If you are a Filipino who wants to try your luck in Dubai, the recent reports would be a great help. A job hiring opportunity was made known to the public by a report last Tuesday saying that the Emirates Petroleum Products Company (EPPCO) is looking for 700 Filipino workers to be assigned in Dubai, 400 as gasoline station attendants and 300 as staff for a convenience store. EPPCO is a company based in Dubai with 170 gasoline stations in the United Arab Emirates having 4,000 employees and 1,373 of them are Filipinos.

Qualifying to the job hiring is any Filipino ages between 20 to 28 years old. Applicant can either be high school graduate of college level and must have an experience for the position they are applying for at least one year, can speak English and knows good customer relations. Applicants don’t need to pay placement and visa fees. However they have to shoulder an estimated amount of P5,000 for documentation, medical and other fees before going to Dubai. The company will carry their travel expenses and they are provided with free accommodation and transport service once there. Salary for gasoline attendants and customer service assistants is at P18,000 per month as reported.

Representatives of EPPCO will start hiring in Metro Manila and Cebu on August 15. Interested applicant may submit their papers at the CDK International Manpower Recruitment Agency located at the Midland Plaza Hotel in Ermita, Manila. Meanwhile, if this hiring doesn’t suits to your skill set other jobs in Dubai also awaits for Filipinos ages between 29-35 years old like party hosts, magician, balloon decorators, teachers, hair dressers and technicians.

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“Even with the crisis, Japan is still in need of more health workers, especially caregivers. That’s a big opportunity that Filipinos need to consider,” said Cebu Doctors’ University Hospital administrator Oscar Tuason.

Tuason, in an interview Wednesday at the sidelines of the Cebu Health and Wellness Council gathering, said while many are discouraged by scarce jobs in the United States and Europe, Japan on the other hand is trying to make room for health workers.

In order to prepare Filipino caregivers for Japan, the CDUH has opened in March 2008 the Japanese-Filipino Caregiver Project, described as a first in the Philippines, that allows caregivers including nurses and therapists to work in Japan.

Tuason said the school has partnered with Japanese companies Konoike Transport Co. Ltd. and the Jukenzai Group in the program implementation here. He said these Japanese firms are aiming to address their shortage of healthcare workers given Japan’s aging population.

According to their respective websites, the Jukenzai Group is one of the largest medical corporations in Japan with over 3,000 hospital beds specializing in medical care, nursing care and caregiving for the elderly.

he Konoike Group is into the sterilizing business and the supply of hospital equipment and logistics, catering to more than 500 hospitals in Japan.

Under the program, CDUH offers a crash course on Japanese care-giving based on a curriculum outlined by the Japanese group.

The course, which runs for two to three months, details specific Japanese practices and culture in caregiving.

“Japan has a unique way of caring for their elderly,” Tuason noted.

In order to assist students during the practical training, he said several medical equipment had to be imported from Japan.

Aside from the course, the students learn Nippongo on a daily basis since health workers in Japan needed to be competent in conversational, level two Nippongo.

Tuason said 10 students have already graduated from the caregiving course and 25 more are currently enrolled in the program.

Tuason said that in the light of the present global financial crisis, Filipino healthcare workers need not be discouraged as work opportunities, especially in their field, is still plenty.

“Demand for our health workers abroad will always continue. So far, there hasn’t been any significant decline in the number of Filipinos who lost jobs in this practice,” he concluded.

Publication:  Manila Bulletin
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