More businesses in the Philippines are now willing to hire senior high school graduates than before, but preference for college diploma-holders remains overwhelming, according to a new study by a private sector-led education advocacy group.
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Meanwhile, two out of five firms surveyed said they had established policies for the equitable hiring of senior high school graduates, higher than the one out of five in 2018. PBEd noted that the industry still "generally prefers" hiring applicants with a college degree. For instance, employers said they expect that 73% or 12,544 of their 17,273 entry-level jobs in 2024 would be filled by college graduates, leaving less than a quarter to senior high school finishers.
Only less than a third predicted an increase in hiring K to 12 graduates in their companies in the next two years, the survey found.PBEd has previously noted that the 80 hours of mandatory work immersion in the senior high school curriculum may be inadequate for employers to consider students as job-ready.just 116 out of the 9,000 job vacancies advertised through its K-12 job fair in 2022, while the rest went to applicants with higher educational backgrounds.
But a Commission on Human Rights report in 2023 noted that it has yet to receive this report from DepEd.
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