Your Say: On slow job creation amid fast economic growth

Madaming trabaho. Hindi lang qualified ang karamihan dahil hindi sila nagsipagaral. May panahon pa. Magaral kayo para maging skilled workers. Ang daming pupunuang trabaho sa pinas man or sa abroad. Nasa kamay ng pilipino ang kanilang kinabukasan. Hindi sa pamahalaan. Tumigil sa tambayan. Tumigil kapapanood ng teleserye at kapipila sa game shows. Mga tamad.

yung mga "bigay-pera" format ng mga game shows sa pilipinas ang isa sa malaking perwisyo sa psychology ng masang pilipino. isinasaksak ng mga game shows na ito sa isip ng masa ang umasa sa panandaliang swerte. mapili lang ang pangalan eh kwarta na, laki pa ng pasasalamat sa host na tinuturing nilang pag-asa nila.

yan ang mentalidad na dala ng masa pati sa pagboto, karamihan sa politiko natin eh tutulong ng paisa-isa sa mahihirap sa pamamagitan ng pagbibigay ng bigas at sardinas tapos iisipin ng masa na malaki ang naitutulong ng mga ganong klase ng politiko at saka iboboto.

i'm tired of seeing posts complaining there's no job blah blah... the fact is, there is! a lot of jobs are available... just go to JOBS DB and you will see a lot of listings.. it's just that, people are so choosy or displaying the qualities of "juan tamad". or became so dependent on their relatives who work abroad. and then complain to them saying that they can't find a job here... when actually they are not looking... they are just making up reasons not to find a job because they already receive money from their relatives' remittances...

It seems whether the Peso is weak or strong it is bad for the economy. The slow job creation is true. There are industries like the call centers and techno help centers that are growing and needing people but there are industries like the airline and shipping industries that have not grown thus less employment opportunities there. There is an imbalance pretty much like one exercising his biceps so much that he forgot to exercise his legs so, the person is not proportional and correction must be done. This too should happen to our industries to strengthen our economy.

Sabihin na nating TOTOO ang mga datos na nairerehistro sa ekonomya (stock market, GNP),  ang malungkot, hindi ito nagtri-tricke down sa mga komunidad.  Dito lang sa lugar namin, hindi ramdam, talamak, ang daming istambay sa kanto, mukhang EXCLUSIVE GROWTH ang nangyayari, ang mayaman ay lalo lamang yumayaman, sila ang nakikinabang.

Ang isang magandang ECONOMIC INDICATOR GROWTH ay makikita sa mga COMMUNITY sa pamamagitan ng;

1.  kung KUMUKONTI na ang TUMATANGKILIK ng UKAY-UKAY,

2.  kung NABABAWASAN na ang INFORMAL SECTORs,

3. kung wala ng tumatangkilik (VOTE BUYING) sa suhol ng mga PULITIKO (trapo) sa tuwing eleksyon..

4. kung NABABAWASAN na ang LUMALAYAS (OFW) papuntang Middle EAST,  AFRICA at ASIA at

5. kung Dumarami ang INDUSTRIAL at MANUFACTURING SECTORs sa Pilipinas.

i am under employed sa BPO pero mas mataas sa sahud ko kumpara sa minimum. hindi naman pag short term, in fact mag po 4 years na ako at nakakatulong ako sa mga nag-aaral sa kolehiyo na mga kapatid ko. mas ok na yong nakakatulong kahit underemployed kesa nakatunganga lang.

Is the economic growth brought by the change of government?? Or is it just because there are more OFW's working abroad and sending money. I hope that can be clarified. anyone??

In politics it works like this - when there is good news, everyone claims the credit for it, and when it is bad news everyone blames everyone else for it. The truth is, it is never one factor, but a combination.

Mahirap kasi mag negosyo sa pilipinas dahil anytime may changes in business policies in almost all government agencies like BIR, LGU,  DILG &  DTI..

 

ito ang hinahangad kong pagbabago:

1. Gross income taxation sa lahat na mga negosyante to simplify internal revenue laws and to

   plug all tax leaks dahil gross income lang ang babantayan

Actually, madami namang job openings e, kaso either hindi match ang pinagaralan ng mga graduate at naghahanap ng work, or masyado namang mababa ang sahod at contractual ang posisyon. Pwede din na, masyadong mataas ang standards na hinihingi ng mga kumpanya (tulad ng 2 years experience at 4 year grad) e mostly naman sa naghaahanap ng trabaho e either hindi nakatapos ng college or newly grad na walang experience pa sa trabaho. Yan ang reason kung bakit madami pa din ang unemployed sa tin. Madaming opening, hindi lang nagmamatch sa mga nagaapply.

Actually maraming factor kaya maraming unemployed...una na jan yung career mismatch, kulang sa experience and skills, maraming trabaho  pero mas maraming naghahanap ng trabaho (OVER POPULATION). Marami ding maarteng fresh graduate na gusto boss agad.

Agree sa career mismatch, there are a lot jobs offered for call center agents, techno hub personnel, networking careers but how does one handle people who work for the shipping, airline industries? How about people above 50 years old who are seeking employment? These people have the experience and expertise and then the only work available for them are to be sales agents, call agents, or what have you agents.

Once at a McDo restaurant in San Diego, Ca, USA, I ate my meal around 1130 pm, the servers were old people who just wanted to work and be useful and so should it be here. Give equal opportunities to old people as well as improve industries that use specialized skills like in aviation and shipping etc.

King:Its funny how people consider themselves experts and yet they think the current ills that affect our motherland can be solved overnight. We need to have this level of growth continuously to be able to create a scenario at which the job creation can match the growth of new graduates or outpaced it to really bring down the jobless percentage.Check China's record and see how many years for them to do that even with a blistering speed of economic expansion. Its years and long term and not several quarters.  

 

 

Constantine:

After so many years of battering from Estrada to Arroyo regimes, we cannot expect an overnight sensation from PNoy. The massive growth will ignite the eventual creation of jobs for each Filipinos. We will strive for it and help our leaders move this country forward. We are on the right track, investors are bullish and in due time industrial revolution will follow. The important thing is that the infrastructures are being constructed left and right. This will prepare our country for more local and foreign industrial investments which will create long lasting jobs.

We do not entertain delusions that changes and vast improvements will happen overnight or even finish during PNoy's term or the next. The OFWs contribution helps but building a stronger middle class who works and lives here in the Philippines will benefit all.

 

The infrastructures like wider and better roads, railway system that can bring cargoes in, out and through MM and the provinces, less bureaucratic red tape that assist investors to maintain their business here, cheaper electricity, and improved airline and shipping services should be looked into by this present government and set the foundations for their completion. Jobs can and will be generated in achieving these projects and even maintain people here.