De Venecia cites urgent
need for new jobs

MANILA - Senatorial aspirant Joey de Venecia cited the “urgent need to bridge the ever-widening gap between available jobs and the ever-increasing crop of new graduates.”

“The report that only three in every ten graduates this year will find proper employment is woefully distressing given the fact that the national unemployment rate is nearly eight percent while in Metro Manila joblessness stands at more than 11 percent,” De Venecia said.

The Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino senatorial stalwart said “this problem will only worsen in the coming months and years unless we are able to create higher value jobs and equip new graduates with the skills matching the dynamic job market.”

De Venecia said “among the most promising sunrise sectors of the economy is information technology (IT) where job-creating investment opportunities abound.”

“This is why we need to make the business environment particularly attractive to IT along with allied business process outsourcing activities,” De Venecia said.

“The youth of today belong to the best and the brightest and we must work hard to help them find jobs here at home instead of choosing to become either overseas contract workers or settle for lesser paying jobs that do not match their academic qualifications,” De Venecia stressed./PN