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Employment Status of College of Teacher Education Graduates: Basis for an enhanced Teacher Training Program

Volume: 75  ,  Issue: 1 , April    Published Date: 26 April 2021
Publisher Name: IJRP
Views: 714  ,  Download: 1635 , Pages: 8 - 28    
DOI: 10.47119/IJRP100751420211883

Authors

# Author Name
1 Henly F. Martirez
2 Evelyn A. Sunico
3 Julie Rose P. Mendoza
4 Freddie Javina
5 Marie Ann Gozales

Abstract

One critical measure of success in workplaces is an employee?s ability to use competently the knowledge, skills and values that match the needs of his job, satisfy the demands of his employer, and contribute to the overall achievement of institutional goals. This study shows the Employment Status of College of Teacher Education Graduates from batch 2017, 2018 and 2019, there were a total of 1276 respondents representing the groups of employed, unemployed and not tracked. The response will serve as basis for an enhancement teacher training program and revision/modification/improvement of the existing program of the college of teacher education, , it sought to answer the following evaluation questionnaire (1) Current Employment Status; (a) Employed (b) Presently not employed but seeking for work (c) Reason (s) for staying on the job (d) Reasons for changing job (e) Never employed (2) Jobseekers Experiences (a) What strategies you?ve made in finding job? (b) What are the difficulties you experience in looking/searching for a job? (c) After you were able to find a vacancy, what are the possible reasons why you did not get the job? (3) Enhancement of Teacher Training Program. The questionnaire was used in the survey questions. The statistical treatment used was open ended. Based on the gathered data of this study, the findings of this study were the following: (1) Current Employment Status. The accumulated percent of the current employment status in terms of Employed was 75.91% with verbal interpretation Agree, 24.09% was Disagree and 0% was Neutral. The accumulated percent of the current employment status in terms of presently not employed but seeking for work was 75.68% with verbal interpretation Agree, 22.98% was Disagree and 0.53% was Neutral. The accumulated percent of the current employment status in terms of Reasons for changing job was 67.3% with verbal interpretation Agree, 8.85% was Disagree and 17.09% was Neutral. The accumulated percent of the current employment status in terms of Reasons for changing job was 54.7 3% with verbal interpretation Agree, 3.23% was Disagree and 13.95% was Neutral. The accumulated percent of the current employment status in terms of never employed was 26.65% with verbal interpretation Agree, 59.25% was Disagree and 14.11% was Neutral. (2) Jobseekers Experiences. The accumulated percent of the jobseekers experiences in terms of what strategies you?ve made in finding job? Was 51.98% with verbal interpretation Agree, 38.31% was Disagree and 14.89% was Neutral. The accumulated percent of the jobseekers experiences in terms of what are the difficulties you experience in looking/searching for a job? Was 54% with verbal interpretation Agree, 27.44% was Disagree and 16.61% was Neutral. The accumulated percent of the jobseekers experiences in terms of after you were able to find a vacancy, what are the possible reasons why you did not get the job was 48.71% with verbal interpretation Agree, 32.28 was Disagree and 19.05% was Neutral. (3) Enhancement of Teacher Training Program. The accumulated percent of the enhancement of teacher training program was 44.82% with verbal interpretation Agree, 50.24% was Disagree and 4.95% was Neutral. In the Figure shows the employment status of college of teacher education in the year of 2017 with the total number of 528 graduate students and total number of traced employed was 476 or 94% of the total number, those not tracked was 52 or 6% of the total number. College of Teacher Education the year of 2018 total number of graduates was 428 students total number of traced employed 413 or 86.63% total number of traced unemployed was 2 or 3.17% and total number not tracked was 13 or 6.48%. College of Teacher Education the year of 2019 total number of graduates was 320 students total number traced employed was 97 or 25.03% total number of traced unemployed was 30 or 14.71% and total number of not tracked was 193 or 61.08%.

Keywords

  • Employability
  • Employment Profile
  • CTE graduates
  • College of Teacher Education