With Labor Day or Araw ng Manggagawa approaching us, our first Blog Carnival topic will be focused on jobs, The Filipino Worker, The Philippine Job Market, and the state of the job market itself. If you aren’t familiar, a blog carnival is,
a type of blog event. It is similar to a magazine, in that it is dedicated to a particular topic, and is published on a regular schedule, often weekly or monthly. Each edition of a blog carnival is in the form of a blog article that contains permalinks links to other blog articles on the particular topic.
Filipino Voices will hold a blog carnival every second and fourth Sunday of the month. Each topic will be announced that week and all submissions must be made no later than 12 noon of that Sunday.
If you wish to participate in the blog carnival, please leave a brief comment on this post regarding your article and the url of that article.
Our current topic is a timely one, indeed the state of our job market plays an important role in the progress of our nation. If we can’t provide a qualified workforce and well paying jobs for that workforce, our nation cannot and will not progress.
Vox Populi! And may your voice come with analysis, propaganda allowed, but solutions and analysis are most welcomed too.
Update: April 29, 2008 – seeing that the submissions haven’t been all that swell, we’ll be continuing this blog carnival up until the next topic. Considering it was our first Blog Carnival, we’re still happy that even a few chose to participate. Thank you.
The Articles
- Job Stories by Rom
- The Politics of Labor Relations by Butch
- The Pinoy Worker In A Flat World by Patricio Mangubat
- Eating Words by Marck Ronald Rimorin
Nick here are two related to work I wrote back in 2003:
The folly of economic dependence on foreign employment
Synopsis:
Our chronic and increasing dependence on foreign employment and, for many, the diversion of attention from full hands-on parenting it results in is creating a whole new generation of absentee-parented youth.
The wasted collective intellect of Philippine society
Synopsis:
What happens to all the collective experience, skills, insights, and philosophies accumulated by our countrymen from the work they did overseas?
Take your pick: Both at your disposal!
I enjoyed the posts.. I think, being our first blog carnival, we did pretty good. I expect these carnival’s to improve as we go along.. More participants would be excellent..
Jobs is still an important topic, so we will probably visit this topic multiple times in the future..
in actual fact i believe that filippinos, contray to popular belief, are very selfish people and have little or no interest in matters that dont affect them or their families.
having worked there for several years and lived amongst filippinos abroad i now rarely visit the country and wonder why i originally thought that they (filippinos) were kind and warm people.
the political and financial malaise in the philippines appears, to me at least, to have this
reality at the heart of the problem.
if anything the absentee parents will only exacerbate the problem and we are likely to see, and are seeing now. a huge increase in crime and anti-social behaviour in the country.
good resourse Anyway by sight very much it is pleasant to me
yes i agree with this blog.u had discussed on current job market and its role.i liked this blog carnival.
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