This comes after a Commission on Human Rights report shows that students are having a hard time looking for a job due to lack of 'soft skills' or those relating to creativity, communication, and empathy.
MANILA, Philippines – Senators on Wednesday, April 12, urged the government to address the apparent lack of job readiness among students about to enter the workforce as revealed in aThe CHR report showed that fresh graduates were having a hard time looking for jobs because of a lack of “soft skills” or those relating to creativity, communication, and empathy.
Opposition Senator Risa Hontiveros urged education officials to act faster in addressing the issue, saying that the problem has been there even before the pandemic but no concrete solution has been made so far. Senator Sonny Angara echoed the same sentiment, saying that the “lack of soft skills was already a problem of graduates before the pandemic.”
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