LinkedIn reveals changes in Job Skills in the Philippines for 2022

With the workforce constantly evolving through the years, it’s interesting to see how various factors have affected Filipinos in finding jobs. Based on LinkedIn data, there’s a 31% change in job skills in the Philippines in 2022 compared to 2015. The biggest change is seen from 2019 to 2020, where there was a 12% increase […]

Smart Ranks Top 2 in LinkedIn’s Top Companies in the Philippines

Aside from working hard in expanding its network coverage in the Philippines, Smart has recently received an accolade from LinkedIn, where it was cited as among the top companies in the Philippines for 2021. For a quick overview, the top 15 companies in the Philippines according to LinkedIn are as follows: Philippine National Bank Smart […]

LinkedIn Offers Free Job Postings For Essential Personal During Pandemic

LinkedIn helping with the fight LinkedIn is providing free job postings for companies and services that are deemed essential during the COVID-19 pandemic as hospitals, supermarkets, warehouses, and logistics companies scramble for personnel. Since the pandemic began, LinkedIn has seen a surge of job postings for the healthcare industry, as well as logistics and freight […]

Top Rising Skills Emphasize on Tech Transformation According to LinkedIn’s Future of Skills Report

Social media marketing, frontend web development lead the list As the market has made its shift towards the digital space as LinkedIn reported earlier this year, the professional network giant published its Future of skills 2019 report, and practically all rising skills involve adopting new technology and riding the digital transformation. The top 3 skills […]

LinkedIn’s Top Five Emerging Jobs in the Philippines Involves Use of Tech

With the market making its shift towards the digital space, technology plays a crucial role in most jobs. LinkedIn recently published its report on the emerging jobs in the Philippines for 2019. Based on millions of unique, user-input job titles from the last five years, here are the top five jobs: 1.  Data Scientist 2.  Application Development Analyst 3.  Back […]

HMD Now Its Own Brand, Takes Over Nokia Phone Branding

Human Mobile Devices, or more popularly known as HMD, are stepping out of the shadows of their Nokia smartphones and into the limelight. HMD has announced that they’re now their own brand, and will now start developing and selling HMD-branded smartphones alongside Nokia-branded ones. The move allows HMD to not only continue to sell Nokia-branded […]

CES 2024 Is All About Generative AI, But Is It Ready?

Tech brands have used Artificial Intelligence (AI) h as a marketing ploy for the past six years. We have been hearing AI since the days of the Mate 10 Pro, but all of this AI marketing involves “improved” scene recognition when taking photos. The term is getting a resurgence since late 2023 when Google announced the Generative AI features […]

Is Tier One in Trouble?

Things have been very rocky for Tier One Entertainment ever since Alodia Gosiengfiao announced her departure from the eSports company she co-founded in 2017 . Her statement, “It has become evident that our visions and values are not aligned”  has everyone wondering what was happening inside Tier One. A few days after Alodia’s announcement, it […]

Green Difference: Jason Chen

In 2014, incoming Acer CEO Jason Chen faced an almost impossible task: turning around a company that had not turned a profit for three years. 2013 was particularly brutal for Acer, with the company posting the worst loss in its history. Simply breaking even would take a miracle, never mind posting a profit. But against […]

Human Banking: Raymund Villanueva

Establishing a digital bank in a country that’s already saturated with multiple players isn’t easy. Doing so while in the waning days of a pandemic that’s upended both digital and physical business models sounds damn near impossible. But don’t tell that to Raymund Villanueva, Chief Marketing Officer of GoTyme Bank though – not only did […]

Philippines has Widest Gender Gap in STEM for Asia Pacific

In the recently-published World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2023, there remains to be a significant employment gap between men and women in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) sector–with the Philippines having the widest gender gap at 22%–which it also shares with the US and the UK. Based on data gathered […]

Going Beyond The Ordinary: Stephen Cheng

Any brand re-introducing themselves into a market that they’ve already previously left is fraught with plenty of challenges. Former Huawei sub-brand HONOR knows this too well – after Huawei’s high-profile spat with the US government and their quiet departure from the Philippine market (twice), the brand has managed to gain viral success with their HONOR […]