Nursing jobs will not be considered among the hot jobs in the next four years, Moises de la Cruz said at the career guidance coaching session for graduating students of Bacolod City National High School yesterday.

“Forget getting a degree in nursing because it will not be an in-demand profession in four years,” de la Cruz said.

Engineering, accountancy, agriculture, and skilled jobs and short term courses like masonry, carpentry, and hotel management will be hot jobs in the next four years, but not nursing, he added.

“It is not always a guarantee to get a job after getting a four-year course in college but we do not encourage students to take four-year course. We only want them to have the option of getting short term courses offered by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority,” de la Cruz also said.

He said career guidance coaching is important for students to let them know and understand the right career path to choose and the courses to take. The hot jobs today may not be the same hot jobs in the next four years, he added.

They need to get jobs and be employed after graduation, but they have to make sure that their courses will take them to a good job, he said.

Most graduates today are underemployed, meaning they do not practice what they have studied in college, like most nurses now who work in a Business Process Outsourcing industry instead in hospitals, de la Cruz added.

“We do not want this to happen, that is why the Department of Labor and Employment and PESO have to lead the graduating students to the right path,” de la Cruz said.

PESO also had its career guidance coaching at VMA Global College-Bacolod on local and overseas jobs yesterday. *LTG

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