Cebu to hold screening for nursing jobs in UK, Singapore this month

Filipino nurses looking for jobs in the UK and Singapore will have a chance to apply for openings through the Cebu provincial government this month.

 

Cebu Rep. Gerald Anthony Gullas Jr. announced on Saturday that a government-licensed recruitment firm will screen qualified nurses for possible deployment to either country at the Cebu Provincial Capitol’s Public Employment Service Office from August 17 to 18.

 

Gullas promoted the event after announcing an increase in nurses taking the National Licensure Examination for the first time from January to June this year.

 

“The number is up 28.6 percent versus the 1,951 Filipino nurses who took the NCLEX for the first time, excluding repeaters, in the first semester of 2014,” he said in a statement.

 

In the same statement, Gullas said monthly pay rates for nurses are £1,500 (P107,000) in the UK and SGD 1,950 (P65,000) in Singapore.

 

The Cebu representative added that, based on data from the US (National Council of) State Boards of Nursing Inc., Filipinos remain the most active jobseekers in the US.

 

Compared to Filipinos, only 395 Indians, 236 Puerto Ricans, 195 South Koreans, and 130 Jamaicans took the NCLEX for the first time from January to June 2015. — Rie Takumi/JDS, GMA News