The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Wednesday said creative industries present employment opportunities for qualified Filipino workers. DOLE Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz employment opportunities are expected to flourish in the creative industry in the next 10 years. "The creative industries are among the emerging industries which Project JobsFit has identified to generate jobs," Baldoz said in an article posted on the DOLE website. She cited opportunities in the emerging creative industries are "in-demand but hard-to-fill," such as:
3D modelers; 3D artists; 3D animators; Flash animators; systems analysts and designers (mostly computer and digital skills-based opportunities); broadcast engineers; video editors, and and visual artists/designers. To fill up the positions in these industries, Baldoz encouraged the youth to acquire the proper qualifications and skills. She also urged investors and established companies in the country to train and upgrade would-be workers and personnel on computer-based, digital, and related capabilities. "Our Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) is ready to assist both industries and workers on their training development needs," she said. Bureau of Local Employment Director Maria Criselda Sy said creative industries comprise one of several emerging industries in the country that are projected to drive employment growth faster than the gross domestic product (GDP) in the long term, based on the results of Project JobsFit. Sy said the other employment drivers include: power and utilities renewable energy diversified/strategic farming and fishing. Earlier, Project JobsFit identified employment generators that have the potential for absorbing the most number of the Philippine workforce in the long term to 2016 and beyond. These are: agribusiness; cyber services; health and wellness; hotel; restaurant and tourism; mining; construction; banking and finance; manufacturing; ownership dwellings and real estate; transport and logistics; wholesale and retail trade, and overseas employment. Sy said that in power and utilities, the hard-to-fill, but in-demand occupations include those for: electrical control operators; equipment operators; electrical technicians; mechanical technicians; mechanics; power production plant operators; electrical engineering technicians; mechanical engineering technicians, and electrical mechanics and fitters. In the renewable energy sector, similar opportunities are projected to grow within the decade for: checkers; electrical engineers; loaders; mechanical engineers; quality control engineers; electrical engineers; other engineers, and related professionals. Finally, in the diversified/strategic farming and fishing industry, the numerous occupations up to 2016 and beyond include those for fishermen, aqua‐culturists, horticulturists, farmers (root crops, fruit & vegetable, upland and lowland), and others. For the other industries, similarly numerous in-demand but hard-to-fill occupations are contained in the Project JobsFit report prepared by a multi-agency team led by Sy in consultation with various regions, stakeholders, agencies, and the captains of Philippine industry in 2010. – VVP, GMA News 
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