CORPORACION UNIVERSITARIA MINUTO DE DIOS

READING COMPREHENSION
THE JOBS MARKET IN COLOMBIA

By: Conrad Egusa

Colombia is a Latinamerican country with a dynamic economy. In Colombia, you can find many
home-made products such as shoes, clothes, backpacks, handbags, e.g. So, preparing to be a
business administrator is a good option in Colombia. Also, in Colombia people find many green
areas such as ecological parks, flower plantations, farms and forests. Even, inside the country
there is a city called Bucaramanga:The city of Parks because there you can find green areas and
parks everywhere. That is why, we can say that the job market for farmerstechnicians and
environmental engineers is wide opened these days.

On the one hand, people from Colombia are well-known for being excellent sellers. A big
percentage of our people are shop-assistants, sellers, sales rep. and street sellers(which is a very
hard job. In regards to education, recent research showed this narrative that in Colombia there are

many places for working as a teacher and most of those places dont even ask you for a qualified
certification in pedagogy.

On the other hand, the technology and communications field is growing up. According to 2013
economy figures from Dinners, there are already 43.9 million mobile connections and 24 million
mobile users in a country whose 47 million people give it the third largest population in Latin
America and third largest Spanish-speaking population in the world using technology such as
Ipads, tablets, laptops, smarthphones, e.g. a fact that shows us that the jobs market for system
engineers and electronic technicians is a good one.

Taken and adapted from: http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/22/an-overview-of-colombia-one-oflatin-americas-most-promising-new-tech-hubs/