Thousands of jobs are being offered online for workers with skills in health care, logistics, information technology, business process management, education and construction, according to the Labor department.
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello said a number of Filipinos who were affected by the global health crisis were now recovering from the pandemic and looking for jobs in the national capital region.
He says that in the health care and wellness sector, the requirements are increasing for medical doctors, nurses, medical and radiologic technologists, pharmacists, psychologists, medical researchers and writers and wellness trainers and representatives.
Bello says the government through the Department of Health, hired 8,056 health workers out of the 10,693 job openings for doctors, nurses and other health care workers under the emergency hiring program to augment the medical front-liners battling the COVID-19 pandemic.
“They were deployed in public hospitals, diagnostic facilities, isolation and quarantine sites, local government units and other hospitals and COVID-19 referral facilities,” Bello said.
Of this number, nurses account for the highest number of hires by profession at 2,701, followed by medical technologists at 1,356.
Bello also said more than 10,000 job opportunities were open in the business process outsourcing industry such as customer service representatives, technical support staff, frontline/specialists, supervisors, trainers, managers, and others for the human resources and recruitment, finance, information technology and marketing sectors.
The increased demand for workers in the construction sector has also been observed, specifically for heavy equipment operators and safety engineers.
“The government has significant allocation for the Build, Build, Build program of the government in the proposed national budget for 2021, so we could expect more jobs in the construction towards the following year,” Bello said.