JobStreet.com, the
no. 1 job site in the Philippines, has just released the results of its Top
Companies 2017 survey. This year, there are new entrants in the top 10,
changing the face of the annual list.
Utilities firms,
for the first time, have broken into the list, with electric distribution
company Meralco as the overall top
preferred company of jobseekers and telecommunications company PLDT Inc. at
number nine.
Food and beverage
conglomerate San Miguel Corporation
(SMC) takes second place while tech giant Google Philippines leapfrogs to third place from last year’s
eighth. As for the rest of the previously unmovable top 3, wellness
multinational Nestlé Philippines takes the fourth place while the foremost
business process outsourcing in the country, Accenture, is in fifth.
The only Henry
Sy-led company on the list this year and the lone financial institution in the
top ten, BDO Unibank, is sixth this 2017. Consumer goods giant Procter and
Gamble rises is this year’s seventh and ABS-CBN Corporation, one of the
Philippines’ leading media and entertainment company, is eighth this year.
Rounding up the top
companies most of the Filipino workforce prefer to work is consumer goods
multinational Unilever, which was last seen in the 2015 list now takes the
tenth place this year.
Recognition
expands to other strong employer brands
The Top Companies
Report, now on its fourth edition, is expanding to give out special awards to
category and regional winners. These companies, are bring recognized for their
strong performance in their respective categories and areas.
Regional awardees
this year include Bank of the Philippine Islands for Central Luzon, for Shell
companies in the Philippines for CALABARZON, and ABOITIZ for Central Visayas.
For the corporate category, awardees include Shell companies in the
Philippines, Coca-Cola FEMSA Philippines and SM Investments Corporation. In the
BPO category, winners are JPMorgan Chase Bank, IBM Business Services, and
Convergys Philippines.
Job
security matters more this time
Part of Jobstreet.com’s
survey on which companies they aspire to be a part of is the question why they
want to work in these firms. Last year’s survey showed that a competitive basic
salary is the primary reason when choosing a firm to work for whereas the
candidates asked this year indicated that job security is the foremost reason
for their consideration.
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