The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said on Tuesday that the number of hard-to-fill jobs went down by 47 percent in the last decade as academic institutions heed their labor market advisories.
According to the DOLE’s JobsFit 2022 report released last month, the number of hard-to-fill occupations is now only 54, compared to 102 listed in 2013. Hard-to-fill jobs as those vacancies to which the employer is having a difficulty to fill because job applicants are not qualified
Bureau of Local Employment Director Dominique R. Tutay attributed this to local academic and training institutions being able to address the demands of the labor market.
“I think our market signals are being heeded by the education and training sector,” Tutay told BusinessMirror in a interview.