JobStreet Philippines' Country Manager Wins 2017 IABC CEO Excel Award

Philip Gioca, JobStreet Philippines Country Manager, was one of the recipients of the 2017 IABC CEO Excel Awards.

Philip Gioca, JobStreet Philippines Country Manager

The IABC CEO Excel Awards was created to recognize the leaders of organizations who make use of exemplary communication as part of their overall business strategy for achieving goals, building relationships, addressing problems, and maintaining the reputation of their companies

Philip Gioca bagged the award after more than two  decades of experience in various leadership positions. Under his tutelage, Gioca has furthered JobStreet's leadership position in the Philippines.

The company has presented an average of 60,000 jobs posted monthly by as many as 24,000 employers across key industries and business sizes.

To date, JobStreet mentioned that there 7.6 million candidates have registered to the online portal.

Gioca has also overseen the rollout of several innovations such as richer job ads with inclusion of vital information such as salary data, Talent Search, Company Reviews, and the LiNA bot.

Gioca has also overseen the digitization of various traditional offline channels for job search and enablement.

Recently, nearly 100 government agencies have posted as much as 3,500 jobs since July 2017. They are housed on a one-stop microsite to make the process of applying to government jobs more transparent and accessible.

Gioca has also championed Overseas Filipino Workers by making the Pre-Employment Orientation Seminar (PEOS) online in cooperation with the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, which is now mandatory to all intending to explore job opportunities abroad.

He has also established several collaborations with the governmen, NGOs, and private institutions to make job opportunities more accessible to all and help address job skills mismatch.

JobStreet also partnered with the Office of the Vice President to further grassroots jobs generation and matching by supporting the Angat Buhay Program, Edukasyon.ph, a social enterprise that helps high school students make better informed career choices from education to employment, and many more.