The opportunities will be coursed through recruitment and manning agencies licensed by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration.
These agencies are among those participating in the labor mart, one of the four components of the DOLE Labor Opportunity Program (DOLOP).
Filipino professionals and specialists are encouraged to register with the recruitment and manning agencies for matching of their work skills with the hiring criteria set by overseas employers, particularly those arriving for the labor mart.
Labor Secretary Patricia A. Sto. Tomas credited President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and the close partnership between the DoLE and the private sector for creating these employment opportunities for Filipino workers.
In Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, the employers are running short of workers for their billion-dollar infrastructure development projects in gas, electricity, water, finance, communications, engineering design, retail, health services, construction, information technology and hotel / and tourism sectors.
Iran has ongoing construction projects in its oil and gas industry.
Saudi Arabia has need for nurses, midwives, operators and maintenance personnel, engineers, IT personnel, service workers, mail service delivery workers (about 1,000). Soon, it will be posting need for spa workers.
Israel prefers Filipino caregivers and tourism industry workers and heavy machinery technicians.
Oman is searching for additional Filipino nurses, medical technologists, dentists, medical specialists, engineers and skilled workers. It requires more workers for infrastructure projects to build bridges, hyper highways, and water desalination plants. It is also in search of outsourcing operations for Arabic animation services.
China, meanwhile, is offering employment for English teachers. Taiwan has continuous demand for professionals, factory workers and caretakers brought about by the gradual recovery of its economy and its five-year billion dollar public construction package.
Taiwan has a quota for l5,000 skilled workers in electronics, manufacturing and information technology.
Available in Macau are supervisory positions in casino and gaming operations. Employers are also looking for workers in hotels, nursing and care giving, restaurants, pharmacies. They are also looking for university instructors. In demand also are domestic helpers and security guards.
Singapore is filling up demand for professionals and specialists in health care, nursing, physiotherapy, IT, bio-pharmaceutical, telecommunications, manufacturing, aerospace and laboratory technology, and computer programming POEA said that outsourcing operations require Indians and Filipinos as main operators of the growing information communications technology industry in Singapore.
Australia and New Zealand are looking for medical practitioners, nurses, midwives, pharmacists, occupational therapists, craftsmen, tradesmen, and dairy farm workers.
The Bahamas requires welders, electricians, carpenters, painters, workers in the medical sector and shipping industry.
The Cayman Islands in the Caribbean needs domestic helpers or house managers, gardeners, carpenters, farm workers and food and beverage servers, welders, electricians, carpenters, painters and medical workers; Trinidad and Tobago, also in the Caribbean, also needs medical workers.
Canada requires nurses (59,000 to 113,000 nurses up to 2011), pharmacists, and construction workers.
The United Kingdom and Ireland are in need of medical and paramedical workers like nurses, midwives, medical technologists, physical therapists and social workers. Ireland has high-end jobs and low end-jobs available in hotel and catering.
Croatia is hiring hotel and tourism industry workers, while Kazakhstan is open for technical and professional experts in the oil, energy and construction sectors. Greece is in need of technical, skilled and professional workers; seafarers & crew members Slovenia is a potential market for nurses.(BCM)
