{"id":33387,"date":"2018-10-09T09:39:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T01:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=33387"},"modified":"2018-10-09T09:42:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T01:42:38","slug":"the-philippines-outshines-singapore-and-malaysia-in-it-job-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2018\/10\/09\/the-philippines-outshines-singapore-and-malaysia-in-it-job-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"The Philippines outshines Singapore and Malaysia in IT job opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southeast Asia proved to be enthusiastic about online demand for tech executives, as evidenced by the positive year-on-year growth this August.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Philippines clearly outshone its peers when it came to the abundance of software and telecom jobs, reporting a noteworthy 22% annual growth for August. In contrast, Malaysia did not display satisfactory results, suffering a year-on-year decline of 5%.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>These findings are the result of the latest Monster Employment Index (MEI), a monthly gauge of online hiring activity across Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines tracked by Monster.com.<\/p>\n<p>It comprises data of overall hiring activity in each country, as well as specific data in the IT and Telecom sector.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Philippines saw an improvement in terms of annual growth in the IT and Telecom sector for August, reporting at 6% a 4% increase from July\u2019s year-on-year growth of 2%. Singapore and Malaysia both clocked in double-digit annual growth of 11% during August.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Malaysia has recorded the same figure for July, however, Singapore experienced a decline in growth rate by 3% from July\u2019s annual growth of 14%.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs emerging economies blossom and the population becomes increasingly tech-savvy, information technology and software industry prospers. This entire region is home to so much innovation \u2013 there are plenty of e-commerce companies, applications and software being churned out by the talent residing here,\u201d said Abhijeet Mukherjee, CEO of Monster.com \u2013 APAC and Middle East.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201c<\/b>The boom in the IT sector has created many job opportunities for individuals with special skills. We welcome this positive change and strive to establish the region as a bonafide technological hub.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southeast Asia proved to be enthusiastic about online demand for tech executives, as evidenced by the positive year-on-year growth this August.\u00a0 The Philippines clearly outshone its peers when it came to the abundance of software and telecom jobs, reporting a noteworthy 22% annual growth for August. In contrast, Malaysia did not display satisfactory results, suffering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[6151,2783,3210,3803],"class_list":["post-33387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-high-tech","tag-human-capital-management","tag-it-hiring","tag-monster-employment-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}