SUCs produce competent graduates, job search firm executive affirms

MANILA, Philippines - While many graduates of state universities excel and are found “hireable”, a disconcerting lack of competencies exist among graduates of some private colleges and universities.

Jayjay Viray, managing director of JobsDB.com, which operates a job search website and helps local and multinational companies hire workers, said they have noted a satisfactory level of competency among graduates from state universities and colleges (SUCs) .

“We find that graduates of state universities are good and many of them get hired,” Viray told the STAR in a recent interview. “So we believe these SUCs offer quality education that produces qualified applicants,” Viray.

Asked to name the SUCs with “reliable” graduates aside from premier state university University of the Philippines (UP), Viray said that they usually welcome applicants who have graduated from the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM), the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), and the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Makati (UMak).

Viray said that some graduates of certain disciplines in private schools lack the most basic skills in the professions that they were supposed to have studied and mastered in four or five years of college studies.

“It’s really very troubling because it will make you wonder what kind of education they were given in their schools,” Viray said.

While they have a known roster of SUCs with reliable graduates, Viray said they have already pinpointed certain private schools known to have incompetent graduates.