25
Apr

Job Mismatch Still a Problem in the Philippines

Author: jps61974

Here in the Philippines, job mismatch is not uncommon. For example, a Registered Nurse (RN) will work in a call center, a Medical Technologist will work as a SAP employee, an Accountant will work as a miner, a management graduate will work as a medical representative, and so on and so forth. Job mismatch researches are too many to count and have been so extensive over the past years.

A related article published at the GMA website titled “Lack of Qualified Applicants Hounding Big RP Firms - DOLE” is reposted here for better understanding of job mismatch and how it affects work performance when they are already hired as employees occupying positions they do not qualify.

MANILA, Philippines - The lack of qualified applicants is hounding big companies in the National Capital Region, newly-appointed Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Sec. Marianito Roque said Thursday.

In a statement posted on the DOLE website, Roque said a survey on Human Resources management practices conducted by the Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics (BLES) showed despite an abundant supply of workers, large firms in Metro Manila are still experiencing difficulties in recruiting qualified applicants.

“Results showed that recruitment problem/shortage of qualified applicants was considered “high” in importance by 39.3% of the total respondents,” Roque said.

The Labor chief said this is closely related to high labor turnover rate which ranked second with 30.5 percent response rate and pirating of workers which ranked 10th with 16.3 percent response rate.

Roque said BLES listed 12 HR issues in the rider questionnaire incorporated in the third quarter Labor Turnover Survey (LTS) covering October-December 2007.

He said the respondents - which were drawn from the list of top 5,000 enterprises - were asked to rate each concern according to their relative importance. The rating is a choice between “high” priority and “low” priority.”

In the statement, Roque said the findings also showed that absenteeism and tardiness as the third highest concern at 27 percent among employers. Theft, fraud, and willful breach of trust ranked fourth at 24.5 percent.

Low productivity and lack of work ethics occupied the fifth and sixth highest concerns.

At the bottom of the HR concerns were lack of company loyalty and interpersonal problems at 12.8 percent and 6.5 percent, respectively. - Amita Legaspi, GMANews.TV