Technical/Vocational grad in Demand

[True Faith]

Manila Bulletin
September 28, 2008

[SIZE=3]PGA-Porsche center graduates 1st batch[/SIZE]

For PGA Cars, Inc. and PGA Cars, Inc. chairman Robert Coyiuto Jr., they have always wanted to concoct a meaningful way to help Filipinos improve their technological skills and capabilities.

For the highly qualified students from Don Bosco Technical Institute who took a six-month specialized Porsche training course, they have always wanted a ticket – through their automotive and English skills training – out of poverty, in order to help their families and loved ones.


What began as a dream 10 months ago for all concerned came true on September 24, 2008, when the Porsche Training and Recruitment Center Asia – in cooperation with PGA Cars, Inc. and the Coyiuto Foundation – produced the first batch of graduates, all highly skilled in automobile and communication in English.



The project aims to provide world-class training to 40 underprivileged students graduating from Don Bosco every year, by a certified trainer from Germany. Graduates from the program have guaranteed jobs in Porsche Centers worldwide.


The graduates are to be classified as Porsche-ready Service Mechatronics, providing the worldwide Porsche Center service network with world-class after-service personnel that can support Porsche’s growth in vehicle sales and increasing demand for quality service. " The fast development in the field of automotive technology makes high demands in after-sales. Qualified workshop staff forms the basis for the fulfillment of customer expectations…With their graduation, the Porsche Training and Recruitment Center Asia students have the possibility of working in a Porsche Center in our worldwide dealer network," said Porsche AG after-sales market support general manager Annette Bauer.

This is a worthy partnership between an academic institution and a private firm.

This will help develop the technical skills of Filipinos in the area of high-tech automotive technology (German Technology).

[colt45]

They are subsidized. What is needed are more grants-in-aid for the poor to enable them to study in these institutions.

KSC

They are not. Not even a single penny from the gov't. Only government tech voc schools are subsidized. Private institutions aren't.

[True Faith]

Manila Times
November 20, 2008

[SIZE=3]Bacnotan To Buy Into HK Animation Outsourcing Firm[/SIZE]

Bacnotan Consolidated Industries Inc. (BCI) announced on Wednesday that it would buy into a Hong Kong-based business process outsourcing (BPO) that caters to the animation industry.

In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the company said its board has approved the acquisition of 80 percent of One Animate Ltd. for $6.734 million, marking Bacnotan’s foray into the BPO space.


The animation [SIZE=3]BPO firm owns 95 percent of 15-year old Toon City Animations Inc. Philippines-based Toon City has been providing services to Walt Disney and Universal studios with 2D, Flash and 3D CGI animation [/SIZE]services for TV, direct-to-video and theater feature release productions.
During this year’s stockholders meeting, Ramon del Rosario Jr., Bacnotan president, said the company is mulling over the possibility of venturing into outsourced animation processes since the Philippines has done well in this field.


This venture into animation BPO is on top of the company’s plan to enter the architecture, engineering and accounting back-office services that it would pursue under Phinma Finance and Accounting Outsource Corp. and Phinma Architecture and Engineering Outsource Corp.

-- Likha Cuevas-Miel

Hopefully this will mean more jobs for architectural, fine arts, drafting, multimedia arts graduates....

[jpdm]

Philippine Star

BPO sector eyes big investments from banking & finance industry

By Ma. Elisa P. Osorio Updated September 18, 2008 12:00 AM

The business process outsourcing (BPO) industry is expecting big investments from the banking and finance sector as the BPO sector branches out from the usual call center activities.“Right now the trend is more investments from the banking and finance.

It is a captive sector,” Oscar Sanez, Business Process Association of the Philippines (BPAP) president said in an interview.“A big part of the industry is made up of call centers. The plan now is to move into more specialized high value operations,” Sanez said.

Today, the BPAP will be presenting the global investment outlook for the outsourcing industry in the emerging markets.


Meanwhile, the industry is on track to meeting its year-end growth target as it employed 345,000 workers during the first half of the year.
“The industry employed 345,000 workers for the first six months of the year and we are hoping that we will meet our yearend target of 420,000,” Sanez said.


The offshoring and outsourcing (O&O) industry earned $5.8 billion during the first half of the year.


“We are on track to meet our full year revenue target of $6.8 billion,” Sanez said.


Sanez noted that the Philippines ranked third in the O&O industry. India remained number one, followed by Canada.

The Philippines is a good location for outsourcing because of the time zone.
However, Sanez said the problem of skilled workers may pose as a threat. “We are really doing our best to address this issue.”

I hope this open up the eyes of many parents and students to reconsider other options in taking courses in college.

We need more skilled workers for ICT industries like BPO and Oand O and not nurses.

[Gumusut_Amige]

am not exactly a product of technical/vocational but it can be connected as one. was trained by CMDC/CMDF on welding processess/technology for more than 3-months... this is my springboard in the O&G environment since 1987 until now. this training really created the big difference kahit palaging nakikipagbuno sa E6010 electrode noon dahil panay ang dikit

[jpdm]

Business Mirror
December 7, 2008


[SIZE=3]Local Animation Industry Seems to Expand Rapidly, Needs 30,000[/SIZE]


Animators by 2010


by Jesse Edep



THE domestic animation industry will continue to expand rapidly as it eyes the need for almost 30,000 animators by 2010, the Animation Council of the Philippines Inc. (ACPI) said on Tuesday.


Avic Ilagan, executive director of the 45-member organization, said at the sidelines of BPO Summit Philippines 2008 that there is already a “proliferating interest among animation houses and independent animators in creating original content.”



[SIZE=4]She said original content is the way to go for animation houses, calling and attracting more graduating students to build career in the animation industry.[/SIZE]


ACPI is now collaborating with Ateneo de Naga, Ateneo de Zamboanga, Academy in Makati and Mapua Institute of Technology, among other schools, to train students.


At present, there are about 50 small and medium-size animation studios in the country, providing jobs to 8,000 workers doing 2D and 3D animation, digital ink and paint service, flash animation for animated series, web animation, gaming and 4D animation.


This $105-million industry is now exploring markets outside the US to guard itself from the looming recession.



It has teamed up with the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines to permeate Europe.


According to the Business Process Association of the Philippines (BPAP), the Philippines has been a major producer of animation in the Asia-Pacific region since the 1980s.


It has been creating projects for American, European and Japanese markets, especially for global companies like [SIZE=3]Walt Disney, Warner Brothers, Cartoon Network, HBO, Hanna Barbera, Nelvana and Toei Japan[/SIZE].


“The Philippines has intrinsic [characteristics] to compete in several emerging nonvoice areas—particularly in the animation sector—but will need to take actions to capture opportunities,” said BPAP chief executive officer Oscar Sañez.


He said there is an exciting movement among First World buyers of animated content—there is an increasing interest in content from outside the US or Europe, especially from Asian countries.
Industry records showed that it has been consistently growing by 20 percent every year, but it has been limited because of the insufficient supply of animators.

Great News!!

[True Faith]

Philippine Star

More high school graduates now joining RP labor force

By Mayen Jaymalin
Updated December 08, 2008 12:00 AM


More high school graduates are now opting to work rather than pursue higher education, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported yesterday.


The DOLE’s Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics (BLES) said there were close to two million “new entrants” or new workers in the country for the past two years.


The same data also showed a large proportion or 29.4 percent of new entrants to the labor force were high school graduates as compared to college degree holders who only posted 23-percent share.


According to BLES, high school graduates who were employed for the first time and those who looked for work for the first time came at 28.6 percent and 31.6 percent, respectively.


The share of first time unemployed new entrants who were college graduates seeking work was slightly higher at 32 percent than high school graduates at 31.6 percent.


Labor officials said most college graduates were probably unemployed “by choice,” meaning they are waiting for better job offers.


Based on the data gathered by the BLES, the 887,000 new entrants to the labor force in 2006 and 888,000 in 2007 accounted for 2.5 percent of the 36.21 million workers nationwide.


Those who sought work for the first time but did not find a job posted at 231,000 million while those who were employed for the first time came at 657,000.


The employed new entrants peaked in the month of July while low points were recorded during October rounds in the two-year period.


As expected, most of the new entrants were in the age bracket 15-24 years old. They accounted for 81-percent total new entrants in 2007.
More than half or 52.1 percent of the new entrants were males while 47.9 percent were females.


The bulk of 66.9 percent of the new entrants posted were in the services sector, specifically in the wholesale and retail trade at 22.8 percent.
The agriculture and the industry sectors recorded almost the same share at 16.8 percent and 16.3 percent, respectively.


More than one-third or 37.4 percent of the employed new entrants were laborers and unskilled workers, mostly in mining, construction and manufacturing industries.

Because college education is getting very expensive...

[donbuggy]

am not exactly a product of technical/vocational but it can be connected as one. was trained by CMDC/CMDF on welding processess/technology for more than 3-months... this is my springboard in the O&G environment since 1987 until now. this training really created the big difference kahit palaging nakikipagbuno sa E6010 electrode noon dahil panay ang dikit

Sir Gumusut_Amige, were you qualified in SMAW and GTAW? 6G position or 1G only? E7018?

Just having a little shop talk here.

Watch out for undercut, pororsity, slag inclusion, incomplete penetration.