If he succeeds in his Senate comeback bid in the May 2025 midterm polls, former senator Bam Aquino promised to bring more jobs to the provinces to address jobs mismatch and stop the need for jobseekers to leave for the city. Independent senatorial candidate Bam Aquino and Dalubhasaan ng Lungsod ng...
Employers said they are continuously hiring, but stressed that the most qualified applicants will get the first crack at job openings as the local labor pool persists to be bogged down by mismatch in skills against industry demand. Sergio Ortiz-Luis, Jr., president of the Employers Confederation of...
Senator Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada on Tuesday, July 19 expressed concern that the government’s plan to rightsize the bureaucracy could eventually lead to job mismatch. Estrada, who is likely to head the Senate Committee on Labor and Employment in the 19th Congress, said he is concerned over the...
Aspiring president Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. and his UniTeam alliance will address the perceived education-job mismatch among Filipinos if they get elected in May. In a statement on Friday, March 4, the UniTeam ​lamented that "The issue of education-job mismatches in our labor markets...