83.5 per cent of the workforce in Thailand is unskilled

[craigt3365]

A World Bank survey results showed that 83.5 per cent of the workforce in Thailand is unskilled. This puts Thailand's skilled workforce at the lowest proportion among other Asean countries.

http://www.thailand-business-news.com/asean/52226-83-5-per-cent-workforce-thailand-unskilled.html

[KittenKong]

What about the other 16.5%?

Three people came to clean my air-con the other day, from a small but specialised air-con repair/installation shop. They had hardly any equipment and the nozzle on their Karcher water spray device was broken and leaking. I would have thought that a proper angled spray nozzle would be the number one tool for such people, to allow them to get the water right onto the radiator fins from above:

rather than having to make do with a straight one.

They also didnt have a plastic bottle to put the cleaning fluid in and I had to give them an old water bottle.

So I wonder how much is lack of skill or training, and how much is lack of equipment or tools?

[i claudius]

Gosh ,and i thought the number was not that low .

[Nomyai]

i believe it.

[WhizBang]

That doesn't sound right. I would have thought the figure would be 95% or higher.

[Pib]

Hope no one is surprised by the report. I expect the govt will just say the World Bank don't understand Thailand.

[Briggsy]

I drove a long way over the last few days.

As I drove across the country and back, I pondered at any given time, how many people are selling garlands at traffic lights. Then I thought how many people are motorbike taxi drivers. And so on.

And then this topic pops up.

[sunnyjim5]

A "report" quoting data which is 10 years old ?

Impressive ?

[Nomyai]

burger king insist on serving pasty white not fully cooked pancakes. i point it out to goofy cashier and manager and the y look dumbfounded?

Do thais like pale pancakes?

[sunnyjim5]

burger king insist on serving pasty white not fully cooked pancakes. i point it out to goofy cashier and manager and the y look dumbfounded?

Do thais like pale pancakes?

"goofy" ?

You may like burnt pancakes but do not attempt to suggest everyone should

[Srikcir]

Some "unskilled" jobs might be thought of as "skilled."

From 311,000 are jobless in September, 2014-10-12:

BANGKOK: -- The number of jobless for the month of September has increased to 311,000 constituting an increase of 40,000 or 14.76 percent from the same period last year or 24,000 representing an increase of 8.36 percent from August, according to the National Statistical Office.

Of the 311,000 jobless, 156,000 of them have never worked before and 155,000 who used to work but have become redundant. The number of ex-workers have increased by 31,000 or 25 percent and of these, 78,000 are from the production sector, 64,000 from service sector and 13,000 from agricultural sector.

Education wise, the jobless for September are divided into the followings: 103,000 with a Bachelor’s degree from universities; 89,000 with lower secondary educational background: 50,000 with primary education background; 49,000 with upper secondary education and 20,000 without any education.

For the month of September, the number of working population was registered at 38.85 million and, of these, 38.45 are employed and 88,000 seasonal employed. The number of people who are not ready to work who include housewives, students and the aged was registered at 16.08 million.

Mrs Noppawan Chulakanit, managing director of Jobs DB (Thailand) employment agency, said that for the months of August-September 110,000 job applications were posted on the company’s website, representing a decrease of two percent from the same period last year. She identified social science and humanities as the two fields most vulnerable to becoming unemployed because there are so many of them in the labour market.

The most popular jobs for July and August were jobs in sale, customer service and business development.