AGE OF RESPONDENTS

Table __ presents the data on the distribution of age of civil engineering graduates. Of the 249
respondents, 198 or 79.52 percent fell on the age range of 26-30 years old, 42 or 16.87 percent
were on the age range 31-35 years old, 6 or 2.41 percent were on the age range 36 to 40 years old,
and 3 or 1.2 percent was on the age range 21 to 25 years old. It can be inferred from the findings
that most of the civil engineering graduates were literally at their fairly young adulthood stage.

GENDER OF RESPONDENTS
As Reflected in Table __, of the 249 respondents, 163 or 65.46 percent were males and 86 or 34.54
percent were females. This means that those civil engineering graduates were dominated by males.

HIGHEST EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

As shown in table __, 247 or 99.20 percent had done the Bachelor’s degree and 2 or 0.80 percent
had finished the Master’s degree. Some of the graduates are still pursuing further studies at the
time of the survey. The percentage of respondents doing a Master’s degree or a PhD had been
declining over time.

YEAR GRADUATED
The participation rate in the survey by respondents’ year of graduation (Table __) was as follows:
2009- 17.27% (43 out of 249); 2010- 23.29% (58 out of 249); 2011- 19.68% (49 out of 249); 2012-
14.46% (36 out of 249); and 2013- 25.30% (63 out of 249).

TRAININGS AND SEMINARS ATTENDED

Table __ shows proportion of respondents who attended the most essential seminars for civil
engineers. 50 or 20.08% of the respondents had attended the PICE National seminar, 26 or 10.44%
of the respondents attended the PICE National Midyear, 12 or 4.82% of the respondents attended
the ASEP International, 29 or 11.65% of the respondents attended other trainings and seminars
related to their chosen field, and 132 or 53.01% of the respondents did not attend any seminars or
trainings.

PROFESSIONAL EXAMINATIONS
Table __ shows that 183 or 73.49 percent of the respondents passed the Civil Engineering
Licensure Examination, 14 or 5.62 percent of the respondents passed the Master Plumber
Licensure Examination, 10 or 4.02 percent of the respondents passed other licensure examinations
related to their field, and 64 or 25.70 percent of the graduates either did not pass or did not take
any examinations.
EMPLOYMENT STATUS
Table __ shows the different employment status of the BulSU Civil Engineering Graduates (2009
– 2013). Majority of the respondents fell in having a Regular or Permanent employment status,
having a number of 184 graduates with a percentage of 73.90%. Followed by having a Contractual
status, having 42 graduates and a percentage of 16.87%. The remaining graduates fell in the
Probationary, Self-Employed, Unemployed status having a quantity of 10(4.02%), 8(3.21%), and
5(2.01%) respectively, with a total of 249 respondents. This table depicts that the BulSU Civil
Engineering Graduates (2009 – 2013), have a high rate of finding a stable job.

GRADUATES’ YEAR/S OF SERVICE ON THEIR CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

Table __ indicates the civil engineering graduates’ length of service on their current employment.
Only 236 specified their years of service. Out of the 236, 35 or 14.83% are working for less than
a year in their different job placement, 19 or 8.05% are working for 1 year, 31 or 13.14% are
working for 2 years, 36 or 15.25% are working for 3 years, 40 or 16.95% are working for 4 years,
12 or 5.08% are working for 5 years, and a substantial number of 63 respondents or 26.69% are
working for above 5 years. The table siginifies that it takes time for the civil engineering graduates
to settle for an employment that they are satisfied with.

JOB RELATION TO CIVIL ENGINEERING

As shown in Table __, 224 or 94.92% of the respondents ended up having a job related to Civil
Engineering and a small scale figure of 12 or 5.08% of the respondents are pursuing other ventures
of employment that are not related to Civil Engineering. This only tells that a Civil Engineer is
still in demand on the job market and having a degree in Civil Engineering will still be essential
in this modern day of employment.

TYPE AND LOCATION OF EMPLOYER

Table __ depicts the distribution of Civil Engineering graduates in terms of the type and location
of their employer. Only 222 out of the 249 respondents have stated their place of employment. The
significant number of the respondents are divided into two types of employer. First is Vertical
Construction Firms, having 32(14.41%), 23(10.36%), and 15(6.76%) of our respondents based on
international, local, and national respectively. Lastly, the other significant number of respondents
have an employer in the category of Other Organizations having a 35(15.77%), 20(9.01%), and
17(7.66%) of our respondents based on international, national, and local respectively. The results
show that the majority of the respondents are more interested in working on a vertical construction
firms and that a significant amount of BulSU Civil Engineering graduates are set to face the global
standards (or qualified even) from their employer abroad with a total number of 91 or 40.99%.
POSITION ON THEIR CURRENT JOB

Table ___ shows the frequency distribution of civil engineering graduates in terms of present
occupation. Most of the engineering graduates were Project Engineers (74 or 31.36%) followed
by Quantity Surveyors (41 or 17.37%), Project Managers (17 or 7.20%), Supervisors (16 or 6.78%)
and QA/QC Engineers (16 or 6.78%). Few of them were Office, Design, and Planning Engineer
while some of them choses to be undergraduate civil engineering students’ professors. Year of
experience is an important factor to be called a full pledged professional. One to four years of
experience for the graduates would be good enough as preparation stage to become in the
managerial position.

HOW THEY FIND THEIR FIRST JOB

Table ___ presents the frequency distribution of Civil Engineering graduates in terms of how they
find their first job. Most of the employed engineering graduates found their first job through job
ads/announcements followed by through the help of personal contacts of friends or fellow students.
Other ways on how they found their first job is through the help of family contacts of
parents/relatives, side jobs, job fair, internships, internet, through teaching staff at COE Faculty
and those that have not searched for employment obtained the least percentage.

LENGTH OF SERACH FOR THE FIRST JOB

Table ___ shows that Civil Engineering graduates could be able to find a job immediately after
graduation (64 or 27.10%) period. The board examination for civil engineering hampers most of
the graduates (150 or 63.60%) to work immediately after graduation. It takes almost half a year
for them to prepare before they have given the chance to take the actual board examination being
facilitated by Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).

REASON WHY THEY TAKE JOB DIFFERENT FROM THE COURSE THEY
STUDIED

Table ___ shows the frequency distribution of the civil engineering graduates in terms of why they
take job different from the course they studied. Three (3) of the them answered that it’s because of
lack of career progression, two (2) graduates stated that they did not want job in course related
area while one (1) of them had poor working conditions.

REASON OF UNEMPLOYMENT

Table ___ presents the frequency distribution of the engineering graduates in terms of reason of
unemployment. Three (3) of the unemployed graduates answered that they are preparing to start
own business. Some of the graduates already established their own construction firm. Only one (1)
unemployed graduate answered that he’s searching for employment and not getting it, and the
other one (1) wants to devote time for further study.
MONTHLY EARNING ON THEIR CURRENT JOB (EMPLOYED)
Table ___ presents the frequency distribution of employed civil engineering graduates in terms of
their monthly earning on their current job. It shows that 126 or 53.40% of the 236 respondent earns
P40,000.00 above salary every month, while 57 or 24.20% of them are receiving P20,000.00 to
less than P30,000, 45 or 19.10% in P30,000.00 to less than P40,000.00 and least number of
graduates are earning P15,000.00 to less than P20,000.00 with 3.40%. The study reveal that
majority of the graduates are already earning good income.

MONTHLY EARNING ON THEIR CURRENT JOB (SELF – EMPLOYED)

Table ___ shows the frequency distribution of self – employed civil engineering graduates in terms
of their monthly earnings on their current job. 4 out the 8 respondent or 50% of the graduates earn
P20,000.00 to less than P30,000.00, on the other hand P30,000.00 to less than P20,000.00 and
P40,000.00 above earning are both 25%.

CATEGORY OF COMPANY
Table ___ shows the frequency distribution of the employers in terms of the category of the
company. Of the 18 companies who responded to the survey, 16 or 88.89% were general
contractors while 1 or 5.56% of the companies are design consultancy firm and construction
estimating firm

REQUIREMENTS FOR NEW CE GRADUATES THEY WILL HIRE

Table ___ shows the frequency distribution of the employers in terms of the maximum
requirements for the new civil engineering graduates that they will hire. 14 or 42.42% of the
employer responded that the applicant must possess the skills required for the job followed by 11
or 33.33% of them answered that the applicant must be a passer of CE Licensure Examination as
a maximum requirement while 4 or 12.12% of the companies required gender of the applicant and
1 or 3.03% for the school where the applicant has graduated, must be willing to be assigned at site,
must have a good moral character, and must be knowledgeable in MS Office. The finding reveals
that it is advantageous for the graduates to have a job if he/she have the required skills for the job
and a passer of CE licensure examination