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March 2009
Bulacan Polytechnic College
Bulihan, City of Malolos, Bulacan
With the aim of accomplishing the Bulacan Polytechnic College vision “to
become a lead provider of quality and affordable technical-vocational
entrepreneurial and technological education, and producer of highly competent
and productive human resources”, it is deemed necessary to know the present
employability condition of the graduates.
The findings of this study will be beneficial to both the institution and its
graduates. With this study, the institution can determine and show its
effectiveness in molding highly competent graduates as an answer to the
increasing technological competition. Likewise, this study can help assure the
students that the school’s services do not end on their graduation day, but until
they are given a better chance to land on a good job.
This study aims to provide facts and information intended to make the
institution realize the employability rate of 2006-2007 graduates. This study
further determines the effectiveness of the programs as well as the whereabouts
and the present situation of the graduates. The findings of this study can help the
institution in its curriculum making/re-evaluation to upgrade the skills needed
by its students in consonance with requirements of the industry, thus assuring
the graduates of higher chance of employment.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Age – This refers to the age of the respondent in terms of years and
months when the study is conducted.
Civil Status – This refers to the present status of the respondent whether
the respondent is single, married or separated.
Gender – This refers to the sex of the respondent whether the respondent
is male or female.
Job Location – It refers to the job market of the respondent’s
employment whether within the province of Bulacan, outside the province or
outside the country.
STATISTICAL TREATMENT
Once all data were gathered, they were tallied, tabulated, and treated
statistically.
Table one shows that out of 712 graduates in 2007, 660 were located and 52
were un-located. Different reasons came out why 52 graduates were un-located
during the retrieval of the forms. These are:
*Statistics and tabulations below are based on the number of graduates per course.
Table two shows the ages of the graduates of 2007. Majority of the
graduates in all courses are 19-20 years old. They constitute 54.70% of all the
respondents, while 30.91% of them are ages 21 and above, and 24 years and
above has 13.33% respectively. The result implies two age groups of BPC
students, those who enrolled immediately after finishing High School and a
significant number are those who spent some years out of school before enrolling
in BPC.
Table 3: Gender of the Respondents
Table three shows that most graduates of COMSEC are females (81.41%),
on the other hand CIT, COMTECH and DTS graduates are predominantly males
with 95.92%, 76.58 and 92.5 % respectively. There is no significant statistical
difference in HRS graduates regarding gender.
Single 275 85.40 128 82.05 47 95.92 24 88.89 132 83.55 606 85.10
Married 32 9.94 10 6.41 2 4.08 1 3.70 7 4.43 52 7.30
Separated 1 0.64 1 0.63 2 0.30
Widow/
Widower
Total per
307 95.34 139 89.10 49 100 25 92.59 140 88.61 660 92.70
course
Table 4 shows that out of 712 respondents, a little above 7.30% are
married. This shows that only a small number of graduates got married after
graduation up to the time of census.
Length of Time
HRS COMSEC CIT COMTECH DTS TOTAL
Before Landing
responden
on Their First %
Job Freq % Freq % Freq % Freq % Freq % ts
Less than a
month 161 50.00 84 53.85 29 59.18 67 42.42 6 22.22 337 47.33
Less than a year
55 17.08 34 21.79 13 26.54 30 18.99 7 25.93 39 19.52
2 years 15 4.66 1 0.64 4 2.53 1 3.70 21 2.95
3 years
Un-employed 50 15.53 17 10.90 5 10.20 36 22.78 10 37.04 128 17.98
Got married and
opted not to 16 4.97 1 0.63 17 2.39
work
Still Studying 10 3.10 3 1.92 2 4.08 2 1.26 1 3.70 18 2.53
Total per
course 307 95.54 139 89.10 49 100 140 88.61 25 92.59 660 92.70
Table 7 shows the nature of employment of BPC 2007 graduates. Majority of the
respondents are contractual workers at 33.57% followed by 18.26% temporary
and 7.87% casual workers. Only 10.67% of the respondents are of permanent
status. Sixteen point fifty-seven are unemployed percent (16.57%).
Within
Bulacan 120 37.27 75 48.07 27 55.10 66 41.77 9 32.33 297 41.71
Outside
Bulacan but
within Region 60 18.63 28 17.95 8 16.33 23 14.56 5 18.52 124 17.42
III
Outside the
Region 40 12.42 15 9.62 5 10.20 11 6.97 71 9.97
Outside the
Country 11 3.42 1 0.62 4 4.08 1 0.63 15 2.11
Subtotal 231 71.74 119 76.28 42 85.71 101 63.93 14 51.85 507 71.21
Unemployed 50 15.53 17 10.90 5 10.20 36 22.78 10 37.04 118 16.57
Total per
course 281 87.27 136 87.18 47 95.91 137 86.71 24 88.89 625 87.78
Table 8 presents the job location of the respondents. Two hundred ninety seven
out 625 respondents (41.71%) works in the province of Bulacan, CIT
graduates comprises the highest percentage at 55.10%, followed by COMSEC at
48.07%, COMTECH at 41.77%, HRS at 37.27 and DTS 32.33%.
Looking at the job location of graduates per course, the HRS has only 120
out of 297 respondents who works in the province, while they represents the
highest number of respondents who works outside the region with 60
respondents.
With respondents working outside the province at 18.52% implies that our
local industries cannot absorb our technical graduates , on the other hand it
could be that bigger opportunities are available outside Bulacan.
Among the 712 total graduates of S.Y. 2006-2007, this study presented
660 respondents with remaining 52 individuals who are declared un-located.
During the retrieval of census forms, the following reasons justify why
some graduates cannot be located.