwellings and real estate, transport and logistics, wholesale and retail trade. The study also identified the need to support the four emerging industries expected to reinforce employment opportunities in the next 10 years, namely creative industries, diversified/strategic farming and fishing, power and utilities, and renewable energy. The DOLE study likewise identified some 108 in-demand, hard-to-fill occupations across all of the economy’s key employment generators and emerging industries until 2020.

“We will now need to build systematically the environment necessary to cultivate workers’ skills and employability in approaching these hard-to fill jobs and ensuring the growth of our main employment generators now and in the future,” said Sec. Baldoz.

DOLE Bureau of Local Employment (BLE) Director Maria Criselda R. Sy, who headed the multi-agency team that accomplished Project Jobs Fit, expressed her hopes that Project Jobs Fit would be utilized as a framework for action of the government, industry and academe to improve the plight of our workers, offering it as a “labor market signaling activity [that] could provide vital information for the succeeding administration to have a grip on the country’s unemployment concerns and job-skill mismatch.”

The full report(http://ble.dole.gov.ph/pjf/FinalReport.pdf) and list of in-demand and hard-to-fill occupations (http://ble.dole.gov.ph/pjf/List.pdf) are available at the BLE Website.

Trabaho.com. thanks its following sources:
DOLE Information and Publication Office. Project JobsFit identifies needed skills; seeks to mitigate brain drain, job-skills mismatch in RP (Posted August 7, 2010) Retrieved August 9, 2010 from
http://www.dole.gov.ph/secondpage.php?id=1294
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