ADB: Only 1 of 5 graduates lands job within a year

Only one out of five high school graduates in Metro Manila and Cebu City lands a job within a year of leaving school, a study by the Asian Development Bank said.

Despite the Philippines’ average annual growth of 6.3 percent between 2010 and 2016, indicating an improvement in the employment market, the country continues to have a youth employment problem stemming from a slow school-to-work transition, the ADB study found.