Trabaho sa Turismo Fair, SM City Cebu Trade Hall - March 13-14, 2009

Department of Tourism’s 4th Trabaho sa Turismo Fair on March 13 and 14, 2009 at the SM City Cebu Trade Hall. This is supported by JobsDB.com

The Trabaho sa Turismo fair will provide job opportunities ranging from rank-and-file, junior associate to senior executive levels. Job seekers can choose to apply for many different job openings and for various top employers.

Again on March 13 & 14 2009, Cebu Trade Hall, SM CIty Cebu from 10am to 6pm -- the 4th Trabaho sa Turismo Fair

Your might want to register in JobsDB.com Philippines to learn more about the event and pre-register as a job-seeker.

Jobs - Too many or too few?

I'm getting a little confused these days with all these reports. There are several of workers particularly in the Philippines being laid off because of contracting businesses. Export companies are letting their people go, certain contractors are allegedly not paying their workers their salaries. Department of Labor and Employment has announced the possibility of six thousand more people losing their jobs over the next few months. With big shot Intel shutting down early in the year, I guess many will follow.



Then again there are these reports that the BPO industry is requiring four thousand workers a month with a total of 110,000 job opportunities to open this year! Is this for real? Or is this just media playing with everybody's heads?

There is some obvious alignment necessary here. I understand that these are primarily very different sectors. So there may be a canceling out of growth opportunities for the country as a whole as people just move from one industry to another.

But then again, that isn't easy. Workers who are let go from a particular industry will have to adjust and re-educate themselves to move to another industry. That is why we have specialization right?

"Voice positions remain the bulk of vacancies we are filling up but we are starting to get an increasing number of manpower requests for back-office positions too. These include accounting and finance practitioners, graphic designers, and bilingual candidates, to name a few,” ExcelAsia President Rita Trillo-Ugarte said.

"Individuals with export, retail, or electronics industry backgrounds will fit into most of our clients' needs," Trillo-Ugarte said. "They can handle a huge variety of accounts since some clients require IT experience, while some require sales or retail background. For example, workers from the export industry can capitalize on the work experience they gained in terms of liaising with offshore clients and supervising quality control."

I guess if you don't pick and choose then there is a lot to choose from

Looking For a Job? BPO Job Opportunity

Seeing that call centers and BPO places are retrenching, I happen to know a company that is expanding. Here's the deal, you can email me your resumes and I'll forward them to that company. No joke, I'll let you know if I've forwarded your resume via email as well. Send your resumes to this address: yhadz.alterego@gmail.com or leave a comment below with your email address

Here's what the company needs:

• College graduate/ college degree
  
• Above average communication skills
  
• Preferably with customer service experience
• Willing to work nights

For the protection of the company I cannot disclose their name here. I'm not in a position to divulge that information publicly just like that.

The place isn't perfect but they pay rather well. Minimum is 20,000 per month so that's pretty good. I think it's a good place to start for new graduates or at the very least, a job opportunity for those that just lost their tenure.

Job Opportunities & Scholarships In Bahrain

While there are a number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who are displaced from their jobs due to the global economic meltdown, job opportunities await more Filipinos abroad.

His Highness Bahrain Prime Minister Shaikh Khalifa Salman Al Khalifa in an interview disclosed that Bahrain wanted more Filipinos to work in their country.

He said that Filipinos are hardworking and have the skills and professionalism in doing their jobs.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was in Bahrain to meet in the Filipino community as well as to find more job opportunities for Filipinos.

In her speech during the reception for the Filipino community in Bahrain, President Arroyo said that the Prime Minister had expressed to her his appreciation for the skills and professionalism of Filipino workers.

The President also revealed that the Prime Minister told her that Bahrain needs more salesladies for the country's shopping malls and urged her to send more Filipina workers for that particular position.

The latest tally showed that there are 45,000 Filipino workers and the number is still growing, with professional and skilled Filipino workers in high demand.

Meanwhile, some 1,000 dependents in the Philippines of Filipino workers in Bahrain will benefit from the government's scholarship program.

The scholarship program will be implemented starting this coming 2009-2010 school year.

The 1,000 scholarship vouchers worth P5 million under the GMA-CARES program of AMA International University in Bahrain was presented to President Arroyo by Special Envoy to the Gulf Cooperation Council Ambassador Amable Aguiluz.

Among the courses covered by the scholarship program are computer operation, information technology enabled program, call center and medical transcription.

Via Philippine Information Agency

Market Contradictions of Job Opportunity in the Philippines

Don't believe everything you hear on the news. Always take everything with a grain of salt. Now the world would have you believe that there is a crisis. You look around and see that this is true. Sad but true.

Nevertheless news pop out that this crisis is actually beneficial for the Philippines because a lot of back-offices and other BPO related industries that are folding in the United States actually find it cheaper to set up here in the Philippines, almost 90% less is what I recall. Telecoms are moving their operations from abroad to the Philippines, thereby creating jobs for Filipinos. Well and good.



But we also have to consider the flip-side here, which says that almost 800,000 people are also expected to lose their jobs as lay-offs such as that as big as Intel just last month and other companies start firming up their operations and taking out people due to "redundancy."

In the end all that growth and all the contraction will lead us back to square one where we may see no growth in the employment market at all. The best way to go about this now is to stay where you are. As much as possible, try to keep your current job. If the company lets you go, it will actually be good for you because you will get the appropriate severance pay. Or at least you should - depending on your contract.

Now is not the time to jump ship. It's difficult enough as it is. Of course opportunities I believe are still everywhere particularly if you don't choose what job you want to do. But if you are picky, then swallow your pride and ride through this wave, it'll be a couple more months (if we're lucky) to a few years (that's going to have to be the worst case scenario)