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GIVE SENIOR HIGH GRADS FAIR CHANCE AT ENTRY-LEVEL JOBS
« on: March 28, 2018, 04:26:49 PM »
REP. MICHAEL “MIKEE” L. ROMERO, Ph. D.
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GIVE SENIOR HIGH GRADS FAIR CHANCE AT ENTRY-LEVEL JOBS

Why would a college degree be needed to qualify as sales personnel at a convenience store or sales outlet? Is a college degree really necessary to be a technician at an auto detailing shop? To work as a nursing assistant, caregiver, or a teacher’s assistant is the bachelor’s degree truly necessary? For the job of cooking hamburgers and French fries, must the applicant be a college graduate? To become a customer service representative in a business process outsourcing company, what are the competencies needed and are those competences represented fairly by a college degree? 

Are the so-called 21st Century skills like innovation and critical thinking necessary for entry-level sales, clerical, and technician jobs? To that question, my response is no.  Those are for the highly-specialized, the supervisory, and the middle-level managerial positions.

Credentials inflation is a different kind of jobs mismatch. It is the practice or belief system that makes an employer—whether an individual, company, institution, or group—require academic credentials that are more than what is really needed for a particular job or range of jobs. (Backgrounder: https://goo.gl/jHdJr6

Credentials inflation, I dare to say, is one of the reasons thousands of Filipinos are unemployed in this country and some are even forced to work overseas because credentials inflation is pervasive in the Philippine economy. 

Truth is, employers in this country did not trust the high school diploma of before and many still have said they would not trust the senior high school graduation diploma. (https://goo.gl/qqtEwJ

They say this now when the senior high school students have not even graduated and gone through their employment screening processes. 

The employers and business sector have already prejudged our senior high school students even before they have graduated. That is BLATANT DISCRIMINATION. They have not even given them the chance to prove themselves, to show what they can do. 

True, some of the senior high school graduates will be accepted in the colleges and universities they will apply to, but some will not pass the entrance examinations or do not have money to pay for tuition in the private colleges and universities, and therefore have to find work or be young entrepreneurs. 

I, therefore, ask the Small Business Corporation to be ready with their P3 loans for this year’s and future years’ batches of senior high school graduates. Some of the future tycoons of business will rise from among the senior high graduates whom many in the business sector have already prejudged. 

I urge the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) and the Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) to re-examine the situation and rethink their value systems. 

I dare the PCCI and ECOP to stamp out discrimination from their hearts and minds and from among their ranks to give the graduates of senior high school a fair chance to prove the worth.

Senior high graduates do not deserve to be the objects of prejudice and discrimination when they try to enter the world of work. (END)

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