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Issues

Batch 2012 graduates: Where do we go from here?

By CARISSA R. CARAIG and CANDISSE ANNE LOUISSE G. AMORANTO
The country’s employment rate reached 38.5 million or 93.6 percent as indicated in the data of the Nati onal Stati sti cs Offi ce (NSO) last October 2011.
The fi gure posed a slight increase from October 2010’s 92.9 percent when employed Filipinos totaled to 36.5 million. Labor offi cials see the record as
“a conti nuous improvement in the quality of employment in the Philippines.”

However, as March 2012 nears, a questi on sti ll looms on the mind of soon-to-be professionals: Will the graduati ng students of the Faculty of Arts and Lett ers (Artlets)
feel this positi ve change in the country’s economy? Or will they be like the many fresh graduates who are suff ering from unemployment?

A to tell what opportuniti es await graduati ng which Artlets graduates could venture in.”
NUMBER of graduati ng Thomasians
believe that tough competi ti on and
students, but he believes that Thomasians
He added that many industries are giv-
unemployment possibiliti es await
them outside the walls of the University. can really put a good fi ght in the profes- ing opportuniti es in the fi elds of media,
journalism, research, foreign service, aca-
sional world.
Despite doubts that cloud them, they be- According to Alumni Aff airs Director Mi- deme, human resource, and many others.
lieve that the quality educati on they have chael Angelo Malicsi, there are rich and var- However, he noted that the slowing
gained through years of studying will help ied career opportuniti es that await Artlets down of global economy is an emerging
them overcome threats and eventually suc- graduates. threat that can decrease the demands for
ceed in their chosen fi elds. “The multi -faceted nature of Artlets jobs.
Faculty of Arts and Lett ers (Artlets) Dean compliments the diverse needs of many “This should not impede our graduates
Michael Anthony Vasco said it is really hard industries,” he said. “There is an emerging to muster enough will and determina-
trend for corpo- ti on. All of them will eventu-
trend for corpo-
rate social ally fi nd their own
rate social
r e s p o n place under the
r e s p o n - -
sibility sun,” Malicsi
said.
E m p l oy-
and
ment and
ment

EDILBERTO LORENZO R. MORELOS, JR.

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