our bright and ever-insightful Noynoy:
Aquino: There are jobs but no applicants
Aquino: There are jobs but no applicants | Inquirer Business
horray shift the blame to the masses for your failures, Mister President. such a myopic view with regards to real situation of our employment here in the Philippines
He said the government, through the Department of Labor and Employment, Technical Education Skills and Development Authority, and the Commission on Higher Education, has adopted measures to ensure that the skills of graduates of college degrees or vocational courses would match the job requirements.
“There are courses now focused on the BPO (business processing outsourcing) alone,” he told reporters in an ambush interview after speaking at the Philippine Development Forum in Davao City. The interview was aired over government-run radio.
HORRAY! invest more skills in BPO so we would be more dependent on it. with an unstable currency, this is such a promising industry to depend upon long term. HORRAY! Mister President, you are so intelligent
“During the campaign, my first promise was job creation. So there’s actually a meeting being scheduled to assess all that has been done for the past two and a half years,” he said. “The statistics being trumpeted didn’t make that much sense to me when I was reviewing it. So I said the collection should be fine-tuned, so we can better address the problem and offer better solutions.’’
Aquino said he could not see why the government survey showed the unemployment rate going down when each year brought in a fresh batch of 1 million job-seekers and only an average of 860,000 jobs were being created, leaving a difference of 140,000.
“If there’s an addition of 140,000 [to the ranks of the unemployed], the unemployment rate should go up. I may have committed a mistake in my Math. I want those who conducted the survey to explain how this happened,’’ he said.
HORRAY! blame the statistics, surveys and bad math for the increasing unemployment
our ever-defensive President is so loving and caring for our country
here's an interesting article about what some people have to say about our employment:
10M jobless Filipinos? World Bank? What?
10M jobless Filipinos? World Bank? What? - www.NewsDesk.asia
“As of now, 10 million Filipinos are either employed or underemployed. In addition, 1.1 million new Filipinos enter the labor force every year. That’s a total of 14.6 million jobs that need to be created between now and 2016,” Mr. Konishi said at the Philippine Development Forum in Marco Polo Hotel in Davao City Monday.
Mr. Konishi, on the other hand, stressed that “the need for good jobs—
jobs that raise real wages or bring people out of poverty—is an overwhelming challenge.”
“This supposed growth did not trickle down to them. It did not translate into adequate food on the table or job security, among others.
In fact, what we have now is an exclusive growth only of big businessmen friends of the administration who more than doubled their riches in the past couple of years under the Aquino presidency,” he (Zatare of BM) said.