Grads told: Enlist with Phil-jobnet

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) calls on college graduates to log-on and register to phil-jobnet. dole. gov. ph so that their education and skills can be matched to available jobs with industries logged-in at the website.

DOLE Cordillera Information Officer Julienne Fortunato disclosed Phil–Jobnet is among the skills and job matching project of DOLE, a strategy to reach wider entity of the labor force. This is a database system which aims to provide detailed and region-specific information on the labor force skills qualification and the job vacancies that are available.

“Phil- jobnet is an internet-based job and applicant matching system which aims to fast track the jobseeker’s search for employment and the employer’s search for manpower,” Fortunato said.

"We encourage jobseekers to use Phil-JobNet because this is secured and regularly updated by DOLE to ensure that what are posted in it are existing job vacancies," she added.

In line with the government’s goal to address job mismatch, Fortunato also disclosed DOLE has the JobsFit 2020 project, which aims to identify the preferred skills in priority industries in all regions nationwide that must be produced by putting together a robustly flexible map to guide stakeholders in addressing the talent mismatch.

“JobsFit 2020 is a reform from the government that focuses on addressing unemployment issues which are most of the time attributed to job mismatch,” she added.

For Cordillera, Fortunato shared top industries in terms of employment or manpower requirement are agriculture; tourism which includes Hotel and Restaurant Management and medical tourism; mining; electronics and Infrastructure/engineering. Monalyn Cabrera