The Department of Labor and Employment said Thursday that while the global health crisis rendered many Filipinos unemployed, it has also brought into fore a number of “resilient” jobs in the National Capital Region.The Labor department said they are called “resilient” because they withstood the impact of the outbreak caused by COVID-19.
Bello said data from the Inter-Agency Task Force for Emerging Communicable Diseases revealed that the government through the Department of Health has hired a total of 8,056 health workers out of the 10,693 job openings for doctors, nurses, and other health care workers under the emergency hiring program to augment medical front-liners battling the COVID-19 pandemic.
He said there are also more than 10,000 job opportunities in the business process outsourcing industry such as customer service representatives, technical support staff, frontline/specialists, supervisors, trainers, managers, and others for the human resources and recruitment, finance, information technology, and marketing sectors.
Demand for on-line instructors are also picking up under the education sector, Bello said, as most schools conduct virtual learning for the new school year.