Published January 8, 2021, 2:44 PM
Jobseekers take note.
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Friday identified some of the in-demand and resilient jobs where jobseekers may apply.
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DOLE Assistant Secretary Dominique Tutay said these jobs are under the health related sector, construction and the business process outsourcing.
She said jobs under the health related sector are those for nurses, medical technologists, medical practitioners, and pharmacists.
Construction related jobs, Tutay said, are those for civil engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, and architects.
She said jobs under the BPO sector are information technology (IT), customer service representatives, programmers, encoders as well as App and game developers.
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International Labor Affairs Bureau (ILAB) Director Alice Visperas said as of December 17, some 550,000 OFWs lost their jobs abroad.
“Of this figure, 370,000 of the displaced were repatriated to their home provinces, 126,000 displaced are still waiting for their repatriation, and 82,000 displaced and opted to stay on-site,” she said in a press briefing.
The government started transporting OFWs en masse in May after Covid tests and quarantine.
The OFW returnees were provided with accommodation, food, transportation, and COVID testing upon their arrival in the country.
To help OFWs financially, DOLE has also been extending a one-time P10,000 or $200 cash aid under the Abot Kamay ang Pagtulong (AKAP) program to OFWs whose incomes were affected by the pandemic, both on-site and those stranded in the country.