"De-skilling" of college graduates

[jpdm]

The Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS) said that the Philippines is suffering the so-called Dutch Disease or an economy with a declining manufacturing sector--a.k.a. namamatay na industriya dahil sa imports.

There are alot of reasons but below somehow explains its CAUSE AND EFFECT.

Manila Standard April 18, 2008
Female workers’ choices limited—study By Michael Caber


Only four of 10 female graduates get regular jobs and the rest find work as casuals, mostly in call centers.
That was among the findings of a study conducted by the Center for Women’s Resources. “For the graduates who become successful in getting a job, it usually takes 18 months before they find it,” the CWR said.
These findings showed the limited choices available for women graduates, as only a fraction of the total number of graduates will be absorbed in the labor force, the study said.

Almost half of the 366,151 baccalaureate graduates this year took up nursing. The second top batch of graduates, 98, 283, pursued a medical degree. Business course graduates came in third, with 93,545 graduates.

Recent results of the Labor Force Survey showed that there were only 150,000 net new jobs created in 2007 (January 2007-January 2008). Employment was provided mostly in the service sector. Companies, which mostly employ women such as wholesale industry, manufacturing and garments, resort to contractual work, quota system, part-time or seasonal hiring rather than hiring employees on a regular basis. It was estimated that 85 percent of newly hired women workers ended up as contractual workers.


Yearly, there are more than a million Filipinos who leave for work abroad and majority of them are women. What was once a temporary relief for the economy has become a permanent solution to the labor problem, the study said.


“What is distressing is that deskilling has become the norm in this country. Women who study for four to five years end up as call center agents here or as caregivers abroad,” Guan said.


The decline of unemployment rate, raised false hopes among women jobseekers since the labor market is unstable. It offers contractual work with no benefits and security, Guan said.

[nostalgia]

I guess graduates tends to work for call centers because..

1. They always have job openings. Because of their high attrition rate also ( used to be in this industry for 5 years, so more or less I have an idea how it goes in this industry)

2. High salary and other perks

3. Easy job. Easy to master your work routine here.

I was also a casual employee with a multinational co. here and I know their reason is that the company prefer to have 'regular' employees only from prestigious schools like ADMU, DLSU and UP. The rest of schools, you will end up casual.

Companies would usually get casual or contractual employees because some of their projects is for a certain period lang. so after that wala ng use yung tao sa company nila. so they would prefer to get someone na contractual or project basis.

also, i think these are also some of their reasons:

-[SIZE=-1]Avoid legal issues related to discriminatory hiring practices and wrongful discharge.
-[/SIZE][SIZE=-1]Avoid high costs of training employees.
- Avoid involvement in Labor Unions.
- They try to reduce other benefits such as [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]disability claims, and workers compensation, etc.
- [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]Replace deadwood and expensive long-term employees with highly skilled temporary workers.

So if ganito ang point of view ng mga companies, wala tayong choice kundi mangibang bansa. Mas malaki ang sahod dun and it can at least support our family dito sa Pinas.
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[badsekktor]

too many grads.........
too few jobs............

[tidus1203]

Actually there are jobs in the skilled sector, although there are a lot of laborers but most of them are unmskilled and saturated na ang unskilled jobs natin since daming unskilled workers competing for the few unskilled jobs.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage...StoryId=115386

[uls]

kasalanan yan ng mga komunista

dati naman nag-reregular ang mga employers.

dahil sa kaka-strike ng mga union, ayaw na mag-regular ang mga employers.

Those groups who claim to fight for workers' rights are actually the ones who send workers to their doom.

Politicians come up with populist labor laws (pa-pogi)... which make life difficult for employers, employers now go around those laws.

Kawawa lalo ang labor.

[nostalgia]

yes true, kaya most of the companies prefer to have contractuals to avoid in labor unions as i've said earlier. kawawa lang mga empleyado ngayon.

[jpdm]

Wala na kasing industriya sa Pinas dahil pinatay na ng gobyerno. Call centers, beauty parlor, malls, billiard hall,resort at spa na lang natira Pilipinas....

Import dito, import duon...