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In this episode, I interview Mr. Massi Oracion, the Philippine Business for Education program manager for FutureYou.ph, a website dedicated to helping High School students, college students, and career-shifters plan for their career path. Along the way, we talked about the importance of minimizing the mismatch between the skills the members of the labor force possess and the skills needed by the market and industries.

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FutureYou.ph Caters to college student and those who want to discern what course they want to take and which schools are the best in various fields.

Mr. Massi Oracion – Program Manager of PBEd, specifically for higher education projects. They have a project called the Higher Education and Productivity Project funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

The goal of this project is to address the skills gap and mismatch problem in the market today through industry-academe partnership in the national level and local cities.

FutureYou.ph is an online career exploration portal that tries to give an idea about the jobs available in the market, the qualifications needed for those jobs, and where to get those qualifications.

Futureyou.ph looks at jobs available now and through 2020. You can check College courses and then analyze the performance of colleges and universities in that

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• Look at what jobs are in demand and what industries are hiring
  
• See what qualifications are needed; and
  
• Which schools offer the best training for these qualifications.
  

The website pulls in data from different sources and makes sense of all those data to help High School students and college students and parents, too.

Philippine Business for Education connects the data from the government and also from the industries and organizes those for the students and job seekers.

The website also includes the average starting salary for most jobs and career paths to help students have a more realistic expectation from different kinds of career.

FutureYou.ph tries to project the jobs that will be in demand in the future so that students can plan for these careers.

Mismatch in terms of skills and market fit really stems from lack of information.

High School students want to pursue the courses they are passionate about, without regard for market trends and demand.

Some industries are “not sexy” but they can actually lead to higher salaries.

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• Some industries have too many people and businesses cannot offer enough jobs to those who are seeking jobs in that industry.
  
• Other industries that are very much needed for economic development cannot get enough people to work for these in the industry. High growth and high value industries do not have enough human resource to power their growth and operations.
  
• Unemployment will balloon because of mismatch in skills and job availabilities.
  

Some college graduates need to be retrained because they lack the skills that they should have learned in College. A lot of college graduates are not ready for work in “real world environments”.

As young professionals, we need to engage in continuous learning to improve our skills and abilities.

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• High school students and their parents
  
• Career-shifters
  
• Business sector
  

Check out FutureYou.Ph

website: http://FutureYou.ph and Philippine Business for Education

Facebook: /FutureYouPH

Twitter: @FutureYouPh

Email: futureyouph@gmail.com