{"id":8013,"date":"2013-07-02T13:38:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T18:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=8013"},"modified":"2013-07-02T13:38:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T18:38:05","slug":"lack-of-technical-professionals-in-panama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/lack-of-technical-professionals-in-panama\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Technical Professionals in Panama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tech-pro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8014\" title=\"tech pro\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tech-pro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tech-pro.jpg 640w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tech-pro-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Panamanians are not interested in technical careers but rather  social ones, as reflected by the short supply of professionals to meet  the needs of the industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"description\">This issue was discussed during the forum &#8216;maritime sector and the impact of <span class=\"hlink\">human resources<\/span> in its development &#8220;, organized by the International Maritime University of <span class=\"hlink\">Panama<\/span> (UMIP by its initials in Spanish). According to the Director of Planning of the UMIP, <span class=\"hlink\">Fernanda Billard<\/span>, opportunities exist for <span class=\"hlink\">technical training<\/span> and supplying the workforce, but these have not been taken up by Panamanians.<\/p>\n<p>Added to the lack of technical <span class=\"hlink\">manpower<\/span> is staff turnover, skilled workers are tempted away by higher wages and better conditions with the competition, said Billard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Panamanian idiosyncrasy is that with a technical degree you are not  going to be paid what you need, but that is not what the <span class=\"hlink\">industry<\/span> is saying, quite the opposite. We need to instill in the population  that the industry needs more technical staff, &#8221; explained the official.<\/p>\n<p>Among the vacancies in Panamanian industry are positions in: renewable  energy, environmental protection, ports and logistics in general.  Billard says that &#8220;without development without quality training, without  a staff that is excellent, Panama&#8217;s economic growth will not be  sustainable over time, meaning that it will be difficult to develop the  logistics and maritime hub with national human resources if we do not  change the mentality of the population &#8220;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"link_source\">Source: laestrella.com.pa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panamanians are not interested in technical careers but rather social ones, as reflected by the short supply of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-articles-panama-perpsective"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) 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