An additional 700,000 college graduates marching for their diplomas by next week will soon be pounding the pavements and scouring cyberspace jobsites to seek gainful employment—many of them will join the ranks of the nation’s unemployed which stands at 2.96 million.

Gerard Seno, executive vice president of the Associated Labor Unions of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) does not see college graduates “finding jobs right away.”

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