{"id":53905,"date":"2022-10-26T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T01:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.outsourceaccelerator.com\/?p=53905"},"modified":"2022-10-25T14:30:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T06:30:54","slug":"hiring-foreign-it-educators-could-expand-phs-tech-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.outsourceaccelerator.com\/hiring-foreign-it-educators-could-expand-phs-tech-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiring foreign IT educators could expand PH\u2019s tech workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"
PLDT Chairman Manny Pangilinan is urging the Philippines to hire IT professors from other countries to produce more local talent in the tech industry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n During the PLDT Digicon 2022, Pangilinan said that the country faces the challenge of teaching “proper” IT courses and finding qualified experts to teach in this field.<\/span><\/p>\n He stated that privately-sponsored tech scholarships are helpful, but the country needs a “surplus to prepare for poaching.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n “We need professors, we need to import them, some of them anyway, to be able to precisely accomplish the kind of IT engineers that we need in the future and produce a surplus,” Pangilinan added.<\/span><\/p>\n The telecom chief also shared that he was once asked by a chief transformation officer of a global conglomerate if there were enough IT people, software engineers, and programmers in the Philippines.<\/span><\/p>\n “I said no, not enough, and it’s exacerbated by the fact that whichever IT persons we graduate are poached abroad. If now foreign countries are getting our basketball players I suppose they will get more importantly the IT person,” Pangilinan answered.<\/span><\/p>\n According to the recruitment portal Jobstreet, encoders, engineers, virtual assistants, and IT professionals were among the top remote jobs in the Philippines as of June 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n