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This study attempted to determine the employment opportunities and productivity of 318 electrical technical and technology graduates employed in manufacturing agencies, construction firms and electrical agencies in Region 1 during the calendar year 1999. It also looked into the influence of some selected personal/professional and school-related factors on employment opportunities and productivity<br/><br/>The statistical treatment used were weighted mean, standard deviations, frequencies and percentages, correlation analysis.<br/><br/>Most of the electrical technical and technology graduates employed in various electrical firms, agencies and industries in Region I are marned, residing in rural areas, graduates of the Two-Year Trade Technical course, and Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and licensed Third to First Class Building Wiring Electrician who worked mainly as barangay electricians and construction firm electricians Moreover, majority of the respondents underwent on-the-job training apprenticeship, and have high level of work attitudes and habits.<br/><br/>The school-related factors, namely, school facilities such as buildings classrooms, office and staff rooms, and program processes, namely administrative<br/><br/>and instructional processes are all on the "more than adequate status<br/><br/>The status of their employment opportunities in terms of strategies in entering a job and waiting time is "very high but in terms of position and employment status, it is "low" and "slightly low", respectively. There is a "moderate" status of productivity of the highest number of respondents in terms of salary but in terms of entrepreneurship, the majority is "not productive" For the qualitative indicators, the majority are "not productive" in terms of promotion and inventions/innovations/outputs but along recognition, the highest number of respondents received only certificates as awards, hence, they are "slightly productive" On social adequacy, the respondents are "moderately productive" based on family income, appliances at home and land owned but they are slightly productive in terms of cost of house<br/><br/>in entering a job level of political influence and apprenticeship, own ability and<br/><br/>Significant relationship existed in the following paired vanables on strategies educational attainment, own ability and license, own ability and work experience, work experience and educational attainment, work experience and license<br/><br/>Significant relationship was also found between employment opportunities in terms of position and the following personal/professional factors civil status, educational attainment, license, and work experience but not significantly related with position, place of residence, work athtudes, and apprenticeship<br/><br/>This study likewise determined an inverse significant relationship between waiting time and license, work experience and apprenticeship, significant relationship between employment status and civil status, work attitude, educational attainment, licensure, work experience and apprenticeship but it failed to attain significance with position, waiting time, employment status and adequacy of physical facilities and program processes. In terms of productivity, significant relationship was found between (1) monthly salary and work attitudes/habits, license and work experience, (2) between entrepreneurship and civil status, license and work experience, (3) between promation and civil status, work attitudes/habits, educational attainment, license and work experience; (4) between recognition and work attitudes/habits, educational attainment, license and work experience; (5) between family income and civil status, work attitudes/habits, educational attainment, license and work experience, (6) between appliances owned and civil status, work attitudes/habits, educational attainment, license and work experience, (7) between land owned and civil status, educational attainment and license, between cost of house and civil status, educational attainment and license and work experience. Lastly, the productivity of the respondents was not significantly influenced by both physical plant and facilities and program processes.<br/><br/>Based on the findings and conclusions arrived at in this study, the researcher recommends the following: there is a need to establish a strong linkage with industries, firms and agencies in order to sustain its interest in the graduates of Electrical Technology and to help raise their level of employment opportunities and productivity; on-the-job training and dual training should be part and parcel of the technical/technological curriculum, proper dissemination on the Electrical Technology Program should be made, and a similar study on the employment opportunities and productivity of electrical technical and technology graduates of all the technical schools be conducted to find out strengths and weaknesses of the curriculum. |
