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Philippines and other ASEAN migrant-sending countries is the

Philippines’ more established culture of overseas labor mobility,
and the established bureaucracy managing the international
migration phenomenon.

At the time the Project JobsFit report was done,
DOLE identified the worker needs of overseas labor markets

in some destination countries. What were projected in 2011
were the following: “There is an expected demand” in Brunei
“for construction and healthcare workers.” Skills in-demand in

oil-rich Malaysia are engineers, welders, pipefitters and riggers,
plantation workers, household service workers, information

technology workers, workers for the manufacturing, hotel and
gaming, construction and ship building and repair sectors.
Singapore, right after the 2008 global financial crisis, then

experienced an economic slowdown; the Singaporean
economy recovered afterwards —and there sprung up demand

for workers in construction, services, IT, health care and
manufacturing (DOLE Bureau of Local Employment, 2011).

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