WIRE โ€” EMPLOYERS continue to encounter mismatches between their requirements and the qualifications and skills of job applicants, an economist said. "There is a persistent skills mismatch where fresh graduates' qualifications do not align well with what employers are hiring for," Jose Ramon G. Albert, senior research fellow at the Philippine Institute for Development Studies, said. The

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