Ministry Of Manpower Calls Vacancies Dominated By Basic Skill Jobs Like Microsoft Word

Job seekers packed exhibition outlets in July 2019. (ANTARA-Maulana Surya)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Manpower (Kemnaker) revealed that the trend of job vacancies in digital job centers is still dominated by types of jobs that only require basic skills or skills such as Microsoft Word.

Secretary of the Directorate General of PHI and Social Security of the Ministry of Manpower, Surya Lukita, said that people do not need to worry about being left behind by many vacancies that require special digital capabilities.

"Well, we just need to analyze what job vacancies are needed, again trends, and also what kind of skills are currently needed by the company. It turns out that the current trend of the work market is still dominated by basic skills. Sometimes it's not necessarily a lot of needs, "said Surya in Jakarta, Tuesday, May 2, confiscated by Antara.

The data is the result of an analysis from January to May 2023. In addition, there are nearly 60 thousand job vacancies that have been available at the Ministry of Manpower's work market center with worker seekers transactions reaching 150 thousand people.

The labor market center is a program initiated by the Ministry of Manpower at the end of 2021. The Ministry of Manpower launched a work market center as a solution to overcome various labor problems in Indonesia.

At the end of 2021, the Ministry of Manpower launched a job market center which is claimed to be a solution to link and match problems and the digital ecosystem of employment in the face of era 4.0.

"We at the ministry of employment have developed a digital work market, so it is under the labor market center. We even create an organizational structure in this ministry, called a job market center specifically to develop and capture the conditions of the labor market in Indonesia," he explained.

Currently, the labor market center has been developed into an application.