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Holidays mean
more jobs: Baldoz

The holiday season means more jobs, Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz said yesterday.

With more people shopping during the holidays, factories, malls, and other business establishments need, and add, hundreds of workers for temporary or seasonal jobs, such as sales clerks, cashiers, service crews, salesmen, and salesladies, and even gift wrappers, and delivery workers, Baldoz said in a DOLE press release.

The PhilJobnet, the official job portal of the government in the Internet, listed these jobs among the top 20 vacancies this December, with sales clerks in the number one spot having the highest number of vacancies at 8,991, she added.

Based on the PhilJobnet data, there is also a need for call center agents, who are listed at second with 8,022 vacancies; product specialists, third with 6,370 vacancies; financial /accounts specialists, fourth, with 5,060 vacancies; and financial analysts (government) and telephone salespersons, at fifth with 5,000 vacancies, the DOLE press release said.

Service crew is sixth, with 4, 631 vacancies; salesmen, seventh, with 4,447 vacancies; technical support staff, 8th, with 3905 vacancies; cashier, ninth, with 3,745 vacancies; and customer relations officer, 10th, with 3,158 vacancies, it added.

Businesses also show high demand for production workers/factory workers, who are at 11th, with 3,095 vacancies; salesladies, at 12th, with 3,070 vacancies; sales analysts, 13th with 3,021 vacancies; technical salesmen and real estate brokers, 14th , with 3,000 vacancies; merchandisers, 15th, with 2,687 vacancies; sales officers, 16th with 2, 546 vacancies; domestic helpers, 17th, with 2,513 vacancies; sales executives, 18th with 2,505 vacancies; promo salespersons, 19th, with 2,250 vacancies; and customs representatives, 20th with 2,005 vacancies, the press release said.*

 

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