Philippine Republic of he Philippines Depertment of Labor ana Employment Overseas 'BFO Building, Ortigas Avonue car. EDSA, Mandaluyong Cy 1501 Pp B Employment wessie: wrw.s2ea.govph E-malnfog@poea.govph Administration — Hotines: 722-1148, 722-1185, 722-1166, 722-1177 FOR: UNDERSECRETARY BERNARD P. OLALIA Officer-In-Charge ZA THROUGH: DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR JOCELYN T. SANCHEZ Management Services and OIC-DA for Employment and Welfare SUBJECT: JOBSFIT 2022 National Stakeholders Consultation DATE: 08 August 2017 This refers to the JOBSFIT 2022 National Stakeholders Consultation attended by the undersigned held at Hote! Jen, Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City on 27 July 2017. May we inform you of the following: 1, Due to bad weather caused by the southwest monsoon, some participants were not able to attend the consultation. Nevertheless, representatives from government agencies such as the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Department of Education and Higher Education (DepEd), Regional Directors of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), other DOLE attached agencies and other government agencies participated during the consultation. In addition, there were also representatives from the media that covered the event. 2. Director Dominque R. Tutay of the Bureau of Local Employment welcomed the group and discussed the background, activity objectives and agenda setting of the said consultation. 3. Ms. Miaw Tarig of International Labor Organization presented their Philippines Country Brief | June 2017 entitled, “ASEAN in Transformation: The Future of Jobs at risks of ‘Automation’, the study covered student and enterprise survey. The study examined current technological trends and how they are transforming enterprises and skis requirements across the five-major manufacturing and services sectors in the region. 4. Mr. Aful Harkisanka of Linkedin presented, “Recruiting in the Philippines.” Linkedin is a business and employment oriented social networking service that operates via website ‘and mobile apps. It is mainly used for professional networki luding employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs. The presentation showed that the Philippines ranked as the 4" largest membership in Asia with additional of 3 Philippine members per minute composed of 4 Million plus members and 19,000 plus companies with summary profiles. The media was not provided a copy of their presentation.5. Alty. Mary Grace Riguer, OIC-Executive Director of ILS (Institute of Labor Studies) presented the Human Resource Development Plan for 21 Sectoral HRD Roadmaps by Philippine Regions citing the legal basis, comprehensive national industrial strategy framework, process and content, the nine participating government agencies and ‘employment projection for 2013-2022. 6. Ms. Ruth Rodriguez of BLE presented the JOBSFIT 2022: Background and Research Methodology. This was followed by series of presentations related to this topic: a. Ms. Robelyn Revilla of BLE — presented the Philippine Employment Situation covering the following, Annual Gross Domestic Products (GDP), Sector Contributions to GDP Growth, GDP Outlook, Demographics (Population), Key Employment Indicators for 2010-2016 and 2016-2022 projections, Employed by Region, By Sex, Age Groups, Educational Level, Sector, Class of Worker, Underemployment, Youth not in Education and not in Employment, Labor Supply, and Job Seeker Profile. b. Ms. Precious Nicole G. Bugayong- presented the Philippine Labor Market Outlook covered topics about the Difference between the Key Employment Generators by Regions identified in 2013-2020 against 2017- 2022, Top KEGs (2017-2022) identified by Trabaho, Negosyo, Kabuhayan (TNK), by LinkedIn 2017, by JobsStreet 2016, Emerging Industries by 2013-2020 and 2017-2020 by Regions, Replacement Employment identified in MIMAROPA for 2013-2017 and Region 10 for year 2016-2022 and last, the Legislation and policies affecting the labor market. c. Ms. Myka RoseTrono of BLE talked about Priority Skills Requirements. d. Mr. Kempee Royce Cruz of BLE presented the Overseas Employment. Highlights of his reports are: i. Cited reasons for international migration of Filipinos does not only because of labor migration but would also include personal and career development reasons. li, As of 2013, there is an estimated of 10.24 Filipino Overseas, 2 out of 5 are temporary workers or OFWs. Almost haf of the OFs are in Americas. USA is specifically the top destination of OFs while in the middle east countries, Saudi Arabia and UAE comes next. Among the top migrants West Asiais the top destination. iv. OFWs are mostly 25 to 39-year age group, dominance by female population, v, 85% of the OFW are in Asia and mostly females. While those who are in other parts of world are mostly males. Saudi Arabia is the top country of destination. vi. 4 out of 5 of the total deployed OFW population are landbased. More than half of OFWs are employed in elementary occupations. HSW is the top ‘occupation.vii, Seabased OFWs make up nearly 22% of the total deployed OFWs. In addition to deck occupations, chief cook and waiter/waitresses form part of the top occupation of seabased OFWs. vil, Over 7,000 records of retuming OFWs sought livelihood assistance from DOLE while 460 sought employment assistance particularly in teaching sector. ix. Foreign nationals employed in the country are mostly male, medium- advance educated and top nationalities of the foreign nationals are Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Indians. Most of them are admin executives, manager, technicians and associate professional with a significant number of some professionals. x. Work load preference: 2 out of 3 Filipinos are currently in their locality, 3 out of 4 Filipinos are currently working in their hometown, 1 out of 2 overseas workers stil prefers to come back and work in the Philippines. Salary remains to be the main driver why the respondents want to work overseas. 7. List of Action Agenda was presented, this Is based on the Regional Consultation conducted for JOBSFIT 2022. On one of the description of gap/challenge, POEA was cited as the responsible agency to address on the limited information about jobs offered abroad as well as the rules governing the same, The course of action/recommendation is to intensify dissemination activities for jobseekers to be aware of the different vacancies abroad and the rules that protect overseas workers. 8. Issues/Concems raised during the session: a. DEPEd inquired if there is an assurance that the industry sectors are ready to accommodate the Senior High graduates. He cited that number of this graduates took TECHVOC track while in the ILO presentation, enterprises in the BPO (Business Processing Outsourcing) and E & & (Electronics and Electrical products) sectors are requiring high-skilled workers with strong STEM backgrounds. It was also cited that employers both in ASEAN and the Philippines identified critical skills they need such as technical knowledge, teamwork, communication, university qualification, ‘strategic thinking, foreign language skills, multi-tasking, TVET qualifications, creativity and specific software skils. b. Itwas cited that the JOBSFIT 2022 is another measure to provide labor market information (LMI) to address this gap. In the afternoon, almost 2/3 of the participants had left because of prior commitments, and due of the bad weather, the conduct of workshop proper was deferred while the consultation was limited to the presentations of the studies prepared by BLE, ILS, ILO and Linkedin. The remaining participants were informed that further consultations will be conducted to finalized the JOBSFIT 2022.For the Officer-in-Charge’s information and further instructions, please. a ELIZABETH D. MIRABUENO Director It Chief, LEO Manpower Development Division Employment Branch Encl.: materials provided cc.: Dir. Levinson Alcantara — Marketing Branch