Fewer Filipino workers were hired via electronic recruitment in July 2015, according to the Monster Employment Index (MEI) Philippines.
MEI data showed online hiring in the country contracted 36 percent in July 2015 from July 2014. There was also a four percent drop in e-recruitment activities in June 2015.
“This slowdown in e-recruitment activity is highlighted by the fact that only one industry group and one occupation group out of all monitored by the MEI registered any positive growth between July 2014 and July 2015,” Monster.com said in a news statement.
Data showed that only the business-process outsourcing/information-technology enabled service (BPO/ITES) sector showed an increase in online hiring activities year-on-year (YOY) at 9 percent in July 2015. This represented a one-percentage point growth from June 2015.
This was followed by the education sector, which contracted 6 percent. Online hiring in the education sector has been contracting since March 2015.
The production/manufacturing, automotive and ancillary industry, however, registered the lowest growth YOY at -57 percent, just behind engineering, construction and real estate at -50 percent.
“The BPO/ITES sector in the Philippines continues to attract more talent, as new call centers continue to open up across the country. The education sector is also seeing a slow increase in activity, as the government attempts to improve its health care and education system, with plans to hire more public-school teachers and health workers in the next couple of years,” said Sanjay Modi, managing director, Monster.com (India, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong).
Meanwhile, in terms of occupation, the only job to register positive growth is customer service. The index increased 18 percent YOY and increased eight-percentage points from June 2015.
Engineering/production, real-estate jobs once again saw the steepest decline at 50 percent YOY , with hospitality and travel jobs coming in just ahead at 49 percent.
“It is not surprising that the production and manufacturing sector and engineering and production jobs are still seeing the steepest decline across the Philippines. The industry has been in turmoil for the past one to two years as it has faced numerous constraints, meaning job activity has also been heavily affected,” Modi said.
The MEI Philippines is a monthly gauge of online-job posting activity, based on a real-time review of millions of employer job opportunities culled from a large representative selection of career web sites and online-job listings across the Philippines.
The index does not reflect the trend of any one advertiser or source, but is an aggregate measure of the change in job listings across the industry.
Launched in May 2015, with data collected since January 2011, the MEI is a broad and comprehensive monthly analysis of online-job posting activity in the Philippines, conducted by Monster India.