CHAPTER l
INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study
One of the obstacles our country faces today is the surplus of unemployed college graduates. Moreover, the number of college graduates increases every year. This resulted the increase of job seekers versus job opportunities (1). In fact, the Philippine Star through its website published that there is a 7.5% increase in the unemployment rate for the year 2014. In addition, the Philippine daily inquirer said that there is a 12 million increase in unemployed Filipinos year.
In addition to issues like underemployment where in graduates of a 4 year degree course do not usually land in decent jobs with proper compensation, or there is no parallelism of the courses finished with their job. One example of this is a graduate in Teacher Education working as Brgy. Secretary or a BSOA graduate working as Barangay Health Worker.
Today, most college students and their families are banking on education as the means and ways to have a financially secured job in the future that is why they enter in tertiary level. The higher education institutions then are responsible in equipping these students with knowledge, values, and skills to be able to perform well in the working place.
Mountain Province State Polytechnic College as an institution offers Bachelor of Science in Office Administration which aims to produce graduates who are employable and globally competitive in the various general and specialized administrative supports, supervisory and managerial positions. More or less it is then expected to see BSOA graduates of MPSPC to be working in offices.
To gauge whether the BSOA graduates dream of good job is met, this study on the “Employability of BSOA graduates (2008-2013) in Bontoc” will look into the nature and level of employment of the BSOA graduates since school year 2008 to 2013 and the factors affecting the