Cebu City posts 6.8% hike in job vacancies
Cebu City still produces most of the jobs in the province, jobs site Mynimo.com said as it also noted rising job vacancies in key cities in the metro.
Mynimo president Wesley Chiongbian in a recent interview said that more than 60% of the jobs in the province are still in Cebu City. This year, he said Cebu percent increase in job vacancies from last year.
Cebu City in particular recorded a 6.8 percent rise in available jobs from January to May this year.
Mandaue City, the province's industrial center, followed Cebu City in terms of job location.
Coming third is LapuLapu City.
Talisay City and Minglanilla town came fourth and fifth, respectively.
Chiongbian believes employment opportunities in Cebu are spreading out in other key cities and towns in the province.
In terms of job vacancies, the sales, marketing and retail sector has the most vacancies, followed by accounting/ finance, BPO (business process outsourcing), IT (information technology) and engineering.
Chiongbian also noted a rising demand for skilled and technical jobs in Cebu led by drivers.
Other in-demand technical jobs include automotive/mechanical, electrical, technician and machine operators.
According to the 2017 JobStreet.com Cebu Jobs and Salary Report released, specialists in the information technology (IT) industry continue to be the best-paid employees in Cebu while the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector also continues to have the most jobs available in the region's jobs market.
The report showed some of Cebu's specialists in junior executive and managerial levels actually earn more compared to the average of their specializations nationally.
Cebu's banking (P30,415 average) and PR/ communications (P27,125) specialists in junior executive level earn more compared to the national averages of P27,188 and P26,948 of the same specializations, respectively.
Average earnings of Cebu's managers in corporate strategy and real estate are also higher compared to the national average. Corporate strategy managers in Cebu earn P13,587 more compared to the national average, while Cebu's real estate managers earn an average of P81,625, which is close to twice the national average of P48,976.
The report also showed that BPO, retail and manufacturing are among the top industries with most jobs available in Cebu and Central Visayas.
The report also said specialists in IT and education are now more indemand than their tech support and telesales counterparts, the latter seen as traditionally more employable by BPO companies.