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Job Vacancy Bulletin Department of Labor and Employment Bureau
of L ocal E mployment Manila, Philippines
LOCAL JOB VACANCY POSTINGS : 3rd Quarter 2009
Loc al job vac anc ies posted in major jobboards during the
third quarter of 2009showed varying movements. In J uly, totalvac
ancies posted stood at 54,707, increa s-ing to 56,241 in August and
declining to55,348 by September. In terms of demand ,some sec tors
in the local labor market stillexperienced a slowdown in
economicactivity brought about by the global finan-c ial c risis,
though, at a relative lesser ex-tent compared to the first and
secondquarters of 2009. This indicates that the cri-sis is not yet
totally over.
Major Occupational Group Number of Vacancies
July August September
Special Occupations 40 78 27
Officials of Govt and 2,743 2,768 3,044 Special Interest Org.
Corporate Exec., Mgrs. Managing Proprietors and Supervisors
Professionals 8,425 8,477 9,430
Technicians and Associate Professionals 7,968 8,043 6,494
Clerks 30,096 30,955 30,624
Service Workers and Shop and Market Sales Workers 2,752 3,010
3,078
Farmers, Forestry Workers 3 1 0 & Fisheries
Trades and Related Workers 815 893 780
Plant and Machine Operators and Assemblers 1,059 1,171 1,109
Laborers and Unskilled Workers 806 845 762
TOTAL 54,707 56,241 55,348
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Total Monthly Vacancies
The biggest drop in vacanc y postings wasnoted in the Tec hnic
ians and Assoc iate Pro-fessionals group which registered an
incre-mental decline of 1,549 or 19 percent
(19.3%) from August to September 2009. Thedemand for C lerks;
Trades and Rela tedWorkers; Plant and Machine Operators
andAssemblers; and Laborers and UnskilledWorkers also dropped at
varying rates. Onthe o ther hand, an increase in demand wasnoted
for Professionals, Officials of Govern-ment and Special Interest
Organization,Corporate Executives, Managers, Manag-ing Proprietors
and Supervisors; and Spe-cial Occupation, over the same period.
Top Twenty Vacancies
Annex A presents the top twenty (20) va-cancies by occupation
ranked accordingto the number of job vacancies postedover the
period J uly - September 2009. Thesame trend was observed compared
tothe previous years demand situationerexcept for some oc cupations
that made itto the list particularly oc cupa tions in the
service sec tor.
53500
54000
54500
55000
55500
56000
56500
July August September
54707
56241
55348
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0.110.0
89.9
Agriculture
Industry
Service
Of the top ten (10) vacancies, almost half of the oc cupations
were for customer con-tac t workers namely: Call Center
Agent,Customer Service Assistant, Technical Sup-port Assistant, and
C all Center Represen-tative. IT-related occupa tions such as
In-formation Technology (IT) Specialist, andDeveloper/Programmer
were also con-sistently inc luded in the top twenty list of
vacancies as the software industry con-tinues to expand with the
carry over de-mand from the previous quarter for off-shore softwa
re services.
J obs in sales were also among the highly-in-demand oc
cupations. These include va-cancies for Saleslady/Salesman, SalesC
lerk, Sales Executive, Telemarketer andC ashier.
Various opportunities for a job in accoun-tancy were also noted.
These were spe-c ific ally for Ac c ount Offic er/ Exec utive/Ana
lyst/Spec ialist, Ac counting Clerk, andAccountant.
VACANCIES BY SECTOR
By industry classification, the Services Sec-tor ac counted for
almost ninety percent(89.9%) of the total vacancies posted.
Themajor contributors within this industry groupwere Real Estate,
Renting and BusinessAc tivities (50.8%) brought about by
thecontinuous demand in BPO firms particu-larly in call center, and
software develop-ment jobs.
Meanwhile, only ten percent (10.0 %) of thetotal de mand c ame
from Industry. J obopportunites in Industry were observed
asgradually inc rea sing variably in the la ttermonth of this
quarter 2009 particularly inthe construction and manufacturing
sec-tor. This gradual increase was due to theon-going government
and private con-struction projec ts and the c oming christmasseason
were an increase in the consump-tion of goods are expected.
Percent Share
Industry (%)
AGRICULTURE, HUNTING & FORESTRY 0.1INDUSTRY 10.0 Mining
& Quarrying 1.0 Manufacturing 4.3 Construction 4.7SERVICES 89.9
Wholesale & Retail Trade 3.0 Hotels & Restaurant 4.5
Transport, Storage & Communication 1.9 Financial Intermediation
3.0 Real Estate, Renting & Business Activities 50.8 Public
Admin. & Defense; Compulsory Social Security 18.4 Education 0.8
Health & Social Work 2.6 Other Community, Social and Personal
Services 4.8 Extra-territorial Organization -
Total 100.0
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Percentage Share of Vacanciesby Major Industry Group J uly -
September 2009
The Job Vacancy Bulletin is a quarterly publicationof the Bureau
of Local Employment which containsinformation on the occupations
highly-in-demand in thelocal labor market based on vacancies posted
in major
job search websites such as Phil-jobnet, Jobstreetand Jobs
db.com.
Sourc e of d at a : Job Boa rds (Phi l job ne t , Job st ree t
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