Job opportunities available in 4 sectors amid pandemic: DOLE

MANILA – There are a lot of job opportunities available in four sectors as the country continues to recover from the economic impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), a labor official said on Friday.

In a Laging Handa briefing, Labor Assistant Secretary Dominique Tutay said these are the health sector, construction sector, business process outsourcing (BPO) and government agencies.

 “First, for the health sector, the available jobs are for nurses, medical technicians, medical practitioners, and pharmacists. These are what we are seeing in the different job boards with vacancies being offered,” she said.

Tutay added that there are a lot of opportunities in the construction sector due to the government’s ongoing Build Build Build (BBB) program.

“Those needed are civil engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers and architects. We also posting job vacancies on the Trabaho, Negosyo, Kabuhayan (TNK) website,” she added.

She also said the most resilient sector in terms of job opportunities during this time of a pandemic is the BPO sector.

“The very resilient sector is BPO. The Information Technology (IT), customer service representative, programmers, encoders, and also app and game developers are in demand,” she said.

She added that there are a lot of vacancies in government offices.

“The Civil Service Commission had conducted job fairs for the different vacancies in government agencies,” Tutay added.